Martha Garcia-Murillo- Ph.D.
- Dean at University of Nebraska at Omaha
Martha Garcia-Murillo
- Ph.D.
- Dean at University of Nebraska at Omaha
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In this paper, we challenge one of the criticisms against the idea of a universal basic income (UBI), namely, that people will waste the support on high-end consumption. We rely on the literature from various disciplines from which we developed high- and low-UBI scenarios for respondents to decide what they would do if the state were to provide an...
The rapid adoption of mobile phones, particularly in developing countries, has led a number of researchers to investigate their impact on socioeconomic activity in the developing world. However, until the recent advent of smart communication devices, mobile phones were primarily a relations management technology that enabled people to stay connecte...
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are alleviating frictions associated with the gathering and distribution of information, as well as reducing transaction costs related to the identifying, monitoring, and coordination of citizens dissatisfied with certain government policies. We conducted a random-effect logit tests based on a uniqu...
Purpose
Artificial intelligence (AI) is likely to have a significant impact on work. It will enhance, but also displace, some professions. This paper aims to look retrospectively at the impact that previous revolutionary computing technologies have had and the institutional values that have shaped the way workers were affected.
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Social media are an important space for people to discuss novel policy innovations. In particular, Twitter, whose user base is skewed toward those who disproportionately affect news coverage, and by extension the public agenda, represents a particularly useful platform for policy advocates wishing to grow their audience. This article extends theore...
This concluding chapter identifies a series of common themes discussed across the previous chapters in this book. We follow the life cycle of international students, from the time they begin considering their options for studying abroad to the time they complete their studies. What students seek prior to arrival is a high-quality education and a gl...
In this chapter, we focus on international alumni-students from other countries who graduated from U.S. universities-and their leadership skills as they leave the university. The goals were, first, to identify the elements of leadership that international alumni found that they most needed after graduation, and second, to see how competent feel the...
This book is about international students from Asia studying at American universities in the age of globalization. It explores significant questions, such as: Why do they want to study in America? How do they make their college choices? To what extent do they integrate with domestic students, and what are the barriers for intergroup friendship? How...
In this article, we argue in favor of a macro-societal approach to protect people from the potential harms of personal information online. In the tension between information and privacy, "the right to be forgotten" is not an appropriate solution. Such a micro, individual-based answer puts the burden of protection on each person instead of on extern...
Technological advances have increasingly automated tasks that have hitherto been done by humans. The disruption to the labor market is expected to grow as more and more jobs are lost to automation. Society would benefit from the open discussion of alternative policy approaches, such as Universal Basic Income (UBI), that can alleviate social tension...
O artigo traz a problemática do sistema púplico de televisão no Brasil e Estados,no que se refere ao seu modelo de financiamento e política, fazendo umarelação com as novas tecnologias no setor e as mudanças de comportamento dapopulação em relação ao meio televisão.Palavras-chave: Televisão pública, política, novas tecnologias.
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are alleviating frictions associated with the gathering and distribution of information, as well as reducing transaction costs related to the identifying, monitoring, and coordination of citizens dissatisfied with certain government policies. We conducted a random-effect logit tests based on a uniqu...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore whether information and communication technologies (ICTs) can move people from the informal to the formal sector. ICTs being multipurpose technologies can provide people with information about education, employment opportunities and government services that may potentially allow them to migrate to the...
In this article we argue that the European Union directive on “the right to be forgotten” is unrealistic and suggest instead a series of principles that can protect us from the potentially harmful publication of private information. The dissemination of personal information through public and private databases as well as social media is gradually e...
Researchers have found that corruption severely affects a country's development because it takes resources away from the economy, leads to uncertainty and impairs investment. The purpose of this study is, thus, to determine if a government's web presence can help to reduce perceptions of corruption. There is some empirical evidence that it helps, b...
Objective and description: Although the title of this workshop evokes academic and formal content, the main purpose of this workshop is practical. It is intended to guide a theory construction process to make it easier for young scholars to successfully and more effectively make a contribution to their fields.The workshop will begin with a discussi...
