Technology Assets Research Articles

Socioeconomic conditions and academic performance in higher education in Colombia during the pandemic

This article studies the relationship between the socioeconomic conditions of higher education students in Colombia and their academic performance during the pandemic. The household’s socioeconomic conditions are approximated by the education level of the parents, their occupation and the possession of assets. A multiple regression model tests the effect of these variables on academic performance before and during the pandemic. Results suggest that before the pandemic, the mother’s graduate education and household technology assets showed a positive impact on test score. Mixed effects of parents’ occupations by gender were also found. During the pandemic, the effect of the mother’s education remained the same, and the effect of technological assets, in-person education and high-quality accredited establishment increased.

Use Of the Open Journal System Platform

An institution that has a portfolio of intangible assets of intellectual property products may, through business planning and management, use it as a way to establish contracts and transfer technology to other organizations, enabling financial returns and partnerships. The present study proposes the creation of a technological showcase for the dissemination of the institution's technology assets using the Open Journal System - OJS platform . The survey of intellectual property assets was carried out through prospecting in the Databases of the National Institute of Intellectual Property (INPI). The qualification of the technological showcases was carried out through the information present on the websites of 41 institutions of the Federal Network of Vocational and Technological Education. The use of the OJS Platform for the construction of the IFRO's technological showcase was developed considering the criteria of usability, usefulness of the content, adequacy of information and accessibility and interaction (http://vitrinetecnologica.pvhzonanorte.ifro.edu.br).

Technological Assets and HIgh-tech Chinese Firms’ OFDI to DEs - a Techno-Nationalism Perspective

This study investigates the association between technological assets and Chinese high-tech firms’ OFDI to developed economies (OFDI-to-DE) through a techno-nationalism perspective. In China, absorbing advanced technologies from developed economies has been summarized as an important approach to achieve economic prosperity, so a belief that enhancing technological connectedness benefits the country’s survival and development may drive Chinese high-tech firms to increase their OFDI as they accumulate richer technological assets. However, the positive association would be impaired by a belief in developed economies that their governments need to take efforts to reduce technological exchanges with China, as the country has gained an increased capacity to challenge the hegemon of the U.S. with an incompatible institutional framework. Leveraging data collected from 1234 Chinese listed high-tech firms, we found accumulated technological assets impels Chinese high-tech firms to increase their OFDI-to-DE, while the effect is weakened by firms’ state ownership and innovation subsidies acquired from Chinese governments. In addition, general competitiveness of China reflected as the reduced GDP lag against the U.S., and specific competitiveness of the country in technological arena also weakens the positive influence of technological assets on Chinese high-tech firms’ OFDI-to-DE.

A qualitative system dynamics perspective on the contribution of information technology credibility towards business and information technology alignment

Purpose: The dynamic interdependence between the deployment of technological assets and organisational performance remains a challenge for modern enterprises. Organisations reinforce competitiveness and improve performance when business activities and information technology (IT) efforts are aligned. The credibility of the IT organisation is an important influence on alignment. This research guides managers and directs future research to improve IT credibility.Design/methodology/approach: Interviews with senior leaders about factors influencing IT credibility provided rich data for analyses. The dynamic complexity of creating a credible IT function to ensure alignment was captured using qualitative system dynamic diagrams. A causal loop diagram was constructed to identify feedback loops and leverage points.Findings: The analysis confirms the impact of three factors identified by prior research. It provides a new perspective on portfolio-level IT governance’s contribution to establishing credibility. The value of using past failure to develop credibility through ownership and resolution emerged from the analysis.Practical implications: The results provide guidelines to improve the IT organisation’s credibility to improve business and IT alignment. Leverage points to improve credibility are provided, and research into resolving past failure as a mechanism to success is suggested.Originality/value: While most of the extant literature focused on static alignment factors, causal loop diagrams provided insight into IT credibility’s systemic nature. A new factor (resolving past failure), a new perspective (portfolio level governance), and confirmation of existing factors and identifying leverage points contribute to practice and science.

