Tactical Web Use in Bumpy Times – a Comparison of Conservative Parties’ Digital Presence

Conservative Party ◽

Comparative Approach ◽

Target Groups ◽

Data Set ◽

Building Relationships ◽

Christian Democratic Union ◽

Virtual Presence

Facing the ubiquitous and asynchronous nature of digital communication and interaction, parties face the challenge to migrate to some extent into the digital (Fitzpatrick 2018). This is not the case for election campaigns, but for the time in-between elections due to reasons for raising funds and other resources. These processes often rely on the digital sphere. Parties are not only challenged by relocating their communication strategies in normal times into new vessels, but also to encounter increased interactional demands by their target groups - members and supporters (Scarrow 2015). This comes along with the well-researched decline of established parties due to different societal causes (van Biezen, Poguntke 2014; Whiteley 2011, Montigny 2015). Parties’ adaptation of information and communication technologies (ICT) poses another challenge: How to migrate into the digital without losing those who are already engaged offline? How can parties manage to get the best out of both worlds – online and offline – and meet the demands of their adherents? These questions are connected to the research of intra-party democracy (e.g. Close et al. 2017; Faucher and Boy 2018; Bernardi et al. 2017) and leadership (Poguntke and Webb 2005; Musella 2018) as well as to research on parties’ virtual presence (e.g. Römmele 2003).We seek to understand how parties operate online in terms of building relationships between the organization and its members as well as fostering relationships between individual adherents. To grasp what is going on, we analyze parties’ websites and Facebook fan pages. We follow a comparative approach by conducting a pair-comparison. Our cases are the British Conservative Party and the German Christian Democratic Union with a panel data set from 2013 to 2018. Both parties hold governmental responsibility and face national turmoil within their countries. We analyze websites because we assume them serving as a hub of information and exchange for members and supporters. This allows us to investigate how both channels of ICTs are used either to disseminate information or to establish dialogue and discourse on platform media.

The effect of talent management practices on employee turnover intention in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) sector: case of Jordan

Problems and Perspectives in Management ◽

10.21511/ppm.18(4).2020.06 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (4) ◽

pp. 59-71

Author(s):

Maha Al-Dalahmeh ◽

Mária Héder-Rima ◽

Krisztina Dajnoki

Keyword(s):

Turnover Intention ◽

Management Practices ◽

Intention To Leave ◽

Talent Management ◽

Data Set ◽

Employee Turnover Intention ◽

Ict Companies

This research aims to examine the intention of talented employees to leave an organization and discover how talent management practices could affect employee intention to leave an organization. This paper`s framework intends to outline the relationship between variables to present the idea of talent management practices and employee retention. The hypothesis was tested using a survey data set of 210 questionnaires collected from employees working in 82 ICT companies in Jordan to attain the research objectives. The collected data were analyzed using the SPSS program, and EMOS program, and basic and initial statistical techniques were applied. The results show that talent management practices significantly affect employee intention to leave an organization. Accordingly, whenever firms applied talent management practices, employee intention to leave decreases. The results demonstrated that attracting talented employees has emerged to have the strongest effect on decreasing employee intention to leave; however, developing and rewarding talented employees was revealed to have the lowest effect. Thus, the ICT firms’ managers have to generate specific training programs to reward and develop talented employees. AcknowledgmentThe publication is supported by the EU-funded Hungarian grant EFOP-3.6.3.-VEKOP-16-2017-00007 for the project entitled “From Talent to Young Researchers” – Supporting the Career-developing Activities of Researchers in Higher Education”.

How to retain motivated employees in their jobs?

Economic and Industrial Democracy ◽

10.1177/0143831x17741528 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 41 (4) ◽

pp. 910-953 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ludivine Martin

Keyword(s):

Human Resource Management ◽

Human Resource ◽

Job Search ◽

Personal Growth ◽

Western Europe ◽

Data Set ◽

Representative Random Sample ◽

Information And Communication

This article examines the contribution of human resource management (HRM) and information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the retention of motivated employees. The author uses a representative random sample of private sector employees from Western Europe. The data set contains information on employees’ motivations, on-the-job search and workplace environment. The results show that HRM and ICT bundles are positively related to motivations. Being motivated for intrinsic and personal growth reasons decreases the likelihood to search while being motivated for rewards or compulsion reasons increases it. HRM strengthens the likelihood to search in the same way, while ICTs tend to increase the likelihood to search of all employees.

