Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1097198x.2022.2098571
V. Kleist
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2022.2094184
Bosede Ngozi Adeleye, A. Jamal, L. Adam, T. Oyedepo
ABSTRACT ICT “leapfrogging” is when developing economies adopt the use of technology to jump-start their development agenda. This study positions the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8 to test the leapfrogging hypothesis on eight SAARC economies (Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) from 2000 to 2020. We examine if the hypothesis holds using an unbalanced panel data on real per capita GDP and four ICT indicators (mobile phones, fixed telephones, fixed broadband, and Internet users). We deploy panel spatial correlation consistent (PSCC) and method of moments quantile regression (MM-QR) techniques. The MM-QR offers more reliable results than PSCC because it takes into account the conditional heterogeneity issues that are understated. The general consensus indicates that ICT (individual indicators and composite index) exerts a statistically significant positive effect on economic growth mostly at the 1% level. However, the MM-QR reveals that: (1) the leapfrogging hypothesis holds for mobile phones and composite index models; (2) the hypothesis holds only at the lower quantiles of fixed broadband model; and (3) mobile phones show the largest increasing leapfrogging effect of 0.034%, 0.052%, 0.082%, and 0.099%, respectively. Policy recommendations are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2022.2094182
G. Tsachtsiris, Anastasios Magoutas, T. Papadogonas
ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) investments on the economic growth of EU-27. Our work responds to the lack of sufficient number of econometric estimation studies at country level coupled with a large variation in ICT elasticity results. We estimate an augmented Cobb Douglas production function using panel data techniques based on a sample of 27 countries for the period 1996–2016. The results suggest a significant effect of ICT investments on GDP growth. Further comparisons are drawn with studies using similar databases and sample periods. The results also reveal that the estimated returns to ICT are three times higher than the ICT factor share. Having excluded several sources of potential excess returns, we conclude that omitted variables and possible complementarities between ICT and organizational capital could serve as a plausible explanation.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2022.2098572
P. Licker, Susan Crichton
For decades, IT professionals and the users of IT have been at odds. While this is deplorable, this situation is not unique to IT. There are many cases of highly specialized, technical experts in conflict with those who benefit from that expertise. Consider the recently-visible, but fraught, relationship between elected officials and their public health experts during the COVID pandemic. In fact, the IT professional/user conflict is not even particularly visible to society at large. Other conflicts, however, are more historic. The year 2009 was the 50 anniversary of Sir Charles Percy Snow’s now classic “Two Cultures” Rede Lecture at Cambridge University (Snow, 1959, 1971). This original 1959 lecture seemed, at that time, to be a polemic intended to inflame and annoy. A variety of commentators have since pointed out how Snow’s essay was typical of mid-20th-century thought, attempting to find order in the chaos created by conflicts between science and the arts (Glass, 1959; Boytinck, 1980; Davis, 1965; Halperin, 1983). Dizikes (2009), along with others, correctly pointed out that Snow’s ideas were a product of his time. In fact, as Snow himself pointed out, his was not the first attempt at commentary on the purported science/arts dichotomy. Snow’s recommendations were salient to his time and seem quaint now as we face environmental Armageddon rather than (or perhaps “in addition to”) Snow’s nuclear Armageddon of 1959 and more recently viral Armageddon, in addition to the very real threat of the use of nuclear arms in Ukraine by Mr. Putin today. Recent trends, however, make it imperative that IT professionals pay attention to this “quaint” notion. The “Mid-century angst” of 1959 has reared its ugly head again; many of the dichotomies that drove the broader culture in 1959 have reappeared in other guises, some unimaginable in 1959, such as the threat that AI might replace all of human creativity (Harari, 2016). Because of this salience, we attempt to (1) find lessons in Snow’s lecture for practitioners