Revisiting the financial market interdependence during COVID-19 times: a study of green bonds, cryptocurrency, commodities and other financial markets

PurposeThe purpose of the present study is to contribute to the existing literature by examining the nexus and the connectedness between classes S&P Green Bond Index, S&P GSCI Crude Oil Index, S&P GSCI Gold, MSCI Emerging Markets Index, MSCI World Index and Bitcoin, during the pre-and post-Covid period beginning from August 2011 to July 2021 (10 years).Design/methodology/approachThe study employs time-varying parameter vector autoregression and Quantile regression methods to understand the impact of events on traditional and upcoming asset classes. To further understand the connectedness of assets under consideration, the study used Geo-Political Risk Index (GPR) and Global Economic Policy and Uncertainty index (GPEU).FindingsFindings show that these markets are strongly linked, which will only expand in the post-pandemic future. Before the pandemic, the MSCI World and Emerging Markets indices contributed the most shocks to the remaining market variables. Green bond index shows a greater correlation and shock transmission with gold. Bitcoin can no longer be used as a good hedging instrument, validating the fact that the 21st-century technology assets. The results further opine that under extreme economic consequences with high GPR and GPEU, even gold cannot be considered a safe investment asset.Originality/valueFinancial markets and the players who administer and communicate their investment logics are heavily reliant on conventional asset classes such as oil, gas, coal, nuclear and allied groupings, but these emerging asset classes are attempting to diversify.

Analysis and Ranking of IT Risk Factors Using Fuzzy TOPSIS-Based Approach

In today’s age of information and communication technology (ICT), many companies are using advanced digital technologies as well as the application of information technology to grow the company and effectively manage their processes. The risk management of information technology plays a crucial role in protecting the important information and data assets of an enterprise. The key objective of risk management in information technology is to safeguard the digital infrastructure from ICT-related harm. An efficient as well as cost effective risk managing mechanism is an integral aspect of an extensive safety system for information technology. A successful approach to IT risk management would strive to protect the company and its infrastructure, not just its digital assets, to conduct their process. Subsequently, the risk managing mechanism must not be viewed solely for instance as a procedural task performed by the IT specialists who run and administer the IT program but as the organization’s critical management task. The risks of information technology assets are of a dynamic nature; different strategies tackle the management of information security risk. This research paper is intended to review and discuss information technology risk managing procedures. We also carried out a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM)-based empirical investigation to analyses and prioritized different IT risk factors. This has recognized that there are many reports on the techniques, and that various approaches to risk management exist.

Technology and welfare

The relationship between technology and individual welfare is not well understood, and as we progress into a future in which technology invades almost every aspect of life, the importance of this relationship must be recognised and an improved understanding reached. In this study, we attempt to lay a foundation for such an understanding. Using an approach based on Sen’s theory of Capabilities and the South African National Income Dynamic Survey (NIDS), it estimates the effects of the ownership of technological assets on self-reported measures of well-being, both subjective and objective. Any empirical analysis of this relationship needs to control for several confounding factors. The estimation procedure employed is based on a dynamic panel approach, one that is capable of controlling for individual effects, as well as potential sources of endogeneity such as reverse causality. The results indicate that there is a statistically significant relationship between changes in the composition and value of one’s technological asset portfolio and measures of social and economic well-being. Specifically, they show that increased ownership of technological assets improves one’s overall life satisfaction and health status, but has little effect on one’s positivity about the future. This study has found evidence that technology can improve lives when controlling for confounders such as increased wealth and status. Future work can improve upon this by better understanding the dynamics of this relationship, and disaggregating further by type of technology.

Security Measures to Protect Information Technology Assets

Information systems security is very important to help protect against this type of theft. Organizations are especially vulnerable hence there is need to have appropriate measures to protect the information technology assets. The objectives of this paper include. To review risk mitigation measures and To identify techniques used to safeguard information assets Methods/Statistical analysis: Primary data was used drawn from mobile social users in Nairobi and Mombasa Counties in Kenya.481 respondents, both descriptive and inferential statistics was used to analyze the data. Findings: From the study it was found out that user education is important to safeguard information technology assets the study indicated that 65.6% of the respondents agreed user education can mitigate threats and risks. Further 62.3% who emphasized that authentication of various users is also important to safeguard the information technology assets. The study findings indicated that 73.8% of the respondents acknowledged encryption protects data from unauthorized access recommendations there is need to explore digital forensics security so that to enhance the security of information technology assets

Information Technology Asset Security Risk Management at the Secretariat of the Salatiga City DPRD Using ISO 31000

