... of information about markets and competitiveness, the online presence of luxury brands and the impact of technology on their performance, which is not approached in the literature; some companies find it challenging to adopt new technologies; what level of technology and academic specialization is needed...

...Shivangi Verma; Naval Garg Purpose In the information and technology age, where the “physical” world is merged with the “digital” world, the nature of social conditions, relations, citizenship and the flow of information has shifted from a moral and legal approach to a digital approach. Nowadays...

... seems unsure and reluctant to implementation of the 4IR applications. The objective of this research is to identify the 4IR technology applications, which would have a significant impact on the operation of the AECO companies in India. Moreover, the paper further attempts to give a conceptual roadmap...

...Helena Anacka; Ewa Lechman Purpose The main research target of this paper is to capture the network effects using the case of mobile cellular telephony, identified in European telecommunication markets, and its determinants enhancing the process of digital technologies diffusion. Design...

... insights relevant to management, marketing and organisational scholars. Accelerationism Deleuze and Guattari Assemblage Technology Social theory The accelerationists strive not only to theorize the possibility of a post-capitalist tradition, but also to construct a new political imaginary...

... is to understand the views of employees about the application of distributed ledger database technology blockchain, in area of human resource management (HRM) of organizations. The current study aims to understand the views of both HR and non-HR employees of how they assess the current scenario of HRM...

... but also on how they organized their working days, including restricting face-to-face contact with other officers and encouraging the aforementioned physical presence of officers within their communities. The introduction of such technologies was envisaged as facilitating a fundamental step change...

... the replacement of traditional practices. We suggest, instead, that managers are more likely to be managing simultaneously both new and old organizational practices. We explore our position through an investigation of the use of remote collaboration technologies in film production. In our study of US, UK...

...Richard Badham; Karin Garrety; Christina Kirsch The political nature of technology design and implementation is explicitly addressed in “human centred” projects to introduce technologies that support job enrichment, group autonomy and industrial democracy. Yet the political meaning of such projects...

...Christian Koch Enterprise resource planning (ERP) technologies can, despite their apparent flexibility, act as a rather obdurate tool for management’s political programmes. To understand this, a combined organisational politics and sociology of technology approach is adopted, viewing technology...

... of advanced communication and computing technology, we find that virtual or network organizations are an emerging logical form for organizing. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Network organizations Organization hypes Organizing Technology An interesting type of attractor is one whose revealing...

... of management, economics, psychology, sociology, engineering technology, social psychology, and communication science and presents a taxonomy of perspectives for discussion. The taxonomy is further elucidated through the assignment and distribution of 13 organizational factors for both the objective state...

... to a theoretical perspective that focuses on the nature of technological, environmental and cultural change. Technological change transforms the nature of the marketplace by changing the relative cost, features and availability of products. Rapid technological change leads to rapid product introduction and hence...

... International trade Multinationals National cultures Singapore Society Technology These [major state institutions] are institutions unique to Singapore, institutions created in response to the huge problems of the 1960s and the 1970s. At the national level, the act of creation has been largely...

...Sharon L. Segrest; Darla J. Domke‐Damonte; Angela K. Miles; William P. Anthony This study examined the impact of social influence theory on distance education technology (DET) usage. Delineation of university culture types conceptualized by Bergquist (the collegial culture, the managerial culture...

...Gary B. Roberts; Kerr Watson; John E. Oliver The relationship between organisation size, technology implementation, and organisational culture is examined. Thirty‐five American and Canadian manufacturing organisations were surveyed concerning their approach to implementing statistical process...