Sajda Qureshi

TL;DR: The findings suggest that open source participation and employment in the service industry are together and individually positive moderators in the positive correlation of new business formation and development outcomes.

TL;DR: The historical notions of development that persist to this day are explored and a view of contemporary perspectives on development is offered as a growing set of development interventions and papers in this issue involve Information and Communication Technologies.

TL;DR: Hlupic et al. as discussed by the authors developed a model for electronic collaboration through the use of which organizations may mobiles collaborative technologies and intellectual resources towards achieving joint effect, where the value of electronic collaboration has arisen as successful organizations recognize that they need to convert their intellectual resources into customized services.

TL;DR: This article used the sociocultural learning model to explore aspects of learning in culturally differentiated teams distributed on two continents, using groupware for project support, and concluded that learning is taking place in a number of ways that makes relevant use of multi-cultural distributed teams and that their measurement instrument provides an initial basis for comparison across classes and technologies to assess whether we are improving the learning environment.

TL;DR: In this article, an overview of what is known about Information Technology for Development (IT4D) in SMEs, identifies the knowledge gaps, and proposes a framework for future research.