Anti-Discrimination. Guidelines for the Successful Adoption of Information Technology in Small and Medium Enterprises. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can adopt and use social media (SM) for communicating information with stakeholders with minimal cost. The ability to access and share information influences the SMEs' performance, but there is little scholarship on the association between the adoption of social media and SMEs' performance.
This research aims to investigate the effects of technology-organizational-environmental (TOE) factors on the adoption of SM and SMEs’ performance in developing countries. This study employed the TOE framework as determinants affecting the adoption of social media and SMEs' performance. The paper used a closed-ended questionnaire to gather data, through an online survey, from randomly selected respondents from SMEs operating in Pakistan. Partial-least-squares-structural-equation-modeling (PLS-SEM) was used for the path analysis of 423 responses from SMEs' owners, executives, and managers.
Organizational Learning. Your Leaders. Free Communication Books. Brief History of the Internet - Internet Timeline. The original ARPANET grew into the Internet. Internet was based on the idea that there would be multiple independent networks of rather arbitrary design, beginning with the ARPANET as the pioneering packet switching network, but soon to include packet satellite networks, ground-based packet radio networks and other networks.
The Internet as we now know it embodies a key underlying technical idea, namely that of open architecture networking. In this approach, the choice of any individual network technology was not dictated by a particular network architecture but rather could be selected freely by a provider and made to interwork with the other networks through a meta-level “Internetworking Architecture”. Up until that time there was only one general method for federating networks. The idea of open-architecture networking was first introduced by Kahn shortly after having arrived at DARPA in 1972. Four ground rules were critical to Kahn’s early thinking: Most ancient and primitive animal on earth reveals secrets about evolution. Researchers of the group of Albert Heck (Utrecht University) together with colleagues from the Tierärztliche Hochschule in Hannover, have for the first time measured global protein expression in Trichoplax; the most ancient and primitive animal on earth, making discoveries about the earliest stages of animal evolution.
The results are published in Nature Communications. The first animals on earth arose when single celled ancestors aggregated and started to specialize and work together as a multicellular organism. This organism now acquired its energy for living by feeding on other organisms. Cells needed to specialize and cooperate in a coordinate way and thus communicate with each other in even more complex ways than already existed.
Crucial decisions needed to be communicated about which cells acquired what function or might even have to commit suicide for the sake of the whole organism. Trichoplax adhaerens Novel cellular information system Grazers Publication. Blog. Tree of Life Web Project.