Information technology deployment in a transition economy: Results from Slovenia
Information technology (IT) is increasingly establishing itself as one of the major topics of study in the OECD area. The resulting OECD studies found that IT has an enormous productive potential; however before an economy can gain most of IT's benefits, several challenges need to be successful...
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Faculty of Economics, Belgrade
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| description | Information technology (IT) is increasingly establishing itself as one of the major topics of study in the OECD area. The resulting OECD studies found that IT has an enormous productive potential; however before an economy can gain most of IT's benefits, several challenges need to be successfully addressed. The key challenges these studies identified are adequate organizational transformations of the enterprises and adequate reorganization of key national institutions. How these two challenges are tackled by the economies that are going through the transition from a socialist towards a coordinated/liberal market economy is, unfortunately, not equally well documented. To improve this situation in this paper I present new findings from one transition economy concerning the issues that the developed OECD countries already highlighted as critical for the successful deployment of IT, and issues that seem specific to the transition environments. The presented findings are based on the study I conducted into 94 enterprises, representing the population of the 914 biggest added value generating enterprises in Slovenia. This article thus tries to allow Slovenia and other economies in a similar situation to draw broad and important conclusions with managerial and political implications on how to deploy all available IT potential. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-21278fc75ada418393888ea0cd4a4f432022-12-22T01:35:50ZengFaculty of Economics, BelgradeEkonomski Anali0013-32642009-01-0154183568810.2298/EKA0983056HInformation technology deployment in a transition economy: Results from SloveniaHovelja TomažInformation technology (IT) is increasingly establishing itself as one of the major topics of study in the OECD area. The resulting OECD studies found that IT has an enormous productive potential; however before an economy can gain most of IT's benefits, several challenges need to be successfully addressed. The key challenges these studies identified are adequate organizational transformations of the enterprises and adequate reorganization of key national institutions. How these two challenges are tackled by the economies that are going through the transition from a socialist towards a coordinated/liberal market economy is, unfortunately, not equally well documented. To improve this situation in this paper I present new findings from one transition economy concerning the issues that the developed OECD countries already highlighted as critical for the successful deployment of IT, and issues that seem specific to the transition environments. The presented findings are based on the study I conducted into 94 enterprises, representing the population of the 914 biggest added value generating enterprises in Slovenia. This article thus tries to allow Slovenia and other economies in a similar situation to draw broad and important conclusions with managerial and political implications on how to deploy all available IT potential.http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0013-3264/2009/0013-32640983056H.pdfInformation technology deploymentorganizational transformationenterprisesinstitutionsSlovenia |
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| title | Information technology deployment in a transition economy: Results from Slovenia |
| title_full | Information technology deployment in a transition economy: Results from Slovenia |
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| title_short | Information technology deployment in a transition economy: Results from Slovenia |
| title_sort | information technology deployment in a transition economy results from slovenia |
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