TY - GEN
T1 - A case study
T2 - 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2005
AU - Xiao, Lu
AU - Huang, Haiyan
AU - Umapathy, Karthikeyan
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Human knowledge and intellectual capital are essential in economic growth and social development of a country in knowledge economy, and a higher premium is often placed on education especially on higher education. China and India play significant roles in the globalization of knowledge economy. In this ongoing research study, we investigate how sociocultural factors influence technology adoption in college education in China and India, and observe culture, infrastructure, and policy as three major influencing factors. Particularly, our findings show that in both countries hardware infrastructure is growing, but technical support and management of technology and corresponding issues are behind; China implements push style technology policy while India's policy is pull style; and students of both countries influence the adoption of information technologies in their families especially communication technologies.
AB - Human knowledge and intellectual capital are essential in economic growth and social development of a country in knowledge economy, and a higher premium is often placed on education especially on higher education. China and India play significant roles in the globalization of knowledge economy. In this ongoing research study, we investigate how sociocultural factors influence technology adoption in college education in China and India, and observe culture, infrastructure, and policy as three major influencing factors. Particularly, our findings show that in both countries hardware infrastructure is growing, but technical support and management of technology and corresponding issues are behind; China implements push style technology policy while India's policy is pull style; and students of both countries influence the adoption of information technologies in their families especially communication technologies.
KW - China
KW - Higher education
KW - ICT adoption
KW - India
KW - Socio-cultural factors
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84869837567
SN - 9781604235531
T3 - Association for Information Systems - 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2005: A Conference on a Human Scale
SP - 1778
EP - 1782
BT - Association for Information Systems - 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2005
Y2 - 11 August 2005 through 15 August 2005
ER -