Pub Date : 2018-11-30DOI: 10.5121/IJMIT.2018.10401
Y. Tou, C. Watanabe, Kuniko Moriya, Pekka Neittaanmäki
Finland and Singapore are easy to compare, they are the same size and have similar positions as global digital leaders. however, their performance is differing a lot. from 2006 to 2013, Singapore’s GDP growth rate was tenfold compared to Finland. four years later, in 2017 Finland is exceeding the growth rate of Singapore. what are the reasons for the success of Finland? An empirical analysis of the factors contributing to GDP growth and the effects of the policy change was conducted. It was demonstrated that increase of export did not explain growth, but shifts in capital formation did. New dynamics was revealed that was triggered by the removal of structural impediments (hindrances) and by increasing use of soft innovation resources. The virtuous cycle of increase of uncaptured GDP, increased multifactor productivity and growth of tangible capital and GDP was described. An insightful suggestion for activating a hybrid role for soft innovation resources in the digital economy was thus provided.
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Pub Date : 2018-11-30DOI: 10.5121/IJMIT.2018.10402
Robin Zarine, M. Saqib
This paper focuseson the status of organizational trust in Muscatand its impact on organizational learning (OL) which is based on the willingness of employees sharing knowledge gathered through experience to improve organizational performance and sustainable competitiveness [1]. Online structured questionnaire andMicrosoft Excel used to collect and analyze the data showed significant organizational trust exist within organizations including organizational transparency, management style, employees’ welfare and support, and job security. But still, minimalOL and sharing was happening contradicting theories that suggest organizational trust leads to important group collaboration, willingness of employees to share knowledge gathered through their experience and its close link to OL. Lack of compassion and being too controlling at timeswere also raisedas concerns and existing knowledge sharing technological support were also not having much impact. Bringing people together for more effective communications among teams and promoting knowledge sharing culture can lead the way.
{"title":"Exploring Key Elements Required for Organizational Trust and the Consequential Impact on Knowledge Sharing within Organizations","authors":"Robin Zarine, M. Saqib","doi":"10.5121/IJMIT.2018.10402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/IJMIT.2018.10402","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuseson the status of organizational trust in Muscatand its impact on organizational learning (OL) which is based on the willingness of employees sharing knowledge gathered through experience to improve organizational performance and sustainable competitiveness [1]. Online structured questionnaire andMicrosoft Excel used to collect and analyze the data showed significant organizational trust exist within organizations including organizational transparency, management style, employees’ welfare and support, and job security. But still, minimalOL and sharing was happening contradicting theories that suggest organizational trust leads to important group collaboration, willingness of employees to share knowledge gathered through their experience and its close link to OL. Lack of compassion and being too controlling at timeswere also raisedas concerns and existing knowledge sharing technological support were also not having much impact. Bringing people together for more effective communications among teams and promoting knowledge sharing culture can lead the way.","PeriodicalId":335930,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managing Information Technology","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131583388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-08-30DOI: 10.5121/IJMIT.2018.10301
Ahmed Ahmed, M. E. A. Capuno
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Pub Date : 2018-08-30DOI: 10.5121/IJMIT.2018.10302
Y. Tou, Kuniko Moriya, C. Watanabe, L. Ilmola, Pekka Neittaanmäki
While Finland and Singapore have been maintaining world digital leaders position, they demonstrate interlaced contrast: high welfare with low GDP growth in Finland and higher GDP growth with lower welfare in Singapore. This provokes an uncaptured GDP postulate that Finnish wellbeing has developed more than one might conclude by GDP. However, a recent reversal in the GDP growth trend suggests the possibility that uncaptured GDP contributes to remove structural impediments in GDP growth.This paper demonstrates this hypothesis. An empirical analysis elucidating the inside the national accountings and institutional systems revealed that soft innovation resources have substituted for service capital in Finland and created uncaptured GDP which disseminated in tangible capital and removed structural impediments impeding development leading to GDP growth. In addition, this growth enables next generation intellectual property product (IPP) development. An insightful suggestion in overcoming a productivity paradox in the digital economy was thus provided.
