Kenneth L Kraemer
Biographic Data
| ID | 708073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth L Kraemer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth L |
| FAMILY NAME | Kraemer |
| SIGNATURE | KRAEMER K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 222 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Value capture in global production networks: Evidence from the Taiwanese electronics industry
In today's global electronics industry, lead firms and suppliers of key components capture greater value than contract manufacturers. Using data from the Taiwanese Stock Exchange from 2002 to 2009, this research aims to examine if the pattern of value capture in the global electronics industry holds for Taiwan. We also test the impacts of research and development (R&D) spending on firm profitability and returns. Our results show that lead firms a…
Who profits from innovation in global value chains?: A study of the iPod and notebook PCs
This article analyzes the distribution of financial value from innovation in the global supply chains of iPods and notebook computers. We find that Apple has captured a great deal of value from the innovation embodied in the iPod, while notebook makers capture a more modest share of the value from PC innovation. In order to understand these differences, we employ concepts from theories of innovation and industrial organization, finding significan…
Introduction to the Special Issue on “The Legacy of Rob Kling: Social Informatics as a Research Discipline”
The late Professor Rob Kling was an influential scholar in the field of social informatics (SI). Not only was he a visionary promoting the conceptualization of this new area (Kling, 1999; Kling & Allen, 1996), but a lead researcher as well. As a tribute to this profound, eclectic professor, we present this special issue of The Information Society to honor his contributions to the social informatics community. Unlike a festschrift, where papers ar…
Post-Adoption Variations in Usage and Value of E-Business by Organizations: Cross-Country Evidence from the Retail Industry
Grounded in the innovation diffusion literature and the resource-based theory, this paper develops an integrative research model for assessing the diffusion and consequence of e-business at the firm level. Unlike the typical focus on adoption as found in the literature, we focus on postadoption stages, that is, actual usage and value creation. The model thus moves beyond dichotomous “adoption versus nonadoption” and accounts for the “missing link…
Impacts of Globalization on E-Commerce Use and Firm Performance: A Cross-Country Investigation
This article develops and tests a model examining the relationship between firm globalization, scope of e-commerce use, and firm performance, using data from a large-scale cross-country survey of firms from three industries. We find that globalization leads to both greater scope of e-commerce use and improved performance, measured as efficiency, coordination, and market impacts. Scope of e-commerce use also leads to greater firm performance of al…
Rob Kling Remembered: The Early Beginnings of Social Analysis of Computing in the Urbis Project 1
Environment and Policy Factors Shaping Global E-Commerce Diffusion: A Cross-Country Comparison
This article examines the key global, environmental and policy factors that act as determinants of e-commerce diffusion. It is based on systematic comparison of case studies from 10 countries--Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Mexico, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States. It finds that B2B e-commerce seems to be driven by global forces, whereas B2C seems to be more of a local phenomenon. A preliminary explanation for this differ…
Economic Liberalization and the Computer Industry: Comparing Outcomes in Brazil and Mexico
Liberalization and the Computer Industry: A Comparison of Four Developing Countries
Information Technology and Productivity: Evidence from Country-Level Data
This paper studies a key driver of the demand for the products and services of the global IT industry—returns from IT investments. We estimate an intercountry production function relating IT and non-IT inputs to GDP output, on panel data from 36 countries over the 1985–1993 period. We find significant differences between developed and developing countries with respect to their structure of returns from capital investments. For the developed count…
Computing and Public Organizations
This survey of empirical research on computing in government updates a review that appeared ten years earlier in Public Administration Review. It focuses primarily on research related to the management of computing and on differences between public and private sector management of computing because the bulk of the new research and findings are here. The impact of computing on employment, structure, worklife, decision making, organizational politi…
Mainframe and PC Computing in American Cities: Myths and Realities
How much can PCs aid city management? This article is based on a 1993 survey that compares computing in cities that use only personal computers (PCs) with computing in cities that use central computer systems. The authors found that claims that PCs would speed up automation of governmental functions were not substantiated. Central system cities were more widely automated, had more widespread use among staff, and were more likely to deploy leading…
National technology policy and computer production in Asia‐pacific countries
The relationship of technology policy to economic and industrial development has become a subject of debate between those who argue that market forces should determine how technology is produced and used and those who believe that government has a role in supporting investment in technology use and the development of high‐technology industries. This article looks at the effects of national technology policy in promoting the production of computer…
Police use of computers
Management Policy for Greater Computer Benefits: Friendly Software, Computer Literacy, or Formal Training
Using data from over 3,000 public employees in 46 U.S. cities in 1988, this article in vestigates three classes of factors commonly thought to affect computer use: training, friendliness of software, and user computer background. Computer use is analyzed as 11 specific tasks (such as programming, record searching) and is further broken down by organizational role of user, for example, manager and street-level employee. Some findings are that (1) …
Payoffs from investment in information technology: Lessons from the Asia-Pacific region
