Global information systems
Subtitle: the implications of culture for IS management
By: Dorothy E. Leidner and T.R. Kayworth
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Burlington, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9780080942742
Subjects: Information resources management; Social aspects; Information technology; Cross-cultural studies; Gestion de l'information; Aspect social; Technologie de l'information; Études transculturelles; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Information Management; Knowledge Capital; Informatiemanagement; Informatiesystemen; Culturele aspecten
Other titles: Implications of culture for IS management; Implications of culture for information systems management
Description: Presents the many issues associated with culture in the management of information systems. This book includes a range of articles from experts in North America and Europe that represent a variety of different national and cultural environments.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contextualizing patterns of work group interaction: toward a nested theory of structuration / L.A. Perlow, J.H. Gittell and N. Katz; title: Cross-cultural software production and use: a structurational analysis / G. Walsham; title: Reporting bad news about software projects: impact of organizational climate and information asymmetry in an individualistic and a collectivist culture / B.C.Y. Tan [and others]; title: Competing values in software process improvement: an assumption analysis of CMM from an organizational culture perspective / O. Ngwenyama and P.A. Nielsen; title: Diffusing the internet in the Arab world: the role of social norms and technological culturation / K.D. Loch, D.W. Straub and S. Kamel; title: The key role of organizational culture in a multi-system view of technology-driven change / A. Cabrera, E.F. Cabrera and S. Barajas; title: Dangerous liaisons? Component-based development and organizational subcultures / J.C. Huang [and others]; title: Assimilating new technologies: the role of organizational culture / N. Hoffman and R. Klepper; title: A qualitative assessment of Arab culture and information technology transfer / C.E. Hill [and others]; title: The role of culture in knowledge management: a case study of two global firms / D.L. Leidner, M. Alavi and T.R. Kayworth; title: Impact of national culture on information technology usage behaviour: an exploratory study of decision making in Korea and the USA / K.J. Calhoun, J.T.C. Teng and M.J. Cheon; title: Mexican and Swedish managers' perceptions of the impact of EIS on organizational intelligence, decision making, and structure / D.E. Leidner, S. Carlsson, J. Elam and M. Corrales; title: Culture and consumer responses to web download time: a four-continent study of mono-and polychronism / G.M. Rose, R. Evaristo and D. Straub; title: Relating IT strategy and organizational culture: an empirical study of public sector units in India / S. Kanungo, S. Sadavarti and Y. Srinivas; title: Developing a management culture in which information technology will flourish: how the UK can benefit / R. Tomlin; title: Information systems employment structures in the USA and Singapore: a cross-cultural comparison / S. Slaughter and S. Ang; title: Understanding an organization's view of the CIO: the role of assumptions about IT / M.L. Kaarst-Brown.