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  1-10 of 21 Reviews about "Economics (K.6.0...)": Date Reviewed
  Catalyzing development through ICT adoption: the developing world experience
Kaur H., Lechman E., Marszk A., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2017. 288 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319565-22-4)

In September 2009, my husband and I delivered a paper entitled “The Global digital divide: what the indices reveal” [1] at the American Political Science Association meeting in Toronto, Canada. In that paper, we mad...

Dec 27 2017
  Offshoring strategies: evolving captive center models
Oshri I., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011. 254 pp.  Type: Book

There is an old Chinese proverb that says, “Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards.” In business, managers will find the cheapest place on earth to manufacture products or provide services. When the cheapest p...

Oct 31 2011
  Citizen engineer: a handbook for socially responsible engineering
Douglas D., Papadopoulos G., Boutelle J., Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2009. 272 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-137143-92-4)

This book provides hands-on instruction for engineers who are concerned with two socioeconomic topics: environmental concerns and open source. Douglas and Papadopoulos use their experience in the information technology (IT) industry&am...

Feb 10 2010
  Techno-economic analysis and empirical study of network broadband investment: the case of backbone upgrading
Jerman-Blažič B. Information Systems Frontiers 10(1): 103-110, 2007.  Type: Article

Broadband penetration has been called one of the important measures of a country’s competitiveness. The increasing amount of voice and video applications constantly drives demand. To meet demand, telecommunications companies ...

Jul 3 2008
  Analysis of yearly variations in drug expenditure for one patient using data warehouse in a hospital
Chen Y., Matsumura Y., Nakagawa K., Ji S., Nakano H., Teratani T., Zhang Q., Mineno T., Takeda H. Journal of Medical Systems 31(1): 17-24, 2007.  Type: Article

Based on the analysis of data gathered in a data warehouse between 1996 and 2002, drug expenditure records show that the drug expenditure for one patient increased gradually within the Osaka University Hospital in Japan. The authors br...

Aug 1 2007
  Value-based software engineering
Biffl S., Aurum A., Boehm B., Erdogmus H., Grünbacher P., Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., Secaucus, NJ, 2005. 388 pp.  Type: Book (9783540259930)

A collection of essays from more than 20 experts, this book was coordinated by five editors, including Barry Boehm, the founding father of software engineering economics in the early 1980s. The book is organized into three parts. Part ...

Jun 19 2006
  Economics of information security (Advances in Information Security)
Camp L., Lewis S., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 2004.  Type: Book (9781402080890)

The interested reader must be warned from the beginning: this is not a book dedicated only to information security (IS) in the information technology (IT) field. Rather, it covers many other aspects of IS, in different industrial areas...

Apr 19 2005
  Management”s contribution to internet commerce benefit: a critical review of the empirical evidence
Poon S. In Creating business value with information technology. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 2003.  Type: Book Chapter

An experimental inquiry is presented in this paper into the role of the management of small businesses in the adoption of Internet commerce solutions, and into whether an active management role in e-commerce adoption produces greater b...

Jul 3 2003
  An empirical analysis of productivity gains from information technology’s reduction of coordination costs
Shin N. In Creating business value with information technology. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 2003.  Type: Book Chapter

Previous researchers (many of which are referenced in this paper) have examined how the use of information technology (IT) improves the capital and labor efficiency of organizations. Shin hypothesizes that IT also improves the efficien...

Jun 18 2003
  Supply chain planning opportunities for small and medium sized companies
Hvolby H., Trienekens J. Computers in Industry 49(1): 3-8, 2002.  Type: Article

The authors present a number of observations on the current state of supply chain management (SCM) for small and medium sized companies, and on the impact of electronic commerce on SCM. These observations include adaptation to accelera...

May 6 2003
 
 
 
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