What Happened to the Internet? Scientific Communities in Three Low-income Areas, 2000-2010

Perspectives on Global Development and Technology ◽

10.1163/15691497-12341304 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 301-331 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Wesley Shrum ◽

Antony Palackal ◽

Dan-Bright Dzorgbo ◽

Paul Mbatia ◽

Mark Schafer ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Low Income ◽

The Internet ◽

Turn Of The Millennium ◽

Data Set ◽

Diffusion Of Information ◽

Similar Survey ◽

Using Data

AbstractThis ten year study suggests that the digital divide in connectivity may have largely closed for the scientific community in parts of the world that were previously unconnected. Almost a decade ago Ynalvezet al. (2005) examined the diffusion of information and communication technologies (icts) in the knowledge production sectors of three developing areas, using data collected at the turn of the millennium. We supplement this data set with a similar survey ten years later. Our analysis addresses the extent to which research communities in three low-income areas (Kenya, Ghana, and Kerala) now have access toicts, providing the first longitudinal data on changes in access to computers, email, and the Internet. In contrast to 2000, where the majority of scientists viewed themselves as users of email but with shared and irregular access to computers and the Internet—access to technology has become almost universal, though significant regional differences remain.

Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development - Sustainable Economic Development and the Influence of Information Technologies ◽

Does Information and Communication Technologies Sustain Economic Growth? The Underdeveloped and Developing Countries Case

10.4018/978-1-61520-709-1.ch010 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 147-160

Author(s):

Erkan Erdil ◽

I. Hakan Yetkiner ◽

Burcu Türkcan

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Data Set ◽

Long Run ◽

Determining Factors ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

This chapter tests the impact of ICT on economic growth for underdeveloped and developing countries by using a panel dataset for the period of 1995-2006. The authors first develop the theory of the relationship between ICT and economic growth. They show that ICT-capital has a positive effect both on long-run and transitional income per capita, if it is considered as a factor of production. Next, the authors estimate a panel data set with 131 underdeveloped and developing countries under the assumption that ICT is one of the determining factors of economic growth. They find that ICT has positive and significant effect on economic growth even after the use of some control variables.

Evaluating the Impact of E-government on Citizens

Citizens and E-Government ◽

10.4018/978-1-61520-931-6.ch003 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 37-52 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Tong-yi Huang ◽

Chung-pin Lee

Keyword(s):

Positive Impact ◽

Time Saving ◽

Data Set ◽

Research Issues ◽

Administrative Service ◽

The Government ◽

The Impact

Since the early 1990s, the trend of e-government has attracted scholarly attention to the issue of how governments apply the information and communication technologies (the ICTs) in different services. While most studies focus on “what” and “how” questions of e-government, relatively little literature addresses the issue of “to what effect” it has on citizens. To fill this void, from user-centric perspective, this study examines Taiwan’s e-government performance, which has been ranked by international institutions as one of the top performers worldwide. The authors use a telephone interview data set from a survey conducted in 2007 with a random sample of 2000 respondents to analyze what impact the ICTs applications in administrative service and democracy improvement have on citizens in terms of cost and benefit. The authors’ findings show that e-government has had a significant, positive impact on citizens regarding their time saving, perception of information credibility, and satisfaction with the government. The results also suggest that the ICTs facilitate broader distribution of political information, a key to the success of e-democracy. The authors conclude this chapter by proposing suggestions for further strategic planning and critical research issues.

Global Perspectives on Small and Medium Enterprises and Strategic Information Systems ◽

IT and the Transmission of the SME Culture of Nonprofit Theatres

10.4018/978-1-61520-627-8.ch003 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 41-56 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Julie E. Kendall ◽

Kenneth E. Kendall

Keyword(s):

Best Management Practices ◽

Management Practices ◽

Small And Medium Enterprises ◽

Third Space ◽

Building Relationships ◽

The Third ◽

Medium Enterprises

It is often assumed in the MIS literature and in practice that only large organizations are capable of transmitting culture and information technology (IT) to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The authors use the framework provided by the metaphor of the third space as proposed by Bhabha (1994 and 1996) to gain insights that refute these popular misconceptions, by demonstrating that dominant powers and former colonies exchange cultural artifacts such as information and communication technologies (ICTs) and best management practices in mutually influential ways. The authors’ research furthers their understanding of the initial relationships (termed mimicry) between small and medium-sized nonprofit theatres and commercial productions (symbolized by Broadway productions) as well as their current and future exchanges facilitated by hybridity in the third space. The authors discover that both groups possess unique cultural competencies that open the door to using Web 2.0 technologies for staging and promoting productions, building relationships with theatre patrons; and numerous other management issues where their expertise can be usefully exchanged.

