Digital Business Transformations

2021 ◽  
pp. 173-195
Author(s):  
Diego Matricano
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Role Of Information ◽  
Managerial Perspective

This chapter is designed with the aim of analyzing digital business transformations (i.e., digital transformations that companies decide to start in order to respond to market changes). Nowadays, these changes are due to the affirmation of a new paradigm of doing business that is strongly characterized by the role of information and communications technologies (ICT) and information and communication infrastructures (ICI). This has led to the point that digital business transformations are increasingly being considered as a topic exclusively related to information technology and engineering fields of research. In contrast with the above promise, the present research aims to investigate digital business transformations according to a managerial perspective that is often sacrificed in practice. The preponderant role of technologies often leads—in an incorrect way—to neglect the basic concepts of management that, on the other hand, persist in change and, indeed, constitute the backbone of change itself.

The Role of Information and Communication Technology in Preventing Election-Related Violence in Kenya, 2013

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 111-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Horacio R. Trujillo ◽  
David Elam ◽  
Gabriel Shapiro ◽  
Malcolm Clayton
Keyword(s):  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Role Of Information

Abstract Leading up to the Kenyan presidential elections of 2013, observers around the world were preoccupied by the potential for mass violence similar to that which erupted following the 2007 presidential election. Yet, the 2013 elections were largely unmarred by violence. A notable characteristic of the Kenyan 2013 elections was the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) in various public and private efforts to address the threat of violence related to the elections. In our exploration of how ICT contributed to the mitigation of election-related violence in the 2013 Kenyan elections, we find useful the models of violence as contagion and collective efficacy as essential for violence prevention.

scholarly journals Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in Emerging Economies: a Conceptual Model

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haya Ajjan ◽  
Stefanie Beninger ◽  
Rania Mostafa ◽  
Victoria L. Crittenden
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
New Information ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Role Of Information

Cyberfeminism is a woman-centered perspective that advocates women’s use of new information and communications technologies for empowerment. This paper explores the role of information technologies, in particular the role of social media, in empowering women entrepreneurship in emerging economies via increased social capital and improved self-efficacy. A conceptual model is offered and propositions are explicated.

The Influence of Information and Communication Technologies on Societies and their Cultures

2015 ◽  
pp. 360-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Allen
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Cave Paintings ◽  
Information And Communication

In this chapter, the various ways technologies have exerted influence upon cultures and societies since the dawn of human existence is examined. Be it man-made fire, sharpened stone tools and weapons, or cave paintings, humans are always inventing “something” to sustain or improve their lives and/or livelihoods, and generally make their existence more tolerable – and comfortable. The culture surrounding and thus influenced by technological advances differs from traditional definitive criteria of groups. A technologically-influenced society and culture is identified by its populace's ability to access and use its defining technologies. Nowadays social communication and interactions often occur with others across cultures, continents and socioeconomic systems as constantly evolving information technologies emerge as communication tools. In order to understand the role of technology's influence on our societies, we must understand the historical significance of various information and communications technologies' influence on culture and how changes in our interactions and relationships across all groups have occurred as a result.

scholarly journals Sustainable Product Lifecycle: The Role of ICT

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 7003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Galati ◽  
Barbara Bigliardi ◽  
Alberto Petroni ◽  
Claudia Pinna ◽  
Monica Rossi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Product Lifecycle ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Sustainable Product ◽  
Role Of Information

In this paper, we introduce the themes addressed and the approaches used in the Special Issue entitled “Sustainable Product Lifecycle: The Role of ICT”. Specifically, by offering multiple perspectives of analysis, this work increases our comprehension and understanding of the role of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in enhancing sustainable product lifecycle.

scholarly journals Fast science, neoliberalne reżimy produktywności oraz technologie ICT: Uniwersytet w czasach pandemii COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Michał Mokrzan ◽  
Marta ongin-Mokrzan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Role Of Information

Fast Science, Neoliberal Regimes of Productivity and ICT Technologies: Academy in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic The goal of the article is to answer the following question: what does the pandemic of COVID -19 reveal in the context of the discussion dedicated to the ways of the functioning of the academy today? Therefore the subject of the analysis is not the disease itself nor its cultural meanings, but the phenomena that, although present before the pandemic outbreak, became far more clear, perceptible and acutely experienced. In the article, our interest is focused on the increase of the pace of virtual social interactions, the speed of information transfer, the enhancement of academic regimes of productivity, the surplus of knowledge generated within the fields of humanities and social sciences and the role of information and communications technologies played in these processes. The main argument is that, the pandemic of COVID-19 shows how, in the context of the academy, the entire logics of late capitalist social relations and neoliberal governing of social subjects is focused.

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