There is significant debate among scholars and policymakers about the size and role of government. In the last few years, due to the economic crisis, international organizations are forcing governments to cut their expenses in order to balance their budgets. There are nonetheless some government expenses that are indispensable to a national economy...
There is significant debate among scholars and policymakers about the size and role of government. Many governments have responded to economic recession by cutting their expenses to balance their budgets. There are nonetheless some government expenses that are indispensable for a healthy national economy.In this paper we argue that many nations tha...
In this paper we focus on factors that affect new business entry as they have been shown to generate both employment and economic growth. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to identify the economic, political, social and technological factors those that have the greatest impact on the creation of new firms. We put forward the idea of a techno-insti...
In this paper we focus on factors that affect new business entry as they have been shown to generate both employment and economic growth. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to identify the economic, political, social and technological factors those that have the greatest impact on the creation of new firms. We put forward the idea of a techno-insti...
Does the availability of information and communication technologies enhance the ability of entrepreneurs to start up new businesses? Using data from the World Bank and the International Telecommunication Union for all countries over an eleven-year period (2001–2011), the authors test this proposition while controlling for political, economic, and s...
Does the availability of information and communication technologies enhance the ability of entrepreneurs to start up new businesses? Using data from the World Bank and the International Telecommunication Union for all countries over an eleven-year period (2001–2011), the authors test this proposition while controlling for political, economic, and s...
The purpose of this article is to identify the business strategies of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the telecommunications sector in Argentina, considering the economic and technical uncertainties and the regulatory constraints they face. We focus on MSMEs because, even though these small businesses provide critical access to infr...
The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that affect the creation of new firms. We take into consideration economic, political, social and technological factors which should also help governments realize the areas that we found to have the greatest impact. The study relies on data from international organizations from which we construct...
This paper explores the role of cooperatives as innovators and promoters of the information and communications industries in Argentina. We use the open business model literature to help us understand the motivations and modus operandi of these organizations within the context of innovation in a less developed country. We relied on five case studies...
Because the IS field is grounded in its applications to organizations, the challenge is to develop a coherent theoretical body of scholarly research, while also remaining relevant to the needs of the practitioner community. In this effort, the purpose of this chapter is to provide scholars with a general understanding of process theories and a taxo...
The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that affect the creation of new firms. We take into consideration economic, political, social and technological factors which should also help governments realize the areas that we found to have the greatest impact. The study relies on data from international organizations from which we construct...
Regulatory processes can directly impair or enhance telecommunications innovation, according to Dr. Garcia-Murillo. Using the telecommunications sector in Argentina as a case study, and based on extensive interviews and analysis, her paper demonstrates the relationship between regulation, resources, and innovation. Regulatory independence, transpar...
We are moving to a net centric video distribution model. There is thus a need to rethink must carry rules. In this paper we evaluate the process of transition to a model without must carry rules using an organizational change perspective: leadership; engagement and participation; planning and strategy; process; and outcome evaluation. It concludes...
The purpose of this paper is to determine how innovation happens in countries that experience risks and uncertainty. We analyzed the Argentinean telecom sector with a focus on small and medium-size enterprises. The research relies on interviews with companies offering information and communication services in diverse regions of the country. Departi...
Advances in computing and telecommunications make it possible to take advantage of immersive electronic environments to deliver content. In this chapter we present a policy game to be used in a virtual world. The benefits of this tool are examined using Gee’s learning principles. From this analysis we find that games in virtual worlds enable reflec...
Regulatory processes can directly impair or enhance telecommunications innovation, according to Dr. Garcia-Murillo. Using the telecommunications sector in Argentina as a case study, and based on extensive interviews and analysis, her paper demonstrates the relationship between regulation, resources, and innovation. Regulatory independence, transpar...
The purpose of this study is to determine if electronic government initiatives help to reduce corruption. The statistical analysis uses a modified Klitgaard corruption model, which includes as factors government Web portals in addition to monopoly power, the discretion of officials and the accountability of the bureaucracy. Using a six year panel d...
The purpose of this paper is to quantify the effect that Internet access in a country has on the level of government corruption by studying a cross section of approximately 170 countries. The papers’ main model includes political, economic, and technological factors that can affect corruption perception. The technological factors focus on Internet...