of the “science” of information systems; (2) point out that IT expertise has a far broader and more dangerous implication than is usual for professional expertise; and (3) try to explain what IT use is really about. Users can and should play a bigger, more responsible role in determining the use and ultimately the value of information systems. Perhaps John Kennedy’s words from 1961, restated in IT nationalistic terms, might guide us: “Ask not what IT can do for you, but what you can do for IT.” For this issue’s editorial, we will first review Snow’s “two-culture” hypothesis by revisiting his original speech as applicable to the current interaction of another “two cultures”: IT professionals or purveyors (ITP) including developers, marketers, and researchers of information technology; and IT users (ITU) employing IT for business and daily life. Next, we will explore five contemporary influences or trends that that make this cultural distinction even mor
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2022.2094183
Mohammad I. Merhi
ABSTRACT This research explores critical factors impacting e-commerce adoption at the country-level. Due to the steady growth in e-commerce trade volumes in recent years, governments of many countries are focused on improving their share in the overall global trade. Therefore, it is crucial to examine the important drivers of e-commerce adoption at a country level rather than just individual and organizational levels. In addition to social trust, the model presented includes technological, governmental, and cultural factors as antecedents of the e-commerce adoption. Secondary data from seventy countries are collected to empirically evaluate the hypotheses presented among the factors of the research model. The hypotheses are assessed using PLS analytical procedures. We found that connectivity and technological efficacy directly influence e-commerce. We also found that legal environment and connectivity impact social trust which in its turn affects uncertainty avoidance. Our results are very important for decision makers. According to the results of our study, policy makers need to consider their country’s institutional, technological, and cultural environments. We discuss the implications of our results for researchers and practitioners.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2022.2098573
N. Mehta
Geoff Lawson is the Senior VP & Chief Information Officer at Mary Washington Healthcare. He joined the health system in 2019. After his military service as a nuclear-trained submarine officer, Geoff has worked in various IT leadership positions across multiple industry verticals, most recently in Healthcare. Prior to MWHC, Geoff served as CTO & CISO at Cone Health in Greensboro, North Carolina, and CIO at Morehead Memorial Hospital in Eden, North Carolina. Lawson has an MBA from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. His BS in Engineering is from the Florida Institute of Technology.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2022.2065032
Roberto Vinaja
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2022.2065033
Youngkyu Kim
InBody is a South Korean success story that began as a startup venture to become a globally recognized leader in manufacturing of health care devices. This interview illustrates the reliance of the company on its cloud-supported information systems and technologies (IS/IT) to conduct its operations on a global scale. Our guest today is InBody’s Rami Lee (RL), who started her career in 2003 after earning her graduate degree in Public Health. Preiously, Rami was a director of InBoby Europe, where she proved her worth by contributing to 150% increase in sales in the region. JGITM: Please name your organization and briefly describe its business. RL: Being Korea’s top tech companies, InBody dominates the global market with locally developed technologies. Because we are able to successfully develop and commercialize our products, our overall growth rate is about 20%, and the exports account for about 80% of our revenues. One of our top-sellers is a body composition analyzer – a highly accurate and reliable state-of-the-art device based on the latest technologies for body composition analysis. This is not an exception for InBody, but a norm, because all of our products are based on new medical technologies. We feel that we deliver a great value to our customers, and we are working hard to expand our business. In order to grow, we are using our offices in major countries as forward bases – this allows us to introduce our products and make inroads in new markets.
