Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2020.1794134
Roberto Vinaja
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2020.1792229
C. E. Ocloo, H. Xuhua, S. Akaba, Junguo Shi, D. Worwui-Brown
ABSTRACT This research examines the relationships between technological, organizational, and environmental (TOE) factors on different levels of B2B e-commerce adoption. A survey of 315 Ghanaian manufacturing SMEs was validated and tested using partial least squares structural equation modeling. The research findings indicate that perceived desirability, organization’s readiness, and competitive pressure positively and significantly influence the different B2B e-commerce adoption levels. Likewise, top management support and government support partially had a significant impact on the various levels of B2B e-commerce adoption, whereas the business partner’s pressure has no significant influence on B2B e-commerce adoption levels. This research’s results confirm that the TOE factors influence B2B e-commerce adoption levels in the Ghanaian manufacturing SMEs. The results reveal that the various contextual factors have a different effect on the different levels of B2B e-commerce adoption. Also, the implications of this study are subsequently discussed.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2020.1792231
Yu Sang Chang, Seongmin Jeon, Kudzai Shamba
ABSTRACT This study examines the dynamics of the digital divide between middle- and low-income groups of 44 African countries in the context of three technologies – mobile cellular, Internet, and fixed broadband – from 2000 to 2015. At the macro level, the relative digital divide has been narrowing at the annual rates from 11.3% to 0.72%, while the absolute digital divide has been widening at the annual rates from 31.33% to 17.11%. At the microlevel, convergence analysis indicates that a catch-up process has taken place in both income groups, with the low-income group displaying a faster catch-up speed in all three technologies. Combining the findings from the macro and the microlevel of the analysis revealed a positive relationship between the increasing rates of the absolute digital divide and the annual rate of catch-up by the low-income group. The faster is the increasing rate of the absolute digital divide, the faster the speed of catch-up by the low-income group of countries becomes. Several policy implications from these findings are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2020.1792230
Peinan Ji, Xiangbin Yan, Guang Yu
ABSTRACT This paper uses econometrics to examine the influence of information technology investment using public firm data from China. Specifically, we observe whether there are differences in IT investment between developing countries and developed countries theoretically, and how the financial market performed after massive IT investment in China. The results are based on a sample of 166 IT investment announcements selected from the 3740 possible IT investment announcements spanning 2009 to 2017. Over the announcement period, we find positive effect for the full sample and the innovative IT investments, but not in the case of non-innovative investments. When it comes to types of listed companies, only the IT investments of growth enterprises market listed companies have a significant impact on stock price performance. Compared with previous studies, which only pay attention to the longitudinal position of firms, our research also examined the impact of IT investment on firms’ horizontal position, namely the changes of market before and after the investment in the time-line.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/1097198x.2020.1794136
Prashant C. Palvia
Gustavo Parés is the CEO of Nearshore Delivery Solutions (www.nearshoremx.com) and NDS Cognitive labs (www.ndscognitivelabs.com), a leading company in cognitive computing and AI technology business solutions dedicated to helping global companies accelerate their digital transformation journey. He was born in Mexico City and earned a bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems and a master’s degree in Business Administration at Tecnológico de Monterrey. He also received an Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other executive education courses at Harvard, Stanford, Singularity, and IMD. Gustavo has published chapters, articles, and presentations in the USA, South Korea, India, Italy, and Mexico.