The lack of resources that have an information technology background in handling information technology asset security risks makes it asset management in the Secretariat of the Salatiga City DPRD less optimal. The application of risk management is very necessary, especially in the security of information technology assets in agencies because it can help all existing business process activities in agencies so that they can run well. For this reason, it is necessary to implement information technology asset security risk management using ISO 31000 in these agencies. By implementing the ISO 31000 framework at the Secretariat of the Dprd Kota Salatiga can assist agencies in achieving goals, making decisions, improving performance, and effectively allocating and using resources for risk management. The purpose of this study is to identify, analyze, and handle information technology security risks that exist in the Secretariat of the Salatiga City DPRD. The method used by this research is a qualitative approach, namely case study. The result of this study is that there are 20 possible risks that can interfere with business processes in the Secretariat of the Salatiga City DPRD, including 3 possible high-level risks, 12 possible medium-level risks, and 5 possible low-level risks.

The Impact of Strategic Agility in Enhancing the Entrepreneurial Orientation at Palestinian Public Universities: An Analytical Field Study

The study aimed at identifying the impact of strategic agility in enhancing the entrepreneurial orientation at Palestinian public universities. To achieve this, the descriptive analytical method was adopted, and a questionnaire was used to collect data from the study sample, which consisted of (194) respondents who were selected by the complete census method. The sample represented all the staff in the supervisory jobs among Palestinian public universities (Al Istiqlal University, Palestine Technical University–Kadoorie, Al- Aqsa University). The jobs covered vice president and his assistants, dean, vice dean, manager, the head of department. The study results revealed that the Palestinian Universities are generally concerned with practicing dimensions of the strategic agility and the entrepreneurial orientation at a high degree. There was a statistically significant difference (α < 0.05) of practicing the dimensions of the strategic agility to promote the entrepreneurial orientation for the Palestinian public universities. The most effective dimensions of strategic agility on the entrepreneurial orientation were partnership of responsibility, technology, resource liquidity and substantial assets. On the other hand, there were no statistically significant differences (α < 0.05) of the strategic sensitivity dimension on promoting entrepreneurial orientation. The study recommended adopting all dimensions of strategic agility as a work methodology for Palestinian Public Universities in order to strengthen the entrepreneurial orientation, considering all the elements that support it.

How do MNEs invent? An invention-based perspective of MNE profitability

Although MNEs create inventions both internally and collaboratively with partners as well as within and across countries, we know very little about the effects that combining such inventive activities have on their profitability. This study develops an invention-based perspective that considers how MNEs' profitability is influenced by the ways they organize the development of inventions across organizational boundaries (internally or collaboratively) and geographic boundaries (within or across countries). This perspective postulates that profitability is not merely driven by advantageous technological endowments but also by how such technological assets have been created. Accordingly, it explains why specific combinations of inventive activities across the two boundaries affect the likelihood of creating breakthrough inventions differently, provide different revenue and cost advantages, and have different effects on MNEs’ profitability. It further explains why cross-country inventions contribute more to profitability when they are internalized, while within-country inventions are more profitable when they are created collaboratively.

Digital News Business Models in the Age of Industry 4.0: Digital Brazilian News Players Find in Technology New Ways to Bring Revenue and Competitive Advantage

The news media industry is a sector that is greatly affected by technology and the rapid speed with which changes are taking place. Industry 4.0 is upon us and promising a smarter production that is digitally networked and built on data-intense models. However, fostering innovation inside the newsroom takes place with as many hindrances and bureaucratic obstacles as possible. To address how news outlets are adopting new approaches to sustain their business, we conducted fourteen (n = 14) in-depth interviews with leading actors of news organizations in Brazil, a leading country within the Global South with a complex national reality. Our study systematically analyzes qualitative data to present technology-driven, innovative business models and technologies that will be major players in the news industry’s future. Results indicated that organizations do not rely on a unique income source but combine different sustainable models of funding. By deploying technological assets in the news business, these outlets are capable of meeting the needs of audiences and better identifying customer segments, which brings a competitive advantage to these organizations. In summary, this research resulted in responsive knowledge sharing about digital journalism’s business model that is being implemented for the next revolution.

Penerapan Metode Access Control List Pada Jaringan VLAN Menggunakan Router Cisco

In the rapid development of information technology, the role of information technology is very important for a company that is especially engaged in technology. In companies engaged in technology solution services, optimizing information technology assets, management of hardware and software is the main thing. In addressing these problems, researchers will implement grouping and distribution of network access rights which aim to manage networking devices in the same broadcast. By using the Access Control List Routing method. VLAN technology is a virtual network to share the network in the same device in this case the settings on the Cisco router, so that it can communicate with different networks even though they are physically in the same segment. The Access Control List network provides a network security solution because of the blocking system for access outside the network that has been set up.

