A considerable body of literature has demonstrated— empirically as well as analytically—that information systems need to be situated to the local context of use. Yet for infrastructural information systems that spannumerous contexts spreadout globally, this is literally prohibitive. For these systems towork, it is necessary to strike abalancebetween sensitiveness to local contexts anda need to ...

The main objective of this paper is to investigate and identify the main determinants of successful knowledge management (KM) programs. We draw upon the institutional theory and the theory of technology assimilation to develop an integrative model of KM success that clarifies the role of information technology (IT) in relation to other important KM infrastructural capabilities and to KM process...

This study sought to ascertain what key international and local triggers accelerated or militated against their e-business adoption process in Ghanaian non-traditional export (NTE) firms. The macro international trigger explored was competition from exporters in other countries as well as an ascertainment of the significance of export direction. The macro level trigger explored hinged on the le...

A new link between price format and consumer preferences is introduced in the context of transactions related to multicomponent goods. Multicomponent goods combine a focal object or service (an item of clothing, theater tickets, etc.) with one or more infrastructural elements that fulfill some essential, subordinate role (shipping and handling, booking service, etc.). In this context firms need...

Marco Trubian Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Informazione Università degli studi di Milano 20135 Milan, Italy Phone:+39 02 503 16230, Fax:+39 02 503 16253 [email protected] Abstract Multiple combinations of hardware and network components can be selected to design an information technology (IT) infrastructure that satisfies performance requirements. The professional criterion to deal with thes...

This paper applied factor conditions from Porter’s Diamond Model (1990) to understand the various challenges facing the AMISA. Factor conditions highlighted in Porter’s model are grouped into two groups namely, basic and advance factors. Two AMISA associations representing over 10 000 employees were interviewed. The largest Clothing, Textiles and Leather (CTL) apparel retail group was also inte...

As the social sciences undergo an infrastructural turn, geographers have taken steps to broaden, disrupt, and reconceptualise understandings of infrastructure its relationship social, political, economic, ecological processes. We contribute this discussion by highlighting emergence a comparatively understudied yet crucial aspect within geographies – labour. identify key theoretical anchors that...

Multiple case studies in India, The Gambia, and Nigeria are the background for an empirically grounded framework of knowledge management (KM). Cultural diversity and gaps in the provision of infrastructure make managing knowledge challenging but necessary in developing countries. These environmental factors interact with organisational variables and technology to enable or constrain knowledge m...

the main purpose of this study was to study the barriers to nanotechnology entrepreneurship development in the iranian agricultural sector. a descriptive- survey method was used for collecting data. the statistical population of this study consisted of 190 researchers who were working in the national agricultural research institutions (n=190). based on the krejcie and morgan table, a sample of ...