scholarly journals Exploring Perspectives of the Information Technology Industry in a South African City

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 6520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dillip Kumar Das
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
South African ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
South African City ◽  
Information Technology Industry ◽  
Dynamics Modeling ◽  
African City ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Technology Industry ◽  
The City

The information technology (IT) industry has come to the forefront for economic development of several cities in developing countries such as India and China. Looking at the success of the IT industry in these countries, an argument has emerged that development of such industry in South African cities can revitalize their economy. Therefore, the study examined the potential of development of the IT industry in a South African city by using the case study of a largely service-oriented city—Bloemfontein. A survey research method and system dynamics modeling approach were used. Findings suggest that the city has the potential to emerge as an IT industrial city, however, there exist challenges with regards to infrastructure such as housing, built up space, energy, and attracting the knowledge workers to the city. Appropriate policy interventions to reinforce these infrastructures, which can assist to attract the knowledge workers, will enable enhancement in the earning from the IT industry. Also, the development of the IT industry will strengthen the housing and built up infrastructure for the IT industry as well as enhance the number of knowledge workers in the city.

scholarly journals Exploring the role of the human resource function in the South African information technology industry

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caron Hall ◽  
Linda Fourie
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
South African ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Information Technology Industry ◽  
The South ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Technology Industry ◽  
Human Skills

The Information Technology (IT) industry is one that is characterised by rapid change and a heavy reliance on human skills. A study was conducted to qualitatively explore the role of the Human Resource (HR) function in the South African IT industry. Semi-structured individual and focus group interviews with professionals in this function highlighted many opportunities for HR to render a more strategic role in an environment where a skills shortage and many related problem areas exist. The implications of these findings are discussed and proposals for redefining the role of HR in the specific industry are offered.

scholarly journals Revitalising South African City Centres Through ICT

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 228-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dillip Kumar Das
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
South African City ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
African City ◽  
Analyse Data ◽  
The City ◽  
City Centres

The majority of South African city centres are in a state of degeneration and need revitalising. The factors that contributed to the degeneration and how the integration of information and communications technology (ICT) can be used to revitalise them were examined in three South African city centres. The research was grounded in place theory. A survey method, including the Delphi technique, followed by factor analysis, and ordinal regression modelling was used to collect and analyse data. The findings indicated that enhancing accessibility and safety, social and community involvement, human experience, built-up environment, and vibrancy were the five major components which needed reinforcing to revitalise the city centres. However, ICT-linked strategies, including networking the areas with free Wi-Fi hotspots, creating places in which to congregate, providing digital screens, and installing cameras and remote monitoring, are expected to attract people and to facilitate accessing real-time information about different events, marketing, branding, and creating a unique image. Also, the use of ICT will assist in reducing criminal activities and dispel the fear of crime. The combined effect is likely to encourage people and businesses to return the city centres, making these areas vibrant and accessible.

scholarly journals An Empirical Analysis of Significant Factors influencing Entrepreneurial Behavior in the Information Technology Industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.10) ◽  
pp. 212
Author(s):  
Suresh Kasanagottu ◽  
Sudipto Bhattachar ◽  
. .
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Information Technology Industry ◽  
Entrepreneurial Behavior ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Technology Industry ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
Institutional Linkages ◽  
Significant Factors

The purpose of the current empirical research paper is to study and comprehend the significant factors that influence the entrepreneurial behavior through a detailed survey among the key employees of the information technology (IT) industry. The data thus collected from the survey was examined through the method of Partial Least Squares (PLS) for evaluating the relationship among the constructs of the conceptual research model. The results of the current empirical research study reveal that entrepreneurship-institutional linkage has the strongest effect on entrepreneurial behavior, followed by role of outsourcing and nature of the industry. The hypothesized path relationships between significant factors and entrepreneurial behavior have been found to be statistically significant. The top management of the companies in the IT industry have to focus and provide more importance to the entrepreneurship-institutional linkages which plays a key role in developing entrepreneurial behavior among the employees and in due course lead to innovative products and services and the over-all development of the organization.      

Intercultural communication competencies in the Indian Information Technology industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priyanka Kumari ◽  
Virendra Singh Nirban
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Delphi Method ◽  
Information Technology Industry ◽  
It Industry ◽  
The Third ◽  
Technology Industry ◽  
Communication Competencies ◽  
Skilled Workforce ◽  
Strong Agreement

Low employment rate, owing to lack of aptly skilled workforce, is one of the major concerns of the Indian Information Technology (IT) sector. The study employed ranking-type Delphi method with an aim to identify those communication competencies which the employers of the Indian IT industry deem crucial for intercultural business interactions. A panel of 10 experts was created, and a total of 3 iterations were administered to achieve a satisfactory level of consensus among experts regarding the most important intercultural communication competencies (ICCs) for the Indian IT industry. Initially, a list of 25 competencies, identified through literature review, was sent to experts to be ranked. After the third iteration, the study provided a set of 10 ICCs for which there was strong agreement among the experts. Challenges and limitations have been discussed in brief.

scholarly journals Re-Assembling the City in Ivan Vladislavić’s Novels

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-234
Author(s):  
Luiza Caraivan
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
South African City ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The South ◽  
African City ◽  
African Writer ◽  
Ivan Vladislavic ◽  
The City

Abstract The paper analyses the various aspects of the city as described by the South African writer Ivan Vladislavić in the novel Portrait with Keys. Hunters, gatherers and urban poachers are the inhabitants of the South African city bordering the veld, a city whose economic centre has been moved to the suburbs due to high rates of crime.

