IT spending in the midst of the Asian economic downturn: a Singapore perspective

Soh, Christina; Neo, Boon-Siong

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“…This is particularly true in Asia which has been adversely hit by the economic crisis in 1997}1998. As the result, managers are likely to view IT as a possible way of riding out the downturn through more e!ective deployment of IT to support current strategies or to enable new strategies (Soh & Neo, 1999). Second, the advent of the Internet has increased the importance of IT and opened new opportunities that can dramatically alter the way a "rm compete (Ng, Pan & Wilson, 1998).…”

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Information technology (IT) investment and the role of a firm: an exploratory study

Teo

Wong

Chia

2000

International Journal of Information Management

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This study extends Weill's (Do computers payow ? A study of information technology investments and manufacturing performance. Washington, DC: International Center for Information Technologies, Information Systems Research, 3(4), 307}333) work by categorizing IT investment into four types of management objectives: transactional, strategic, informational and threshold. The relationships between these management objectives and "rm's role (de"ned in terms of traditional, evolving and strategic) are investigated through a questionnaire survey of managers in the service sector. As expected, "rms adopting a traditional role seem to favor investment in transactional IT. However, there appears to be an increasing emphasis on strategic IT investment for all three types of "rms, regardless of the role of IT. Implications of the results are discussed.

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Information technology (IT) investment and the role of a firm: an exploratory study

Teo

Wong

Chia

2000

International Journal of Information Management

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“…Others used the crisis as a background context for arguments about other issues, such as the state's selective approach to the issues of transparency and the media (Rodan, 2000). Analyses of firm-level impacts and responses were limited to short papers such as Soh and Neo's (1999) examination of reduction in spending on information technology (IT) by companies. The most notable of such attempts was that by Poon and Thompson (2001), who employed self-administered surveys to examine the impact of the crisis on foreign firms' investments and activities in Hong Kong and Singapore.…”

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Contesting the State: Discourses of the Asian Economic Crisis and Mediating Strategies of Electronics Firms in Singapore

Lai

Yeung

2003

Environ Plan A

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In the last decade or so, human geographers have paid greater attention to the significance of discourses. We acknowledge the importance of discursive constructions and metaphorical representations of economic space, and extend the argument by examining the practices that may follow from such discourses. With use of empirical data from a firm-level survey and interviews with representatives of electronics firms in Singapore, we focus on contested interpretations of the Asian economic crisis at the firm level: how they might differ from state-driven discourses, and the extent to which state discourses (embodied in ministerial speeches and policy initiatives) were accepted, contested, and negotiated through firm-specific practices. The different counterdiscourses and responses of local and foreign firms are also compared. Results show that discourses at the national (state) scale were challenged and contested by firms within the same national space economy because of such material conditions as firm-specific circumstances, spatial extensiveness of their intrafirm and interfirm networks, and their access to various formal and informal information channels. The sampled firms offerered their own readings of the crisis that often contradicted the effectiveness and usefulness of certain policy responses orchestrated at the national scale. Their abilities to weather the crisis were also differentiated significantly between local and foreign firms. The study therefore highlights the importance of understanding the complex interrelationships between discourses and practices at different spatial scales and their capacity to produce (un)intended geographical outcomes.

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The Journal of Strategic Information Systems

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IT spending in the midst of the Asian economic downturn: a Singapore perspective

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Information technology (IT) investment and the role of a firm: an exploratory study

Information technology (IT) investment and the role of a firm: an exploratory study

Contesting the State: Discourses of the Asian Economic Crisis and Mediating Strategies of Electronics Firms in Singapore

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