Many organizations must continuously innovate with information technology (IT) to maintain their competitive position. This paper illustrates how the Clarica Life Insurance Company created a stream of business-enabling IT innovations after more than 70 career transitions of IT people into line business positions. The theoretical lens used to discuss this case is the Nahapiet and Ghoshal theory ...

Postgraduate student in Agricultural Economics, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville 3209, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. [email protected] 2 Professor of Agricultural Economics, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville 3209, Pietermaritzbu...

The goal of capacity planning is to ensure that the right computing resources are available in the right place in the computing environment and at the right time. Capacity planning efforts are costjustified in environments where significant revenue streams are generated by the use of software applications and where capital expenditures on computing and network resources used to operate software...

We study the role of social capital in language acquisition during study abroad. Using data collected from 204 participants in Japanese study abroad programs, we show that students who leverage social capital through bridging relationships feel they achieve higher levels of language improvement. Furthermore, an analysis of the topics participants discuss with locals suggests that there are sign...

Based on the research of relationship between corporate social capital and technology innovation, this paper raised conceptual models and theoretical assumptions of corporate social capital influencing technological innovation performance, and analyzed in depth how the corporate social capital affected corporate technology innovation performance by using resource acquisition, according to quest...

Studying the relation between equity market liberalization and imports of capital goods, we examine one channel through which international financial integration can promote growth. For the period 1980-1997, we find that after controlling for other policies and fundamentals, stock market liberalizations are associated with a significant increase in the share of imports of machinery and equipmen...

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