The purpose of this paper is to explore whether virtual worlds can provide a setting for a rewarding learning experience for college students. The paper describes a policy-making simulation conducted within a virtual world and the results of an analysis conducted to assess its learning effectiveness. Our analysis, drawn from eight ‘learning princip...
This roundtable will allow academics in information schools the opportunity to share their experiences on theory development, the tools and techniques that they have used to facilitate this theorizing process and the challenges that they face doing so.
Countries in Latin America have lagged behind much of the world in telephone lines, but they have made up this gap through cellular networks. The limited wired infrastructure means that broadband access will more likely be achieved through wireless technology. In this paper, we argue that Latin America will experience a patchwork pattern of adoptio...
Voice over IP (VoIP) is a disruptive technology that can be considered a menace to current circuit-switched telephone operators. This paper studies the regulation that affects VoIP technology in Latin America, in particular in Chile and Mexico, countries that have different Telecommunications Regulatory frameworks in the region. In order to carry o...
Recent surveys show that Latin America is home to approximately 10% of the world population and possesses nearly 10% of its wealth. This data alone should be enough to justify the importance of this region. However, nearly 50% of the inhabitants of Latin America live in dire poverty, without access to clean water, adequate housing and education. In...
NOTE: This is an earlier version of the published paper:García-Murillo, M., & MacInnes, I. (2010). Net Centric Distribution of Video Signal and Must Carry Rules in the U.S. Communications and Strategies, 77(1), 79- 99.The purpose of this paper is to determine the factors that will need to be taken into account when changing the regulatory framework...
Advances in computing and telecommunications make it possible to take advantage of immersive electronic environments to deliver content. In this chapter we present a policy game to be used in a virtual world. The benefits of this tool are examined using Gee’s learning principles. From this analysis we find that games in virtual worlds enable reflec...
Advances in computing and telecommunications make it possible to take advantage of immersive electronic environments to deliver content. In this paper we present a policy game to be used in a virtual world. The benefits of this tool are examined using Gee’s learning principles. From this analysis we find that games in virtual worlds enable reflecti...
Latin America, in spite of some great strides, lags economically advanced nations in its research on information technology. This special issue of Information Technology for Development on “IT Advances in Latin America” provides insights into the practices and applications of IT, points to problems and constraints, offers findings and solutions tha...
Purpose
The purpose of the paper is to identify policy strategies for the implementation of number portability in Central America. It attempts to determine why carriers have generally been opposed to the implementation of this service and what regulators in the region can do to allow for the provision of this service.
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This study tries to determine the factors that support or limit efforts made to harmonize laws and regulations in the telecommunications sector. The paper proposes a theoretical framework that was constructed based on various academic contributions about integration. The framework is termed strategic framework of priority decisions (MEDEP in its Sp...
This article examines the effect of the behavior of carriers on the legal arrangements that regulate them. Using James Buchanan's theory of constitutional contract, the paper shows that weaknesses in US telecommunications law have led carriers to engage in unproductive activities that move them closer to the ''state of nature'' instead of toward a...
Internet phone services have grown from technical novelty to a competitive threat for traditional circuit-switched telecommunications. Using available telecommunication deployment statistics in the United States and modeling software, this paper presents two scenarios that investigate the potential impact of Internet telephony on universal service...
This paper shows that unbundling an incumbent's infrastructure only results in a substantial improvement in broadband deployment for middle-income countries, but not for their high income counterparts. Our statistical analysis of approximately 100 countries showed that GDP per capita, population, competition and unbundling are all factors that can...
The purpose of this paper is to determine the effectiveness of universal service programs. The statistical results, which compare the world with Latin America, indicate that universal service funds have not led to increases in the number of fixed telephone lines but they show a positive relationship with the number of public phones. Of the institut...
Purpose
The purpose of the paper is to identify the factors that have moved some regulators around the world to restructure their regulatory agencies towards an integrated information and communication technology (ICT) regulator.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper uses the theory of transaction costs as an analytical framework to analyze the r...
This paper identifies factors affecting the implementation of electronic commerce in Mexico and the solutions that companies have developed. Using theories of institutional economics and the resource-based theory of the firm as a framework of analysis, this paper focuses on the rules of behavior that have prevailed in Mexican business transactions...
