Information technology will be the most pervasive and important influence on individuals and organizations in the next 10 years. Impression management is a growing field of study in the management and organizational sciences, which studies the self-presentational approach of individuals and the organizations. This collection of papers is both exploratory and innovative, examining new ways for the corporation to effect its strategy, its organizational design and its development as they are stimulated by the introduction and evolution of information technology. Understanding impression management theory as it moves further into the mainstream of research and practice is critical to corporate strategists, academics, and students.
This collection of papers is both exploratory and innovative, examining new ways for the corporation to effect its strategy, its organizational design and its development as they are stimulated by the introduction and evolution of ...
Information Technology for Small Business: Managing the Digital Enterprise provides an overview of how small and medium business enterprises (SMEs) can use flexibility, agility, and anticipation strategies to better utilize information technology and knowledge management. Because small and medium businesses tend to be late technology adopters, they could miss versatile and strategic workforce advantages that enable them to achieve higher efficiency and effectiveness through technology. This book shows these SMEs new technology trends that can transform the nature of their operations both in an evolutionary business path and through revolutionary opportunities. Information Technology for Small Business: Managing the Digital Enterprise applied correctly to small and medium business can be used as a strategic tool to reach growth and profit goals for the SMEs competing in a very dynamic and global marketplace. Examples include: identifying ways that IT can be used to develop strong relationships with customers and suppliers, and how to select the best technologies for business needs. Information Technology for Small Business: Managing the Digital Enterprise targets SME owners, educators, and practitioners working in the related fields of management, IT, IS, and CS-related disciplines. Advanced-level students and policy makers focusing on SMEs will also find this book valuable in terms of main concepts for discussion.
Abstract In the broadband economy, SMEs enjoy technology-supported
opportunities to interact with customers in ways that were neither possible nor
thinkable until recently. However, to effectively sustain SMEs' competitive position
, ...
This new volume in the dvances in Management Information Systems series presents assessments of past and current research in Information Technology Outsourcing, new and emerging trends in the field, and research methods that will generate new directions for the future.
... and is a frequent speaker to national and international audiences. He is a
former member of the professional staff of the International Atomic Energy
Agency in Vienna, Austria. INDEX 329 Information Technology Outsourcing:
SERIES EDITOR.
This publication looks at the role of information technology on the globalization process, and addresses its implication on the developing countries. The ten articles address various issues related to this, including the impact of information technology on multinational corporation; the implications of virtual organizations on workers; the illusion created by a global network as a socially productive technology; the domination of the developed world in the globalization process; globalization leading to modernization; the globalization of economies; opportunities for developing countries in the global process; information technology infrastructures; policies and plans influencing globalization.
All these types of information flows ensure that data and the technology through
which it is moved constitute one of the foundations of international commerce.
Information technology (IT) has been layered on top of the 66 Information
Systems ...
IFIP TC8 / WG8.2 Working Conference on Global and Organizational Discourse about Information Technology December 12–14, 2002, Barcelona, Spain
Over the past 20 years, the field of information systems has grown dramatically in theoretical diversity and global reach. This growth is reflected in the language that policy makers and organizational stakeholders use when they talk about their IT plans. As information technology penetrates further into organizational and global life, it becomes ever more important to articulate assumptions embedded in the discourse. This will help to clarify the complex and yet conceptually improvised or pasted-up worldview that becomes embodied in systems. The assumptions point to particular domains of discourse. The discourse sets up conventions and boundaries. It thus shapes what can or cannot legitimately be talked about, researched, addressed, or solved within the scope of IT. A number of practical and theoretical topics are discussed in detail, including: *Globalization, development, and space; *Mobilization of power; *ERP systems; *IS planning and projects; *Critical research and the study of discourse; *Public institutions; *Analytical frameworks. This book contains the selected proceedings of the Working Conference on Global and Organizational Discourse About Information Technology, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Barcelona, Spain in December 2002.
IFIP TC8 / WG8.2 Working Conference on Global and Organizational Discourse
about Information Technology December 12–14, 2002, Barcelona, Spain Eleanor
H. Wynn, Edgar Whitley, Michael MYERS, Janice DeGross ...
This text explores a variety of advances in IT by a group of researchers who are at the cutting-edge of this research. There are four general categories in the book: future markets, inter-organizational systems, focused applications, and future strategies.
More recently, however, information technology has led to several MAJOR
changes in the structure of markets. Structural changes include redefining the
roles of intermediaries, altering the need for physical proximity among transactors
, and ...
How Culture and Attitude Affect Client-Vendor Relationships
Diedre, raised by a strong, single Black mother, knows that a good education is her ticket out of the inner city. She has the opportunity to become anything she could ever dream of, but at what price without ever really knowing responsibility before being thrust out into adulthood? Beverly lives with her parents and six siblings in a family that puts the "D" in dysfunction. With no real role model or guidance into womanhood, Beverly must decide for herself how to deal with real issues and what she will allow to happen to her family. In the blink of an eye, the lives of these two best friends are changed forever when Beverly's family is torn apart by drug addiction and abuse. During this important time in their lives, the two must make some major decisions. In life you either count your blessings or curse your circumstances. This story chronicles the raw emotion born out of the choices they each make. Are they counting or cursing?
Information technology (IT) services outsourcing is the movement of IT activities
of one corporation to another organization, sometimes to an entity in the United
States and sometimes abroad (Marshall, 2003). Work is outsourced to achieve a
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From the individual to the largest organization, everyone today has to make investments in IT. Making a smart investment that will best satisfy all the necessary decision-making criteria requires careful and inclusive analysis. This textbook provides an up-to-date, in-depth understanding of the methodologies available to aid in this complex process of multi-criteria decision-making. It guides readers on the process of technology acquisition ? what methods to use to make IT investment decisions, how to choose the technology and justify its selection, and how the decision will impact the organization.Unique to this textbook are both financial investment models and more complex decision-making models from the field of management science so that readers can extend the analysis benefits to enhance and confirm their IT investment choices. The wide range of methodologies featured in the book gives readers the opportunity to customize their best-fit solutions for their unique IT decision situation. This textbook is especially ideal for educators and students involved in programs dealing with technology management, operations management, applied finance, operations research, and industrial engineering.A complimentary copy of the ?Instructor's Manual and Test Bank? and the PowerPoint presentations of the text materials are available for all instructors who adopt this book as a course text. Please send your request to [email protected].
The answer is to make wise information technology investments with a limited
budget. To make wise investments decision-makers must fully utilize investment
methodologies to conserve financial resources while maximizing information ...
IFIP TC8 WG 8.6 International Working Conference, June 7-10, 2006, Galway, Ireland
This volume contains the edited proceedings of the Working Conference on the Transfer and Diffusion of IT for Organizational Resilience, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.6 (Transfer and Diffusion of Information Technology), and held in Galway, Ireland in June of 2006. The material contained in this book represents current thinking on the topic of resilience by academics and leading practitioners.
TECHNOLOGY. ADOPTION. Deborah Bunker University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia Karlheinz Kautz Copenhagen Business School Frederiksberg,
Denmark Anne Luu Thanh Nguyen University of New South Wales Sydney, ...
The author explores various current and future issues in IT Auditing from both a scholarly and a practice-orientated perspective. Using clear language the issues are clearly mapped out. Topics covered include: complex integrated information systems, enterprise resource planning, and databases. The book serves as an invaluable reference for an auditor dealing with the high-tech environment for the first time.
As businesses increasingly use information and communication technology to
process their accounting systems, auditors need to gather critical information
more efficiently and effectively. The tools and techniques of modern generation-X
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