Impact of ICT on Organizations in Tunisia

Ziadi, J.; Kuofie, Matthew

doi:10.1002/j.1681-4835.2006.tb00188.x

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“…This, to some extend, has also been supported empirically (see for example, Prasad, 2008a). At national level, Ziadi and Kuofie (2006) found that in Tunisia, businesses are not yet completely committed to the revolution of the information. They suggest that this lack of initiative could be because new technologies require investments, including development of human resources, which the Tunisian businesses do not feel ready to provide.…”

Section: It Investments and Their Benefits In Developing Countriesmentioning

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Understanding Successful Use of Technology in Organisations in Developing Countries: A Structurational Perspective

Prasad

2009

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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Information Technology and its relationship to organisational performance has been a subject of continued interest to researchers and other stakeholders in developing countries. While there is concurrence that IT does contribute to performance, and we are efficiently expanding our knowledge on what factors cause better leveraging of IT resources in organisations, we have done little to understand how these factors interact with technology that results in improved performance. This paper suggests looking that the interaction between organisational resources and technology within the structurational lens, which recognises the recursive interaction between technology and people in the presence of social practices, and the norms that inform their ongoing practices. An ethnographic approach to understanding this interaction between technology and resources, as suggested by the structuration perspective, is suggested, aiming to provide richer insights on the nature of the environment that promotes better use of IT resources in developing countries. Such insights could provide the IT users in developing countries with at least an initial conception of the "IT usage platform" that they could promote in their organisations to leverage the most from their IT resources.

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Section: It Investments and Their Benefits In Developing Countriesmentioning

confidence: 63%

Understanding Successful Use of Technology in Organisations in Developing Countries: A Structurational Perspective

Prasad

2009

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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“…There are numerous, both theoretical and empirical, confirmations that support this claim [3], [8], [34]. It has been proven that ICT leads to information processing cost reduction, decision-making quality improvement, decrease in the number of hierarchical levels and organization "thinning", and also to decrease in middle-level management.…”

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confidence: 92%

The impact of information and communication technology on decentralization: The role of organizational culture

Janićijević¹,

Milovanović²

2015

Ekonomika preduzeca

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The paper explores the impact of organizational culture on the effects that the implementation of information and communication technology has on decentralization of organization. The starting assumption is that the implementation of information and communication technology does not have a predetermined and unique impact on centralization or decentralization of organization, but this impact rather depends on the context in which the implementation is performed. Organizational culture has a considerable influence on thinking and behavior of employees and managers since it shapes their interpretive schemes through assumptions, values, and norms that it contains. Therefore, organizational culture must be considered as one of the possible elements of the context on which the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on structure decentralization depends. Starting with Handy's classification of organizational culture types, hypotheses on different impacts that ICT might have on decentralization in each of the culture types are generated. The conclusion is the following: ICT implementation in people culture will lead to a high decentralization, ICT implementation in task culture will lead to a moderate decentralization, ICT implementation in power culture will lead to a moderate centralization, and ICT implementation in role culture will lead to a high centralization.

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“…Organizations require fast Internet speed so as to save on time as well as enhance productivity and efficiency. Fast Internet speed is needed to support multiple users (Ziadi & Knufie, 2016).…”

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Effects of Internet Speed on Service Delivery: A Case of Health Care Sector in Elgeyo-Marakwet County, Kenya

CHEMJOR,

NJOROGE, PhD

2023

strategicjournals.com

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Broadband Internet access in the healthcare sector worldwide is essential for improvement in service delivery. The extent to which hospitals are connected to broadband Internet varies worldwide. In Kenya, Internet broadband access has been adopted in the healthcare sector but its penetration differs from one county to another. The current study sought to determine the effects of Internet broadband access on service delivery in the health care sector in Elgeyo Marakwet County. The specific objective was to establish how Internet speed affects service delivery in health care. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. The target population was 240 respondents who comprised of 24 doctors, 40 nurses, 56 management staffs and 120 hospital clients while the sample was 150 respondents who comprised of 15 doctors, 25 nurses, 35 management staffs and 75 hospital clients. Both stratified and simple random sampling techniques were adopted in the study. The data for the study was collected using both questionnaires and interview schedule. The current study adopted content validity, which was assessed on the basis of expert's opinion. Reliability of the research instruments was measured using Cronbach's alpha. Quantitative data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics, inferential statistics while qualitative data content analysis. The findings revealed that Internet speed had a positive and significant effect on service delivery (β= 0.255, p>0.05). The study concluded that Internet speed affects service delivery in the healthcare sector. This is attributed to Internet transfer technology that is used at the facility affecting Internet speed which in-turn affects service delivery and Internet transfer technology which makes services affordable at the facility. The study recommended that the Communication Authority of Kenya (CA) should consider Internet speed when enhancing Broadband Internet penetration in the healthcare sector in the marginalized counties in Kenya.

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Impact of ICT on Organizations in Tunisia

Cited by 10 publications

References 7 publications

Understanding Successful Use of Technology in Organisations in Developing Countries: A Structurational Perspective

Understanding Successful Use of Technology in Organisations in Developing Countries: A Structurational Perspective

The impact of information and communication technology on decentralization: The role of organizational culture

Effects of Internet Speed on Service Delivery: A Case of Health Care Sector in Elgeyo-Marakwet County, Kenya

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