[AISWorld] Contents of JGIM 18(3) Jul-Sep 2010

[Felix Tan]

The contents of the latest issue of: 

Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM)
Official Publication of the Information Resources Management
Association
Volume 18, Issue 3, July-September 2010
Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1062-7375 EISSN: 1533-7995
Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA
www.igi-global.com/jgim

Editor-in-Chief: Felix B. Tan, Auckland University of Technology, New
Zealand


PAPER ONE

The Impact of National Culture on Information Systems Planning
Autonomy

Dinesh Mirchandani, University of Missouri - St. Louis, USA 
Albert Lederer, University of Kentucky, USA

Hofstedes national culture model has been applied in prior research to
better understand the management of multinational firms. That research
suggests that national culture may influence the information systems
planning autonomy of the subsidiaries of multinational firms, but such
an impact has not yet been tested empirically. A postal survey of 131
chief information officers and 103 senior non-IS managers of U.S.
subsidiaries of such firms collected data to test hypotheses based on
the model. Structural equation modeling using PLS-Graph 3.0 revealed
that Individualism-Collectivism, Masculinity-Femininity, and Uncertainty
Avoidance predicted autonomy for particular IS planning phases (as rated
by the CIOs). On the basis of the supported hypotheses, the study
provides evidence of the relevance of the national culture model to IS
planning effectiveness and IS contribution. The study also suggests to
subsidiary managers that an understanding of the national culture of
their parent firm can help them gain an insight into the parents
management perspective.

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PAPER TWO

Cultural Impacts on Acceptance and Adoption of Information Technology
in a Developing Country

Elizabeth Baker, Virginia Military Institute, USA
Said Al-Gahtani, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia
Geoffrey Hubona, Georgia State University, USA

This study investigates technology adoption behavior of Saudi Arabian
knowledge workers using desktop computers within the context of TAM2,
and the unique effects of Saudi culture on IT adoption within the
developing, non-Western, country. Following the guidelines of the
etic-emic research tradition, which encourages cross-cultural theory and
framework testing, the study findings reveal that the TAM2 model
accounts for 40.3% of the variance in behavioral intention among Saudi
users, which contrasts Venkatesh and Davis (2000) explained 34-52% of
the variance in usage intentions among U.S. users. The models
explanatory power differs due to specific Saudi Arabian emic constructs,
including its collectivist culture and the workers focus on the
managerial father figures influence on individual performance, a stark
difference from TAM findings in more individualistic societies. The
authors findings contribute to understanding the effects of cultural
contexts in influencing technology acceptance behaviors, and demonstrate
the need for research into additional cultural factors that account for
technology acceptance.

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PAPER THREE

Do Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Trade Openness Explain the
Disparity in ICT Diffusion between Asia-Pacific and the Islamic Middle
Eastern Countries?

Farid Shirazi, Ryerson University, Canada
Roya Gholami, Aston Business School, UK
Dolores Higón, University of Valencia, Spain

This study investigates the impact of FDI and trade openness on ICT
diffusion in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions from 1996-2005.
The results indicate that while dissimilarities exist between the
economies included in this study in terms of their level of
socio-economic and political development, education and the growth of
GDP have had a positive impact on ICT diffusion in both regions.
However, while FDI has generally had a positive and significant impact
on ICT diffusion in Asia-Pacific economies, its impact on Middle Eastern
economies has been detrimental. The results of this study also show that
trade-openness has had, in general, a positive and significant impact on
ICT diffusion.

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PAPER FOUR

Critical Factors of ERP Adoption for Small- and Medium- Sized
Enterprises: An Empirical Study

She-I Chang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Shin-Yuan Hung, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
David Yen, Miami University, USA
Pei-Ju Lee, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) play a vital and pervasive
role in the current development of Taiwans economy. Recently, the
application of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have enabled
large enterprises to have direct contact with their clients via
e-commerce technology, which has led to even fiercer competition among
the SMEs. This study develops and tests a theoretical model including
critical factors which influence ERP adoption in Taiwans SMEs.
Specifically, four dimensions, including CEO characteristics, innovative
technology characteristics, organizational characteristics, and
environmental characteristics, are empirically examined. The results of
a mail survey indicate that the CEOs attitude towards information
technology (IT) adoption, the CEOs IT knowledge, the employees IT
skills, business size, competitive pressure, cost, complexity, and
compatibility are all important determinants in ERP adoption for SMEs.
The authors results are compared with research on IT adoption in SMEs
based in Singapore and the United States, while implications of the
results are also discussed.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Mission of JGIM: 

Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible
publication in the Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM).

The journal publishes original material concerned with all aspects of
the development, use and management of information technology (IT) in a
global context. The mission of JGIM is to be the primary forum for
researchers and practitioners to disseminatethe evolving knowledge on
global IT. Original contributions concerning any aspect of global
information management from both scholars and practitioners are
welcome.

Submission Categories and Themes:

The journal accepts submissions in the following categories:
a. Research Article - Contributions to this section are full papers
reporting completed research
b. Research Note - Research frameworks, exploratory studies and
methodological papers
c. Research Review - Reviews are carefully crafted articles that
conceptualize research areas, synthesize prior research as well as help
identify and develop future research directions

Authors are encouraged to develop articles that are consistent with the
following themes:
a. Cross-National Studies. These need not be cross-culture per se.These
studies lead to an understanding of IT as it leaves one nation and is
built/bought/used in another.
b. Cross-Cultural Studies. These need not be cross-nation. Cultures
could be across regions that share a similar culture. They can also be
within nations(subcultures, ethnicities...etc). 
c. Single nation studies from under-represented nations. The idea here
is to look at existing literature from the better represented nations
and compare it to the findings in the under-represented nation. Authors
are also encouraged to weave the country context (ie. culture, firm
strategies, government policies, laws ...etc) in the development of the
research problem and in explaining the results.
d. Studies of the development, implementation, management and use of IT
in multinational, transnational, inter-national and global
organizations.

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission
guidelines at www.igi-global.com/jgim

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to: 
Editor-in-Chief: Professor Felix B. Tan at jgim at aut.ac.nz