The purpose of this paper is to determine the factors that have allowed dominant carriers to maintain their monopolies in spite of regulatory efforts to introduce competition. The paper focuses exclusively on interconnection because it is the element that allows non-dominant companies to enter a market. Two existing theoretical frameworks and two o...
This paper presents the idea of patchwork adoption, which refers to the coexistence of obsolete and state of the art technologies at the same time. Factors such as lower and unequal distribution of income, education, wired infrastructure, experience with information and communication technologies (ICTs), as well as the fact that most applications a...
The purpose of this research is to determine whether Internet telephony has had a negative impact on a country’s telecommunications infrastructure. Using panel data the statistical analysis shows that call-back did not have a negative effect on infrastructure and high income countries benefited from that technology. Internet telephony shows a negat...
The objective of this paper is to identify alternative models of regulation that address the problems and opportunities brought about by convergence. Regulatory convergence involves bringing together previously separate industry‐based regulations into a single legal and regulatory framework. Regulators need to consider different levels of and objec...
This case focuses on the challenges of managing a help desk that supports computer users. There are two main technologies that the Information Center (IC) uses to provide this service: the call distributing system and the knowledge base, which is also available on the Web. The choice of technologies affected the service provided by the help desk st...
Customer knowledge has received little attention in the knowledge management literature. The authors of this exploratory study argue that practices in marketing and customer relationship management have not been able to capture knowledge from customers that comes from social interactions with firm employees. The authors propose a three-step model b...
ABSTRACT ,This paper identifies the factors that have allowed dominant carriers to maintain their monopolies in spite of the ,regulatory efforts to introduce competition. The paper focuses exclusively on interconnection because it ,is the ,element that allows non- dominant companies,to introduce and maintain competition. It begins with a background...
Rules are necessary to provide or shape the incentives of individuals and organizations. This is particularly true when free markets lead to undesirable outcomes. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 attempted to create incentives to foster competition. Ambiguity as well as the timing of the Act has led to delays in the clarification of rules and the...
Convergence of information industries has led to the emergence of services that cross industry boundaries. Changes in these industries have caused the organization of regulatory institutions to become inadequate. An exploratory analysis of orders issued by bureaus of the US Federal Communications Commission shows overlap in the issues on which each...
Network trouble reports provide a proxy measure of service quality and network reliability. This paper analyzes the influence of local competition, state-level regulation, new technologies, automation, and mergers on RBOC reports of network trouble. Service quality discrimination between residential and business customers is also analyzed. Results...
Network trouble reports provide a proxy measure of service quality and network reliability. This paper
analyzes the influence of local competition, state-level regulation, new technologies, automation, and mergers on RBOC reports of network trouble. Service quality discrimination between residential and business customers is also analyzed. Results...
This paper points out a flaw in the telephone companies’ strategy of becoming content providers for broadband services. They designed their broadband projects under the assumption that they would be able to control the network for services such as video-on-demand (VOD) and home shopping. However proprietary advantage does not result from the linkag...
Central American governments are attempting to integrate their economies. In tele- communications the objective is to foster investment through the harmonization of laws. Using as a theoretical framework the principal-agente problem, the paper analy- ses these countries' laws to determine the level of independence and autonomy given to regulators a...
This paper identifies some of the obstacles that Mexican firms face in their efforts to start businesses using the Internet. In particular it addresses the issues of lack of financial resources, poor access to information infrastructure, and lack of consumer credit. The paper applies the resource-based theory of the firm, institutional economics, a...
Beginning in the late 1980s and early 1990s governments began to privatize state operators and open markets to competition. The introduction of liberalization to telecommunication markets has well known positive effects in the sector. In reconciling the dramatic changes wrought by the liberalization process with social goals of universality of serv...
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I worked with a graduate student who did some research, participated in discussion, and collected data. He wrote some short pieces of the paper. Since the he graduated and his parts of the work are almost gone or completely changed because of revisions. He has not been involved in the paper for months and has not done any revisions since the paper was sent for publication. Should he get co-authorship?
