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IGI Global eBooks, May 25, 2011
Information technology (IT) makes its fullest impact on organizations when it is deployed in conj... more Information technology (IT) makes its fullest impact on organizations when it is deployed in conjunction with changes in business processes, structures, and strategies. While the importance of IT coupled with organizational changes for business performance has been widely discussed in the information systems (IS) literature, there has been little empirical research on the issue. Using Information Week's annual data set of IS budgets and the Compustat database, this research examines empirically the relationship between IT and diversification by employing multiple diversification measures. It also examines empirically the relative impact on performance of IT and diversification. Results show that diversification coupled with increased IT spending improves firm performance when its strategic emphasis is on related diversification. The results also show that firms place strategic focus on related diversification when they increase IT spending, and that they require more IT when their strategic emphasis is tilted toward related diversification. The findings imply that by providing a better means of coordination, IT enables scope economies, efficient utilization of business resources and collaboration across individual business units, eventually leveraging the benefits of diversification.
Introduction to the Minitrack on GIS, Industry 4.0, and Sustainability
Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2022
Big Data and Location Analytics I: Concepts and Recent Developments
Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2015
Big Data and Analytics have emerged as important areas of investigation for MIS academics and pra... more Big Data and Analytics have emerged as important areas of investigation for MIS academics and practitioners. Increasing interest has also been witnessed in industry and federal agencies, as evidenced by the recent White House initiative on Big Data. Recently, proliferation of sensors and location sensing devices has created an abundance of geographically referenced data. This workshop will focus on Big Data location analytics. It will renew attention to Big Data and Analytics theories, concepts, and technologies, and how Geographical Information Systems enable visualization and analysis of the location component of Big Data to create additional value to make better decisions. Spatial Big Data tools (SpatialHadoop) that leverage the power and sophistication of traditional Big Data technologies (Apache Hadoop) will be discussed. Big Data opportunities in different industries that are known to leverage geotechnology will be presented. This is part I of a two-part workshop on Big Data and Location Analytics
Smartphones and Environmental Sustainability: A Country-Level Analysis
European Conference on Information Systems, 2021
Research suggests that information and communication technologies (ICTs) have a nonlinear relatio... more Research suggests that information and communication technologies (ICTs) have a nonlinear relationship with CO2 emissions, specifically an inverted U-shaped curve similar to the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). While extant research has investigated the relationship using an ICT index, there has been no research looking at smartphones, which have been closely associated with the explosive growth in the use of mobile apps and a build-out of large information systems to support their use. To address this gap, this research examines the relationship of ICTs and smartphones with CO2 emissions by employing a country-level data set for the period from 2009 to 2014. Our results show that the relationship of ICTs with CO2 emissions takes an inverted U-shaped curve form, consistent with the EKC hypothesis. Our OLS results also show that CO2 emissions increase with spending on smartphones but decrease as smartphone spending increases further; however, these results are not consistent in fixed effects models. These findings imply that carbon emissions go up with the penetration of ICTs in poorer countries but in wealthier countries ICT penetration and smartphone spending is related to lower CO2 emissions. The results should not be taken as evidence that ICTs cannot lead to greater sustainability in poorer countries, but should be seen as a call for the IS community to help all countries apply existing knowledge and develop new knowledge to use ICTs to reduce emissions in response to the immediate challenge of climate change.
Information Technology for Development, Jul 23, 2018
This research examines empirically factors influencing IT hardware production by employing a coun... more This research examines empirically factors influencing IT hardware production by employing a country-level data set for 1985-2009. Our results show that IT hardware production is driven by various countrylevel factors, but the impacts of these factors differ for two types of IT hardware. Electronic data processing (EDP) production has shifted to low GDP countries where wage levels are low, and a large portion of EDP produced in these countries tend to be exported to high GDP countries where demand is high. While the gap has decreased, however, medical and industrial equipment (MIE) production is still largely done in advanced economies. These findings imply that losing the manufacturing base in the U.S. might not be an issue for certain types of products, such as EDP, but it could be a serious issue for MIE. Thus, policies must be industry specific; a 'one-size-fits-all' policy would not work for the global IT industry.
