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英文文献：ICT Adoption, Competition and Innovation of Informal Firms in West Africa: Comparative Study of Ghana and Nigeria-西非非正式企业的ICT采用、竞争与创新:加纳和尼日利亚的比较研究
英文文献作者：Alhassan A. Karakara,Evans S. Osabuohien
英文文献摘要：
Purpose – This study investigates how ICT adoption enhances the innovativeness of informal firms in West Africa, using the cases of Ghana and Nigeria. Design/methods/approach – The study used the World Bank Enterprise Survey data 2014 for Ghana and Nigeria with binary logistic regression analysis to achieve this. Four different innovations are modelled. They include: first, whether a firm has innovated based on producing a new product or significantly improved product; second, whether a firm has innovated in its methods of production or services; third, whether a firm has innovated in terms of its organisational structure; and fourth, whether a firm has introduced a new and improved marketing method. Findings – The results show that the use of email, cellphone and website has a positive impact on the four types of innovations modelled. However, these effects varied markedly between Ghana and Nigeria. Firms’ spending on R&D, firm giving its employees the chance to develop their ideas and when firm competes with others; all positively impact on the four types of innovations. Thus, the study recommends that policies should be geared towards making firm have more access to ICTs to enable them to be more innovative to serve clients and the economy. Originality/value – This study differs by concentrating on how the adoption of ICTs could help firms to introduce innovations into their companies in two West African countries, namely: Ghana and Nigeria. Thus, it complements literature on informal firms’ innovation efforts in West Africa.
目的-本研究以加纳和尼日利亚为例，调查信息和通信技术的采用如何提高西非非正式企业的创新能力。设计/方法/方法——该研究使用了2014年世界银行对加纳和尼日利亚的企业调查数据，并用二元logistic回归分析来实现这一点。四种不同的创新被模仿。它们包括:第一，一个企业是否在生产新产品的基础上进行了创新，或是否有显著改进的产品;第二，企业是否在生产方式或服务方式上进行了创新;第三，企业是否在组织结构方面进行了创新;第四，公司是否引进了一种新的改进的营销方法。研究结果——研究结果显示，使用电子邮件、手机和网站对模型中的四种创新类型有积极影响。然而，这些影响在加纳和尼日利亚之间显著不同。公司在研发上的支出，公司给予员工发展自己想法的机会，以及公司与其他公司竞争的情况;所有这些都对这四种创新产生了积极的影响。因此，该研究建议，政策应该调整为使公司有更多的机会获得ict，使他们能够更加创新，以服务客户和经济。独创性/价值——这项研究的不同之处在于，它关注的是在加纳和尼日利亚这两个西非国家，ict的采用将如何帮助企业将创新引入到它们的公司中。因此，它补充了关于西非非正规企业创新努力的文献。
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