Using Alliances to Increase ICT Capabilities
Författare
Summary, in Swedish
Popular Abstract in English
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is perhaps the most important, emblematic and ubiquitous technology of contemporary society. ICT is used increasingly in new product areas and help resolve problems and challenges to mankind; it has even gotten to a point where life without ICT is hard to imagine.
For many incumbent firms, the infusion of ICT into their industries poses both threats and opportunities. It might drive significant shifts of financial wealth and make firm performance change drastically. It entails managerial challenges of a kind we might not have seen before, but where knowledge of what possibilities and limitations reside in ICT will be a key success factor.
This thesis deals precisely with the challenges that arise when incumbents ally with ICT firms – our case is the security industry, which has had a strong analogue technology base in the past, but where ICT offers opportunity for business development now as well as in the foreseeable future.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is perhaps the most important, emblematic and ubiquitous technology of contemporary society. ICT is used increasingly in new product areas and help resolve problems and challenges to mankind; it has even gotten to a point where life without ICT is hard to imagine.
For many incumbent firms, the infusion of ICT into their industries poses both threats and opportunities. It might drive significant shifts of financial wealth and make firm performance change drastically. It entails managerial challenges of a kind we might not have seen before, but where knowledge of what possibilities and limitations reside in ICT will be a key success factor.
This thesis deals precisely with the challenges that arise when incumbents ally with ICT firms – our case is the security industry, which has had a strong analogue technology base in the past, but where ICT offers opportunity for business development now as well as in the foreseeable future.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2013
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Lund Studies in Economics and Management
Fulltext
Dokumenttyp
Doktorsavhandling
Förlag
LUSEM
Ämne
- Economics and Business
- Information Systems, Social aspects
Nyckelord
- Alliance
- ICT capability
- Transfer Capacity
- Relationship Governance
- Culture
Status
Published
Projekt
- LUSAX - Security Industry Dynamics
Handledare
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0284-5075
- ISBN: 978-91-7473-704-2
- ISBN: 9789174737035
Försvarsdatum
25 oktober 2013
Försvarstid
14:15
Försvarsplats
EC2:101
Opponent
- Jonas Hedman (Associate Professor)