... in the contemporary global business environment. A range of available data is reviewed concerning the global distribution of investments in knowledge, information and communications technologies (ICTs), international transactions in knowledge‐intensive services and royalty and licensing fees, employment by sector...

... growing liberalisation and advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) have enabled major shifts in the strategy and structure of multinational enterprises (MNEs) with increasing emphasis on global integration of operational activities (Buckley and Ghauri, 2004). Since the 1980s...

...Rudolf R. Sinkovics; Mohammad Yamin; Ruey‐Jer “Bryan” Jean Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on the ambiguous relationship of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the relationship between small suppliers and their multinational enterprise (MNE) customers. Design...

...? (Boyer, 2000). Thus, the question is to explore to what extent can the recent arguments about the potential of digital technologies (the information and communication technologies, henceforth ICT) in terms of delivering an alleged “business revolution”, embodied in the concept of the new economy [1...

... Internet Communication technologies Consumers Empowerment Social class Postmodernism With the rise of the Internet, much effort has gone into developing strategies to successfully establish a company's web appearance (Huizingh, 2002 ; Lee, 2004 ; Martin, 2002) and to establish e‐channels...

...Margaret Grieco; John Hogan; Miguel Martínez Lucio; Margaret Grieco; Mhinder Bhopal Purpose This article aims to explore the use of new information communication technology by the Malaysian labour movement. New information communication technologies are undoubtedly globalising, but these same...

...Margaret Grieco; John Hogan; Miguel Martínez Lucio; Sandra Cockfield Purpose This paper aims to examine the relationship between union renewal strategies and the adoption and implementation of information and communication technologies by trade unions. Design/methodology/approach The research...

...Margaret Grieco; John Hogan; Miguel Martínez Lucio; Andreja Zivkovic; John Hogan Purpose This paper aims to examine the significance of information communication technology (ICT) for Balkan labour. Drawing on the heuristic of “distributed discourse”, this paper aims to explore virtual forms...

...Margaret Grieco; John Hogan; Miguel Martínez Lucio; Jack Fiorito; M. Todd Royle Purpose Aims to review British labour union leaders’ views on the use and importance of information and communications technology (ICT) within their unions. Design/methodology/approach An open‐ended e‐mail survey...

...Margaret Grieco; John Hogan; Miguel Martínez Lucio; Stephen Little; Stewart Clegg Purpose This paper investigates how the learning trajectory of corporations utilising information and communication technologies has been matched by the labour movement and social movements associated...

...Margaret Grieco; John Hogan; Miguel Martínez Lucio; Charley Lewis Purpose The paper aims to present a historical overview of the use of information communications technology (ICT) tools and platforms, particularly e‐mail and the internet, as tools of cyber‐activism by the labour movement in South...