InBody是一家韩国成功企业，从一家初创企业发展成为全球公认的医疗保健设备制造领导者。这次采访说明了该公司对其云支持的信息系统和技术(IS/IT)在全球范围内开展业务的依赖。今天我们的嘉宾是InBody的Rami Lee (RL)，她在2003年获得公共卫生研究生学位后开始了她的职业生涯。此前，Rami是inbaby欧洲公司的董事，在那里她为该地区150%的销售额增长做出了贡献，证明了她的价值。JGITM:请说出你的组织名称，并简要描述一下它的业务。RL:作为韩国顶尖的科技企业，InBody以自主开发的技术主导着全球市场。由于我们能够成功地开发和商业化我们的产品，我们的整体增长率约为20%，出口占我们收入的80%左右。我们最畅销的产品之一是身体成分分析仪，这是一种基于最新身体成分分析技术的高精度、可靠的先进设备。这对InBody来说并不例外，而是一种常态，因为我们所有的产品都是基于新的医疗技术。我们认为我们为客户提供了巨大的价值，我们正在努力扩大我们的业务。为了实现增长，我们将在主要国家的办事处作为前进基地-这使我们能够介绍我们的产品并进入新市场。
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2022.2065035
F. Niederman, A. Graeml, Guillermo Rodríguez Abitia
There seems to be an assumption in the research community that the purpose of knowledge gathering is to ascertain laws which represent universal unchanging truths [1]. This is not so much stated as built into much of the research zeitgeist. We see this, for example, with the DeLone and McLean (Petter, DeLone, & Mclean, 2013) model of success based originally on discrete technologies, then updated with consideration for ecommerce applications. The model, if thoroughly supported, would provide the set of antecedents for IS application success. Quantitative meta-analysis, if it were applied to the model, would show the relative strength of each antecedent on those that follow leading ultimately to the accumulated model’s impact on success. To the extent that individual studies would vary from these parameters, it would be assumed that (1) they represent some error or variance around the central tendency; or (2) there may have been something wrong with the study in how it was conducted. Two other possibilities that are less explored are that (1) the salience of antecedents may simply change over time, partly because of the fact that (2) technologies vary greatly in their influence on success, even within the same general family of technologies. A revised view of the DeLone-McLean model would not be one universal theory but a collection of representations showing variance as pertains to different categories of technology or purpose. There are many possible reasons for focusing on the search for universal unchanging truths. If and when we find them, there is great value and utility. Euclidean geometry was not refuted by Einsteinian theories; rather it continues to work quite well where it remains applicable. The multitude of such mathematical measures of physical forces attests to their value. To the extent that IS ‘borrows’ its definition of science from the physical sciences, it is likely that the search for unchanging universal truths will be a central goal. In fact, it is likely that many in the field have learned that this is what science is by definition and have not considered the alternative that knowledge, which is not universal, nor unchanging, can also embody great value. At any given time period knowing what rules seem to be applicable, and across which conditions, can have as much value in application as knowing what is universal and unchanging. Ryle (1945) calls for a distinction between knowing-that and knowing-how. Scientific propositions are of the knowing-that kind, a kind that can be expressed in propositions of a justified truth. Sometimes IS research attempts at that. However, many times, IS concerns with the knowing-how type of knowledge, and skills that cannot be expressed the same way, in spite of still being valuable. Vries (2016) reminds us that (physical) scientific knowledge is normally intended to be universal and nomothetical, i.e., its laws are expected to hold for all places and times. Technology knowledge, in contrast,
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/1097198X.2022.2062992
Huosong Xia, Juan Weng, J. Zhang, Yangmei Gao
ABSTRACT E-commerce has provided ample opportunities for facilitating rural economic development. However, the existing rural e-commerce models are far from enough to reach potential customers and satisfy their heterogeneous needs. To fully leverage the advantages of e-commerce, the rural economy needs innovative business models to sustain its growth. Some rural Internet celebrities, such as Li Ziqi in China, have recognized the values of short videos and used them as a creative entrepreneurial model to promote and sell their products to customers in rural areas. This paper applies the reverse engineering method to study and generalize Li Ziqi’s entrepreneurial process in rural e-commerce based on the information adoption model and attention mechanism. We find that Li Ziqi’s short videos promote rural e-commerce by attracting consumers’ attention through the associated distinctive cultural knowledge. The unique, heterogeneous knowledge of products can boost rural e-commerce via short videos as the intermediaries. Short videos’ attention mechanism facilitates the development of new business models driven by business influences for rural e-commerce. Our research provides valuable insights for rural e-commerce entrepreneurs to promote their products.
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