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An Adoption Model for Mobile Banking in Ghana
Standing, Craig; Standing, Susan; Karjaluoto, H; … - 2009
The impact of social and cultural factors on the adoption of technology still requires much research. To investigate it more fully, we examine the reasons for the adoption and non-adoption of mobile banking in Ghana. Through a survey of 271 people in Ghana, it has been found that social and...
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Real Options Valuation Of
Moja, Tiisetso Moshate Nathan - 2011
The main purpose of this research was to examine the application of recent investmentanalytics when making capital investment decisions in next‐generation service‐orientedtechnology architectures in the cellular telecommunications industry. Secondaryobjectives were to conduct risk analysis...
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Mobile banking innovations and entrepreneurial adoption decisions
Ratten, Vanessa - 2011
This paper examines an individual’s entrepreneurial adoption decisions to use mobile banking for both business and social reasons. A conceptual model based on social cognitive theory is developed to explain an individual’s propensity to adopt mobile banking. The theoretical framework...
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Rural-to-Urban Migration in Developing Countries : The Applicability of the Harris Todaro Model with a Special Focus on the Chinese Economy
Bahns, Karin Margarethe - 2005
einigerUnzulänglichkeiten in der Lage ist, die wirtschaftlicheEntwicklung in China zu erklären und Leitlinien für dieImplementierung politischer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471828
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Priorities and strategies for health information system development in China : how provincial health information systems support regional health planning
Yang, Hui - 2004
China is moving towards a market economy. The greater use of market forces has made China richer, accelerated … management.The objective of the study is to contribute to the development of China's health information system (HIS) over the … for planning within the macro and historical context of health planning in China, in particular having regard to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481029
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Business incubation in China: effectiveness and perceived contributions to tenant enterprises
Xu, L - 2010
popularity in China since the mid-1990s. The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the perceived value of business … incubators from the perspective of start-up ventures and draw implications for future incubation programmes in China … benefits of the incubation programme.Findings: True to their names, business incubators in China have added practical value to …
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Distribution of benefits of irrigation induced technological changes and commodity markets : new evidence
Athukorala, Wasantha; Robinson, Tim; Wilson, Clevo - 2010
A plethora of literature exists on irrigation development. However, only a few studies analyse the distributional issues associated with irrigation induced technological changes (IITC) in the context of commodity markets. Furthermore, these studies deal with only the theoretical arguments and to...
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The Great Realignment: How the Changing Technology of Technological Change in Information Technology Affected the US and Japanese IT Industry, 1983-1999
Arora, Ashish; Branstetter, Lee; Drev, Matej - 2009
This paper empirically shows that innovation in Information Technology (IT) has become increasingly dependent on and intertwined with innovation in software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had differential effects on the performance of the United States and Japan, two of the...
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Immigrant Workers and Technological Change in U.S. Agriculture: A Profit Maximization Approach of Induced Innovation
Napasintuwong, Orachos; Emerson, Robert D. - 2006
This paper analyzes changes in U.S. agricultural technology during 1960-1999, emphasizing the role of immigrant workers on farm mechanization. The rates and directions of biased technological change based on the induced innovation theory are compared before and after the passage of the...
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LABOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH AND CONVERGENCE IN THE KANSAS FARM SECTOR: A TRIPARTITE DECOMPOSITION USING THE DEA APPROACH
Mugera, Amin W.; Langemeier, Michael R. - 2008
The objective of this paper is to analyze sources of labor productivity growth in the Kansas farm sector over the period 1993-2006 for a sample of 668 farms. The nonparametric production frontier method is used to decompose labor productivity growth into three components: (1) technological...
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