The computer industry in the third world: Policy options and constraints

O'Connor, David C.

doi:10.1016/0305-750x(85)90133-0

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“…Local competition, know-how and protection of intellectual property pose a further challenge for companies entering a new market [5,33,54]. Also the outflow of knowledge by employees when founding spin-offs should not be underestimated [16,31,[58][59][60][61][62]. On the organizational side, the lack of economic incentives to adapt technology and components may prevent companies from designing optimal solutions for the environment in developing countries [7,29].…”

Section: Organizational Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Maintenance and spare parts availability 9 [27,29,50,58,64,73,89,90,114] Constant quality improvement 1 [6] Quality assurance 8 [3,5,6,29,50,58,67,71] Costs Competitive value 1 [91] Low material costs 2 [38,92] Low break-even points 7 [8,10,27,29,38,57,93] Economics of scale and scope 5 [7,27,32,38,54] Employee Qualification Lack of skilled employees 27 [5,26,27,30,31,[33][34][35]37,39,41,47,50,54,56,58,…”

Section: Cluster Category Challenge ∑ Sourcementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Local requirements (e.g., safety, security, recycling) 19 [3,6,16,28,32,36,38,39,42,45,50,54,56,58,62,75,80,82,108] Import taxes, trade barriers, local content, financial restrictions 18 [3,[5][6][7][8]11,13,14,27,29,58,66,67,71,73,78,82,90] Social commitment 8 [6,31,38,42,66,78,79,89] Lack of political support 1 [48] Corruption, abuse, theft 7 [36,[47][48][49...…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Requirement of local suppliers 5 [13,27,28,50,64] Quality issues 1 [48] Unreliable delivery times, high communication costs, inflexibility and lack of innovation culture 21 [7,29,[32][33][34]38,39,47,52,55,57,58,62,71,73,80,84,90,99,110,113] Supplier training 2 [33,100] Collaborative partnership 4 [13,34,76,100]…”

Section: Suppliermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Production Challenges in Least Developed Countries

2020

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Local production sites in least developed countries offer sustainability for both multinational corporations and local society. However, corporations often hesitate because of uncertain environmental influences on production sites in these countries. To minimize planning uncertainties, we aim to identify and categorize the challenges of local production in least developed countries. Therefore, we conduct a research on local production challenges described in current literature. Our results indicate that the influences can be clustered and occur independent of the country. To show practical relevance and actuality of the identified production challenges, we conducted two case studies. Additionally, these studies give examples for organizational, product-specific and technological solutions to overcome the prevailing challenges. In summary, we support the removal of barriers that keep corporates from setting up local production sites in least developed countries.

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Section: Organizational Challengesmentioning

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Section: Cluster Category Challenge ∑ Sourcementioning

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“…If there are fears of technological dependence in the United Kingdom with respect to Japan and the United States, these fears can be even greater in developing countries that do not have a long tradition of science and technology. Only a decade ago it was considered that multi-national electronics companies regarded developing countries only as low cost manufacturing sites, while design remained in the industrialized countries (O'Connor 1985). Singapore and Taiwan are now prosperous countries and cannot be regarded as low cost production locations when compared to other Far East countries such as Thailand or Vietnam.…”

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DEVELOPMENT AND R&D CAPABILITY AT MANUFACTURING SITES: ELECTRONICS MULTINATIONALS IN SINGAPORE AND TAIWAN

Tilley

Williams

Conway

1997

Production and Operations Management

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In this paper we present the results of an empirical study of the manufacturing sites of foreign electronics companies in Singapore and Taiwan. The manufacturing and R&D capabilities at the sites are assessed. The way in which host government policies interact with R&D development at the sites and the speed of the R&D development are also considered. The results suggest that Singapore and Taiwan are now host to some advanced manufacturing and R&D operations. We show, however, that the product design work at the sites visited is never leading edge for the companies concerned. The speed at which product design responsibilities were designated to the sites is shown to be rapid when compared to an earlier study of foreign sites in the United Kingdom. We indicate areas in which national strategies in Singapore and Taiwan may have contributed to this faster development. In Singapore, we identify tax holidays and R&D grants as contributing to the pace of development.

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Information technology and development: creating ?IT harems?, fostering new colonialism or solving ?wicked? policy problems?

2000

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The proliferation of information technology offers challenges to developing countries which struggle with basic human needs. Yet the key to their survival may lie in information which is inaccessible to them. Facing these challenges, developing nations start from a position of frailty based on low levels of capital; a limited information infrastructure; dependencies on foreign aid and multinationals; and an ever‐increasing population growth. It is essential that foreign technology inflow is adopted strategically within the pre‐existing framework of national policies for technological development and with an emphasis on technology transfer. The broad policy direction needs to be towards the establishment of an information infrastructure and a contingent perspective for the meta‐policy process of designing appropriate information technology infrastructures. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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The computer industry in the third world: Policy options and constraints

Cited by 27 publications

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Production Challenges in Least Developed Countries

Production Challenges in Least Developed Countries

DEVELOPMENT AND R&D CAPABILITY AT MANUFACTURING SITES: ELECTRONICS MULTINATIONALS IN SINGAPORE AND TAIWAN

Information technology and development: creating ?IT harems?, fostering new colonialism or solving ?wicked? policy problems?

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