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...

The Black Panther Party was one of the most important American radical groups 1960s, although few scholars have examined them as a model revolutionary vanguard party. Following recent political theory, this study performs discourse analysis newspaper through lens infrastructure. It offers reading Panthers articulating an infrastructural politics by activating infrastructure site struggle, provi...

This article analyses how a pair of nineteenth century commodity exchanges—in Chicago and New Orleans—shaped the sociotechnical infrastructures underlying two key types market information—price quotations crop statistics. Specifically, paper investigates why these exchanges saw divergent outcomes, each successfully developing one information infrastructure but not other. Prior scholarship has u...

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...

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...

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...