Supporting the free market: Information technology policy in Hong Kong
Economic policy in Hong Kong is frequently cited as a shining example of the laissez‐faire model for development, with minimal government intervention. However, the government has played a bigger role in the economy than is often recognized, responding to market failures, social problems, and the needs of the business community. Information technology (IT) policy in Hong Kong has mirrored the colony's laissez‐faire economic strategy, with little …
Caught in the middle: Information technology policy in Australia
Australia's treatment of information technology (IT) has vacillated between two policy directions: laissez faire, market directed strategy on the one hand, and strong government interventionist, plan directed strategy on the other. The resultant policy mix is more a collection of individual initiatives than a coherent strategy. It produces conflict between initiatives aimed at developing indigenous information industries and those improving the p…
Turning loose the invisible hand: New Zealand's information technology policy
Information technology (IT) policy in New Zealand has closely paralleled the broader economic policies that have prevailed in the country. Until the mid‐1980s, economic policy was inwardly oriented, marked by high trade barriers and heavy government regulation. In 1984, the Labor government responded to a balance of payments crisis with a radical program of economic liberalization. By the end of the decade, this process had fundamentally altered …
Enhancing the Quality of Computing Service: Technology, Structure, and People
Information Technology in India: The Quest for Self-Reliance
Research Article| May 01 1993 Information Technology in India: The Quest for Self-Reliance Jason Dedrick, Jason Dedrick Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Kenneth L. Kraemer Kenneth L. Kraemer Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1993) 33 (5): 463–492. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645313 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementar…
Economic Development, Government Policy, and the Diffusion of Computing in Asia-Pacific Countries
impact of industrial policies in nine Asia-Pacific nations andfound that such efforts did not have the significant direct effects on the diffusion of computer technology that might have been expected.While some governmentfiscal and trade policies didfacilitate increases in computing expenditures, the authors found that the level of economic development was a more important predictor.Whateverpolicies are adopted should take into consideration the …
The Impacts of Computer Technology on the Worklife of Information Workers
This article assesses recent research which examines the impacts of computing on the worklife of information workers. It uses a broad analytic framework to organize discussion of research since 1985, to assess the consistency and coherence of the research, and to suggest where systematic comparative analysis is needed in the future. Research findings are summarized with regard to the impacts of computing on decision making, control, productivity,…
Government as the driving force toward the information society: National computer policy in Singapore
In an attempt to make Singapore an economic power in the post‐industrial information era, the Singaporean government is implementing a series of national computer plans designed to farther the country's efforts to move up the value‐added chain by driving information technology into all sectors of society, these plans can be divided into three distinct phases with the goal of the first phase to computerize the government sector; the goal of the se…
Payoffs from Computerization: Lessons over Time
Today the federal government, all 50 states, and virtually all city and county governments utilize computers.At the city and county levels alone, computers are used for some 450 different computer applications including paying employees, sending utility bills, analyzing demographic data, routing vehicles, and allocating manpower.1This extensive use of computers is the result of the promised payoffs from computerization.Early on, Anthony Downs arg…
Research Methodology in the "Public Administration Review," 1975-1984
Public administration was in an early stage of development when Luther Gulick' called for a "science of administration."Gulick's exhortation became a source of heated and continuing controversy that centers around positivist versus alternative views of appropriate research methodology.2This paper examines the last ten years of Public Administration Review (PAR) methodology and suggests directions for its future development.Two general methods are…
Payoffs from Computerization: Lessons over Time
Today the federal government, all 50 states, and virtually all city and county governments utilize computers.At the city and county levels alone, computers are used for some 450 different computer applications including paying employees, sending utility bills, analyzing demographic data, routing vehicles, and allocating manpower.1This extensive use of computers is the result of the promised payoffs from computerization.Early on, Anthony Downs arg…
Computing and Public Organizations
The Interests Served B Y Technological Reform: The Case of Computing
This study explores the interests served by technological reform through an empirical analysis of power shifts stemming from the use of computer technology in American local governments. Alternative hypotheses concerning the existence and direction of power shifts are tested with survey and observational data collected in 42 U.S. cities. The findings indicate that computer-based systems tend to follow and reinforce the existing pattern of local g…
Computerized Data-Based Systems and Productivity among Professional Workers: The Case of Detectives
The promise of productivity improvements has always been high in the litany of benefits predicted for computer use in government. Particular attention has usually focused on benefits at the clerical levels, where the brawny capabilities of computing are applied by means of large scale and repetitive data processing and office automation. Substantial promise has also been associated with managerial utilization of computing, where its more brainy c…
Computing and Public Organizations