古斯塔沃·帕尔萨姆斯是Nearshore Delivery Solutions (www.nearshoremx.com)和NDS Cognitive labs (www.ndscognitivelabs.com)的首席执行官，NDS Cognitive labs是认知计算和人工智能技术商业解决方案领域的领先公司，致力于帮助全球公司加速数字化转型之旅。他出生于墨西哥城，在Tecnológico de Monterrey获得管理信息系统学士学位和工商管理硕士学位。他还获得了麻省理工学院(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)的管理和领导力高管证书，以及哈佛大学(Harvard)、斯坦福大学(Stanford)、奇点学院(Singularity)和IMD的其他高管教育课程。古斯塔沃在美国、韩国、印度、意大利和墨西哥出版过章节、文章和演讲。
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Pub Date : 2020-07-02DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2020.1794131
Kyootai Lee, K. Joshi
Organizations have begun to adopt and implement artificial intelligence (AI) as part of their IT initiatives. Though researchers have focused on adoption, implementation, and use of IS for many decades, AI-based systems or AI system (AIS) are opening new vistas for research in the field. Among many aspects of AIS implementation and usage, this essay focuses on one of the key characteristics of AI that has been frequently mentioned in contemporary practitioner literature, but little researched – interaction between users and their AI, called mutual learning. That is, AI should learn from its users’ decision-making behaviors, and users should better understand how AI can support and influence their decision-making as well as its limitations. Based on a discussion of socio-technological contexts for successful implementation of AI in organizations, this essay describes the unique nature of AIS that sets them apart from traditional IS, particularly on the issue of mutual learning. It also identifies the possible role of users’ cultural context and its influence on user-AI interactions and progressive customization of AIS.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2020.1752084
S. Srivastava, Saini Das, G. Udo, K. Bagchi
ABSTRACT8 Cybercrimes have an adverse impact on the reputation and economy of a nation. This paper investigates the factors that affect the frequency of cybercrime originating within a country. These factors were grouped into three categories, namely, economic capital, technological capital, and cybersecurity preparedness. On analyzing the data from 124 countries, it emerges that the economic capital and technological capital of a country are the primary factors that influence the frequency of cybercrime originating within it. Technological capital also partially mediates the relationship between economic capital and the frequency of cybercrime originating within the nation. Furthermore, the cybersecurity preparedness of a nation negatively moderates the relationship between technological capital and frequency of cybercrime originating within it. The findings have significant implications for policymakers at the national level and managers at the organizational level concerning cybersecurity preparedness. They should focus on both hard (legal, technical, organizational) and soft (training and co-operational) aspects of cybersecurity preparation to minimize the incidence of cybercrime within a nation.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2020.1752083
S. Mir, T. Padma
ABSTRACT The evaluation process of agricultural Decision Support Systems (agDSSs) is mostly based on verification and validation criteria which reflect the viewpoint of one or a few persons, who are mostly involved in the development process. However, usability evaluation is regarded as very important criteria, which measures acceptance of IT-based innovations, involving as many people and reference groups as possible to produce more realistic results related to their adoption. To date, researchers have used many technology acceptance models (TAM) to measure likely adoption chances of innovation or technology. However, the frequency and scope of such studies in agDSSs are predominantly very low, which is attributed to the technical limitations of contemporary TAMs to consider social, organizational and environmental externalities of farmers’ perceptions, behaviors and attitudes beyond “technical aspects” in an explicit manner. Therefore, we are presenting a usability based evaluation framework for the agDSSs considering attitudes, mind-sets, social, organizational, environmental and cultural contexts beyond ‘technical perspective’ to help and support DSS practitioners with the key contributing factors. The proposed framework has been used to investigate the user’s acceptance of agDSS developed for Insect-Pest and Nutrient Management of apple (AIP&NM) in India.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2020.1752082
Lakshminarayana Kompella
ABSTRACT E-Governance involves government, internet and communication technologies (ICT), organizations, and society. It has expanded to include domains such as agriculture, services, knowledge management and so forth. The domains with their inherent social, cultural, and political factors influence adaptation and selection of the latest ICT innovations by E-Governance. Innovation scholars studied adaptation and selection in socio-technical systems and for effective transitions suggested the need for innovations to cumulate as stable designs; E-Governance systems are no different. In this paper, by examining the interoperations (i.e. interactions with rulesets) during development and deployment (situations) of E-Governance systems we can get insights into stable designs and transitions. The relationships that organizations exhibit among themselves and the coordination of their internal components can provide insights into interoperations (phenomena). We need to observe the phenomena in situations where it occurs; therefore, selected a case study method. To capture diverse analytic and heuristic situations, a multi-case study method is selected. The findings show that a technology-based solution achieves only transactional effectiveness and service delivery efficiency. For a successful transition, stabilization of designs is necessary which in turn requires interoperations that bring alignment of organizational internal components to the relationships and coevolution of other entities such as society.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2020.1752077
Agnis Stibe
The majority of global problems and organizational challenges are byproducts of poor human attitude and behavior (Stibe, Roderer, Reisinger, & Nystrom, 2019). Every crucial domain in our lives continuously provides evidence of how things are getting unbalanced despite the progress in building increasingly capable technological innovations, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, and drones, just to name a few. Managers and employees often look for and find reasons outside of themselves for why there are weak performing organizations and global environmental issues. Societies, communities, businesses, organizations, and industries, basically everyone, need help in making their transformations succeed and sustain positive directions (Waddell, Creed, Cummings, & Worley, 2019). Many people want to change, but it is also well known how often their new year’s resolutions end in February. People tend to perceive changes as something difficult, impossible, and mystical, thus are willing to avoid them. Such attitude naturally leads to poor decisions and consequent behavioral outcomes for societies and corporations. While transformation research has gained more traction in multiple contexts over the last several years (Malar, Arvidsson, & Holmstrom, 2019), this particular transforming work is emerging as an inevitable response to the ever-growing imbalance in our lives across the globe. Advanced information technologies are being continuously developed to make our lives better and businesses grow. However, the fundamental question still remains: With all the evolving information technology, has there been significant success in achieving happier societies and strong organizations?
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