This thesis deals with the role of information and communications technology (ICT) in supply chain settings where partners collaborate on planning and control. Recent ICT developments offer numerous opportunities to handle information between partners in supply chains. Collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) is a collaboration concept that is often associated with ICT. Howe...

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are being increasingly used by the governments to deliver its services to both rural and urban people. Obviously, access and application of ICT will provide services to improve the income and welfare of rural poor. This will help reducing rural poverty and improve quality of life. In Iran, importance of using rural ICT benefits and advantage...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impacts of ICT use on achievements by considering not only ICT use, but also the process and background variables that influence ICT use at both the studentand school-level. This study was conducted using data from the 2010 Survey of Seoul Education Longitudinal Research. A Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) analysis was employed to control the stude...

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development on country’s scientific ranking as measured by H-index. Moreover, this study applies ICT development sub-indices including ICT Use, ICT Access and ICT skill to find the distinct effect of these sub-indices on country’s H-index. To this purpose, required data for the panel of 14 Middle Ea...

....................................................................................................... XVIII DECLARATION OF AUTHENTICITY .................................................................... XX ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ..................................................................................... XXI 1. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................

Information and communication technology (ICT) has become, within a very short time, one of the basic building blocks of modern society. Many countries now understanding the importance of ICT and mastering the basic skills and concepts of it as part of the core of education. Organizations, experts and practitioners in the education sector increasingly recognizing the importance of ICT in suppor...