Not all technologies are created equal for stakeholders: Constituency statutes, firm stakeholder orientation and investments in technology generality

Previous research has analyzed the effect of stakeholder orientation on the amount of technological investment firms make but has ignored its effect on the characteristics of that investment. To address this gap, we explored the impact of stakeholder orientation on the degree of generality of a firm's technological investment. More general technologies (i.e., technologies easily deployable in a wider range of industries) are more likely to promote major changes in the firm's scope. However, these changes undermine the value of stakeholders’ past relationship-specific investments, which are tailored to a certain firm scope. Therefore, more stakeholder-oriented firms will invest in less general technological assets to reduce stakeholder concerns and opposition. This negative effect will be stronger in more uncertain industries, where stakeholders are more concerned that firms might use technology generality to change their scope following the realization of previously unforeseen contingencies. However, it will be weaker in more competitive industries, where stakeholders tend to make less relationship-specific investments and are less concerned with changes in firm scope triggered by an increase in technology generality. We test our hypotheses by exploiting the enactment of constituency statutes in 34 U.S. states during the period 1976–2000 as a plausibly exogenous variation in firms’ stakeholder orientation.

Integrated Network and Security Operation Center: A Systematic Analysis

Traditionally, network and security operation center teams have worked in silos despite commonalities. The network operating center (NOC) team is to provide operationality and availability of information technology (IT) assets, while the security operation center (SOC) team is to ensure IT assets security and protect them from cyber-security attacks. The convergence in IT assets and exponential growth in cyber-security threats in the present digital-online scenario have created many challenges in maintaining network and IT assets effectively and protecting them. It is vital to break these silos and bring them under one integrated unit to effectively counter cyber-security attacks, threats, and vandalism at a reduced operational cost. Despite its necessity, the relevant literature lacks an opinion. It focuses mainly on conceptual segments instead of a holistic view of an integrated NOC and SOC architecture, limiting further innovations in the field. A systematic literature review and analysis is conducted to collate and understand current research ideas in this paper. The mapped relevant literature and our expertise have been then used to propose the implementable state-of-the-art architecture of an integrated NOC and SOC, its definition, the main building blocks and its usefulness for the organizations. Only explicit knowledge of people is considered while neglecting the tacit knowledge in automating and integrating the processes of NOC and SOC, which is the major limitation of the relevant literature. Taping people tacit knowledge is necessary for utilizing the entire caliber of the NOC and SOC integration in the future.

The “License as Tax” Fallacy

Intellectual property licenses are commonly portrayed as a “tax” that limits access to technology assets, which in turn stunts innovation by intermediate users and inflates prices for end-users. Renewed skepticism toward IP licensing, and associated judicial and regulatory interventions that apply per se-like liability rules under patent and antitrust law to IP licensing, overlook the fact that IP licenses typically play a “positive-sum” enabling function, rather than a “zero-sum” exclusionary function, by mitigating expropriation risks that would otherwise frustrate transactions between the holders of complementary specialized IP and non-IP assets. As illustrated by paradigm examples of licensing and other IP-dependent arrangements in content and technology markets, these transactional structures facilitate value-creating exchanges of knowledge assets, promote the division of labor among innovation and production specialists, and lower entry costs for firms that have strong innovation capacities but weak production and distribution capacities. An analytical framework that overlooks the enabling function of IP licensing is prone to recommend “false positive” policy actions that undermine the formation of markets in IP assets and, more generally, induce organizational distortions and reduce competitive intensity by disadvantaging R&D-specialist entities that rely on licensing-based monetization mechanisms while favoring integrated firms that maintain end-to-end commercialization structures.

