Technology Strategy and Competitiveness in Developing Nations: Exploratory Evidence from Nigerian Telecommunication Market / Aminu Ahmad, Hartini Ahmad and Seember Nyager

Technology Strategy and Competitiveness in Developing Nations: Exploratory Evidence from Nigerian Telecommunication Market / Aminu Ahmad, Hartini Ahmad and Seember Nyager

While direct link between technology strategy and competitiveness have been established there is dearth of quantitative research on the relative influence of key technology strategy constructs. Similarly although technology strategy is more daunting in developing countries most literatures predomin...

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Main Authors: Aminu, Ahmad, Hartini, Ahmad, Seember, Nyager
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Business and Management ; UiTM Press 2009
Subjects:
Management. Industrial Management
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/491/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/491/1/AJ_AMINU%20AHMAD%20JIBE%2009.pdf
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spelling uitm-4912018-11-03T07:06:12Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/491/ Technology Strategy and Competitiveness in Developing Nations: Exploratory Evidence from Nigerian Telecommunication Market / Aminu Ahmad, Hartini Ahmad and Seember Nyager Aminu, Ahmad Hartini, Ahmad Seember, Nyager Management. Industrial Management While direct link between technology strategy and competitiveness have been established there is dearth of quantitative research on the relative influence of key technology strategy constructs. Similarly although technology strategy is more daunting in developing countries most literatures predominantly focused on developed nations. Against this background scales were source from literature and focus group analysis. Principal component factoring and principal factor axis was run on 157 valid responses from Nigerian telecommunication industry to explore and confirmed the unidimensionality of the constructs. In addition, reliability analysis and constructs correlation provides evidence for constructs validity. Result indicates technology strategy significantly explained the variance on organizational competitiveness.Furthermore Beta coefficients indicate training, maintenance & exploitation policy (TMEP) is the most important driver of competitiveness reinforcing the need for skillful manpower and internal infrastructure to accommodate new acquisitions in technology strategy. Finally theoretical and managerial implications of the research findings were highlighted Faculty of Business and Management ; UiTM Press 2009 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/491/1/AJ_AMINU%20AHMAD%20JIBE%2009.pdf Aminu, Ahmad and Hartini, Ahmad and Seember, Nyager (2009) Technology Strategy and Competitiveness in Developing Nations: Exploratory Evidence from Nigerian Telecommunication Market / Aminu Ahmad, Hartini Ahmad and Seember Nyager. Journal of International Business, Economics and Entrepreneurship (JIBE), 14 (1). pp. 1-16.
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topic Management. Industrial Management
spellingShingle Management. Industrial Management
Aminu, Ahmad
Hartini, Ahmad
Seember, Nyager
Technology Strategy and Competitiveness in Developing Nations: Exploratory Evidence from Nigerian Telecommunication Market / Aminu Ahmad, Hartini Ahmad and Seember Nyager
description While direct link between technology strategy and competitiveness have been established there is dearth of quantitative research on the relative influence of key technology strategy constructs. Similarly although technology strategy is more daunting in developing countries most literatures predominantly focused on developed nations. Against this background scales were source from literature and focus group analysis. Principal component factoring and principal factor axis was run on 157 valid responses from Nigerian telecommunication industry to explore and confirmed the unidimensionality of the constructs. In addition, reliability analysis and constructs correlation provides evidence for constructs validity. Result indicates technology strategy significantly explained the variance on organizational competitiveness.Furthermore Beta coefficients indicate training, maintenance & exploitation policy (TMEP) is the most important driver of competitiveness reinforcing the need for skillful manpower and internal infrastructure to accommodate new acquisitions in technology strategy. Finally theoretical and managerial implications of the research findings were highlighted
format Article
author Aminu, Ahmad
Hartini, Ahmad
Seember, Nyager
author_facet Aminu, Ahmad
Hartini, Ahmad
Seember, Nyager
author_sort Aminu, Ahmad
title Technology Strategy and Competitiveness in Developing Nations: Exploratory Evidence from Nigerian Telecommunication Market / Aminu Ahmad, Hartini Ahmad and Seember Nyager
title_short Technology Strategy and Competitiveness in Developing Nations: Exploratory Evidence from Nigerian Telecommunication Market / Aminu Ahmad, Hartini Ahmad and Seember Nyager
title_full Technology Strategy and Competitiveness in Developing Nations: Exploratory Evidence from Nigerian Telecommunication Market / Aminu Ahmad, Hartini Ahmad and Seember Nyager
title_fullStr Technology Strategy and Competitiveness in Developing Nations: Exploratory Evidence from Nigerian Telecommunication Market / Aminu Ahmad, Hartini Ahmad and Seember Nyager
title_full_unstemmed Technology Strategy and Competitiveness in Developing Nations: Exploratory Evidence from Nigerian Telecommunication Market / Aminu Ahmad, Hartini Ahmad and Seember Nyager
title_sort technology strategy and competitiveness in developing nations: exploratory evidence from nigerian telecommunication market / aminu ahmad, hartini ahmad and seember nyager
publisher Faculty of Business and Management ; UiTM Press
publishDate 2009
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/491/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/491/1/AJ_AMINU%20AHMAD%20JIBE%2009.pdf
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