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Africa's information revolution : technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania / / James T. Murphy and Pádraig Carmody
| Africa's information revolution : technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania / / James T. Murphy and Pádraig Carmody |
| Autore | Murphy James T. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.48330968 |
| Collana | RGS-IBG Book Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Information technology - Economic aspects - South Africa
Information technology - Economic aspects - Tanzania |
| ISBN |
1-118-75128-0
1-118-75132-9 1-118-75130-2 1-118-75131-0 |
| Classificazione | SOC042000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One ICT4D: The Making of a Neoliberalized Meta-discourse (with Bjoern Surborg); ICT4D; Electronic and Mobile E-/M-Business; The Making and Materialization of a Meta-discourse; Governance and ICT4D; ICTs as objects of ideology; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Two ICTs and Economic Development in Africa: Theorizing Channels, Assessing Impacts; ICTs and (Imminent) Economic Development; ICTs, Poverty, and Immanent Development; The Prospects for Information(alized) Economies in Africa
Plugging In, to What Ends? New ICTs and the Challenge of Global Market IntegrationConclusion; Notes; Chapter Three ICTs, Industrial Change, and Globalization in Africa: A Conceptual Framework; The Limitations on Existing ICT4D Conceptual Frameworks; Conceptualizing the Contribution of ICTs to Imminent Development; Conceptualizing ICTs and Immanent Development: Sociotechnical Regimes and GPNs; Industries as Sociotechnical Regimes; Global Production Networks (GPNs) and Couplings to Industrial Regimes; Integrating the Conceptual Approaches: A Multi-scalar Framework Conceptualizing the Development Implications of ICTs: Thin and Thick IntegrationConclusion; Notes; Chapter Four ICTs in Action: SMMEs and Industrial Change in South Africa and Tanzania; Situating the Analysis: South Africa and Tanzania's Tourism and Wood Products Sectors; Methodological Approach; ICTs and Imminent Development in South Africa and Tanzania's Wood Products Sectors; ICTs and Imminent Development in South Africa and Tanzania's Tourism Sectors; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Five ICT Integration, Sociotechnical Regimes, and Global Production Networks Contextualizing ICT Integration and its Implications for Regimes and GPN CouplingsThick Integration in Wood Products and Tourism Regimes; Thin or Thick Integration in Tanzania and South Africa?; Thintegration and its Supply-Side Drivers; Thintegration and its Demand-Side Drivers; ICT Integration in Wood Products Regimes and GPN Couplings; ICT Integration in Tourism Regimes and GPN Couplings; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Six Downgrading and Differentiation in African SMMEs; Downgrading of African Industries: General Trends; Downgrading in Dar es Salaam Inward GPNs and Downgrading in Dar es SalaamDifferentiation in Durban; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Seven Emerging Regime and GPN Configurations: Neo-intermediation and ICT-enabled Extraversion (with Bjoern Surborg); Neo-intermediation and Reconfigured GPNs in the Tourism Industry; Neo-intermediation and the Reconfiguration of Zanzibar's GPN Couplings; TripAdvisor: Center of Calculation and Site of Place Fetishization; Conclusion: Neo-intermediation and ICT-enabled Extraversion; Notes; Chapter Eight Conclusion; Major Trends: Deepening Dependence in an Informationalized Global Economy Is Africa "Rising" Through Informationalization? |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910208958003321 |
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| Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa's information revolution : technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania / / James T. Murphy and Pádraig Carmody
| Africa's information revolution : technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania / / James T. Murphy and Pádraig Carmody |
| Autore | Murphy James T. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.48330968 |
| Collana | RGS-IBG Book Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Information technology - Economic aspects - South Africa
Information technology - Economic aspects - Tanzania |
| ISBN |
1-118-75128-0
1-118-75132-9 1-118-75130-2 1-118-75131-0 |
| Classificazione | SOC042000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One ICT4D: The Making of a Neoliberalized Meta-discourse (with Bjoern Surborg); ICT4D; Electronic and Mobile E-/M-Business; The Making and Materialization of a Meta-discourse; Governance and ICT4D; ICTs as objects of ideology; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Two ICTs and Economic Development in Africa: Theorizing Channels, Assessing Impacts; ICTs and (Imminent) Economic Development; ICTs, Poverty, and Immanent Development; The Prospects for Information(alized) Economies in Africa
Plugging In, to What Ends? New ICTs and the Challenge of Global Market IntegrationConclusion; Notes; Chapter Three ICTs, Industrial Change, and Globalization in Africa: A Conceptual Framework; The Limitations on Existing ICT4D Conceptual Frameworks; Conceptualizing the Contribution of ICTs to Imminent Development; Conceptualizing ICTs and Immanent Development: Sociotechnical Regimes and GPNs; Industries as Sociotechnical Regimes; Global Production Networks (GPNs) and Couplings to Industrial Regimes; Integrating the Conceptual Approaches: A Multi-scalar Framework Conceptualizing the Development Implications of ICTs: Thin and Thick IntegrationConclusion; Notes; Chapter Four ICTs in Action: SMMEs and Industrial Change in South Africa and Tanzania; Situating the Analysis: South Africa and Tanzania's Tourism and Wood Products Sectors; Methodological Approach; ICTs and Imminent Development in South Africa and Tanzania's Wood Products Sectors; ICTs and Imminent Development in South Africa and Tanzania's Tourism Sectors; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Five ICT Integration, Sociotechnical Regimes, and Global Production Networks Contextualizing ICT Integration and its Implications for Regimes and GPN CouplingsThick Integration in Wood Products and Tourism Regimes; Thin or Thick Integration in Tanzania and South Africa?; Thintegration and its Supply-Side Drivers; Thintegration and its Demand-Side Drivers; ICT Integration in Wood Products Regimes and GPN Couplings; ICT Integration in Tourism Regimes and GPN Couplings; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Six Downgrading and Differentiation in African SMMEs; Downgrading of African Industries: General Trends; Downgrading in Dar es Salaam Inward GPNs and Downgrading in Dar es SalaamDifferentiation in Durban; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Seven Emerging Regime and GPN Configurations: Neo-intermediation and ICT-enabled Extraversion (with Bjoern Surborg); Neo-intermediation and Reconfigured GPNs in the Tourism Industry; Neo-intermediation and the Reconfiguration of Zanzibar's GPN Couplings; TripAdvisor: Center of Calculation and Site of Place Fetishization; Conclusion: Neo-intermediation and ICT-enabled Extraversion; Notes; Chapter Eight Conclusion; Major Trends: Deepening Dependence in an Informationalized Global Economy Is Africa "Rising" Through Informationalization? |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820469103321 |
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Murphy James T.