An Empirical Investigation of Digital Content Characteristics, Value, and Flow
Journal of Computer Information Systems, 2010
Since the arrival of the Internet into almost every area of our lives, the use of digital content... more Since the arrival of the Internet into almost every area of our lives, the use of digital content has led to an increasing interest in how much value this content contributes to the information and communications industry. Even though societal interest in digital content has increased along with the growth of an information-oriented society, academic studies of the characteristics, value, flow, and use intensiveness of digital content are still in a nascent stage. Using sample data collected in Korea, this research attempts to evaluate the characteristics of digital content and examine how different components of this content are related to its value, flow, and use intensiveness. We divide content into three broad categories: design characteristics (visual appeal and musicality), scenario characteristics (creativity and entertainment value), and structure (unity and conciseness). Results of our study show significant effects on the value of digital content from all three of these categories. However, the flow (users' immersion in a specific set of content) is influenced only by the musicality of design and the entertainment value. Finally, when users highly rate the value of digital content and report good flow, the use intensiveness of that content tends to increase.
Strategies for Generating E-Business Returns on Investment
... USA Myung Soo Kang, Hansung University, Korea Chapter V The Potential of B2B Commerce for Com... more ... USA Myung Soo Kang, Hansung University, Korea Chapter V The Potential of B2B Commerce for Competitive Advantage 102 Ronan Mclvor, University ... Deep appreciation and grati-tude is due to Susan Merritt, Dean of the School of Computer Sci-ence and Information Systems ...
International Journal of Electronic Business, 2004
While the question of the benefits of e-business initiatives has been an issue in both the academ... more While the question of the benefits of e-business initiatives has been an issue in both the academic and business worlds, there has been little empirical research on the value created from such initiatives. Using Information Week's annual data set of innovative IT users, this study empirically examines the contribution of e-business initiatives to firm performance, measured by gross margin, revenue per employee, ROA, and ROE. The measure of e-business initiatives is constructed by combining e-business and CRM innovations. Data are analyzed for the full sample and for both the manufacturing and service industry sectors for the two years of 1999 and 2000. The results show that e-business and CRM innovations contribute to firm performance significantly. The results indicate that when firms deploy e-business technologies and practices early and creatively, namely when their e-business initiatives are innovative, they can generate significant economic returns.
Digital Disruption: A Workshop on the Implications for the Geospatial Realm
Creating Shared Value from Collaborative Logistics Systems
Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2017
Shared value enhances the competitiveness of a company while simultaneously reducing societal bur... more Shared value enhances the competitiveness of a company while simultaneously reducing societal burdens. By allowing companies to share their resources, collaborative logistics systems provide companies with an opportunity to create shared value through collaboration, namely, not only enhance the utilization of resources, but also reduce energy consumptions and greenhouse gas emission associated with logistics, production, and transportation. However, the development of collaborative logistics systems is currently at a nascent stage. There are quite a few technological and non-technological barriers to overcome. This research, currently in progress, will highlight one set of social (or non-technological) barriers, that is, competition-oriented conservatism prevalent in the industry, which should be overcome to create shared value. Using the case study methodology and interview data, we attempt to closely investigate ES3 and Flexe, which provide collaborative logistics services and illustrate the requirements for addressing social barriers to create shared value from collaborative logistics systems.
Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2016
This tutorial provides a foundation on geographic information systems (GIS) as they relate to and... more This tutorial provides a foundation on geographic information systems (GIS) as they relate to and are part of the IS body of knowledge. The tutorial serves as a ten-year update on an earlier CAIS tutorial (Pick, 2004). During the decade, GIS has expanded with wider and deeper range of applications in government and industry, widespread consumer use, and an emerging importance in business schools and for IS. In this paper, we provide background information on the key ideas and concepts of GIS, spatial analysis, and latest trends and on the status and opportunities for incorporating GIS, spatial analysis, and locational decision making into IS research and in teaching in business and IS curricula.
International Journal of e-Collaboration, 2009
Information technology (IT) makes its fullest impact on organizations when it is deployed in conj... more Information technology (IT) makes its fullest impact on organizations when it is deployed in conjunction with changes in business processes, structures, and strategies. While the importance of IT coupled with organizational changes for business performance has been widely discussed in the information systems (IS) literature, there has been little empirical research on the issue. Using Information Week's annual data set of IS budgets and the Compustat database, this research examines empirically the relationship between IT and diversification by employing multiple diversification measures. It also examines empirically the relative impact on performance of IT and diversification. Results show that diversification coupled with increased IT spending improves firm performance when its strategic emphasis is on related diversification. The results also show that firms place strategic focus on related diversification when they increase IT spending, and that they require more IT when their strategic emphasis is tilted toward related diversification. The findings imply that by providing a better means of coordination, IT enables scope economies, efficient utilization of business resources and collaboration across individual business units, eventually leveraging the benefits of diversification.
