Global Information Technology Management

Prashant Palvia & Nicolau Reinhard

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Prashant Palvia (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)
Nicolau Reinhard (FEA/USP, Brazil)

While the eighties and the nineties witnessed global business and global IT expansion, the issues in global information technology management have now reached a new level of interest and maturity. As other trends in IS have come and gone, global IT is not a trend – the global issues are real, permanent, and irreversible. The changes in the world economies, the opening of the borders, and the seamless transfer of work across geographical boundaries made possible by high band-width telecommunication networks (e.g., the Internet) have made revolutionary changes in ways “work” is conducted. Irrespective of its origination, almost any work can now be conducted anywhere or anytime facilitated by information technology. These far-reaching changes have profound impacts on organizations, their suppliers and customers, and people in general. The management issues are enormous and need to be carefully evaluated if we wish to reap the full benefits of the global revolution.

Opportunities for research in these international dimensions are virtually unlimited. The following is a representative, but not exhaustive list of topics. At a minimum each submitted paper should have the following three components: an MIS topic, an international orientation (e.g., cross-cultural studies or strong international implications), and strong evidence (e.g., survey data, case studies, secondary data, etc.). Topics include:

• Culture in the Diffusion, Acceptance, and Use of IT: Theory development in the areas of adoption, diffusion, and use particularly focusing on cultural issues; Empirical studies of culture focusing on adoption, diffusion, and/or use; Cross-cultural comparisons of IT adoption, diffusion, and/or use.

• Global Customer Relationship Management: International issues in CRM development and implementation; Viability of CRM programs in other nations & cultures.

• Global Electronic Commerce: New business models for global electronic commerce, Critical success factors for global e-commerce; Economics of e-commerce; and the practical issues and best practices involved with e-commerce in various applications.

• Global ERP Systems: Configuration, implementation, and administration of ERP systems in the global environment; Strategic fit to organization structure; Cultural issues; System configuration; training; Government rules and regulations.

• Global IT Education: Theoretical foundation for global education, Methods for integrating Global IT material into programs: Design, implementation, and assessment of GIT curricula within programs; Best practices; International cases.

• Global IT and Business Process Outsourcing: Key success/failure factors in global outsourcing; Social-cultural issues in global outsourcing; Best practices for evaluating and selecting a service provider; Economics of outsourcing; Managing outsourcing relationships.

• Global Software Development: Global IS development strategies; Global software teams; Best Practices; Project management issues; 24 x 7 and follow the sun strategies.

• IT for Government and National Development: Use of IT to improve national economies; E-Government initiatives; B-G and G-B electronic commerce; Use of IT to foster transparency and democracy; Government intervention and standards for national IT; intergovernmental IT; Socio-political development and IT.

• Mobile Commerce: Mobile commerce models in new and emerging economies; Usability and human computer interaction issues related to mobile devices and applications; Wireless business models and impact on different countries.

• Societal Impacts of IT: Virtual communities; Digital Divide (who is being left behind); Impact of the Internet on Families/Workplace/Society; Cyber-culture; Cyber-democracy; Computer crime.

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Associate Editors:

• Macedonio Alanis (Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey [ITESM], Mexico)

• Choton Basu (University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, USA)

• Henrique Freitas (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

• G. Harindranath (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)

• Lihua Huang (Fudan University, Shanghai, China)

• Ruth King (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)

• Anil Kumar (Central Michigan University, USA)

• Hans Lehmann (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

• Chechen Liao (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)

• Alex Lopes (University of Cincinatti, USA)

• Purnendu Mandal (Lamar University, USA)

• Joan Mann (Old Dominion University, USA)

• Scott McCoy (College of William and Mary, USA)

• Hamid Nemati (University of North Carlina at Greensboro, USA)

• Roberto Nogueira (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

• Carol Pollard (University of Tasmania, Australia)

• Marlei Pozzebon (HEC Montréal, Canada)

• Toru Sakaguchi (Northern Kentucky University, USA)

• Thomas Stafford (University of Memphis, USA)

• Paula Swatman (University of South Australia, Australia)

• Rita Walczuck (Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands)

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Reviewers:

Achita (Mi) Muthitacharoen

Al Marcella

Alain Pinsonneault

Alberto Espinosa

Alexandra Cunha

Alexandra Durcikova

Andrea Everard

Andrew Ciganek

Anna Nöteberg

Anne Beaudry

Antje Sester

Atreyi Kankanhalli

Bardo Fraunholz

Bill Lekse

Bipin Prabhakar

Carlo Simon

Carmen Bernier

Caroline Chan

Cheng-Kang Chen

Christian Voigt

Corina Raduescu

Cornelia Krueger

Craig Parker

David Munro

Eduardo Henrique Diniz

Eleanor Loiacono

Elsie Chan

Genevieve Bassellier

Gerald Grant

Guillermo Rodriguez Abitia

Heejin Lee

Henri Barki

Henrique Freitas

Her-Sen Doong

Hsiang-Chu Lai

Ing-Long Wu

Jacques Robert

Jasbir Dhaliwal

Jochen Muller

John D'Ambra

Jon Heales

Jonathan Liebenau

Jorge Audy

Jyun-Cheng Wang

Kallol Bagchi

Kallol Bagchi

Lei Jin

Leida Chen

Liette Lapointe

Line Dubé

Maira Petrini

Marie Anne Macadar

Mark Srite

Mattew L. Nelson

Michael Wybo

Miriam Oliveira

Muriel Mignerat

Murray Jennex

Nancy Pouloudi

Nhiem Lu

Nilesh Saraf

Paul Licker

Pierre-Majorique Leger

Ping Wang

Pratap K.J. Mohapatra

Pui Lai To

Rahul Roy

Ramanath Subramanyam

Ramesh Subramanian

Raul Trejo-Ramirez

Ravi Sen

Rishcard Swart

Robert Leitheiser

Robin Poston

Sean B. Eom

Sherah Kurnia

Sherif Kamel

Sherrie Komiak

Shin-Yuan Hung

Su Spencer

Tej S. Dhakar

Teuta Cata

Thilini Ariyachandra

Thomas Adelaar

Vance Wilson

Vital Roy

Weidong Xia

Yi-Ching Kao

Ying Chen

Nigel J Lockett

Simpson Poon

Thomas Deelmann

Paul Licker

Glenn Stewart

Chris Street

Mike Zack

David Steiger

Richard Herschel

Vidya Gargeya

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