Финансирование инноваций и суверенные фонды

Technology turned to be a virtual bedrock of the contemporary global economy. The prospects for successful overcoming of the multiple social, environmental, economic and geo-political strains that are challenging the future of the mankind mainly depend on the technological progress in all spheres of life. The development and large-scale introduction of qualitatively new, in many cases disruptive, technologies demand accumulation and efficient allocation of huge amounts of resources, primarily the financial ones. Since the global financial crisis of 2008–2009 sovereign wealth funds proved to be some of the most well-capitalized institutional investors and substantially increased their role in the international economic architecture. Currently, total disclosed assets under management (AUM) of 95 active state-run funds are estimated at about 9 Trillion US dollars, which presents almost 10% of the total worldwide AUM. Even more importantly, thanks to the structure of capital and statutory mandates, they can take a longer view on value creation and, thus, on operations’ planning as compared to venture funds, PE funds and other counterparts from the private sector. Far-reaching investment horizon is a feature that is critical and highly welcomed in such capital-demanding and volatile sphere as financing of innovations. According to available data, in recent years the leading sovereign wealth funds joined the global race in technologies and noticeably increased their investments in the technological sector, including transition to “green” economy, clean energy, digitalization of production, transportation and distribution, ICT-based services and business platforms. This trend can be traced since mid 2010s. Even in pandemic 2020 sovereign funds were most active in the technology sector (25% of all registered deals). The second and the third places were taken by services (including e-commerce infrastructure) and life sciences (vaccines): 18 and 17.6% respectively. This data is based on the analysis of 165 fresh annual deals worth 42 Billion US dollars. The sovereigns’ trend to get closer to the technological assets (instead of traditional equities and mortgage) is being accompanied by greater in-house expertise and skills, general sophistication of strategies and operational management. This is especially true in cases of direct investments and access to early-stage technology-focused ventures. The empirical evidence allows to expect that in a foreseeable future the sovereign wealth funds will be steadily increasing their roles in financing of global innovations.

SWOT Analysis of Innovative and Creative Human Resource Management Strategies During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The challenges of the COVID-19 has extraordinary and uncertain circumstances that are changing the economic landscape, requiring deep thinking and flexibility to manage human resources well. Companies with the right human resource management strategy during the covid19 Pandemic will have negative factors. Therefore, what is the human resource management strategy at Prima Indonesia University during the Pandemic. The purpose of this study is to identify strategic human resource management during a pandemic. This study uses research from the review results in the form of qualitative and quantitative by using the AHP method and analyzed by the SWOT matrix, namely EFAS and IFAS. The results of the study concluded that the management strategy of human resources amid a pandemic was in Quadran I. The aggressive strategy found at Prima Indonesia University as the most reliable strength, namely the availability of Information Technology assets. It focused on companies using aggressive strategy to develop to maintain the top position to cover the shortfall. The Information Technology found at the prime Indonesian universities has high quality with an IFAS value of 4.39.

Access Control Conflicts in Information Technology and Operational Technology

Access controls are a key area for any security program. However, the recommended access controls cannot always be implemented across the entire organisations. This is the case within critical infrastructure organisations that have both Information Technology and Operational Technology assets where many of the controls cannot be implemented on Operational Technology. Also, safety is a key concern for critical infrastructure organisations which is not always the case with many standard commercial organisations. This means the access controls while maintaining security must not impact safety which can occur if considerations are not given to Operational Technology and safety objectives. This paper will provide ways to manage the conflicts and issues that can occur and provide a process to allow critical infrastructure organisations to implement the required controls without impacting safety and security.

Transforming Business with Robotic Process Automation

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is the next level of business process automation where software-based robots (bots) are used to interact and perform the transactions and interactions that earlier human resources used to do through systems, data, files, and messages. This technology has found its way into many sectors, such as the financial sector, health sector, retail sector, and manufacturing sector, because of its efficiency and qualities for achieving organizational objectives. RPA offers a convenient opportunity for an employee to code or program bots for transactions, data manipulation, generation of responses, and interaction with systems, thus fostering faster development with less coding. The prospects of RPA include improved effectiveness of automation, easy savings, higher accuracy, versatility, meeting legal requirements, and staff satisfaction. Bots perform their task 24/7, and they help to increase the throughput and capability of an organization to handle more work without more employees. The success stories include various industries such as financial services, healthcare services, retail, and many more. However, some complexities include the selection of the process, the methods of managing change, the integration of the methods into the business, security, and maintenance of the processes. Indeed, as RPA combines with other technologies such as AI, IoT, and blockchain, its applicability expands as more sophisticated activities may occur and end-to-end automation is possible. The market for RPA is considered to be quite promising due to emerging necessities for efficiency and cost-saving measures. Future development of the technology for incorporation into more complex platforms suggests further advancement and specialization of application within the field of business operations, thus securing RPA as a strategic technology asset of today’s globalized economy.