{"title":"An efficiency analysis of Turkish railways using data envelopment analysis: comparison study","authors":"Khalid Mehmood Alam, O. Ghanem, Xue-mei Li","doi":"10.1504/ijtpm.2020.10026597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijtpm.2020.10026597","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to examine whether Turkey as a candidate for the EU membership, utilises its railway performance. To investigate the Turkish railway's efficiency and identify its current situation, the efficiency of Turkish and EU railway are evaluated by applying data envelopment analysis (DEA) output-oriented model of CRS (CCR) and VRS (BCC) analysis. In this research, each country is considered as a decision-making unit called DMU; every efficiency country is calculated and compared to the other country. In conducted analysis, there are five inputs taken into consideration, along with two outputs distinguished by two forms of transport: passengers and freight transport. The evidence from this study seems to suggest that the technical efficiency of Turkish railway equals 0.89, and sale efficiency equals 0.98, indicating obtained suitability in inputs and outputs for reaching the efficiency boundary.","PeriodicalId":55889,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42070242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ronald J. Salazar, Rupak Rauniar, Carlo A. Mora-Monge, Samhita Shah
{"title":"Diffusion of innovative technology in US oil and gas industry: an empirical study","authors":"Ronald J. Salazar, Rupak Rauniar, Carlo A. Mora-Monge, Samhita Shah","doi":"10.1504/ijtpm.2020.10026593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijtpm.2020.10026593","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents survey results validating the theory of diffusion of innovation (DoI) (Rogers, 1962, 2003). We find that complexity, trialability, and observability exhibited correlation with innovation diffusion while the others do not. Innovation and technology have been long considered important drivers of organisational success. They are examined in the US Oil and Gas (O&G) industry. Rogers' (1962, 2003) theory of DoI is used in identifying and operationalising key variables that affect DoI. It broadens understanding of how the industry has responded to the presence of multiple, important new technologies and how the diffusion of these technologies can be explained by the application of the DoI model. Using primary data, the current study empirically tests DoI in the context of today's US O&G industry. The contribution of the current study to both researchers and practitioners, limitations, as well as suggestions for future studies are also provided.","PeriodicalId":55889,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46128238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transitional challenges cycle of service offshoring delivery centres in Central and Eastern Europe","authors":"Damian Kedziora, J. Lewandowski","doi":"10.1504/ijtpm.2020.10026598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijtpm.2020.10026598","url":null,"abstract":"Business process offshoring has been a vital element of global sourcing transitions across the past decades, and in the last few years its rapid growth has been observed in the region of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It had vital impact on the organisational level of global corporations and workers employed in the industry, as well as the policy and economic situation of the transition economies from the CEE area. The paper provides a descriptive, interpretative analysis of problems affecting managerial community of service offshoring industry in Poland, identified across the cycle of its three core phases: pre-transition, transitional project, post-transition.","PeriodicalId":55889,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41493589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digitalisation of industries: a comparative analysis from Australia and Finland","authors":"P. Leviäkangas, O. Kauppila","doi":"10.1504/ijtpm.2020.10026600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijtpm.2020.10026600","url":null,"abstract":"This paper features a two-country study on digitalisation: Australia and Finland. The empirical data was acquired from the national accounts for 1995-2015 in Australia and for 1998-2012 in Finland. This data was averaged for a cross-sectional comparison of industries and then for the two countries. Different industries' advancement in digitalisation seems to follow approximately the same pacing in both countries. Financial and insurance services, telecommunications and media, and professional, technical and scientific services are the most active digitalisers. The empirical testing of the a priori assumption that digitalisation over a long period of time leads to greater productivity shows that the observed correlation between information and communication technology (ICT) investment and productivity is weak. The results partly confirm Solow's productivity paradox.","PeriodicalId":55889,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45043577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An empirical study on the entrepreneurial team and entrepreneurial performance","authors":"Fang Bian, Chia-Huei Wu, S. Tsai","doi":"10.1504/ijtpm.2020.10033585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijtpm.2020.10033585","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55889,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66817359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Winners from the changing trends of energy intensities among 115 countries","authors":"Yu Sang Chang, NeiHei Park, Jin Bae Kim","doi":"10.1504/ijtpm.2020.10032217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijtpm.2020.10032217","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55889,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66817300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of science, technology and innovation policy using a mixed approach: case study of Iran","authors":"J. Bagherinejad, Mohammad Mirkazemi Mood","doi":"10.1504/ijtpm.2020.10033594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijtpm.2020.10033594","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55889,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66817665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constraint tree analysis: anticipating risk to policy implementation","authors":"Gregory Falco","doi":"10.1504/ijtpm.2020.10030767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijtpm.2020.10030767","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55889,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66817289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of funding agency's choices: empirical evidence from large-scale R&D projects in Korea's automotive industry","authors":"D. Dwyer, H. Ma","doi":"10.1504/ijtpm.2020.10033572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijtpm.2020.10033572","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55889,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66817351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A text mining-based approach for modelling technical knowledge evolution in patents","authors":"Geng Li, Zu-hua Jiang, Xinyu Li","doi":"10.1504/ijtpm.2020.10033592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijtpm.2020.10033592","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55889,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66817655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}