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| Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Political Economy of Chinese FDI and Spillover Effects in Africa / / edited by Dominik Kopinski, Pádraig Carmody, and Ian Taylor
| The Political Economy of Chinese FDI and Spillover Effects in Africa / / edited by Dominik Kopinski, Pádraig Carmody, and Ian Taylor |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland, : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (282 pages) |
| Disciplina | 332.6735106 |
| Collana | International Political Economy Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Investments, Chinese - Africa
Technology transfer - Africa |
| ISBN | 3-031-38715-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- About the Editors -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- Is Chinese FDI Different? -- References -- 2 The Political Economy of FDI and Spillovers in Africa: Can China Deliver on Hirschman's Ideas -- Introduction -- FDI and Development -- Enter Hirschman and Backward Linkages -- Chinese Investment and Africa's Transformation -- The Grand Question -- References -- 3 Spillovers and the Effects of FDI: The Overview -- Direct Effects -- The Provision of Capital -- Output and Economic Growth -- Employment -- Wages -- Balance of Payments Effect -- Impact on Trade Flows -- Indirect Effects: Spillovers -- Spillover Channels -- Determinant Factors of Spillover Effects -- Technology Gap -- Country of Origin -- Length of Presence -- Foreign Ownership -- Entry Mode -- FDI Motive -- Technology Intensity -- Training of Local Personnel -- Geographical Proximity -- References -- 4 China-Africa Spillovers: The Literature Review -- Introduction -- China-Africa Economic Relations: Different Lenses -- Spillover Effects, Linkages and Technology Transfer in China-Africa Literature -- Explaining Absence -- Spillovers and Upgrading: Exploring the Relationship -- References -- 5 Eurocentrism, FDI and Spillovers: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges -- Introduction -- Spillovers, Linkages and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the Sino-African Context -- Three Types of Conceptual Bias -- Chinese Investment and Conceptual Chaos -- Conceptual Framework -- Methodological Avenues for Investigating Spillovers -- References -- 6 Institutional and Cultural Obstacles of Chinese Spillover Effects in Angola -- Introduction -- Chinese and Angolan Institutional Framework -- Angola's Institutional and Political System -- Chinese Institutional and Political System.
Institutional Framework and Spillover Obstacles -- Cultural Differences as Spillover Obstacles -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- 7 The Institutional and Political Dimensions of FDI Spillovers in Zambia -- Introduction -- Incommensurability of Epistemologies and the Concept of Habitus -- The Zambian Context -- The Perspective of Zambian Institutions -- The Perspective of Chinese Investors -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 8 Chinese Investors in Zambia and Angola: Motives, Profile, Strategies -- Introduction: An Overview of Chinese FDI in Zambia and Angola -- Methods -- Profile of Chinese Firms in Zambia and Angola -- Motivation: Combination of Push and Pull Factors -- Push Factors -- Pull Factors -- Strategies -- Interaction with Local Suppliers -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- 9 Chinese Manufacturing Companies in Zambia: Linkages vs. Enclaves -- Introduction: Economic complexity and transformation -- Methodological Considerations and Constraints -- Zambia's Manufacturing Sector -- Manufacturing in Northern Rhodesi -- Manufacturing in Zambia -- Non-FBT Manufacturing Sector in Zambia -- Chinese Investors in Zambia: Linkages vs. Enclaves -- Chinese Manufacturing Bubbles -- The Enclave Industry -- Structural Economic Disarticulation -- Small Size of the Local Economy -- Characteristics of Chinese Investors -- Conclusions -- References -- 10 Image of Chinese Investments and Long-Term Projects in African and Chinese Media -- Introduction -- Africa in China, China in Africa: Data-harvesting and Analytical Procedure -- China in Africa: Quantitative Analysis -- China in Africa: Qualitative Analysis -- Angola -- Zambia -- Africa in China -- Summary and Discussion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910755083503321 |
| Cham, Switzerland, : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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