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    How valuable is information and communication technology? A study of emerging economy enterprises

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    Luo, Yadong
    Bu, J.
    Date
    2016
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Luo, Y. and Bu, J. 2016. How valuable is information and communication technology? A study of emerging economy enterprises. Journal of World Business. 51 (2): pp. 200-211.
    Source Title
    Journal of World Business
    DOI
    10.1016/j.jwb.2015.06.001
    ISSN
    1090-9516
    School
    School of Management
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49902
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Anchored at the knowledge management perspective, we address how information and communication technology (ICT) improves the productivity of emerging economy enterprises. We present the logic that ICT enhances firm performance because it is an important channel or facilitator of effective knowledge sharing and knowledge integration. We further argue that the conditions characterizing an emerging economy (i.e., a country's economic development) and emerging economy businesses (i.e., internationalization and quality assurance) would affect the extent to which ICT contributes to knowledge management, and thus to firm performance. Our hierarchical linear modeling analysis of 6236 firms from 27 emerging economies lends support to our arguments and predictions, suggesting that ICT is a critical investment that generates satisfactory returns for emerging economy enterprises, yet this investment-return relationship is further contingent upon the macro- and micro-level conditions facing these enterprises. ICT actually adds more value to productivity when a focal emerging economy is less economically developed, and when a focal firm reaches foreign markets or its quality control and assurance is superior.

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