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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"IT industry"”.
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Digital Taniwha: Growing Māori participation in the IT industry
… people of New Zealand) in the national IT industry. It particularly focusses on Māori IT professionals and why their participation in IT sector events and activities are not as visible as non-Māori. The researcher, who is also a Māori IT professional, has engaged with Māori in IT during …
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An exploration of retention practices in the IT industry
… retention issues particularly significant in the IT industry. This exploratory study examined the application of a best practice retention model in IT organizations. The model consists of the six factors most cited in the literature to affect turnover, namely, orientation, training, career …
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SOCIALIZATION OF NEW ENTRANTS INTO THE IT INDUSTRY IN SINGAPORE
… when a new employee enters an organization. It is the process by which new employees are 'broken in' or 'learn the ropes' as they enter the organization. This study of new IT entrants ( graduated from the Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, NUS) with few months of working …
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Comparative Study on Cultural Dimensions of Organisational Change in India and New Zealand IT Industry
… for many organisations. Most transformation initiatives fail to achieve their objectives, especially during the planning and implementation stages. Policies and procedures must be closely tied to the organisation's culture for effective change implementation. When change and culture are …
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Understanding the dynamic socio-technical aspects of merger and acquisition integration in the IT industry : a model-based framework
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) enable organizations to broaden their set of capabilities that equip them better to deal with the challenges lying ahead. While M&A transaction values account trillions of dollars each year, their success rate is surprisingly low. In spite of this, the amount of …
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An analytical study of the ethical problems in India’s digital service sector and their impact on attrition in the IT industry
… that ethical problems are causing high staff attrition rates within the digital service sector (DSS) in India. It is also shown that ethical problems affect other factors in DSS, such as trust, decision-making process, stability, and day to day activities of the individuals in the workplace. This …
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Experiential factors which influence how female students perceive computing and computing careers at different stages in their education
… cause for concern for those in education and the IT industry alike. The need for a diverse workforce is necessary in order to have a creative balance in the IT Industry. The reasons for this decline are varied and can be attributed to factors such as the media, schooling or parental influences. …
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Work-life balance, identity salience and break taking behaviors in Indian expatriates
… faced by Indian expatriates working in the IT industry in the USA. It specifically examines participants’ work-nonwork role relationship quality, identity salience, and break taking behaviors. The sample for this study consisted of 415 Indian expatriates working in the IT industry. A …
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A study of the DRAM industry
Samsung Electronics as a DRAM provider has kept its leadership in the DRAM market with leading technology and production capacity since the 1990s even though there were unpredictable market fluctuations and dramatic changes in competition. Through the depressed market starting from 2006 to 2008, …
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South Korean technology policies for the industrial competitiveness between Japan and China
(cont.) In addition, this paper will propose new technology policies for Korea in order to secure its position as a leader in the information technology (IT) industry, particularly in the context of its relationships with Japan and China. Lastly, this study recommends that the Korean government …
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Job Embeddedness as a Predictor of Voluntary Turnover: Validation of a New Instrument
… research conducted by both academicians and practitioners on the causes and consequences of voluntary turnover. The purpose of this study is to test the validity and generalizability of the job embeddedness model of voluntary turnover to the information technology (IT) industry. The IT field has …
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Effective use of wire-less technology (WT) to enhance productivity in information technology (IT) activity management
… and devices are in use through out the IT industry currently. An analysis of features of such devices and services is done here. Most of them are used for handling unexpected situations (crisis management) and are not well integrated with the IT project or operations management A …
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Three Factor Authentication Using Java Ring and Biometrics
Computer security is a growing field in the IT industry. One of the important aspects of the computer security is authentication. Using passwords (something you know) is one of the most common ways of authentications. But passwords have proven to provide weak level of security as they can be easily …
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIRM PRODUCTIVITY: INVESTIGATING THE IMPACTS OF SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE MODEL AND WORKER MOBILITY
… two studies which investigate the productivity impacts of two important phenomena regarding the information technology (IT) industry. Using public firm-level data from Compustat, Study 1 analyzes the economies of scale of SaaS firms relative to their traditional counterparts by using the …
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Creating ladders out of chains : China's technological development in a world of global production
With the advent of economic globalization, the terms of debate over the political and social conditions necessary to foster development in the Global South have shifted. Examining technological development, one important aspect of economic development, in China, I explore the prospects for and …
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Cloud computing and its implications for organizational design and performance
… which concern different stakeholders from IT companies to cloud adopters to simple users of cloud services. Cloud computing is affecting the IT industry in terms of operations, product and service development, and strategy. It also affects the organizations that adopt cloud computing. Any …
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The Influence of Social Capital and Guanxi on Organizational Learning and Innovation in SMEs.
Literatures of learning in organisations have discovered social capital could enrich the information and knowledge acquisition for organisational development. Typically social capital is taken as the resource which could dominate the volume of external knowledge; and the relevant discussions also …
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Innovation and the state : development strategies for high technology industries in a world of fragmented production : Israel, Ireland, and Taiwan
… the forefront in new Information Technologies (IT). Surprisingly, from the perspective of comparative political economy theories, the IT industries of these countries use different business models and have carved out different positions in the global IT production networks. Of these emerging …
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Why tech companies fail to jump the financial S-curve
… have changed. In the Information Technology (IT) industry, starting as a new company with a new offering or business model, climbing the upward growth trajectory of financial results, and later getting stuck in a flat or declining graph has been a common pattern for many companies. Many of …
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