Nanotechnology is often referred to as an entity in itself, a promising technoscience that may enable a vast array of products that will affect and change society. Looking beneath the umbrella-term of 'nanotechnology' what is actually occurring with regards to the emergence of product/applications? And what does this mean for governance of emerging nano-involved product development and societal...

The emergence of the knowledge society implies that every citizen must be digitally literate in order to be on a better footing in terms of equal opportunities in a world in which digital functions are proliferating (Merchant 2004). In the knowledge society, those who can use the new media are more advantaged than those who do not. While the possession of basic ICT skills is now taken for grant...

A firm’s development of innovation in products and services are critical for sustaining a competitive advantage but new product development failure rate in various industries still remains relatively high. New processes emerge during product development due to the uncertainty of the requirements and the diversity of the product development team. Unstructured processes emerge through the social ...

The objective of this paper is to contribute to a deeper understanding of system usage in organizations by examining its multilevel nature. Past research on system usage has suffered from a levels bias, with researchers studying system usage at single levels of analysis only (e.g., the individual, group, or organizational level). Although single-level research can be useful, we suggest that stu...

Since Government transparency and information open has got more attention by both academia and practitioners with the development of information technologies (IT) and Internet, The popularity of Web 2.0 application provides the government some new opportunities and challenges. Official documents exchange via microblogging (ODEM) in the Bureau of Justice, Haining is a practice case of government...

The theory of participatory culture, described by Henry Jenkins and Yochai Benkler, proposes that the emergence of new media allows for unrestricted access to the system of cultural exchange, and supports a more democratic process of production and distribution in the media industry. An additional benefit of greater participation in society, manifested by active audiences, is a heightened appre...

The emergence and tremendous growth of the new economy has unleashed powerful forces that are reshaping the retail industry at an unprecedented rate. Everything from customer relationships to branding to supply chain management is impacted by this revolution. Given the dynamics at work in the new economy, retailers are struggling to strike a balance between maintaining operational excellence an...

Firms often find it necessary to offer variety of products in order to compete in existing and emerging product market segments. The extreme requirement of this trend is that of mass customization. An important principle is to mitigate costs due to variety and manage complexity in order to achieve efficiency level similar to that of mass production. A systematic and fundamental strategy to achi...

The emergence of radical technologies presents a significant challenge to incumbent firms. We study firms’ management of radical technological change by separating their actions into upstream research (the “R” of R&D) and downstream development (the “D” of R&D). We introduce two contingencies to explain when incumbents’ research investments in radical technologies translate into product develop...

Rapid advances in information technology and telecommunications and, more specifically, wireless and mobile CO~mUnications and their convergence (“telematics”) are leading to the emergence of a new type of information infrastructure that has the potential of supporting an array of advanced services for healthcare. The objective of this paper is to provide a snapshot of the applications of wirel...