Industry 4.0 technology provision: the moderating role of supply chain partners to support technology providers

GB Benitez, M Ferreira-Lima, NF Ayala… - … Chain Management: An …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The provision of Industry 4.0 solutions demands a vast range of technology
domains. To provide these solutions, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) may need …

Knowledge inflows from market-and science-based actors, absorptive capacity, innovation and performance—a study of SMEs

GC De Zubielqui, J Jones, L Lester - International Journal of …, 2016 - World Scientific
Small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly opening up their innovation
processes in order to improve innovation outcomes. Exactly how openness influences …

What drives the implementation of Industry 4.0? The role of opportunities and challenges in the context of sustainability

JM Müller, D Kiel, KI Voigt - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
The implementation of Industry 4.0 has a far-reaching impact on industrial value creation.
Studies on its opportunities and challenges for companies are still scarce. However, the high …

Possible changes of Industry 4.0 in 2030 in the face of uberization: Results of a participatory and systemic foresight study

JP Bootz, S Michel, J Pallud, R Monti - Technological Forecasting and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The transformations generated by Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) are interwoven with digitalization. I4. 0
involves the digital turn of manufacturing companies, changing the way they operate, their …

Small firms and information and communication technologies (ICTs): toward a typology of ICTs usage

A Southern, F Tilley - New technology, work and employment, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Despite government support for a number of initiatives to encourage more small firms to
adopt information and communication technologies (ICTs) implementation of ICTs has been …

Does Industry 4.0 really matter for SME innovation?

FM Somohano-Rodríguez… - Journal of Small …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This research, grounded on the organizational information processing theory, studies
whether the digital enabling technologies of Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) impact innovation in small …

Information technology assimilation in firms: The influence of senior leadership and IT infrastructures

CP Armstrong, V Sambamurthy - Information systems …, 1999 - pubsonline.informs.org
IT assimilation is regarded as an important outcome in the efforts of firms to leverage the
potential of information technologies in their business activities and strategies. Despite …

[PDF][PDF] The adoption and impact of ICT in South African SMEs

S Gono, G Harindranath, GB Özcan - Strategic Change, 2016 - researchgate.net
Increasing use of information and communications technology (ICT) by busi nesses makes it
imperative that we develop an enhanced understanding of the impact of ICT adoption by …

Re-thinking the competitive landscape of artificial intelligence

S Alsheibani, C Messom, Y Cheung - 2020 - scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu
Abstract In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged from its traditional domain of
computer science research to be a management reality. This can be seen in the remarkable …

Sustaining innovation performance in SMEs: Exploring the roles of strategic entrepreneurship and IT capabilities

MJ Lyver, TJ Lu - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Recent research questions our understanding of the processes at play regarding information
technology (IT) capabilities' contribution to innovation performance, particularly under …