Jorge Motta

Complementarities between innovation policies in emerging economies. The case of Argentina’s software sector

This paper analyses the presence of complementarity and substitutability relations between innovation policies in the software sector from Argentina. Supermodularity and submodularity tests between obstacles to innovation were performed with technological data from 257 Argentinean software firms, for the period 2008 to 2010. This research adds empirical evidence on the complementarities and supplementarities of innovation policies in an emerging economy and in a knowledge intensive business services sector. This kind of analysis allows to evaluate the convenience to attack jointly or separately a set of obstacles or separately. The results show multiple feedback relations between diverse obstacles and consequently between policies, and the main finding is that, in this emerging economy, innovation policies aimed to encourage firms to become innovators serve as well as an incentive for innovative firms to increase and intensify its innovation performance.

ArtículoGestión estratégica de tecnologías de información y comunicación y adopción del comercio electrónico en Mipymes de Córdoba, ArgentinaStrategic management of information and communication technologies and electronic commerce adoption in MSME from Córdoba, ArgentineGestão estratégica de tecnologias de informação e comunicação e adoção do comércio em PME de Córdova, Argentina

This paper analyzes the causal factors of the level of electronic commerce adoption (ECA) among Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). Contingent Theory is used as the basis for building a structural equation model. The model assigns a mediating role to the ‘ICT strategy and management control’ variable. The study is based on a survey of 139 MSMEs from Cordoba, Argentina. Results show that the mediating variable positively affects ECA, and therefore, the organizational performance. Besides this, the e-readiness of a firm directly and indirectly influences ECA.

Strategic management of information and communication technologies and electronic commerce adoption in MSME from Córdoba, Argentine

This paper analyzes the causal factors of the level of electronic commerce adoption (ECA) among Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). Contingent Theory is used as the basis for building a structural equation model. The model assigns a mediating role to the ‘ICT strategy and management control’ variable. The study is based on a survey of 139 MSMEs from Cordoba, Argentina. Results show that the mediating variable positively affects ECA, and therefore, the organizational performance. Besides this, the e-readiness of a firm directly and indirectly influences ECA.