ICT/technologies are increasingly pervasive and embedded in everyday things and objects, constituting a relevant aspect of social identities. Furthermore ICT use continues to be a highly gendered area of life in all socio-economic and educational backgrounds, and a source of significant social inequality in enduring ways. Gender and ICT/technologies is an international growing field of research...

The adoption of innovations based on information and communications technologies (ICT) produces three types of transformations in companies. First off, ICTs can reduce transaction costs, which include those of coordination, information, motivation, control and supervision. Technological innovations can also contribute to the development of new capabilities within the company. Furthermore, ICT-b...

This paper is a case study of a school in Taiwan. The School in this study has successfully implemented and sustained the integration of ICT across the curriculum to support teaching and learning, whilst other similar schools have failed to maintain the impetus of a national project. By using questionnaires, interviews and document analysis the leadership and management, organisational processe...

In many developing countries, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) account for a significant share of production and employment and are therefore directly connected to poverty alleviation. Especially in developing countries, SMEs are challenged by the globalisation of production and shift in the importance of the various determinants of competitiveness. Through the rapid spread of information an...