plants. We find that adopting these management practices had three main effects. First, it raised average productivity by 11 …% through improved quality and efficiency and reduced inventory. Second, it increased decentralization of decision making, as … better information flow enabled owners to delegate more decisions to middle managers. Third, it increased the use of …

The purpose of this note1 is to raise awareness of Nigeria’s potential as an African offshoring hub, and it is aimed …

use ITs is a crucial factor in determining the success or failure of an information technology (IT) system implementation …’ behaviors related to the technology acceptance, and also in the process of IT investment, implementation and renovation …

information technology (IT) that they use. However, we know little about the antecedents of the end user’s perceived behavioral … control (PBC) with respect to IT. Drawing on Kurt Lewin’s field theory, the present study responds to this concern by … computer anxiety. In order to test the model, a survey was conducted in France with IT end users enrolled in professional …

professionals. While previous discussion has focused on the paradox faced by IT workers as both professionals and employees, this … their own class position. It finds that participants clearly retained varying class models of society but expressed conflict …

a detailed analysis for 8 EU countries (AT, BE, DE, FI, ES, BG, PL, IT) and a more general analysis of the impact for …

The purpose of this research is to investigate whether the alignment of IT with the strategy (particularly the … performance. We constructed a model and tested it empirically using data from 381 SMEs operating in different sectors. A … multivariate perspective, modelled with structural equations, was used to test the alignment between strategy, structure and IT …

It is a main issue of this paper that capital of ICT (Information Communication Technology) in many industries and … companies is not clear about whether it affected corporate management. We have been studying on this issue since 1996 and … published several papers in some scholarly journals. But it has been very difficult for us to derive definite conclusions from …

the age-dependent technological structure of capital equipment. It involves the control of a network coalition choice … financial structure of the IT capital depends on technological change. These results are relevant for strategic management on a …