Current Issue : January-March Volume : 2023 Issue Number : 1 Articles : 5 Articles
Extant literature has increased our understanding of specific aspects of digital transformation, but a comprehensive picture remains elusive. Through a review of 50 case studies, we inductively build a framework of digital transformation articulated across seven building blocks. Digital transformation has brought the emergence of an advanced breed to help organizations scale up quickly, innovate throughout the processes, and lead markets. The increased use of advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Analytics and high-performing computing has enabled organizations to adopt an agile and efficient business structure....
COVID-19 and its related restrictions have led to the closure of over 60% of Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) largely due to the inability to move from physical to online business model. Using the desk research technique, this study examines the ICT challenges of SMMEs, coping strategies and the road map for redress in South Africa. Findings reveal challenges such as inadequate digital infrastructure, lack of funds for digital investment, lack of digital literacy, and nature of SMMEs’ business and trade model are major ICT use challenges faced by the SMMEs. SMMEs adopt measures such as laying off workers, changing to high consumable products, and changing marketing techniques to simple online marketing models and pricing strategies to cope with some of the challenges. Based on the findings, we recommend complementarity of the role of key stakeholders, including business owners, governments, telecommunication industry players or internet service providers, and business owners, as an indispensable approach. Businesses need to plan to build resilience against any unforeseeable eventualities that might have catastrophic impacts on their businesses. The government needs to provide financial bailout and business recovery funds at an affordable cost to businesses to help them acquire the necessary infrastructure needed to embrace the change. Furthermore, long-term investment in digital infrastructure by the government toward universal access to the internet by businesses is very necessary. It is also suggested that important industrial actors, such as those in the telecommunications industry, collaborate with the government to achieve universal access to the internet and other ICT technologies by people and SMMEs. This should include a digital literacy program to teach and equip businesses. Special interventions in the form of market security for businesses that are vulnerable are also recommended....
E-HRM is relatively a new term in Bangladesh which is called the internettechnology- supported human resource management used today in various private industries through the power of web-based technology. It has brought a great change in the way of traditional HRM functions. The aim of this paper was to identify the key practices of e-HRM instead of traditional HRM practices in the private industry of Bangladesh for making our current HRM practices more need-based, effective and practical oriented. Data were collected from the total number of 108 respondents including all HR officers, senior officers and professionals etc through a close-ended structured questionnaire survey from January to April 2022. In this case, a five point Likert scale has been used to design the whole questionnaire. A simple random sampling technique has been used to reach the sample respondents. The collected data has been analyzed though Garrett ranking method in this study to find out the research result. The study found some of the key practices of e-HRM in the private industry such as e-communication (62.26%); e-personal profile (64.44%), e-training (64.53%), e-application tracking (66.36%), e-recruitment (66.57%). Based on the study, it was recommended that, our private industry should continue to practice e-communication, e-personal profile, e-training, e-application tracking, e-recruitment in place of the conventional HRM practices....
This paper aims to investigate how mature manufacturing organizations (MMO) can achieve radical innovation from a cultural perspective. Thus, exploring and outlining key factors of organizational culture that influence and facilitate radical innovation in mature manufacturing organizations play an essential role in this study. Constructive-interpretivism philosophical approach is used for this study, employing a qualitative strategy. A grounded research methodology and an action research approach that was ‘issue focused’ were employed to gain the perceptions of the participants from the organisational culture as empirical data. The sample of the study is comprised of eighteen mature UK-based manufacturing organizations that span a variety of industries. Each of these companies had reputations for innovation gained through repeated successes in bringing new products or businesses to market. The research data were collected through the use of in-depth focus interviews. Participants were recruited from 18 large mature manufacturing organisations. After 21 interviews, a saturation point was reached. The findings of the study presented a variety of factors in the domains of culture, values, and setting that were identified as significant in affecting leadership performance and provide insight into key factors of radical innovation culture in this vital sector. The originality of this research lies in understanding the impact of appropriate organizational culture and leadership practices on radical innovation, especially in mature manufacturing organizations. The implications of these findings are highlighted, as well as the need to further explore how cultural factors and leadership practices can affect the level of innovation in this vital sector....
The aim of this paper is to draw the attention of policy makers and research communities to the critical but often ignored relationships between intensified smallholder pig farming, livelihood, poverty alleviation, culture, gender, health and environment in mountainous areas of Yunnan Province, China. It documents changes in how pigs are farmed in one county of Yunnan over the last four decades and analyzes the impact of pig rearing on local livelihood, culture and gender as well as its implications for health and environment. It concludes that modern pig rearing techniques that are intended to be used in large-scale industry pig farming operations have been partially adopted by poor farmers in smallholder pig farming settings, and this has generated a wide spectrum of different pig production systems and also changed disease risks associated with pig farming. It is hard to predict and manage the risks given the rapid, diverse, complex and dynamic changes in the intensified smallholder pig farming systems. The environmental pollution associated with these pig production systems is also different to that caused by major pig production companies, and also calls for new management approaches....
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