The paper discusses the relationship among information, knowledge and technology management, with special emphasis on their applications in developing economies and how they relate to sustainable development. It also discusses the role of the national Information Technology (IT) policies in providing enabling environments for Knowledge Management (KM) for sustainable development. Finally, the paper appraises the national IT policies in two African countries (Nigeria and Ethiopia) to further provide insight into the provision of enabling environment that can lead to the process of KM for sustainable development.
Technological innovation can be highly instrumental in achieving sustainable development. How well does technology innovation research address the needs of sustainable development and in what directions does this research need to move to usher in sustainable development? We use co-word analysis in existing research publications to map the intellectual structure of the field of ‘strategic technological innovation for sustainable development' during the period 1989–2009. The results suggest a list of 26 different research themes. Certain research themes are considered to be central and represent coherent and well-developed concepts. Other themes have arisen, matured, and then faded as major research concepts. Some other themes seem to be emerging or immature, but they signal the appearance of new research areas that are becoming central. Finally, there are some areas that are peripheral and others that need further development. We propose an integrative framework to study strategic technological innovation for sustainable development.
Trading arrangements such as GATT, NAFTA, ASEAN, and EC have a major influence on forcing companies that have been traditionally domestic become global. This in turn forces the information technology (IT) organization to change its strategies and networks. We wanted to identify strategic initiatives that IT managers could use when faced with globalization issues. In order to derive these initiatives, we studied the changes that have happened in the textile industry in the USA and the changes in the IT architecture of a specific company, Russell Corporation.