Influence of Trends in the Information Technology Industry on the Development and Transformation of Industrial Enterprises

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 359-368
Author(s):  
D. S. Pashchenko
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
World Market ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Information Technology Industry ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Technology Industry ◽  
Competitive Forces

The article examines the complex impact of the information technology industry on the development of real industry in Russia and covers the main historical stages of the XXI century: from vertical integration and automation to the beginning of digital transformation and the crisis caused by the COVID factor. As a research method, a system analysis is proposed, which considers as systems: the IT industry and real industries — and determines the change in the interaction of systems by a set of structural links. The main idea is in qualitatively changing of the influence of the information technology industry on the development of industrial enterprises and significantly increasing the competitive opportunities of the domestic industry associated with digital transformation and the possibility of successfully entering the world market. The issues of changing the competitive forces according to M. Porter by industry and the possibility of benchmarking the best practices of IT companies in industry are considered separately.

scholarly journals Statistical Analysis of the IT Market in Ukraine

2018 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
A. V. Zhurauliou ◽  
O. A. Simachov
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Wage Structure ◽  
Service Research ◽  
Information Technology Industry ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Industry Development ◽  
Statistical Monitoring ◽  
Technology Industry ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights Protection ◽  
The Impact

The article analyzes the development of the information technology industry in Ukraine for the last few years. The purposes of the study were to identify and uncover problems with statistical monitoring of Ukrainian IT industry, analyze present challenges of the information technology industry development, and find ways to improve statistical studies of the industry on the state level.  The current state of the information technology industry in Ukraine and the main directions of the industry expansion (software development outsourcing, development of packaged software) were evaluated and compared to the ones of the European countries. Through a combination of researches and surveys conducted by the Ukrainian developer’s society (DOU), qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the IT industry development performance and labor market were analyzed: major education providers, the structure of job titles and positions, as well as principal locations, age-grading, gender and wage structure of workers. Conclusions from the analysis allow suggesting that the official state statistics service research areas provide a limited outlook on the information technology industry statistics due to being hindered by institutional constraints. Among the major constraints for the growth of the information technology industry in Ukraine, the following four are recognized: the lack of predictable and sustainable taxation, slow reforms process in the education system, an inappropriate level of intellectual property rights protection and insufficient development of state information technology infrastructure. While the impact of the Ukrainian information technology sector on the economic development is evident and the industry shows strong growth among the various segments of the Ukrainian economy, there is no sufficient essential economic information collected, analyzed, and disseminated due to a number of problems related to statistical monitoring, which in turn requires an appropriate statistical basis and assessment methodology for further evaluation of the industry development.

ANTECEDENTS TO RADICAL INNOVATIONS: A LONGITUDINAL LOOK AT FIRMS IN THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY BY AGGREGATION OF PATENTS

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (07) ◽  
pp. 1650068 ◽  
Author(s):  
AVIMANYU DATTA
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Information Technology Industry ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Radical Innovations ◽  
Technology Industry ◽  
The Relationship

Radicalness of innovation is often contingent upon access to technologies whose applications exceed their technological definition (technology distinctness (TD)) and sourcing innovation outside a firm’s focal industry (exterior sourcing (ES)). However, going outside one’s focal industry can be expensive and can lead to inconclusive results. We posit that exterior sourcing and technology distinctness, both have inverse U relationship with radicalness. In addition, we argue that exterior sourcing negatively moderates the relationship between technology distinctness and radicalness such that high technology distinctness, and fewer and focused exterior sourcing will have the strongest relationship with radicalness. To test our assertions, we used patent filings between 1996 and 2009 from the information technology (IT) industry from the standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500 database. The empirical evidence supported our claims. Findings suggest that there is an optimum recombination of exterior sourcing and technology distinctness in which radicalness is maximised. We conclude the paper by summarising the key findings, discussing implications for theory and practice, and suggesting avenues for future research.

Information Technology Industry Development and the Knowledge Economy

2011 ◽  
pp. 174-200
Author(s):  
Phillip Ein Dor ◽  
Michael Myers ◽  
K. S. Raman
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Information Technology Industry ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Industry Development ◽  
Technology Industry ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Industry Success ◽  
Technology Industries

It is generally accepted that knowledge has become a third major factor of production, in addition to the traditional factors—labor and capital. Information technology production is a significant factor in the knowledge economy both because it is a major enabler of that economy and because it is itself highly knowledge intensive. Many countries around the world are looking for ways to promote the development of the knowledge economy, and information technology industries in particular. An important question is to what extent—and how—small developed countries might succeed in this endeavor.This study suggests a modified and more comprehensive version of the Ein-Dor et al. (1997) model of IT (information technology) industry success in small developed countries. Whereas the earlier model of IT industry success was based solely on the macro-economic theory of Grossman and Helpman (1991), the revised model suggested here incorporates Romer’s (1990) work in New Growth economics. A significant advance over earlier work in this area is the use of both longitudinal and time slice data. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the IT industry in four countries over a five-year period: Finland, Israel, New Zealand and Singapore. It analyses some changes that occurred over the period 1994 through 1998 and thus provides a reasonably comprehensive picture of the factors affecting the production of IT in these small developed countries. Our study reveals that four of the five endogenous variables studied have a close relationship to the development of IT industries in small developed countries. These variables are research and development, technological infrastructure, firm strategies, and capital availability. On the other hand, domestic IT use does not seem to be a major factor in IT industry development. Our analysis thus largely supports the more comprehensive model of IT industry success. These findings should be of interest to both researchers and policy makers seeking to develop the knowledge economy and information technology industries in particular.

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