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Do digital payment transactions reduce corruption? Evidence from developing countries
No full textExtant studies have broadly attributed anti-corruption effects to digitization, although there is a paucity of studies on the role of digital payments in reducing corruption. With the increasing pervasiveness of digital payments and the widespread nature of corruption, particularly in developing countries, it is timely to explore the link between digital payments and corruption. Using a global panel dataset of digital payments and Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI), the study explores the relationship between digital payment transactions and corruption in 111 developing countries from 2010 to 2018. Our results, based on a fixed-effects analysis, show that digital transactions reduce corruption. Results remain robust to the use of instrumental variable analysis to alleviate endogeneity concerns. Our finding has implications for curtailing corruption in developing countries
When Agile Means Staying: A Moderated Mediated Model
Full text linkThe design of software development methods focuses on improving task processes, including accommodating changing user requirements and accelerating product delivery. However, there is limited research on how the use of different software development methods impacts IT professionals’ perceptions of organizational mobility. Drawing on concepts from the agile development literature and job characteristics theory, we formulate a moderated mediation model explicating the mechanism and the condition under which agile development use exerts an influence on IT professionals’ intention to stay with their current employer. Specifically, we examine job satisfaction as mediating the effect of using agile development on the intention to stay as well as how the strength of the mediated relationship differs across firms. We test our hypotheses using a sample of 32,389 software developers. We find that job satisfaction fully mediates the effect of using agile development on the intention to stay. The strength of the mediation effect is significantly different for large and small firms
Prototypical career paths in urban, suburban, and rural locations in the United States
No full textCareer paths are formed over time from interactions between individuals, organizations,
and labor markets within and across geographic locations. What are the prototypical career paths
thus formed? Who are the likely incumbents of these career paths? What are the consequences of pursuing these career paths? This study combines microlevel perspectives on personal agency
and macrolevel institutional factors to explain how careers unfold over time and space. The
juxtaposition of micro- and macrolevel factors contributes to career research and practice, which
have traditionally examined careers as movements across organizations and occupations over
time, but almost exclusively within specific geographic locations. We make a significant
contribution to theory and practice by analyzing sequences of jobs and residence locations for
2,836 individuals drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. The analyses
reveal eight prototypical career paths, some commonly found across geographic locations and
others idiosyncratic to specific geographic locations. The profiles of the career path incumbents
vary regarding gender, ethnicity, and education attainment. We find that the objective career
success associated with prototypical career paths is more a function of human capital
accumulation and career choices than geographic locations. We close by discussing our findings’
implications for career research and practice.Accepted versio
ICT, Business Growth and Sustainable Human Development: A Mediation Model
Full text linkOur research-in-progress paper seeks to provide an insight into the mechanism driving the relationship between ICT and sustainable human development. While prior research has shown that the adoption and diffusion of ICT improves human development outcomes, little is known about the mechanism that drives this direct relationship. In this paper, we propose business growth as the mediating mechanism explaining the direct relationship
The enablers of early career outcomes of information technology professionals
No full textThe sustainability of digital economies requires that IT prospects find employment, persist and succeed in IT careers. IT research have yet to examine the enablers of these salient early career outcomes. Rather, the earlier studies have largely focused attention on the enablers of career outcomes related to mid to late career IT professionals. The insights proffered by the earlier studies fail to adequately explain the enablers of initial IT employment, early IT career persistence and success in terms accrued wages. This dissertation therefore begins a research agenda that extends the narrative of the extant research and focuses extensively on early career IT professionals. In doing so, I conduct two studies.
Essay 1 focuses on college IT graduates by examining how college- based career interventions influence initial IT employment and career persistence. Drawing largely on the human capital literature, I formulate a set of hypotheses that relates high and low direct experiences gained from college- based career interventions to (1) the likelihood of initial IT employment and (2) IT career persistence. Results indicate that cooperative education, internship and mentorship experiences increase the likelihood of initial IT employment success. Further, I find that internship and mentorship experiences are strongly related to career persistence. Essay 2 focuses on early IT career success by asking whether IT graduates have more successful careers, in terms of accrued wages, compared to non-IT graduates who pursue IT careers. I synthesize arguments flowing from the human capital and the job-skills matching literatures and build a theoretical model that compares the wages of IT and non-IT graduates in IT careers. I find that IT degrees command higher wages than non-IT degrees.Doctor of Philosophy (NBS
On the Value of Formal IT Education in Early IT Careers: A Multilevel Analysis.