Agile Outsourcing to India

Software Applications ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-060-8.ch059 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 991-1012

Author(s):

Boris Roussev ◽

Ram Akella

Keyword(s):

Stressed Condition ◽

Management Skills ◽

Software Projects ◽

Software Production ◽

Software Development Effort ◽

Virtual Presence ◽

Project Structure

The combination of low labor costs, technological sophistication, project management skills, and successful software establishment makes India a particularly attractive location for software production outsourcing. Furthermore, in most situations, information and communication technologies render virtual presence practically equivalent to physical presence, thus enabling effective communication and cooperation in a distributed mode. This chapter introduces a project structure creating agile conditions for large outsourcing software projects. The agility advantage is achieved by scaling down a large project into a number of small-sized projects working in agile settings. We divide the work into R&D activities, located onsite, and production activities, located offsite. The proposed approach makes Agile applicable to the stressed condition of outsourcing environments without compromising the quality and the pace of the software development effort. Creating a context congenial to agile methods hinges on maintaining a good balance between the functions and sizes of onsite and offsite teams, on redefining the developers’ roles, and on reorganizing the information flow between the different development activities to compensate for the lack of customer onsite, team co-location, and tacit project knowledge.

Mobile Phone Use as Sequential Processes: From Discrete Behaviors to Sessions of Behaviors and Trajectories of Sessions

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication ◽

10.1093/jcmc/zmz029 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 129-146

Author(s):

Tai-Quan Peng ◽

Jonathan J H Zhu

Keyword(s):

Mobile Phone ◽

Empirical Support ◽

Data Set ◽

Mobile Phone Use ◽

Behavioral Dynamics ◽

Private And Public ◽

Sequential Processes

Abstract Mobile phone use is an unfolding process by nature. In this study, it is explicated as two sequential processes: mobile sessions composed of an uninterrupted set of behaviors and mobile trajectories composed of mobile sessions and mobile-off time. A data set of a five-month behavioral logfile of mobile application use by approximately 2,500 users in Hong Kong is used. Mobile sessions are constructed and mined to uncover sequential characteristics and patterns in mobile phone use. Mobile trajectories are analyzed to examine intraindividual change and interindividual differences on mobile re-engagement as indicators of behavioral dynamics in mobile phone use. The study provides empirical support for and expands the boundaries of existing theories about combinatorial use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Finally, the understanding on mobile temporality is enhanced, that is, mobile temporality is homogeneous across social sectors. Furthermore, mobile phones redefine, rather than blur, the boundary between private and public time.

Agile Outsourcing to India

Management of the Object-Oriented Development Process ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-604-4.ch005 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 109-140 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Boris Roussev ◽

Ram Akella

Keyword(s):

Stressed Condition ◽

Management Skills ◽

Software Projects ◽

Software Production ◽

Software Development Effort ◽

Virtual Presence ◽

Project Structure

Who is afraid of machines?

Economic Policy ◽

10.1093/epolic/eiaa005 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 34 (100) ◽

pp. 627-690 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Sotiris Blanas ◽

Gino Gancia ◽

Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee

Keyword(s):

Older Workers ◽

Service Industries ◽

Industrial Robots ◽

Data Set ◽

Routine Tasks ◽

And Gender ◽

High Skill

SUMMARY We study how various types of machines, namely, information and communication technologies, software and especially industrial robots, affect the demand for workers of different education, age and gender. We do so by exploiting differences in the composition of workers across countries, industries and time. Our data set comprises 10 high-income countries and 30 industries, which span roughly their entire economies, with annual observations over the period 1982–2005. The results suggest that software and robots reduced the demand for low- and medium-skill workers, the young and women – especially in manufacturing industries; but raised the demand for high-skill workers, older workers and men – especially in service industries. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that automation technologies, contrary to other types of capital, replace humans performing routine tasks. We also find evidence for some types of workers, especially women, having shifted away from such tasks.