What specific modes of internationalization influence SME innovation in Sub-Saharan least developed countries (LDCs)?

Agriculture Market Information Services (AMIS) in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs): Nature, Scopes, and Challenges

Rural growth is seen as an engine to drive the economy of developing countries and the use of Agriculture Market Information Services (AMIS) is believed to enable this growth. This paper is based on a literature study and investigates the spread and use of AMIS in the least developed countries (n=49) in terms of users, management, funding, infrastructure, and data. We investigate success as wel...

Factors that Influence Growth of Teledensity in Least Developed Countries

While having the lowest number of main telephone lines for every one hundred inhabitants (teledensity) over the last decade, the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), have the highest average pre-tax operator profitability in the world. Many LDCs have already opened their terminal equipment markets to competition and some have also done this with data and value-added services. Furthermore, LDCs are...

The promise of e-business for less developed countries (LDCs)

Industrial development options for less developed countries (LDCs) hinge increasingly on leveraging e-business as a means of promoting upgrading within global value chains. E-business represents a major opportunity for third world companies (TWCs) that can access and use it effectively and a threat to those companies that cannot. E-business holds great promise for TWCs in four key areas: levera...

Industrial Development in Least Developed Countries

Sustainable IS Research In Developed Countries - A Chance For Sub-Saharan Africa?

Information Systems (IS) could make a valuable contribution in solving the major problems of developing countries. This potential cannot be realized until one of the basic prerequisites of IS, energy, is lacking. The progress made in developed countries concerning sustainable and efficient energy production, management and consumption and the related IS open up new perspectives on the energy pr...