This framework serves well from the perspective of a particular firm and can be extended as a beginning point for consideration of other stakeholders. Additionally, developing countries will consider policies regarding multinational firms including tradeoffs between job development and tax revenue generation, policies for encouraging the development of indigenous information technology industries, and distribution of computing power among different subsets of the population. From the perspective of the individual firm, matching global IS to global business strategy involves organizing the cross-national IS function. Presumably these differing management control strategies will have implications for the type and intensity of information systems required by different firms. Also to be studied are ways firms might derive advantage from the availability of information originating from many countries.
Alternative perspectives derive from national attributes and industry views.
Approaches IS is already an inter-disciplinary field as it draws from several other areas such as computer science, accounting, management, library science, and psychology for deriving theory. The focus within this annotated bibliography is on articles that directly treat aspects of Global MIS, however additional articles on international business, international finance, transfer of technology, and history of computing are included to cast additional light on the topic. It is intended that this bibliography err on the side of inclusion of entries that are only marginally international MIS per se, rather than exclusion of ones that are marginal but of some special interest. Nevertheless, some relevant articles may have been inadvertently left out. It should also be noted that while the selection of materials focused on scholarly papers, articles from additional sources such as Business Horizons and California Management Review also lend insight.