Review of Creating business value with information technology: challenges and solutions
Information Services and Use archive, Jun 1, 2003
Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2015
Part II of the workshop on Big Data and Location Analytics will provide a thorough overview of lo... more Part II of the workshop on Big Data and Location Analytics will provide a thorough overview of location analytics solutions for Big Data. As businesses and organizations increasingly deploy powerful analytics solutions to better understand and analyze Big Data to make decisions, the location or geographic component of Big Data is often left mostly unexplored. Location Analytics solutions seamlessly integrate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) based analytical methods with enterprise BI platforms to deliver high impact analytics solutions. Such solutions provide a unified view and often real-time information about organizational assets, facilities, and resources, help to identify patterns in georeferenced data, and assist with evidence and data-driven decision-making. One such location analytics solution that is built on a leading BI platform and developed by Esri, the world's leading organization in geotechnology will be demonstrated. Use cases will be presented by an industry keynoter and value addition aspects of location analytics will be discussed in detail. While this workshop is a follow-up to Part I of the Workshop on Big Data and Spatial Analytics, attendees with some prior knowledge of Analytics and GIS may attend this part (II) of the workshop only. The workshop is of interest to MIS academics and practitioners and the topic is consistent with the "Blue Ocean IS Research" theme of this year's AMCIS conference. Duration () 9.00 am to 10.30 am (x) 11.00 am to 12.30 pm Workshop leader(s) information
R&D and firm performance in the semiconductor industry
Industry and Innovation, Aug 28, 2016
Abstract While the semiconductor industry is still dominated by large vertically integrated firms... more Abstract While the semiconductor industry is still dominated by large vertically integrated firms, fabless firms, which outsource their manufacturing, are gaining market share. Fabless firms are considered to have an advantage in product innovation, as they can focus their innovation efforts on chip design and can benefit from investments in process innovation made by their manufacturing partners. However, there is little empirical evidence of the performance of fabless firms compared to vertically integrated firms. This research empirically examines the relationship between R&D and the financial performance of fabless and vertically integrated firms from 2000 to 2010. Our results show that fabless firms maintain higher gross and net margins, earn a higher return on assets (ROA) and have greater intangible value (Tobin’s q) than vertically integrated firms when controlling for size, capital intensity and R&D ratio (R&D/sales). This supports the argument that fabless firms achieve greater performance by focusing on one part of the innovation process. The relationship of R&D ratio to net margin is negative for the whole sample, suggesting that the industry may be overinvesting in R&D. Notably, the negative relationship is greater for fabless firms, which spend a higher amount of their sales on R&D. The relationship of R&D ratio to ROA and Tobin’s q is negative, and there is no significant difference between fabless and integrated firms. We conclude that fabless firms outperform integrated firms overall, but are somewhat worse in terms of increasing profits and creating value from their R&D investments.
Industry and Innovation, Jun 1, 2009
In today's global electronics industry, innovation is carried out by various value chain particip... more In today's global electronics industry, innovation is carried out by various value chain participants, including brand-name manufacturers (sometimes called lead firms), contract manufacturers and component suppliers, but there is little understanding of who benefits most from innovation in such networks. This research examines empirically the relationship of R&D spending and location in the value chain (lead vs. non-lead firms) to firm performance in the global electronics industry by using the Electronic Business 300 data set for 2000-2005. Our results show that firms spending more on R&D have higher gross profits, but do not have higher return on equity (ROE) and return on assets (ROA). There is a strong positive relationship between lead firms and performance as measured by gross profit, ROE and ROA, but the relationship between lead firms and gross profit becomes insignificant when the interaction term of R&D and lead firm is included in the analysis. Finally, lead firm status has a positive interaction effect on the relationship between R&D and gross profit. These findings suggest that the relationship of R&D to performance is mixed, but that lead firms can capture higher value (gross profit) from R&D than contract manufacturers and component suppliers.
