Information technology investments in emerging economies

Contrasting ERP Absorption Between Transition and Developed Economies From Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)

“…Transition economies as a special subgroup of emerging economies include countries in transition from a communistic central planning system to a free market system, and represent about one-third of the total world population (Roztocki & Weistroffer, 2008). The economic liberalisation since the early 90ies exposed transition economies to increased competition and globalisation (Gertha & Rothman, 2007;Harindranath, 2008) while facing specific local conditions resulting from both environmental/market and internal/organisational factors (Huang & Palvia, 2001).…”

Requirements for Cios' Competencies in the Czech Economy

“…These domains comprise CIO expertise related to a transition from central planning to market economy (transition economy). They contain expertise that enhance CIOs' managerial skills, the skills of working team leadership and the knowledge of the different economic sectors (MS16) -i.e., with respect to (Bingi et al, 2000;Roztocki and Weistroffer, 2008a) and (Huang and Palvia, 2001;Roztocki and Weistroffer, 2008b), these are domains covering strategic skills of CIOs and their overall knowledge of ICT issues rather than narrowly focused skills relation to deployment of information systems in organizations. The domain MS09 was conceived for ensuring CIO's skills of working team leadership and with an aim of achieving strategic objectives not only of ICT, but also of the whole organization.…”

“…Transition economies are defined as countries that are in transition from a communist style central planning system to a free market system (Roztocki and Weistroffer, 2008a;Lee et al, 2012) present that the two regional groups of transition economies are distinguished in their contribution (Lee et al, 2012) -Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America. The International Monetary Fund's classification does not include Latin countries.…”

“…The process of ICT adoption in developing countries is connected with different considerations as compared to practice observed in developed economies (Bingi et al, 2000;Roztocki and Weistroffer, 2008a). In particular, ICT adoption projects conducted in developing and transition economies struggle with lack of ICT experience, inadequate ICT infrastructure and maturity, and lack of long term strategic thinking (Huang and Palvia, 2001;Roztocki and Weistroffer, 2008b;Solar et al, 2013).…”

National Ict, Economic Freedom and Human Development: A Cross-Country Dynamic Panel Data Analysis

“…When evaluated from the social perspective, it is asserted by Cecchini and Scott (2003) that the use of ICT applications can enhance poor people's access opportunities to markets, health, and education. In the context of developing economies, ICT is considered as a communication and collaboration enabling tool that may counterbalance the dearth of other resources (Roztocki & Weistroffer, 2008). Qureshi (2005) proposed a model exploring the role of ICT in national development processes.…”