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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"ICT industry"”.
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China's ICT industry and East Asian regional production networks
… production networks (EARPN) with regard to the ICT industry. Many research studies have focused on China’s strengthening military and political power or are devoted to China’s astounding economic achievements vis-à-vis Japan’s recession in the world economy. The tone of much of this literature …
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An investigation of gendered institutions and the ideal worker narrative in the Scottish ICT industry.
… barriers in the Scottish technology industry, in an effort to understand the impact on gender-minority workers and the most effective ways to support those workers at the firm level. Aspects of organisational culture, gendered discourses between workers and horizontal and vertical job …
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Four essays on the entanglement of career choices and gender in the information and communication technology industry
… components that a career choice regarding the ICT-industry is comprised of. In the second article, the thesis focuses on the Indian ICT-industry. The Indian ICT-industry consists of a comparably high percentage of female employees, namely 35% at the entry-level, but at the same time struggles …
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The impact of managing business partners supported by Web-based technologies on inter-organisational relationships : an empirical study from partners' perspective within the ICT industry
… the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry. Based on a sample of 196 partner organisations, we carry out an empirical study and document the association between both driving factors and indicators of high quality relationships. We find support for the hypotheses posed, such as …
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An investigation into the ICT Vendor–Value Added Reseller (VAR) partnerships and the perceived factors that influence their relationship satisfaction in South Africa
… Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) downstream supply chain management (SCM) Vendors and Value-added Resellers (VARs) in South Africa. In addition, the study investigates the motivation for Vendor-VAR relationships as this exposes the antecedent and consequences of the perceived …
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Class Formation in High-Tech Information and Communications as an Aspect of China's Reintegration Into Transnational Capitalism
China's leaders have designated ICT as a strategic industry in their state-led effort to carve out a stronger position in the global economy. This dissertation situates China's ICT development in terms of the interplay between these broad transnational trends and domestic policies and institutional …
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Tencent as a nexus: the political economy of China’s internet industry
… the political economy of China’s Internet industry—a nexus of two dynamic poles of growth—China and the Internet. Specifically, through a case study of Tencent, the dissertation investigates the political-economic context within which the Chinese Internet company has grown, the ownership …
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Effective policymaking for developing ICT industries : lessons from three African governments' approach to information and communications technology
… information and communication technology (ICT) policies on the performance of the ICT industry in a given country. Many developing country governments are in the process of focusing more on developing their ICT industries as a mechanism to improve economic development levels in their …
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The ICT gender imbalance in schools and beyond: missed opportunities
… shrinkage’, the steady attrition of women in the ICT industry despite their academic achievement, has been of great concern not only in the United Kingdom but also internationally for almost a quarter of a century. This study reviewed literature and prior research from both national and …
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The Influence of Institutional Environment on New Venture Performance in Egypt: The Mediating Role of Social ties
… data from 350 Egyptian entrepreneurs in the ICT industry. The qualitative phase of data collection comprised semi-structured interviews with 16 Egyptian entrepreneurs in the same industry. The quantitative and qualitative data are analysed using structural equation modeling (SEM) and thematic …
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An ICT strategic management framework for rapid technological evolution of a state-owned company
This study was conducted to look into state-owned ICT institutions. The emphasis was on devising a strategic management framework that would be robust and agile, thereby enabling government companies within the ICT sector to rapidly respond to changes in the market and to also enable them to …
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Creative pedagogy : a qualitative study of immersive learning at the Center for Information and Communication Sciences (CICS)
… in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry. The Center is the manifestation of a vision birthed out of creativity and resourcefulness. This study examined the creative pedagogy approach at CICS based on instruction, social learning culture, professional development, academic …
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Nanotechnology Patents : The next technological revolution and the future of the patent system
Experiences from ICT and biotechnology have shown that the current patent system has increasing difficulties with the numbers and complexity of patent applications. As a result, the patent system, which ultimate goal is to promote technological innovation and to reward the inventors, has been the …
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Power-aware routing in multi-hop wireless networks
… the information and communication technology (ICT) industry is already being labeled as a substantial contributor to the total CO2 emissions on the planet. For this reason, green ICT has become a critical issue world wide. Since routing is one of the core functions of multihopnetworks like …
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Establishing Business Model Innovation Framework for Business Sustainability: A Case Study on ICT Reseller SMEs in Malaysia
… and innovation, particularly in the ICT industry. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for businesses, including ICT resellers, to innovate their business models to stay competitive. In Malaysia, ICT reseller SMEs play a crucial role in supplying technology to end customers, …
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Project managers in Scrum Teams: Software development conditions influencing the relative presence of a project manager within Agile Scrum Teams in Oceania and Southeast Asia
… are known to be the workhorse of a growing ICT industry. There are many software development project management models that have risen over the past 50 years. These were initially controlled by a Project Manager, who is the central figure for software development using earlier delivery …
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Towards Management Information System in public administration in Uganda
… and that of local administration of five districts, namely, Arua, Bushenyi, Kampala, Masaka, and Mbale. The study involved administration of a survey questionnaire to 530 respondents as well as conducting face to face interviews with 53 respondents. This was on top of the review of the …