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Many studies about the informatization and cohesion of enterprise are carried out separately. But in the information economy, with the systematic view of enterprise development strengthened, an enterprise should be regarded as the organism in economic eco-system, whose existence and development depends on its own competition-collaboration ability. Therefore, expanded from inside to outside of the...
While prior work has focused on the process through which IT may be adopted by micro-enterprises, this research takes it one step further by assessing the outcomes from IT adoption in micro-enterprises that have undergone technology, training and trust building interventions. It analyzes these using a systematic evaluation model that ties in the key components of development. The contribution of this...
This study examines the economic contributions of offshore IT outsourcing (or IT offshoring for short) by using an extended Cobb-Douglas production function, and a panel data set from 20 OECD countries over the 2000 to 2006 period. Our analysis indicates that IT offshoring has made a positive and significant contribution to national productivity. Previous research on IT offshoring has relied on case...
The ability of micro-enterprises to adopt IT can potentially increase their growth by 3.4% according to a World Bank expert. However these gains do not always take place as the challenges are many. In order to identify how IT adoption can lead to growth in micro-enterprises, this paper develops upon the IT adoption categories discovered in a prior research effort in order to arrive at development...
Non-linear business growth is a Holy Grail for executives today. There is a constant need for identification of newer business models, blockbuster products and excellent talent in breaking the linearity paradigm. The latter half of the 20th century has seen some of the major breakthroughs resulting into a significant surge in productivity. Some of these were technology, quality, adoption of management...
The critical importance of information and communication technologies (ICT) for the firms nowadays, and the big ICT investments they make, necessitate a deeper understanding of 'how' ICT affects business performance, through identification of the intervening mechanisms and variables in the relationship between ICT and business performance. This paper describes an empirical investigation of whether...
Japan is currently facing some environment changes, like global competition, deregulations, highly developed information technology (IT), etc., so Japanese firms need to increase their productivity more than ever before and use flexible information systems to survive. Historically, the biggest challenge facing firms is "adaptation" to any environment. The flexibility of information systems...
Services science has emerged as the key factor in developed economies as it becomes the main driver of productivity and economic growth. With the evolution of consumer and business processes, it has become a large part of economy. Services have become the main differentiator guided by the principle that every business has to be a service business in order to survive and compete effectively. The explosion...
This paper investigates whether Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and investment in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) advances the development of technological entrepreneurship. We propose that the combination of inward FDI with investment in ICT is an important driver of technologically-oriented entrepreneurial activity. Under a feedback causality context, a Cointegrated Vector Autoregressive...
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