This research empirically analyzes the impact of both the Web and social media on the performance... more This research empirically analyzes the impact of both the Web and social media on the performance of nonprofit organizations by using 100 nonprofit organizations ranked by web traction measures, including Facebook Likes and Twitter Followers. Our findings from ANOVA and non-parametric tests demonstrate that nonprofit organizations with higher web traction have greater contributions and grants than others with lower web traction. These findings suggest that the use of the Web coupled with social media promotes better, interactive (two-way) communications with the public, as well as fundraising and that nonprofit organizations that attract more supporters on the Web and social media can increase charitable giving. Our regression analyses based on the economic model of giving that estimates the direct relationship between web traction and donations show similar results. However, the results also show that the impact of economic factors such as price and fundraising activities on charitable giving is much greater than the impact of web traction.
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International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management, 2016
This research examines how nonprofits use the internet to build public relations and increase cha... more This research examines how nonprofits use the internet to build public relations and increase charitable giving by analysing the content of the websites of various nonprofit organisations listed in the top 100 NPOs published by The Nonprofit Times. While there is no difference for most variables in the fundraising and communication practices between top tier and bottom tier NPOs divided by total revenue, the differences are found in such variables as campaign summary, messages from the CEO, volunteer opportunities, information sharing, social media use, and annual reports. These findings suggest that certain communication practices (information dissemination, interactive communication, and accountability) are positively associated with the level of fundraising. Compared to the findings of previous research, however, our findings show that the presence of characteristics related to communications and fundraising has increased on NPOs' websites. This indicates that by recognising the importance of the internet, NPOs are increasingly using it as a medium for communications and charitable giving.
International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 2002
In 1981 the Energy Systems Program at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (Il... more In 1981 the Energy Systems Program at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IlASA) published five scenarios of global energy demand and supply for the period 1975-2030. At least two of them, the high and low scenarios, are still quoted today. This paper analyses how accurately the IlASA scenarios of 1981 captured the actual development during the first 15 years of their time horizon. Those parts of the scenarios that refer to developments still in the future are also compared with current views of the long-term development of the global energy system as expressed in recent results collected by the International Energy Workshop (lEW). The comparisons show that the low scenario of 1981 carne closest to actual developments up to 1990. With the exception of nuclear energy, its further projections fall well within the range of today's global energy scenarios.
IGI Global eBooks, May 25, 2011
Information technology (IT) makes its fullest impact on organizations when it is deployed in conj... more Information technology (IT) makes its fullest impact on organizations when it is deployed in conjunction with changes in business processes, structures, and strategies. While the importance of IT coupled with organizational changes for business performance has been widely discussed in the information systems (IS) literature, there has been little empirical research on the issue. Using Information Week's annual data set of IS budgets and the Compustat database, this research examines empirically the relationship between IT and diversification by employing multiple diversification measures. It also examines empirically the relative impact on performance of IT and diversification. Results show that diversification coupled with increased IT spending improves firm performance when its strategic emphasis is on related diversification. The results also show that firms place strategic focus on related diversification when they increase IT spending, and that they require more IT when their strategic emphasis is tilted toward related diversification. The findings imply that by providing a better means of coordination, IT enables scope economies, efficient utilization of business resources and collaboration across individual business units, eventually leveraging the benefits of diversification.
Introduction to the Minitrack on GIS, Industry 4.0, and Sustainability
Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2022
Big Data and Location Analytics I: Concepts and Recent Developments
Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2015
Big Data and Analytics have emerged as important areas of investigation for MIS academics and pra... more Big Data and Analytics have emerged as important areas of investigation for MIS academics and practitioners. Increasing interest has also been witnessed in industry and federal agencies, as evidenced by the recent White House initiative on Big Data. Recently, proliferation of sensors and location sensing devices has created an abundance of geographically referenced data. This workshop will focus on Big Data location analytics. It will renew attention to Big Data and Analytics theories, concepts, and technologies, and how Geographical Information Systems enable visualization and analysis of the location component of Big Data to create additional value to make better decisions. Spatial Big Data tools (SpatialHadoop) that leverage the power and sophistication of traditional Big Data technologies (Apache Hadoop) will be discussed. Big Data opportunities in different industries that are known to leverage geotechnology will be presented. This is part I of a two-part workshop on Big Data and Location Analytics
Smartphones and Environmental Sustainability: A Country-Level Analysis
European Conference on Information Systems, 2021
Research suggests that information and communication technologies (ICTs) have a nonlinear relatio... more Research suggests that information and communication technologies (ICTs) have a nonlinear relationship with CO2 emissions, specifically an inverted U-shaped curve similar to the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). While extant research has investigated the relationship using an ICT index, there has been no research looking at smartphones, which have been closely associated with the explosive growth in the use of mobile apps and a build-out of large information systems to support their use. To address this gap, this research examines the relationship of ICTs and smartphones with CO2 emissions by employing a country-level data set for the period from 2009 to 2014. Our results show that the relationship of ICTs with CO2 emissions takes an inverted U-shaped curve form, consistent with the EKC hypothesis. Our OLS results also show that CO2 emissions increase with spending on smartphones but decrease as smartphone spending increases further; however, these results are not consistent in fixed effects models. These findings imply that carbon emissions go up with the penetration of ICTs in poorer countries but in wealthier countries ICT penetration and smartphone spending is related to lower CO2 emissions. The results should not be taken as evidence that ICTs cannot lead to greater sustainability in poorer countries, but should be seen as a call for the IS community to help all countries apply existing knowledge and develop new knowledge to use ICTs to reduce emissions in response to the immediate challenge of climate change.