{"title":"Soft Innovation Resources : Enabler for Reversal in GDP Growth in the Digital Economy","authors":"Y. Tou, Kuniko Moriya, C. Watanabe, L. Ilmola, Pekka Neittaanmäki","doi":"10.5121/IJMIT.2018.10302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/IJMIT.2018.10302","url":null,"abstract":"While Finland and Singapore have been maintaining world digital leaders position, they demonstrate \u0000interlaced contrast: high welfare with low GDP growth in Finland and higher GDP growth with lower \u0000welfare in Singapore. This provokes an uncaptured GDP postulate that Finnish wellbeing has developed \u0000more than one might conclude by GDP. However, a recent reversal in the GDP growth trend suggests the \u0000possibility that uncaptured GDP contributes to remove structural impediments in GDP growth.This paper \u0000demonstrates this hypothesis. An empirical analysis elucidating the inside the national accountings and \u0000institutional systems revealed that soft innovation resources have substituted for service capital in Finland \u0000and created uncaptured GDP which disseminated in tangible capital and removed structural impediments \u0000impeding development leading to GDP growth. In addition, this growth enables next generation intellectual \u0000property product (IPP) development. An insightful suggestion in overcoming a productivity paradox in the \u0000digital economy was thus provided.","PeriodicalId":335930,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managing Information Technology","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125612892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-05-30DOI: 10.5121/IJMIT.2018.10203
S. Venkatraman
With the exponential proliferation of mobile devices, smart phones and apps in the consumer market, mobile payment is emerging as a key area to revolutionise the everyday financial life of both consumers and merchants. The past few years have witnessed an increase in the adoption of digital payments and online billing methods that leverage on wireless technologies and the Internet. However, the success or failure of mobile payments in businesses is a hot topic today due to the multi-faceted factors such as, type of wireless technologies used, security and privacy, the players involved and their influencing business models, including consumer factors relating to interoperability, flexibility, ease-of-use and social marketing. This paper examines mobile payments in all perspectives: technical, social as well as business viewpoints and provides a strategic framework for a successful mobile payment adoption.
{"title":"Strategic Framework for Mobile Payments","authors":"S. Venkatraman","doi":"10.5121/IJMIT.2018.10203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/IJMIT.2018.10203","url":null,"abstract":"With the exponential proliferation of mobile devices, smart phones and apps in the consumer market, mobile payment is emerging as a key area to revolutionise the everyday financial life of both consumers and merchants. The past few years have witnessed an increase in the adoption of digital payments and online billing methods that leverage on wireless technologies and the Internet. However, the success or failure of mobile payments in businesses is a hot topic today due to the multi-faceted factors such as, type of wireless technologies used, security and privacy, the players involved and their influencing business models, including consumer factors relating to interoperability, flexibility, ease-of-use and social marketing. This paper examines mobile payments in all perspectives: technical, social as well as business viewpoints and provides a strategic framework for a successful mobile payment adoption.","PeriodicalId":335930,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managing Information Technology","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115630710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-05-30DOI: 10.5121/IJMIT.2018.10202
C. Watanabe, Kuniko Moriya, Y. Tou, P. Neittaanmäki
The digital economy is transforming the traditional concepts of economic growth.The recent reversal trend in GDP growth of ICT leaders can be attributed to effective utilization of soft innovation resources in Finland and adherence to traditional resources in Singapore.Confronting a productivity decline in the digital economy, global information and communication technology (ICT) leaders are transforming business models into those with uncaptured GDP creation. This can be attributed tothe harnessing soft innovation resourcesagainst a productivity decline. This in turn activates a self-propagating function and induces supra-functionality beyond economic value corresponding to a shift in people’s preferences. It also contributes to removingstructural impediments in GDP growth.Empirical analyses utilizing the development trajectories of 500 global ICT firms and also world ICT leadersFinland and Singapore demonstratedthese hypothetical views andprovided an insightful suggestion as to overcome aproductivity decline in the digital economy.