This survey of empirical research on computing in government updates a review that appeared ten years earlier in Public Administration Review. It focuses primarily on research related to the management of computing and on differences between public and private sector management of computing because the bulk of the new research and findings are here. The impact of computing on employment, structure, worklife, decision making, organizational politi…
Payoffs from investment in information technology: Lessons from the Asia-Pacific region
The Impacts of Computer Technology on the Worklife of Information Workers
This article assesses recent research which examines the impacts of computing on the worklife of information workers. It uses a broad analytic framework to organize discussion of research since 1985, to assess the consistency and coherence of the research, and to suggest where systematic comparative analysis is needed in the future. Research findings are summarized with regard to the impacts of computing on decision making, control, productivity,…
Computers and Control in the Work Environment
The computer has become the essential symbol and perhaps the crucial driving force of post-industrial society. Despite the centrality of the computer, there is continuing disagreement regarding the overall impact of computers on social and personal life. On the one hand, the computer is presented as a technology whose protean applications will create an increasingly dehumanized and technocratic world. On the other hand, computer technology is cre…
Innovation attributes, policy intervention, and the diffusion of computer applications among local governments
Environment and Policy Factors Shaping Global E-Commerce Diffusion: A Cross-Country Comparison
This article examines the key global, environmental and policy factors that act as determinants of e-commerce diffusion. It is based on systematic comparison of case studies from 10 countries--Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Mexico, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States. It finds that B2B e-commerce seems to be driven by global forces, whereas B2C seems to be more of a local phenomenon. A preliminary explanation for this differ…
Enhancing the Quality of Computing Service: Technology, Structure, and People
Automating bias
Government as the driving force toward the information society: National computer policy in Singapore
In an attempt to make Singapore an economic power in the post‐industrial information era, the Singaporean government is implementing a series of national computer plans designed to farther the country's efforts to move up the value‐added chain by driving information technology into all sectors of society, these plans can be divided into three distinct phases with the goal of the first phase to computerize the government sector; the goal of the se…
Curriculum Recommendations for Public Management Education in Computing. Final Report of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, Ad Hoc Committee on Computers in Publ…
The United States is increasingly becoming an information society. Over half of the labor force is now engaged in work requiring some level of information processing. Computers are the engines powering this information society and, consequently, their diffusion is considerable and growing. Moreover, from the beginning of the computer age, government has been at the forefront of computer utilization. Given the extensive diffusion of computers thro…
Technology and Urban Management: The Power Payoffs of Computing
This study argues that as automated information systems in local governments are more oriented to providing top management with information, top managers gain control vis-à-vis lower level managers and staff. clients, and lay policy officials. A measure of "management oriented computing" is developed which indicates the degree computing is oriented to serving top management. This index is related to both the hypothesized payoffs and the hypothesi…
The role of information technology in managing cities
1988). The role of information technology in managing cities. Local Government Studies: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 23-47
Liberalization and the Computer Industry: A Comparison of Four Developing Countries
Chief Executive Support and Innovation adoption
This article tests a model of the influence of chief executive support on innovation outcomes in local government organizations. Propositions taken from the literature are causally ordered and tested using path analysis. The model is weakly supported by the analysis. Several explanations are offered for the results
Value capture in global production networks: Evidence from the Taiwanese electronics industry
In today's global electronics industry, lead firms and suppliers of key components capture greater value than contract manufacturers. Using data from the Taiwanese Stock Exchange from 2002 to 2009, this research aims to examine if the pattern of value capture in the global electronics industry holds for Taiwan. We also test the impacts of research and development (R&D) spending on firm profitability and returns. Our results show that lead firms a…
Impacts of Globalization on E-Commerce Use and Firm Performance: A Cross-Country Investigation
This article develops and tests a model examining the relationship between firm globalization, scope of e-commerce use, and firm performance, using data from a large-scale cross-country survey of firms from three industries. We find that globalization leads to both greater scope of e-commerce use and improved performance, measured as efficiency, coordination, and market impacts. Scope of e-commerce use also leads to greater firm performance of al…
Economic Liberalization and the Computer Industry: Comparing Outcomes in Brazil and Mexico
Police use of computers
Caught in the middle: Information technology policy in Australia
Australia's treatment of information technology (IT) has vacillated between two policy directions: laissez faire, market directed strategy on the one hand, and strong government interventionist, plan directed strategy on the other. The resultant policy mix is more a collection of individual initiatives than a coherent strategy. It produces conflict between initiatives aimed at developing indigenous information industries and those improving the p…
Public Management: What's New and Different
New Comprehensiveness in City Planning
The Evolution of Information Systems for Urban Administration
OVER THE PAST DECADE AND MORE, formal attention to information handling in urban governments has resulted in the emergence of a new field-the urban information systems field.1 It has evolved from several approaches to information system development. Each demandzd different computer capabilities, focused on different problems of administration, concerned different groups, and represented different conceptions of an urban information system. These …