Information Technology for Development, Jul 23, 2018
This research examines empirically factors influencing IT hardware production by employing a coun... more This research examines empirically factors influencing IT hardware production by employing a country-level data set for 1985-2009. Our results show that IT hardware production is driven by various countrylevel factors, but the impacts of these factors differ for two types of IT hardware. Electronic data processing (EDP) production has shifted to low GDP countries where wage levels are low, and a large portion of EDP produced in these countries tend to be exported to high GDP countries where demand is high. While the gap has decreased, however, medical and industrial equipment (MIE) production is still largely done in advanced economies. These findings imply that losing the manufacturing base in the U.S. might not be an issue for certain types of products, such as EDP, but it could be a serious issue for MIE. Thus, policies must be industry specific; a 'one-size-fits-all' policy would not work for the global IT industry.
An Empirical Investigation of Digital Content Characteristics, Value, and Flow
Journal of Computer Information Systems, 2010
Since the arrival of the Internet into almost every area of our lives, the use of digital content... more Since the arrival of the Internet into almost every area of our lives, the use of digital content has led to an increasing interest in how much value this content contributes to the information and communications industry. Even though societal interest in digital content has increased along with the growth of an information-oriented society, academic studies of the characteristics, value, flow, and use intensiveness of digital content are still in a nascent stage. Using sample data collected in Korea, this research attempts to evaluate the characteristics of digital content and examine how different components of this content are related to its value, flow, and use intensiveness. We divide content into three broad categories: design characteristics (visual appeal and musicality), scenario characteristics (creativity and entertainment value), and structure (unity and conciseness). Results of our study show significant effects on the value of digital content from all three of these categories. However, the flow (users' immersion in a specific set of content) is influenced only by the musicality of design and the entertainment value. Finally, when users highly rate the value of digital content and report good flow, the use intensiveness of that content tends to increase.
Strategies for Generating E-Business Returns on Investment
... USA Myung Soo Kang, Hansung University, Korea Chapter V The Potential of B2B Commerce for Com... more ... USA Myung Soo Kang, Hansung University, Korea Chapter V The Potential of B2B Commerce for Competitive Advantage 102 Ronan Mclvor, University ... Deep appreciation and grati-tude is due to Susan Merritt, Dean of the School of Computer Sci-ence and Information Systems ...
International Journal of Electronic Business, 2004
While the question of the benefits of e-business initiatives has been an issue in both the academ... more While the question of the benefits of e-business initiatives has been an issue in both the academic and business worlds, there has been little empirical research on the value created from such initiatives. Using Information Week's annual data set of innovative IT users, this study empirically examines the contribution of e-business initiatives to firm performance, measured by gross margin, revenue per employee, ROA, and ROE. The measure of e-business initiatives is constructed by combining e-business and CRM innovations. Data are analyzed for the full sample and for both the manufacturing and service industry sectors for the two years of 1999 and 2000. The results show that e-business and CRM innovations contribute to firm performance significantly. The results indicate that when firms deploy e-business technologies and practices early and creatively, namely when their e-business initiatives are innovative, they can generate significant economic returns.