{"title":"Consequences of the Digital Econmy : Transformation of the Growth Concept","authors":"C. Watanabe, Kuniko Moriya, Y. Tou, P. Neittaanmäki","doi":"10.5121/IJMIT.2018.10202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/IJMIT.2018.10202","url":null,"abstract":"The digital economy is transforming the traditional concepts of economic growth.The recent reversal trend in GDP growth of ICT leaders can be attributed to effective utilization of soft innovation resources in Finland and adherence to traditional resources in Singapore.Confronting a productivity decline in the digital economy, global information and communication technology (ICT) leaders are transforming business models into those with uncaptured GDP creation. This can be attributed tothe harnessing soft innovation resourcesagainst a productivity decline. This in turn activates a self-propagating function and induces supra-functionality beyond economic value corresponding to a shift in people’s preferences. It also contributes to removingstructural impediments in GDP growth.Empirical analyses utilizing the development trajectories of 500 global ICT firms and also world ICT leadersFinland and Singapore demonstratedthese hypothetical views andprovided an insightful suggestion as to overcome aproductivity decline in the digital economy.","PeriodicalId":335930,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managing Information Technology","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130236302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-05-30DOI: 10.5121/IJMIT.2018.10205
Julius Raphael Athuman Mhina, G. Johar
The aim of this paper was to present factors which influence work-related adoption of social media among government employees. The study adapted the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and integrated it with three constructs namely Hedonic Motivation (HM), Perceived Personal Image (PI) and Attitude (AT). The sample of study consisted of 600 usable responses collected using survey questionnaire from employees based in Tanzania Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) employing convenience sampling technique. The data was analyzed using Structural Equation Modelling. The results showed that, PI and HM influence attitude (AT), while PI, Social Influence (SI) and AT influence Behavior Intention (BI). Moreover, SI, PI, AT and BI showed significant effect on actual Use Behavior. Furthermore, the results showed that PI is affected positively by HM and SI. The added constructs proved to be important modifications to the UTAUT model as suggested by the increase in explained variance by UTAUT from 70% to 73% on BI and from 53% to 73% on actual use behavior.
{"title":"Investigating Tanzania Government Employees' Acceptance and Use of Social Media : An Empirical Validation and Extension of UTAUT","authors":"Julius Raphael Athuman Mhina, G. Johar","doi":"10.5121/IJMIT.2018.10205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5121/IJMIT.2018.10205","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper was to present factors which influence work-related adoption of social media among government employees. The study adapted the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and integrated it with three constructs namely Hedonic Motivation (HM), Perceived Personal Image (PI) and Attitude (AT). The sample of study consisted of 600 usable responses collected using survey questionnaire from employees based in Tanzania Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) employing convenience sampling technique. The data was analyzed using Structural Equation Modelling. The results showed that, PI and HM influence attitude (AT), while PI, Social Influence (SI) and AT influence Behavior Intention (BI). Moreover, SI, PI, AT and BI showed significant effect on actual Use Behavior. Furthermore, the results showed that PI is affected positively by HM and SI. The added constructs proved to be important modifications to the UTAUT model as suggested by the increase in explained variance by UTAUT from 70% to 73% on BI and from 53% to 73% on actual use behavior.","PeriodicalId":335930,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Managing Information Technology","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127891760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-05-30DOI: 10.5121/IJMIT.2018.10206
Eman Helal, Hala Mokhtar
In the past ten years, the role of citizens to achieve smart city vision is realized and the people-centric Smart City model has been stressed. In this paper, we propose “Riyadh Wiki Information and Complaining System” for citizen engagement in Riyadh city in Saudi Arabia. The system follows the crowd sourcing approach by allowing citizens to act as sources of data to support the government and to improve their city. It also follows the co-design approach by being an open source platform that allows citizens to cooperate to build the system and add new services. The system aims at enhancing citizens’ life and solving governmental issues like transparency, trust, decision-making, and accountability in a cheap way. It is developed as a web-based wiki system, so it can be used easily by the non-skilled citizens while allowing skilled citizens to add new features, functionalities, and new services. It supports both Arabic and English languages and exploits the widespread of social media to attract more citizens. Initial evaluations using e-participation assessment, web accessibility and web usability evaluation techniques have been carried out and the results show the effectiveness of the system.
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Pub Date : 2018-02-28DOI: 10.5121/IJMIT.2018.10101
C. Watanabe, Kuniko Moriya, Y. Tou, P. Neittaanmäki
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