Enhancing information technology for value added across economic sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa✰

Asongu, Simplice A.; Rahman, Mushfiqur; Nnanna, Joseph; Haffar, Mohamed

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120301

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“…The empirical results from this study are consistent with findings from recent papers (Wlodarczyk, 2017 : Antonelli & Gehringer, 2017 ; Lee & Pose, 2021 ; Asongu et al, 2021 ; Asongu et al, 2020 ; Kanwal & Eyisi, 2022 ) which confirm that value-added just like innovation will expand or contract economic growth and income inequality depending on the measure 2 (manufacturing, industry, services, patents, research, and development) used.…”

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Front-end Innovation and Top Income Inequality: Evidence from Emerging Markets

2023

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We contribute to the literature on income inequality, by extending existing models to examine the effect of front-end innovation (FEI) on top income inequality. We use a fixed effect panel regression, on annual country-level data for twenty-four emerging markets, over twenty-four (1995–2018) years, and find an insignificant correlation between income inequality and FEI. The instrumental variable estimates, however, show a significant association between measures of FEI and top income shares. Furthermore, we confirm that FEI is weakly related to broad measures of income inequality. Our instrumentation strategy and robustness checks suggest that this correlation partly reflects a causality, from FEI to top income inequality. Finally, we reveal that FEI is necessary for the survival of new ventures, in the crucial early years. Overall, our findings confirm that that; a) sectors that scale slowly because institutions are a substantial barrier for FEI and, b) sectors that rely solely on the most skilled front-end innovators to access credit, significantly expand top entrepreneurial income share across emerging markets.

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Front-end Innovation and Top Income Inequality: Evidence from Emerging Markets

2023

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“…Beyond the threshold, the downward‐sloping line turns upward. Firms and manufacturing sectors can only unlock value creation when digital transformation technologies reach a critical mass (Asongu et al, 2020; Di Vaio et al, 2021). In essence, a threshold exists for digitalization to contribute to innovative production (Gong et al, 2023), resulting in a deferred positive impact on export performance.…”

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The nonlinear relationship between digital affordances and firm‐level export performance: The moderating role of organizational ambidexterity

Erdey,

Liu,

Nagy

2024

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A diminished trade cost has been ascribed to the advancement of digital transformation, particularly digital technologies and platforms. Nevertheless, whether this decline in trade costs manifests in the extensive or intensive margin of trade remains an unresolved query. This study conducts a comprehensive analysis of the influence of digital affordances on firm‐level export performance. Specifically, we posit that digital affordances will manifest a convex influence on firms' export decisions and intensive margin of export. Furthermore, we propose that the relationship between digital affordances and firm‐level export decisions will be contingent upon the degree of firms' organizational ambidexterity. To empirically test our hypotheses, we leverage a dataset comprising 13,251 firm‐level observations gathered by the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) unit across 19 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. Our study substantiates a U‐shaped nexus between digital affordances and firm‐level export performance. Importantly, our analysis supports that this U‐shaped nexus is accentuated when firms present a high level of organizational ambidexterity.

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“…From a purely economic point of view, IT is just an input that interacts with other elements [17]. Thus, information technology brings benefits to the company and is more important than human or material capital [18], to ensure the performance of their companies; managers must invest in information technology [19]. Returning to the literature, the researchers analyzed investment in information technologies according to several criteria [20], [21]: the level of investment, the use and perception of information technologies, and the degree of involvement of information technologies in the decision-making process.…”

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Implementation of a decision support process for evaluating the correlation between IT investment and of information systems success

Daghouri

Mansouri²

2023

IJECE

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The main objective of this paper is to study the correlation between investment in information technologies and especially information systems and information system success based on data collection and a multi-criteria decision-making approach using technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) and analytical hierarchy process (AHP) methods. The criteria of the hierarchical model for evaluating the information system success are chosen from Delone and McLean information systems (IS) success model. The proposed approach has been implemented in 3 sectors recognized by their variation in the use of information systems: the financial sector, the service companies sector, and the construction industry sector. Therefore, the results of this implementation show that massive investment in information systems does not always guarantee good information system success, and information system success is not always the result of massive investment in the information system.

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Enhancing information technology for value added across economic sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa✰

Cited by 21 publications

References 110 publications

Front-end Innovation and Top Income Inequality: Evidence from Emerging Markets

Front-end Innovation and Top Income Inequality: Evidence from Emerging Markets

The nonlinear relationship between digital affordances and firm‐level export performance: The moderating role of organizational ambidexterity

Implementation of a decision support process for evaluating the correlation between IT investment and of information systems success

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