In this essay, we explore some of the details of what it takes to own, use and derive benefit from information and communication technologies, with a focus on regions where ICT adoption and use is especially low. We begin with a fairly meticulous description from our ethnographic work to which we’ll refer throughout the paper. Though we consider this particular instance, we note that it represe...

There are several theories available to describe how managers choose a medium for communication. However, current technology can affect not only how we communicate but also what we communicate. As a result, the issue for designers of communication support systems has become broader: how should technology be designed to make communication more effective by changing the medium and the attributes ...

In the Fall of 2001, after more than two years of planning, the School of Management at the University of Michigan – Dearborn launched its webMBA program. The launch of this program marked the culmination of over three years of research, planning, design, and development. This article reviews many of the key issues involved in developing and launching the webMBA, including decisions made about ...

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This paper examines the effect of innovation on export decision in Chinese high-tech firms during the period of 2005-2007. Using a parametric, instrumental variable approach and a non-parametric matching method, we find that firm-level innovation efforts, measured by R&D spending and new product output, play only a minor role for domestic exporters. Foreign-invested firms dominate the high-tech...

The development of mobile IT continuously provides new resources of use in the road environment. However, there are problems turning technical options into meaningful applications. This paper presents a method where observation of daily practices to identify users' demands to inform ITS-design. The particular case is bus driving and public transport management, seen from the bus-drivers’ perspe...

Product replacement plays a critical role in many high-tech durable goods markets. Since these markets frequently undergo both rapid improvements in quality and falling prices, the consumer's replacement decision is most often due to product obsolescence, as opposed to wear and tear. Despite its importance, this issue has received insufficient attention in the literature, especially from an emp...

Introduction Data is the lifeblood of science. Researchers, government institutions, non-profit organizations, schools, commercial organizations, and individual citizens all need the widest possible access to data from all sources to explore, experiment, test, create new knowledge and new products, and, ultimately, to increase understanding of our world. Access to data, put simply, is crucial t...

As in the UK, today, all universities and university colleges in Sweden, except a couple of very small and specialized ones, do have an institutional repository. A majority (around 80%) are working together on a co-operative basis within the DiVA Publishing System from last summer argued that further development, as well as higher standards of accessibility of repositories, are needed in order ...

Let me begin by drawing a basic distinction between ordinary and technical senses of words. By the ordinary sense of a word I mean the sense we learned on our mothers’ knees, the sense intended and understood by competent English speakers using the word in everyday contexts. By a technical sense I mean a deliberate variation on the ordinary sense introduced to serve a particular theoretical or ...