Digital Divide of Shattered “Iron Rice Bowl”: Economic Insecurity and Digital Divide in China (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuo Li ◽  
Haijie Yin ◽  
Teng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Health Related ◽  
History Survey ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

BACKGROUND Although economic factors account for the digital divide, the effect of economic insecurity on digital access has not been determined. The market-oriented reform of the Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in the 1990s resulted in massive layoffs, encouraging us to investigate the relationship between economic insecurity and the digital divide. OBJECTIVE First, the study investigates the relationship between economic insecurity and the digital divide. Second, the study provides insight into m-health for policymakers in the context of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS We draw on data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS 2011) and CHARLS Life History Survey (2014). To handle endogenous problems related to economic insecurity, we introduced instrumental variables to our models. We also divided digital access into personal and infrastructure information communication technology (ICT). RESULTS We found a negative relationship between economic insecurity and the digital divide only in infrastructure ICT. Additionally, we found that only chronic disease contributes to the digital divide among older people. CONCLUSIONS Older people are confronted with a dual digital divide: health-related and economic insecurity-related.This study provides insight into mobile health policy involving underprivileged people under the context of economic insecurity triggered by COVID-19.

scholarly journals Digital Divide of the Shattered “Iron Rice Bowl”: Economic Insecurity and ICT Access in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Zhuo Li ◽  
Haijie Yin ◽  
Teng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Instrumental Variables ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Management Position ◽  
Insight Into

Although economic factors account for the digital divide, the effect of economic insecurity on information communication technology (ICT) access has not been determined. The market-oriented reform of Chinese state-owned enterprises in the 1990s resulted in massive layoffs, encouraging us to investigate the relationship between economic insecurity and the digital divide. We draw on data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). To handle the endogeneity related to economic insecurity, we use experience in a management position and the number of siblings as instruments for economic insecurity. With the introduction of these two instrumental variables, we find a negative relationship between economic insecurity and ICT access. This study provides insight into ICT policies involving underprivileged people in developing countries.

Characteristics of information communication technology and audit practices: evidence from India

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Muneerali Thottoli ◽  
Thomas K.V.
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Information Communication Technology ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
Audit Firms ◽  
Ict Adoption ◽  
Ict Training ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between characteristics of information communication technology (ICT, adoption, confidence, competency and training) and auditing practices. The paper further explained the significance of the auditing practices, evaluated the relationship between ICT characteristics (adoption, confidence, competency, training) and auditing practices. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts a quantitative approach, where a set of questionnaires was developed by making necessary adaptations to available scales/items. Data were collected from practicing chartered accountants in Kerala targeting 89 respondents from various professional auditing firms. The results were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences and structural equation modelling-partial least squares statistical tools. Findings The findings confirmed that there is a positive relationship between three components of ICT factors on audit practice, namely, ICT adoption, ICT competency and ICT training, whereas the factor, ICT confidence has a negative relationship with audit practice. Thus, the availability of ICT-competent staff, their practical ICT knowledge, sufficient and adequate ICT training assist audit firms from doing audit by implementing customized audit software for audit practice. Research limitations/implications A limitation of the study is that limited variables of ICT on audit practice are taken in the model. Refinement of the model and the variables (such as ICT challenges), ICT perceived benefits and the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model used provide an opportunity for future research. Practical implications The barriers facing by non-big four audit firms (especially sole proprietorship and limited liability partnership firms) faces ICT challenges requires intense management interventions to be self-equipped for the current information technology (IT) world and to facilitate and to ensure fairness of financial statements to the stakeholders that strongly links auditors advance IT skills and available firms resources to investment and adopt audit software for the benefits of the audit firms. Originality/value The paper upstretched some of the ICT challenges that will assist as points, which have been helpful for future researchers, and have provided accounting and auditing professionals, auditing professional institutions and their management, government, tax officials, policy makers, auditing software vendors and other stakeholders the bases for encouraging ICT adoption.

scholarly journals Ethics of Retailers and Consumer Behavior in E-Commerce

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-126
Author(s):  
Zhi Yang ◽  
Quang Van Ngo ◽  
Chung Xuan Thi Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Purchase Decision ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Online Retailers ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

In the era of the information-communication technology with the development of electronic commerce, consumers can buy almost everything anywhere and at any time. One of the greatest benefits of e-commerce has been the convenience and the vast choices which consumers get online. However, some serious issues exist that impede consumers from transaction online. These issues have attracted the attention of many marketing researchers in recent years. In this research, the authors focus on the impact of consumers' ethics perception of e-retailer on their purchase intention and satisfaction. The authors also try to clarify the roles of trust and commitment in the relationship of ethics on consumers purchase decision and satisfaction because of their importance in e-commerce but also the privation in the research of previous studies. The data collected from a survey of 390 online consumers in Vietnam. Results reveal that there are significant relationships between online retailers' ethics and consumers' purchase intention and satisfaction via the mediation of trust and commitment.

