Global Information Systems

Name: Global Information Systems
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ISBN: 9780750686488

ISBN-10: 0750686480

ISBN-13: 9780750686488

Edition: 2008

Authors: Dorothy E. Leidner, Tim Kayworth

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Information technology has had a major impact on individuals, organizations and society over the past 50 years. There are few organizations that can afford to ignore IT and few individuals who would prefer to be without it. As managerial tasks become more complex, so the nature of the required information systems (IS) changes - from structured, routine support to ad hoc, complex enquiries at the highest levels of management. Global Information Systems aims to present the many complex and inter-related issues associated with culture in the management of information systems. The editors have selected a wide range of contemporary articles from leading experts in North America and Europe that…

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List price: $66.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.02" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



List of Contributors


Introduction: An overview of culture and IS


The Role of Culture in IS Development


Contextualizing Patterns of Work Group Interaction: Toward a Nested Theory of Structuration


Cross-Cultural Software Production and Use: A Structurational Analysis


Reporting Bad News About Software Projects: Impact of Organizational Climate and Information Asymmetry in an Individualistic and a Collectivist Culture


Competing Values in Software Process Improvement: An Assumption Analysis of CMM From An Organizational Culture Perspective


The Role of Culture in IS Adoption and Diffusion


Diffusing the Internet in the Arab World: The Role of Social Norms and Technological Culturation


The Key Role of Organizational Culture in a Multi-system View of Technology-driven Change


Dangerous Liaisons? Component-Based Development and Organizational Subcultures


Assimilating New Technologies: The Role of Organizational Culture


A Qualitative Assessment of Arab Culture and Information Technology Transfer


The Role of Culture in IT Use and Outcomes


The Role of Culture in Knowledge Management: A Case Study of Two Global Firms


Impact of National Culture on Information Technology Usage Behaviour: An Exploratory Study of Decision Making in Korea and the USA


Mexican and Swedish Managers' Perceptions of the Impact of EIS on Organizational Intelligence, Decision Making, and Structure


Culture and Consumer Responses to Web Download Time: A Four-Continent Study of Mono- and Polychronism


The Role of Culture in IT Management


Relating IT Strategy and Organizational Culture: An Empirical Study of Public Sector Units in India


Developing a Management Culture in which Information Technology will Flourish: How the UK Can Benefit


Information Systems Employment Structures in the USA and Singapore: A Cross-cultural Comparison


Understanding an Organization's View of the CIO: The Role of Assumptions About IT


Index