Digital Disruption: A Workshop on the Implications for the Geospatial Realm
Creating Shared Value from Collaborative Logistics Systems
Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2017
Shared value enhances the competitiveness of a company while simultaneously reducing societal bur... more Shared value enhances the competitiveness of a company while simultaneously reducing societal burdens. By allowing companies to share their resources, collaborative logistics systems provide companies with an opportunity to create shared value through collaboration, namely, not only enhance the utilization of resources, but also reduce energy consumptions and greenhouse gas emission associated with logistics, production, and transportation. However, the development of collaborative logistics systems is currently at a nascent stage. There are quite a few technological and non-technological barriers to overcome. This research, currently in progress, will highlight one set of social (or non-technological) barriers, that is, competition-oriented conservatism prevalent in the industry, which should be overcome to create shared value. Using the case study methodology and interview data, we attempt to closely investigate ES3 and Flexe, which provide collaborative logistics services and illustrate the requirements for addressing social barriers to create shared value from collaborative logistics systems.
Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2016
This tutorial provides a foundation on geographic information systems (GIS) as they relate to and... more This tutorial provides a foundation on geographic information systems (GIS) as they relate to and are part of the IS body of knowledge. The tutorial serves as a ten-year update on an earlier CAIS tutorial (Pick, 2004). During the decade, GIS has expanded with wider and deeper range of applications in government and industry, widespread consumer use, and an emerging importance in business schools and for IS. In this paper, we provide background information on the key ideas and concepts of GIS, spatial analysis, and latest trends and on the status and opportunities for incorporating GIS, spatial analysis, and locational decision making into IS research and in teaching in business and IS curricula.
International Journal of e-Collaboration, 2009
Information technology (IT) makes its fullest impact on organizations when it is deployed in conj... more Information technology (IT) makes its fullest impact on organizations when it is deployed in conjunction with changes in business processes, structures, and strategies. While the importance of IT coupled with organizational changes for business performance has been widely discussed in the information systems (IS) literature, there has been little empirical research on the issue. Using Information Week's annual data set of IS budgets and the Compustat database, this research examines empirically the relationship between IT and diversification by employing multiple diversification measures. It also examines empirically the relative impact on performance of IT and diversification. Results show that diversification coupled with increased IT spending improves firm performance when its strategic emphasis is on related diversification. The results also show that firms place strategic focus on related diversification when they increase IT spending, and that they require more IT when their strategic emphasis is tilted toward related diversification. The findings imply that by providing a better means of coordination, IT enables scope economies, efficient utilization of business resources and collaboration across individual business units, eventually leveraging the benefits of diversification.
Review of Creating business value with information technology: challenges and solutions
Information Services and Use archive, Jun 1, 2003
Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2015
Part II of the workshop on Big Data and Location Analytics will provide a thorough overview of lo... more Part II of the workshop on Big Data and Location Analytics will provide a thorough overview of location analytics solutions for Big Data. As businesses and organizations increasingly deploy powerful analytics solutions to better understand and analyze Big Data to make decisions, the location or geographic component of Big Data is often left mostly unexplored. Location Analytics solutions seamlessly integrate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) based analytical methods with enterprise BI platforms to deliver high impact analytics solutions. Such solutions provide a unified view and often real-time information about organizational assets, facilities, and resources, help to identify patterns in georeferenced data, and assist with evidence and data-driven decision-making. One such location analytics solution that is built on a leading BI platform and developed by Esri, the world's leading organization in geotechnology will be demonstrated. Use cases will be presented by an industry keynoter and value addition aspects of location analytics will be discussed in detail. While this workshop is a follow-up to Part I of the Workshop on Big Data and Spatial Analytics, attendees with some prior knowledge of Analytics and GIS may attend this part (II) of the workshop only. The workshop is of interest to MIS academics and practitioners and the topic is consistent with the "Blue Ocean IS Research" theme of this year's AMCIS conference. Duration () 9.00 am to 10.30 am (x) 11.00 am to 12.30 pm Workshop leader(s) information
R&D and firm performance in the semiconductor industry
Industry and Innovation, Aug 28, 2016
Abstract While the semiconductor industry is still dominated by large vertically integrated firms... more Abstract While the semiconductor industry is still dominated by large vertically integrated firms, fabless firms, which outsource their manufacturing, are gaining market share. Fabless firms are considered to have an advantage in product innovation, as they can focus their innovation efforts on chip design and can benefit from investments in process innovation made by their manufacturing partners. However, there is little empirical evidence of the performance of fabless firms compared to vertically integrated firms. This research empirically examines the relationship between R&D and the financial performance of fabless and vertically integrated firms from 2000 to 2010. Our results show that fabless firms maintain higher gross and net margins, earn a higher return on assets (ROA) and have greater intangible value (Tobin’s q) than vertically integrated firms when controlling for size, capital intensity and R&D ratio (R&D/sales). This supports the argument that fabless firms achieve greater performance by focusing on one part of the innovation process. The relationship of R&D ratio to net margin is negative for the whole sample, suggesting that the industry may be overinvesting in R&D. Notably, the negative relationship is greater for fabless firms, which spend a higher amount of their sales on R&D. The relationship of R&D ratio to ROA and Tobin’s q is negative, and there is no significant difference between fabless and integrated firms. We conclude that fabless firms outperform integrated firms overall, but are somewhat worse in terms of increasing profits and creating value from their R&D investments.