Impact of Age on Pay Satisfaction and Job Satisfaction Leading to Turnover Intention: A Study of Young Working Professionals in India

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajashik Roy Choudhury ◽  
Varun Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Pay Satisfaction ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Effect Of Age ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Study Offer

In this study, the authors contribute insight into the relationship between pay satisfaction and turnover intention as well as between job satisfaction and turnover intention amongst young Indian professionals by segregating the respondents into two groups based on the median age. Data were collected from 230 working Indian executives, having median age of 25, from various industries such as Information Technology, Public Sector Units, Pharmacy, and Fast Moving Consumer Goods where they expressed their views on turnover intentions, job satisfaction & pay satisfaction in their respective organizations. The results revealed the negative relationship between turnover intention and job satisfaction and also between turnover intention and pay satisfaction. However, when age is introduced as a variable having a moderating effect on the above relationships, it was noticed that pay satisfaction is more significant than job satisfaction when it comes to intention to quit a job for employees who are relatively experienced having an age greater than the median age of 25; whereas, for employees less than the median age, turnover intention is driven more by job satisfaction than pay satisfaction. Findings from this study offer important implications for theory & research in turnover intention driven by factors like pay satisfaction and job satisfaction with the moderating effect of age of employees.

Digital Divide

2019 ◽  
pp. 737-748
Author(s):  
Patrick Flanagan
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Communication Technology ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Global Community ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Future Challenges

Since 1991, when the world wide web (WWW) was first made available to the public, it has revolutionized the way the global community engages each other economically, politically, and socially. Its impact has been historically unprecedented. While the availability of and access to the WWW appears to be ubiquitous, it is not. The expansion of this marvelous information communication technology (ICT) has not penetrated certain areas of the world resulting in a “digital divide.” This chapter discusses this digital divide. It first defines the term and then it moves to discuss the origins of the term. From there, the chapter moves to present concrete evidence of how the digital divide has negatively impacted the global community. Finally, it names and evaluates the efforts of different organizations and agencies to resolve the digital divide. It concludes with a prospectus on the future challenges of information communication technology vis-à-vis the digital divide.

Childhood Depressive Symptoms, Physical Activity and Health Related Fitness

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lois Michaud Tomson ◽  
Robert P. Pangrazi ◽  
Glenn Friedman ◽  
Ned Hutchison
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Relative Risk ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Symptoms Of Depression ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Health Related Fitness

While research has confirmed a negative relationship between adult depression and physical activity, there is little evidence for children. This study examined the relationship of being classified as physically active or inactive by a parent or a teacher to depressive symptoms in children 8 to 12 years of age (N = 933). It also assessed the relationship of playing sports outside of school, and of meeting health related fitness standards, to symptoms of depression. Relative risk of depressive symptoms for inactive classification was 2.8 to 3.4 times higher than it was for active, 1.3 to 2.4 times higher for children not playing sports outside of school, and 1.5 to 4.0 times higher for those not meeting health related fitness goals.

scholarly journals The Effect of ICT Acceptance on Kindergarten Parents’ Empowerment: Deliberative Belief as the Mediator

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Chun-wen Lin
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
School Governance ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Technical Systems ◽  
The Relationship

The primary aim of this study was two-fold: 1) to identify information communication technology (ICT) acceptance of kindergarten parents that influence parents’ deliberative belief and empowerment by applying the socio-technical systems theory as theoretical framework; and 2) to examine the mediated effect of deliberative belief between ICT acceptance and empowerment. A total of 949 elementary school and kindergarten parents in Taiwan were asked to complete questionnaire about their ICT acceptance, deliberative belief, and empowerment. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was utilized to evaluate the validity of structural/ latent model. The results revealed that deliberative belief, mediate the relationship between the ICT acceptance and empowerment among parents. ICT acceptance had effect on deliberative belief, and deliberative belief had the effects on empowerment. According to this information, it is recommended that school administrators should encourage parents and teachers together to improve and enhance their deliberative belief, ICT acceptance that may lead to more positive parents’ empowerment in school governance.

scholarly journals Possible, Probable and Preferable Futures of the Digital Divide

10.28945/2651 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Contemporary Problem ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Technology Strategies ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Quantitative Assessments

The digital divide is widely recognized as a contemporary problem between society and technology. Strategies for bridging the digital divide are often informed and guided by quantitative assessments of the deployment of information communication technologies. There are few rigorous qualitative attempts to assess the digital divide from either an ethnographic or a futures-oriented perspective. This paper reports findings from a study that examined the possible, probable and preferable futures of the digital divide from an ethnographic perspective. The contents of this report include background to the problem of the digital divide, a review of literature describing the relationship between society and technology, findings from the data collection, and implications for future strategies to bridge the digital divide.

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