Global information systems : the implications of culture for IS management / D. E. Leidner and T. R. Kayworth
Imprint
Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, c2008
Descript
viii, 487 p. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
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 -- 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 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 -- 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
SUBJECT
Information resources management -- Social aspects
Information technology -- Social aspects
Information resources management -- Cross-cultural studies