..., this study did not find enough evidence that competitive pressure was a significant determinant of cloud computing adoption. Research limitations/implications These findings have important implications and great value to the research community, managers and information and communication technologies (ICT...

...‐communication Communication tools Communication technologies Sweden Finland Organizations Organizational structures Electronic communication (e‐communication) plays a fundamental role in any organizational activity. Today this includes a multitude of communication tools, ranging from simple forms...

.... Habitualisation. 3. Objectification. 4. Sedimentation. Wendy L. Currie can be contacted at: wendy.currie@wbs.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Communication technologies Databases National Health Service United Kingdom At the innovation stage, we investigate...

.... Habin Lee can be contacted at: habin.lee@brunel.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Public policy Work flow Government Communication technologies Worldwide web In today's fast growing business settings with increased public awareness, high competition and high levels...

... by the internet and its array of associated information and communication technologies (ICTs; Beynon‐Davies and Williams, 2004). Given this context, it is widely accepted in the literature that e‐government is much more complex than any previous efforts of IT‐induced change experienced in the public sector...

... questions that trigger future empirical research on poor teleworkers. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Teleworking Africa Communication technologies Poverty Economic growth Quality of life Poverty is a condition in which a person or community lacks the fundamentals...

...Bartholomew Aleke; Udechukwu Ojiako; David W. Wainwright Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically examine how social augmented parameters impact on the effective adoption of information and communication technology (ICT) by small‐scale agribusinesses operating in Southeast Nigeria...

...” to a valued business partner in a relationship that would be largely controlled by management and their information needs. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Communication technologies Government Project management Public sector organizations Information technology (IT) [1...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Internet Procurement Communication technologies Information systems Benefits This paper presents and categorises electronic procurement benefits identified in four case companies from the information technology (IT)/hi‐tech and electronic...

.... Communication technologies Outsourcing Project management Finance companies The model used for conducting an assessment in 2006 (which we called “ORA2 – Organisation Readiness Assessment”) has an additional construct (knowledge sharing) compared to the model used to conduct the assessment in 2004...

...). But, as with so many information systems, failure – especially in the area of stakeholder expectations – has been high. Elayne Coakes can be contacted at: coakese@westminster.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Knowledge management Strategic management Communication technologies...

... of evolution and patterns of outsourcing research. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Information systems Communication technologies Outsourcing Research Although rooted during 1960s and 1970s, first ripe fruit of outsourcing in the form of a mega project deal between Eastman Kodak...

...@Home, available at: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ (accessed 14 May 2009). Wired (2009), WIRED Magazine (US version), May. Communication technologies Internet Information systems Cloud computing is the latest technology that is being feted by the IT industry...

...). Amany Elbanna can be contacted at: a.elbanna@lboro.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Information systems Communication technologies User interfaces User studies In their extensive review of the development of TAM research, Lee et al. (2003) describe...

...Khong Sin Tan; Siong Choy Chong; Binshan Lin; Uchenna Cyril Eze Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the demographic characteristics of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with regards to their patterns of internet‐based information and communications technology (ICT) adoption...

... Communication technologies Stock markets Stock prices Investments that target IT infrastructure as opposed to those investments that primarily target particular applications have also been examined using event study methodology (Chatterjee et al., 2002 ; Dehning et al., 2003...

... for firms by their information and communication technologies (ICT) investment. Design/methodology/approach Using data collected through a survey of 271 Greek firms, moderated regression models founded on the Cobb‐Douglas production function are estimated, which have as the dependent variable the firm...

...). Communication technologies Knowledge transfer Delphi method Arabian Peninsula © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Khalid Al‐Mabrouk can be contacted at: khalid@usq.edu.au The Delphi method was originally developed during the 1950s by workers at the RAND Corporation while involved...

.... As indicated by Van Grembergen (2003) , IT governance is situated at multiple layers in the organisation: Communication technologies Governance Case studies Belgium In recent research reported at the EMCIS 2008 Conference (De Haes and Van Grembergen, 2008), a detailed list of IT governance...

...Elizabeth Daniel; Devendra Kodwani; Sanjukta Datta Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the impact of announcements regarding information and communication technologies (ICTs)‐enabled offshoring on the share prices of public companies. Design/methodology/approach The study...