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Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 1-2
The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles that deal with a wide range of issues in the productivity area. Topics covered are the contribution of the information and communications technology sector to...
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ICT and Employment Promotion Among Poor Women: How Can We Make It Happen? Some Reflections On Kerala's Experience
P, Mohanan Pillai; N, Shanta - eSocialSciences - 2008
This paper deals with the integration of gender in policies relating to information and communication technology to empower socially excluded poor women as producers of this technology. In this context, this paper examines an interventionist ICT policy undertaken by Kudumbasree (an innovative...
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Offshore Business Process Outsourcing
Janette, Retová; Attila, Pólya - In: Studia Commercialia Bratislavensia 4 (2011) 15, pp. 451-457
This paper focuses on the relatively new growing industry of offshore business process outsourcing, which has provided developing countries with literate language and information technology skilled workforce with an excellent global business opportunity. The main advantages to business process...
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Offshore Business Process Outsourcing
Retová Janette; Pólya Attila - In: Studia Commercialia Bratislavensia 4 (2011) 15, pp. 451-457
This paper focuses on the relatively new growing industry of offshore business process outsourcing, which has provided developing countries with literate language and information technology skilled workforce with an excellent global business opportunity. The main advantages to business process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010534074
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Information Sharing to Reduce Misperceptions of Interactions Among Complementary Projects: A Multi-Agent Approach
Labarbe, Emmanuel; Thiel, Daniel - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 17 (2014) 1, pp. 9-9
Agents who invest periodically in two complementary projects i and j try to minimize shortfall due to misperceptions concerning the interaction a between i and j. Previous studies have analytically solved such problems but they have been limited to two agents making one decision. We set out with...
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Information Society in Hungary: Impact Assessment of Public Policies with the Help of Social Indicators
Futó, Péter - In: Society and Economy 27 (2005) December, pp. 171-193
Despite significant policy efforts, in 2003 the Hungarian general population has fallen behind the Central and Eastern European (CEE) average regarding most social indicators of Internet access, usage, knowledge and attitudes. The article is a policy impact assessment interpreting the results of...
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Monotone Comparative Statics for the Industry Composition
Bache, Peter Arendorf; Laugesen, Anders - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2013
sufficient conditions for MCS at both levels of analysis and show that we may have either type of MCS without the other. It is …
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『札幌ITカロッツェリア』におけるユーザビリティソリューションプロジェクトから見る産官学連携プロジェクトの可能性と課題
Hirasawa, Naotake; Yamada-Kawai, Kiko; Kasai, Hideaki - In: 商学討究 (Shogaku Tokyu) 58 (2007) 2/3, pp. 69-82
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The impact of technology-motivated M&A and joint ventures on the value of IT and non-IT firms: a new examination
Canace, Thomas; Mann, Steven - In: Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 43 (2014) 2, pp. 333-366
technology (IT) and non-IT firms. Using technology-motivated transactions, we examine whether there are differences in market … the market reacts more favorably to the announcement of technology M&As relative to joint ventures for our full sample, IT … sample and non-IT sample. However, our examination of these firms’ long-term performance suggests the initial reaction is not …
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Society’s (Virtually) Time-Free Transition into the Digital Age
Robinson, John; Lee, Chang - In: Social Indicators Research 117 (2014) 3, pp. 939-965
Three early studies of the impact of IT on American society suggested that it was having a negative impact on social … whether various social/media activities have changed (1) at the aggregate societal level as new IT have diffused over the last … Internet diffusion, much in line with the earlier national studies. At the same time, it seems clear that not only the ATUS but …
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