Globale Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke haben als Organisationsform ökonomischer Aktivitäten in den letzten Jahrzehnten deutlich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Zurückgeblieben ist demgegenüber trotz der massiven Betroffenheit vieler Interessengruppen - nicht nur, aber besonders der Beschäftigten -...

This essay reports the results of a survey of IT exporters from Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. The survey identifies the key competitive advantages and disadvantages of Central European IT companies as they compete for outsourcing work in the US and Western European...

Information technology (IT) has become an integral part of an enterprise’s organizational life recently and represents an increasingly important factor for all kinds of organizations, since the services it provides have become almost essential by now for all types of enterprises in the...

Investments in technology create a large amount of capital investments by major companies. Assessing such investment projects is identified as critical to the efficient assignment of resources. Viewing investment projects as real options, this paper expands a method for assessing technology...

The value of small enterprises from the information technology industry can be found in their intellectual capital; these enterprises developed high value-added products and therefore contribute to the knowledge-based economy. Through the internationalization process enterprises gain long-term...

Technological changes are “the main engine of capitalism and evolution” (A. Toffler), “the fundamental driving force in transformation of an economy” (C. Freeman). The paper proposes a theoretical investigation of information and communication technologies evolution and their impact on...

Information Technology (IT) has been evidenced in the literature as a distinguishing factor, not only from the perspective of competitiveness, but also within the field of organizational performance. This way, the alignment of IT with the business strategy becomes necessary given its potential...

The aim of this study is to assess the relationship between IT and the competitive advantage of firms. Beside the adoption of Resource-Based View (RBV) as a theoretical framework, this work tries to find out the moderation effect of environmental uncertainty, as a contextual variable in the...