Information and communication technology and geographical clusters: opportunities and spread

Carbonara, Nunzia

doi:10.1016/s0166-4972(03)00095-6

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“…Learning organisations are agile and more flexible to respond to new challenges in their environment than competitors [95]. Information technology facilitates the efforts of learning organizations to create and manage new knowledge and capabilities that are difficult to imitate to support innovation activities [96] in new product design, reduction in product development cycle and cost, and improving product quality [97]. Information technology enhances cross-unit knowledge management capability of an organisation to master change, leverage resources, and cooperate to compete that eventually influences its performance [98] [138].…”

Section: Is Support For Strategic Alignment Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of IS Strategy and Technological Innovation Strategic Alignment on FirmPerformance

Obeng¹,

Mkhize²

2017

IJITCS

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Abstract-The alignment between information systems strategy and business strategy as an important driver of competitiveness has predominantly been assessed through quantitative methods without exploring in detail factors that influence strategic alignment and their implications for perceived business performance. Most IS-business strategic alignment studies dominantly focus on entire business and IS strategies resulting in many findings that are too general and inconclusive. This study aims at assessing strategic alignment factors, their interrelationships, and how they influence the IS-business alignment and its consequential effect on the performance of six universal banks in Ghana. The study followed the systematic procedure of grounded theory design and adopted qualitative dominant crossover mixed analysis. The findings of the study indicate strategic alignment between information systems strategy and technological innovation impacts positively on the performance of a firm where IT utilization complements resources and capabilities.

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Section: Is Support For Strategic Alignment Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of IS Strategy and Technological Innovation Strategic Alignment on FirmPerformance

Obeng¹,

Mkhize²

2017

IJITCS

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“…To leverage the benefits of high quality information, firms are, therefore, increasingly investing in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). ICT enables storing, organizing and structuring information consistent with user needs and endorses instantaneous information availability through easy sharing (Carbonara, 2005).…”

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The role of GPS-enabled information in transforming operational decision making: an exploratory study

Habjan

Andriopoulos

Gotsi

2014

European Journal of Information Systems

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Although the impact of ICT-enabled information on firm performance has been well documented in the business value of IT literature, our understanding of how GPS adoption can transform operational decision-making and foster differential firm performance is limited.In response, we conduct an exploratory comparative case study of three transport firms that have implemented the same GPS during the same year in their operations. Our results highlight that increased use of GPS-enabled information can enhance information quality and make operational decision-making more fact-based and collaborative. We also find that such transformations in operational decision-making, driven by increased use of GPS-enabled information, can foster differential performance impacts. However, we warn scholars and practitioners that a firm's information management capability (in terms of availability of quality information in decision-making, software tools for connectivity and access to information, IT systems integration post-GPS adoption and adaptability of the infrastructure to emerging business needs) and organizational factors (such as such as top management support, project management of GPS implementation, financial support, end-user involvement, rewarding, training and employee resistance) can facilitate (or inhibit) effective use of GPS-enabled information in operational decision-making and, thus, moderate differential performance benefits of GPS adoption.

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“…Several aspects about industrial districts have been examined in the literature, for an introduction the reader can refer to Garofoli (1981Garofoli ( , 1991Garofoli ( , 1992, Becattini et al (1992), or Belussi and Gottardi (2000). Carbonara (2005) analyzes some common key features in the literature on geographical clusters and in particular on industrial districts 1 . She identifies, among the others, both "…a dense network of inter-firm relationships, in which the firms cooperate and compete at the same time…" and "…a dense network of social relationships, based mainly on face to face contact, which is strictly inter-connected with the system of economic relationships…".…”

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Population Symbiotic Evolution in a Model of Industrial Districts

Merlone

2007

Handbook of Research on Nature-Inspired Computing for Economics and Management

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This paper considers a model of industrial districts where different populations interact symbiotically. The approach consists in the parallel implementation of the model with jESOF, JAS and plain C++. We consider a district decomposition where two populations, workers and firms, cooperate while behaving independently. We can find interesting effects both in terms of worker localization consequences and of the dynamic complexity of the model, with policy resistance aspects. Those effects are stressed by comparing the dynamics of both the populations when they are independent one from each other and when they co-evolve.By using a multiple implementation strategy we compare the advantages of three modeling techniques and highlight the benefits arising when the same model is implemented on radically different simulation environments, with different implementation approaches; furthermore we discuss some results and future model improvements.

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Information and communication technology and geographical clusters: opportunities and spread

Cited by 88 publications

References 9 publications

Impact of IS Strategy and Technological Innovation Strategic Alignment on FirmPerformance

Impact of IS Strategy and Technological Innovation Strategic Alignment on FirmPerformance

The role of GPS-enabled information in transforming operational decision making: an exploratory study

Population Symbiotic Evolution in a Model of Industrial Districts

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