Full text linkThe IT labor market\u27s increased appetite for IT workers who hold no formal IT education has raised concerns regarding the value of formal IT education. On that account, this study draws on human capital theory and examines whether formal IT education commands a premium over non-IT education in early IT careers. Using data from the U.S. NLSY97 cohort, we examine the wage value of formal IT education by employing a hierarchical linear modeling technique. We find that early career IT professionals (i.e. IT majors) who hold formal IT education receive higher wages than early career IT professionals who hold non-IT education. In addition, we find that IT experience complements formal IT education in determining wages of early career IT professionals. We discuss the implications of our findings for research and practice
When agile means staying : a moderated mediated model
No full textThe design of software development methods focuses on improving task processes, including accommodating changing user requirements and accelerating product delivery. However, there is limited research on how the use of different software development methods impacts IT professionals’ perceptions of organizational mobility. Drawing on concepts from the agile development literature and job characteristics theory, we formulate a moderated mediation model explicating the mechanism and the condition under which agile development use exerts an influence on IT professionals’ intention to stay with their current employer. Specifically, we examine job satisfaction as mediating the effect of using agile development on the intention to stay as well as how the strength of the mediated relationship differs across firms. We test our hypotheses using a sample of 32,389 software developers. We find that job satisfaction fully mediates the effect of using agile development on the intention to stay. The strength of the mediation effect is significantly different for large and small firms.Ministry of Education (MOE)Accepted versionThis study was partially funded by the Ministry of Education (Singapore) Tier 1 Grant Number 2017-T1-001-255-0 (RG63/17)
Prototypical career paths in urban, suburban, and rural locations in the United States
Full text linkCareer paths are formed over time from interactions between individuals, organizations, and labor markets within and across geographic locations. What are the prototypical career paths thus formed? Who are the likely incumbents of these career paths? What are the consequences of pursuing these career paths? This study combines micro-level perspectives on personal agency and macro-level institutional factors to explain how careers unfold over time and space. The juxtaposition of micro- and macro-level factors contributes to career research and practice, which have traditionally examined careers as movements across organizations and occupations over time, but almost exclusively within specific geographic locations. We make a significant contribution to theory and practice by analyzing sequences of jobs and residence locations for 2836 individuals drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. The analyses reveal eight prototypical career paths, some commonly found across geographic locations and others idiosyncratic to specific geographic locations. The profiles of the career path incumbents vary regarding gender, ethnicity, and education attainment. We find that the objective career success associated with prototypical career paths is more a function of human capital accumulation and career choices than geographic locations. We close by discussing our findings’ implications for career research and practice
College-Based Career Interventions: Raising IT Employability and Persistence in Early Careers of IT Professionals
Full text linkThe aims of the current study are twofold. First, we examine the relationship between specific modalities of career interventions and initial employment in IT. Specifically, we take a skills and social learning perspective to distinguish between direct and vicarious experiences of career interventions and relate these experiences to IT employability and career persistence. We test our predictions using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997. Our findings suggest that cooperative education, internship, and mentorship experiences increase the likelihood of initial IT employment. In addition, we find that internship and mentorship experiences engender persistence in IT careers. We discuss the implications our findings have on research and practice
College-Based Career Interventions: Raising Employability and Persistence in Early Careers of IT Professionals
Full text linkIn the US, there has been wider implementation of college-based career interventions (CBCI) with the goal of enhancing graduate employability and persistence in technology careers. The systematic inquiries into the assumed link between CBCI and salient early IT career outcomes remain limited. The goals of the current research are twofold. First, we examine the relationship between direct and vicarious experiences of CBCI and initial IT employment. Second, we examine the relationship between the direct and vicarious experiences of CBCI and IT career persistence. Using the NLSY97 survey data, we test the hypotheses. Our findings relay that cooperative education, internship and mentorship experiences increase the likelihood of initial IT employment. We find that internship and mentorship experiences prompt increased levels of persistence in early IT careers. Contrary to our expectation, we find that job shadowing may undermine women’s persistence in IT. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our findings
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