Usac: An Evolving Intergovernmental Mechanism for Urban Information Systems Development
VIEWED BROADLY, the Urban Information Systems Inter-Agency Committee (USAC) is a dynamic mechanism for channeling federal resources to improve local government administration. Its specific purpose is to facilitate intergovernmental cooperation in urban information systems research and development. USAC is important because it is simultaneously conducting an experiment in product research and development and in administrative organization. The ant…
Information in Urban Systems
Towards an agenda for EFT research
During the past decade the foundation has been laid for a major change in the payment and fund transfer system in American society. As technological advances are achieved, their application could eventually mean that the payments system will be based on digital impulses rather than on cash or paper checks. Preauthorization techniques, automated banking, and point of sale devices are already part of rapidly expanding new technology---electronic fu…
Technology and Urban Management: The Power Payoffs of Computing
This study argues that as automated information systems in local governments are more oriented to providing top management with information, top managers gain control vis-à-vis lower level managers and staff. clients, and lay policy officials. A measure of "management oriented computing" is developed which indicates the degree computing is oriented to serving top management. This index is related to both the hypothesized payoffs and the hypothesi…
Local Government, Information Systems, and Technology Transfer: Evaluating Some Common Assertions about Computer Application Transfer
E verywhere we go nowadays faith is expressed that some modern technology is waiting in the wings to make our lives better.This extends to local governments where large programs have been instituted to facilitate "technology transfer"' -a concept that usually refers to the process of moving a piece of technology developed at a high cost in one place to another place at a lower cost than would be required to develop the technology locally.2The app…
Innovation attributes, policy intervention, and the diffusion of computer applications among local governments
Development of Urban Information Systems: Status and International Relevance of United States Experience
The Interests Served B Y Technological Reform: The Case of Computing
This study explores the interests served by technological reform through an empirical analysis of power shifts stemming from the use of computer technology in American local governments. Alternative hypotheses concerning the existence and direction of power shifts are tested with survey and observational data collected in 42 U.S. cities. The findings indicate that computer-based systems tend to follow and reinforce the existing pattern of local g…
The Federal Push to Bring Computer Applications to Local Governments
Federal officials concerned with science and technology policy have advocated the diffusion of technological innovations as means for improving the payoffs from R&D investments.' Both federal and local officials view the local government sector as an area for major payoffs from technological innovations aimed at improving productivity.2 Since local government is highly labor-intensive, they hope that significant productivity improvements can be a…
Chief Executive Support and Innovation adoption
This article tests a model of the influence of chief executive support on innovation outcomes in local government organizations. Propositions taken from the literature are causally ordered and tested using path analysis. The model is weakly supported by the analysis. Several explanations are offered for the results
Automating bias
Computer Technology in Local Governments in the 198os: A U.S. Forecast(1)
The Management of Computer Applications in Local Government
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Public Management: Public and Private Perspectives
Public Management: What's New and Different
Computers and Control in the Work Environment
The computer has become the essential symbol and perhaps the crucial driving force of post-industrial society. Despite the centrality of the computer, there is continuing disagreement regarding the overall impact of computers on social and personal life. On the one hand, the computer is presented as a technology whose protean applications will create an increasingly dehumanized and technocratic world. On the other hand, computer technology is cre…
National Policies for Local Govern ment Computing: An Assessment of Experience in Ten OECD Countries
Computerized Data-Based Systems and Productivity among Professional Workers: The Case of Detectives
The promise of productivity improvements has always been high in the litany of benefits predicted for computer use in government. Particular attention has usually focused on benefits at the clerical levels, where the brawny capabilities of computing are applied by means of large scale and repetitive data processing and office automation. Substantial promise has also been associated with managerial utilization of computing, where its more brainy c…
Research Methodology in the "Public Administration Review," 1975-1984
Public administration was in an early stage of development when Luther Gulick' called for a "science of administration."Gulick's exhortation became a source of heated and continuing controversy that centers around positivist versus alternative views of appropriate research methodology.2This paper examines the last ten years of Public Administration Review (PAR) methodology and suggests directions for its future development.Two general methods are…
Computing and Public Organizations
Curriculum Recommendations for Public Management Education in Computing. Final Report of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, Ad Hoc Committee on Computers in Publ…
The United States is increasingly becoming an information society. Over half of the labor force is now engaged in work requiring some level of information processing. Computers are the engines powering this information society and, consequently, their diffusion is considerable and growing. Moreover, from the beginning of the computer age, government has been at the forefront of computer utilization. Given the extensive diffusion of computers thro…
The Dynamics of Computing
Dispute Resolution
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