Advanced Topics in Global Information Management Volume 2

by Felix Tan

Overview

Advanced Topics in Global Information Management includes original material concerned with all aspects of global information management in three areas: Global Information Systems in Business Functions, Information Technology in Specific Regions of the World, and Management of Global Information Resources and Applications. The focus of volume two is to disseminate the evolving knowledge in these three broad categories while examining a variety of aspects of global information management.

*Note: This book is part of a new series entitled "Advanced Topics in Global Information Management". This book is Volume Two within this series (Vol. II, 2003).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591400646
Publisher:	IGI Global
Publication date:	11/15/2010
Series:	Advanced Topics in Global Information Management (Hardcover) , #3
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 10.40(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

Dr. Felix B Tan is Professor of Information Systems at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He vice president of research for the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA), the Asia Pacific representative on the Council for the Association for Information Systems (AIS), and the editor of the ISWorld'S EndNote Resources page.

Dr. Tan's current research interests are in electronic commerce, global information management, business-IT alignment, and the management of IT. He is actively using cognitive mapping and narrative inquiry methods in his research. Dr. Tan has published in MIS Quarterly, Information & Management, Journal of Information Technology as well as other journals and refereed conference proceedings. He has also published six books in the global IT field and is Editor of the book series "Advanced Topics in Global Information Management".

Dr. Tan has over 20 years experience in information systems management and consulting with large multinationals, as well as University teaching and research in Singapore, Canada and New Zealand.

Table of Contents

	Preface	i
	Acknowledgments	iii
Section I	Global Themes
Chapter I	Multilingual Electronic Commerce in a Global Economy	1
Chapter II	Electronic Commerce and Strategic Change within Organizations: Lessons From Two Cases	12
Chapter III	Trust in Internet Shopping: Instrumental Development and Validation through Classical and Modern Approaches	25
Chapter IV	The Integral Role of Information Technology in Achieving Business Strategy Success: Managing the Information Resources of Global Competitors	42
Chapter V	The New Realities of Online Trading in the New Global Marketplace	63
Chapter VI	The Impact of Culture on the Development of Information Systems: A Case Study	74
Chapter VII	Dysfunctional Development Pathways of Information and Communication Technology: Cultural Conflicts	83
Chapter VIII	Ten Lessons That Internet Auction Markets Can Learn from Securities Market Automation	97
Chapter IX	Transnational Information Systems: Development and Management Issues	120
Chapter X	The Place of ICT in Global Planning	136
Chapter XI	The Cultural Construction of Information Technology	150
Section II	Regional Perspectives
Chapter XII	Survey of IT Outstanding Experiences in US and UK Organizations	160
Chapter XIII	Management Integration through Software Applications: Japanese Manufacturing Firms in the UK Exert Control	190
Chapter XIV	Can National Information Infrastructures Enhance Social Development in the Least Developed Countries?	207
Chapter XV	Contract, Control and 'Presentiation' in IT Outsourcing: Research in Thirteen UK Organisations	227
Chapter XVI	A Systematic Model to Integrate Information Technology into Metabusinesses: A Case Study in the Engineering Realms	250
Chapter XVII	Facial Social Risks in IT Development in South Africa--Learning from Scandinavia	268
Chapter XVIII	IS Project Characteristics and Performance: A Kuwaiti Illustration	290
Chapter XIX	Information Systems Leadership Roles: An Empirical Study of Information Technology Managers in Norway	304
Chapter XX	The Problem of Networked Organizations in India: A Case Study	320
Chapter XXI	Knowledge Assets in the Global Economy: Assessment of National Intellectual Capital	329
Chapter XXII	The Nature of E-Loyalty in B2C E-Commerce	346
Chapter XXIII	Generic Attributes of IS Graduates: An Analysis of Australian Views	370
	About the Authors	385
	Index	393