Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ICCIE.2009.5223710
