A methodology of identifying factors influencing foreign direct investment in ICT industry

Author

Kazmi, Syed Nayyer Abbas ; Manarvi, Irfan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Technol. Manage., Int. Islamic Univ., Islamabad, Pakistan

fYear

2009

fDate

6-9 July 2009

Firstpage

1452

Lastpage

1457

Abstract

Information and communication technologies have revolutionized the world by facilitating remote learning and education, far distanced social connection, online employment opportunities and marketing products and services online. These and many more benefits leveraged the investment opportunities in ICT industry. This paper is based on results of a questionnaire based survey conducted in Pakistan which determines main factors, government policy, infrastructure, country risk and human resource influencing foreign direct investments in ICT industry. The data was mined for assessment of managerial implications and cluster analysis, scatter diagram and descriptive statistics were determined. It was concluded that company profile, government policy, human resource and infrastructure have positive influence on foreign direct investment in ICT industry whereas country risk is negatively influenced towards foreign direct investments in ICT industry.

Keywords

DP industry; data mining; government policies; human factors; international finance; investment; pattern clustering; social aspects of automation; statistical analysis; ICT industry; Pakistan; cluster analysis; company profile; country risk; data mining; descriptive statistics; far-distanced social connection; foreign direct investment; government policy; human resource; influential factors; information-and-communication technology; managerial implication; marketing product; negative influence; online employment opportunity; online services; positive influence; questionnaire-based survey; remote education; remote learning; scatter diagram; Costs; Data mining; Government; Humans; Information technology; Investments; Marketing management; Outsourcing; Project management; Technology management; Data Mining; Foreign Direct Investment; ICT industry; Managerial Implications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2009. CIE 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Troyes

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4135-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4136-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCIE.2009.5223710

Filename

5223710