The main objective of this paper is to investigate and identify the main determinants of successful knowledge management (KM) programs. We draw upon the institutional theory and the theory of technology assimilation to develop an integrative model of KM success that clarifies the role of information technology (IT) in relation to other important KM infrastructural capabilities and to KM process...

This study sought to ascertain what key international and local triggers accelerated or militated against their e-business adoption process in Ghanaian non-traditional export (NTE) firms. The macro international trigger explored was competition from exporters in other countries as well as an ascertainment of the significance of export direction. The macro level trigger explored hinged on the le...

A new link between price format and consumer preferences is introduced in the context of transactions related to multicomponent goods. Multicomponent goods combine a focal object or service (an item of clothing, theater tickets, etc.) with one or more infrastructural elements that fulfill some essential, subordinate role (shipping and handling, booking service, etc.). In this context firms need...

Marco Trubian Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Informazione Università degli studi di Milano 20135 Milan, Italy Phone:+39 02 503 16230, Fax:+39 02 503 16253 [email protected] Abstract Multiple combinations of hardware and network components can be selected to design an information technology (IT) infrastructure that satisfies performance requirements. The professional criterion to deal with thes...

As the social sciences undergo an infrastructural turn, geographers have taken steps to broaden, disrupt, and reconceptualise understandings of infrastructure its relationship social, political, economic, ecological processes. We contribute this discussion by highlighting emergence a comparatively understudied yet crucial aspect within geographies – labour. identify key theoretical anchors that...

Multiple case studies in India, The Gambia, and Nigeria are the background for an empirically grounded framework of knowledge management (KM). Cultural diversity and gaps in the provision of infrastructure make managing knowledge challenging but necessary in developing countries. These environmental factors interact with organisational variables and technology to enable or constrain knowledge m...

Recent studies on collaborative practices in large infrastructural projects address the importance of discursive strategies and power relations in dynamic project arenas [1]-[3]. This paper focuses on the coping narratives developed by contract team members during the building phase of a large-scale infrastructural project. Coping narratives relate to the management based grand narrative of the...

This study identifies the significant factors affecting Internet growth levels at an early stage of growth in African nations. The average growth levels of Internet users for 1995 and 2003 are calculated and the associations between Internet growth level and several types of factors such as economic, educational, institutional, infrastructural, innovation-related, and environmental factors are ...