... evaluation Communication technologies Middle East Manufacturing industries Firms resort to two major deployment strategies to implement their IT initiatives; contingency and standardization. They could utilize one of these strategies alone or they could mix‐and‐match to arrive at a more viable...

...‐in‐use) influences the institutional properties of the organization, either by reconstructing or changing them. Communication technologies Computer aided design Architecture Sweden It is difficult to overemphasize the importance of technology in an organization's environment. Some...

...Attila Chikán; Harald Hagemann Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the high rates of economic growth of the US economy and the remarkable acceleration of productivity growth since the mid‐1990s which is widely attributed to the modern information and communication technologies (ICTs...

... sophistication level for global competition. Competitive advantage Communication technologies Innovation Benchmarking Capital Classification © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 CR Vol. 16, No. 2, 2006 A FRAMEWORK FOR MANAGING THE SOPHISTICATION OF THE COMPONENTS OF TECHNOLOGY FOR GLOBAL...

... and discussed. Conclusions and policy implications are presented. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Communication technologies India Competitive strategy International trade Economic growth CR Vol.16, No.1, 2006 NATIONAL BARRIERS TO GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS: THE CASE OF THE IT INDUSTRY...