Industry and Innovation, Jun 1, 2009
In today's global electronics industry, innovation is carried out by various value chain particip... more In today's global electronics industry, innovation is carried out by various value chain participants, including brand-name manufacturers (sometimes called lead firms), contract manufacturers and component suppliers, but there is little understanding of who benefits most from innovation in such networks. This research examines empirically the relationship of R&D spending and location in the value chain (lead vs. non-lead firms) to firm performance in the global electronics industry by using the Electronic Business 300 data set for 2000-2005. Our results show that firms spending more on R&D have higher gross profits, but do not have higher return on equity (ROE) and return on assets (ROA). There is a strong positive relationship between lead firms and performance as measured by gross profit, ROE and ROA, but the relationship between lead firms and gross profit becomes insignificant when the interaction term of R&D and lead firm is included in the analysis. Finally, lead firm status has a positive interaction effect on the relationship between R&D and gross profit. These findings suggest that the relationship of R&D to performance is mixed, but that lead firms can capture higher value (gross profit) from R&D than contract manufacturers and component suppliers.
This research empirically analyzes the impact of both the Web and social media on the performance... more This research empirically analyzes the impact of both the Web and social media on the performance of nonprofit organizations by using 100 nonprofit organizations ranked by web traction measures, including Facebook Likes and Twitter Followers. Our findings from ANOVA and non-parametric tests demonstrate that nonprofit organizations with higher web traction have greater contributions and grants than others with lower web traction. These findings suggest that the use of the Web coupled with social media promotes better, interactive (two-way) communications with the public, as well as fundraising and that nonprofit organizations that attract more supporters on the Web and social media can increase charitable giving. Our regression analyses based on the economic model of giving that estimates the direct relationship between web traction and donations show similar results. However, the results also show that the impact of economic factors such as price and fundraising activities on charitable giving is much greater than the impact of web traction.
International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management, 2016
This research examines how nonprofits use the internet to build public relations and increase cha... more This research examines how nonprofits use the internet to build public relations and increase charitable giving by analysing the content of the websites of various nonprofit organisations listed in the top 100 NPOs published by The Nonprofit Times. While there is no difference for most variables in the fundraising and communication practices between top tier and bottom tier NPOs divided by total revenue, the differences are found in such variables as campaign summary, messages from the CEO, volunteer opportunities, information sharing, social media use, and annual reports. These findings suggest that certain communication practices (information dissemination, interactive communication, and accountability) are positively associated with the level of fundraising. Compared to the findings of previous research, however, our findings show that the presence of characteristics related to communications and fundraising has increased on NPOs' websites. This indicates that by recognising the importance of the internet, NPOs are increasingly using it as a medium for communications and charitable giving.
International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 2002
In 1981 the Energy Systems Program at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (Il... more In 1981 the Energy Systems Program at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IlASA) published five scenarios of global energy demand and supply for the period 1975-2030. At least two of them, the high and low scenarios, are still quoted today. This paper analyses how accurately the IlASA scenarios of 1981 captured the actual development during the first 15 years of their time horizon. Those parts of the scenarios that refer to developments still in the future are also compared with current views of the long-term development of the global energy system as expressed in recent results collected by the International Energy Workshop (lEW). The comparisons show that the low scenario of 1981 carne closest to actual developments up to 1990. With the exception of nuclear energy, its further projections fall well within the range of today's global energy scenarios.