Strategies for Telecoms to Improve Efficiency in the Production of Revenues: An Empirical Investigation in the Context of Transition Economies

Abstract

Despite sharing a common label, Transition Economies (TE) do not constitute a homogenous group; rather, these countries differ in many ways, including the level of economic development. These diferences preclude TEs from adapting a uniform strategy towards increasing the level of relative eflciency of production of revenues from investments in Telecoms. In this study, conducted in the context of 18 TEs, we address two research questions. The first involves the identification of strategies appropriate to each TE for increasing the level of the relative eflciency of the production of revenue from Telecoms. The second question involves the identification of the appropriate implementation routes of the identified strategy. In-order to answer the research questions of this study, we draw theoretical support from the framework of Neoclassical Growth Accounting and employ a three-step methodology utilizing Decision Trees, Neural Networks, and Data Envelopment Analysis.

Information technology success factors and models in developing and emerging economies

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E-visibility maturity model: A tool for assessment and comparison of individual firms and sets of firms in e-business

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Understanding the Human Capital Dimension of ICT and Economic Growth in Transition Economies

“…To effectively address these problems, theoretically grounded approaches are needed for analyzing empirical situations in order to develop appropriate policies and strategies. While research has been directed at identifLing specific ICT investment strategies in the context of TEs (Samoilenko & Osei-Bryson, 2008), the question of how to determine a complementary human capital strategy remains open. The broad question of this investigation concerns determining strategies for the requirements of high-technology human capital for IT4D initiatives in TEs.…”

“…The following three variables ( see Samoilenko & Osei-Bryson (2008) for the detailed overview and justification of the variables of this translog model) were used in the multiple regression analysis: 1. GDP( in current US $) 2.…”

“…However, TEs do not represent a homogenous group; they have different levels of infrastructure and human capital development which makes it impossible to share "best practices" (Hoskisson et al, 2000). Consequently, TEs wishing to improve macroeconomic outcomes from ICT investments must face the challenges of creating and implementing unique strategies instead of copying from their more successfbl counterparts (Samoilenko & Osei-Bryson, 2008). In this article, we propose an approach to formulating human capital strategies for national ICT policy.…”