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Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO) Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association Volume 7, Issue 4, October-December 2009 Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically ISSN: 1539-2937 EISSN: 1539-2929 Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA www.igi-global.com/jeco

Special Issue: Innovation in the Digital Economy

GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE

Special Issue on Innovation in the Digital Economy

Elena Druica, University of Bucharest, Romania Viorel Cornescu, "Nicolae Titulescu" University, Romania

Widely accepted and widely discussed, the new approaches of the even newer Digital Era economy are far from being observed on a theoretical level only. Social, economic, psychological, and emotional impacts share the costs and benefits of the new paradigm, and the practices it triggered in frameworks where the evanescence of the physical boundaries leads both to increasing possibilities of making profit and to decreasing responsibility given to the human side of things. This special issue explores a broad part of this vast subject and provides the readers with an opened perspective toward various impacts of using digital tools in order to deal with innovation.

To read the guest editorial preface, please consult this issue of JECO in your library.

PAPER ONE

Professional Adhocracy, an Appropriate Design for Knowledge Economy in the Light of Mintzberg's Perspective

Ali Asghar Pourezzat, University of Tehran, Iran Ghazaleh Taheri Attar, Allame Tabatabaei University, Iran

Success in the economy of digital age requires special capabilities, making the limited economical resources into valuable products. Among future limitations, limitation of super-specialized and expert human resources is very important and determining. Super-specialized human resources are considered as strategic factors, and the structure of future organizations should be designed in a way to best utilize the capability of these resources. Therefore, the main problem of future organizations is exploiting and utilizing the knowledge of super-specialized human resources. In this regard, combining the flexibility of adhocratic organizations and expertise-oriented credit of professional bureaucratic tried to design a relatively appropriate structure in the light of Mintzberg's perspective in order to succeed in future age or the knowledge-oriented age of digital economy.

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PAPER TWO

The Internet Moderating Impact among Stakeholders in Modern Organizations: A Conceptual Analysis of Service Management Environment

Mohammad Ayub Khan, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico Khalid S. Soliman, IBIMA and Hofstra University, USA

The Internet has a significant impact on service organizations and the way they are managed. This article examines the role of the Internet in moderating the relative importance of various stakeholders, such as customers, suppliers, distributors, stockholders, managers, and employees in a service management environment. This article presents a detailed analysis to the stakeholders involved, based on previous studies and carrying it over to the Internet age. The analysis highlights the roles of each stakeholder in any organization and examines how these stakeholders influence service management. This article also provides today's management with a clear vision of the changing business environments and a devising plan to lead their organizations in the Internet era.

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PAPER THREE

Impact of Digital Revolution on the Structure of Nigerian Banks

A.A. Agboola, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria D.O. Yinusa, University of Botswana, Botswana. O.O. Ologunde, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria

This article examines the extent to which digital revolution has affected the organizational structure of Nigerian banks. Twenty-five banks are selected for the study in south-western Nigeria. Interviews are conducted for middle and top level managers and questionnaires are developed and administered to the other staff using a five-point Likert scale to determine the attitudes and opinions of the staff on the effects of digital revolution on the organizational structure of the banks. The mean was used as an indicator of central tendency for quantitative variables that have frequency distributions in the study.

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PAPER FOUR

Innovation in Nigerian Small and Medium Enterprises: Types and Impact

A.A. Egbetokun, National Centre for Technology Management (Federal Ministry of Science & Technology), Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria O.O. Olamade, National Centre for Technology Management (Federal Ministry of Science & Technology), Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria W.O. Siyanbola, National Centre for Technology Management (Federal Ministry of Science & Technology), Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria A.A. Adeniyi, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria I.A. Irefin, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria

This article explores the types of innovation that are predominant in SMEs in developing countries and investigates the impact of these innovations on different dimensions of firm performance, based on industry-wide innovation surveys carried out in Nigeria in 2007. The authors discuss the results of innovation and performance of SMEs.

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PAPER FIVE

The Impact Analysis of Information Technology on Organizational Success

Olawale Ibrahim Olateju, Lagos State University, Nigeria Raheem Olasupo Akewushola, Lagos State University, Nigeria Mustapha Abiodun Okunnu, Lagos State Polytechnic, Nigeria Babatunde Rahman Yusuf, Lagos State University, Nigeria

Information technology success has been widely discussed in the past two decades. As systems and technologies are being improved and developed, discussions on their effectiveness and evaluation on their success have been continuously debated by researchers, scholars, and practitioners throughout the years. Besides the major concern of information technology effectiveness, this study identifies availability of Internet facilities and software packages as the major independent variable affecting organization success. A purposive selection is adopted in selecting forty medium scale enterprises from five divisions of the Lagos state. Descriptive statistics are used to determine the distribution of the data collected, and the co-efficient of multiple determinants (R2) are used to determine the percentage contribution of the enterprises that had access to Internet facilities and software packages.

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PAPER SIX

Mobile Commerce Adoption: A Novel Buyer-User-Service Payer Metric

Qi-Ying Su, Shanghai Maritime University, China Carl Adams, University of Portsmouth, UK

Existing technology adoption models do not explicitly differentiate between the buyer and user of technology, seemingly assuming that the users and buyers are the same. This article reports on an investigation into cell phone/mobile phone use, with samples from China and the UK. There are three distinct stakeholders: the user, the initial purchaser, and the service payer and the relation between these stakeholders can be complex. The article presents a metric that captures six distinct relationships between the user, buyer, and service payer which can be used to distinguish between different adoption groups. This article also provides an enhanced TAM that captures some of the complexity of the user-buyer-service payer relationship in the adoption process for mobile technologies. In addition, the metric and enhanced TAM may be applied to other consumable technologies and working environments.

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The Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO) provides comprehensive coverage and understanding of the social, cultural, organizational, human, and cognitive impacts of EC technologies and advances on organizations around the world. These impacts include those of EC on consumer and organizational behavior, development, and management in organizations. This journal broadens the overall body of knowledge regarding the human aspects of EC technologies and utilization in modern organizations, assisting researchers and practitioners to devise more effective systems for managing the human side of EC in contemporary organizations.

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