Purpose – Enterprise application integration (EAI) technologies are critical to functionally integrate diverse corporate computer systems, and as such may be expected to have a positive effect on business value. The purpose of this paper is to examine the market reaction to announcements of...

Information and communications technology (ICT) is the principal enabler for global connectedness and the flattening of the global market place. Although ICT in emerging economies is critical for local firms to maintain competitiveness and is a driving force for economic development, the...

This paper proposes a framework for evaluating information technology investments, integrating value chain analysis with activity-based costing and fuzzy logic. The proposed method should be particularly useful for businesses in emerging economies, where an uncertain economic environment is...

Information and communications technology (ICT) is a crucial driving force in economic globalization and the principal enabler in building a highly connected world. However, despite the ever-increasing importance of ICT in developing economies, the mainstream information system research remains...

In spite of the rapid growth many developing and emerging economies are experiencing, with much of this growth supported by information technology (IT), published research dealing with IT in developing economies is still very limited. The objective of this paper is to direct attention to this...

Building on the Roztocki and Weistroffer (2009c) explanatory model, this study examines stock market reactions to announcements of information technology investments in Poland, an emerging market and transition economy. Based on 68 announcements by companies traded at the Warsaw Stock Exchange...

A change in the stock value of a company is an important indicator of firm performance. Event studies, which look at abnormal stock price reactions to specific events or happenings that may impact a business's operations, represent a relatively new but fast growing research approach in the...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play a vital role in gaining and maintaining competitive advantage. In this study, we analyze twenty-two papers presented at the First International Conference on ICT Management for Global Competitiveness and Economic Growth in Emerging Economies...

In this paper we assess the publication base and the research trends in information technology specifically in transition economies. A transition economy is an economy that is in the long-term process of moving from a centrally planned to a market driven system. Although information technology...

This study examines stock market reactions to announcements of information technology investments in three transition economies: Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. Based on 95 investment announcements in the period 1998 to 2013, our study confirms some previously published results from a...