[AISWorld] Contents of JGIM 19(1) Jan-Mar 2011

[Felix Tan]

The contents of the latest issue of

Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM)
Official Publication of the Information Resources Management
Association
Volume 19, Issue 1, January-March 2011

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
 
Analyzing ICT and Development: Thailand’s Path to the Information
Economy
 
Angsana A. Techatassanasoontorn, The Pennsylvania State University,
USA
Haiyan Huang, Michigan Technological State University, USA
Eileen M. Trauth, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Suwan Juntiwasarakij, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
 
This study uses Trauth’s (2000) Influence-Impact Model as a
sensitizing device to examine the influence of four key socio-cultural
factors —policy, infrastructure, economy, and culture—on information
economy development efforts in Thailand. Our assessment shows that
progress has been made but gaps remain. Thailand’s infrastructure
challenges include unequal development across regions, a small skilled
workforce, and low R&D expenditures in the ICT sector. Future economic
growth of Thailand will depend on an increase in investments and
improvement in technology and innovation. The authors’ cultural
analysis reinforces the need to develop a synergy between Thai cultural
systems and development needs. To highlight strategies that Thailand
might follow, the authors compare their findings to the lessons learned
from the case of Ireland, India, and China. These include facilitating
ICT sector work, ensuring a supply of qualified workers, exploiting the
country’s distinctive capacities, and reconfiguring policy to adapt to
changes in the global ICT market.
 
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=49653
 
PAPER TWO
 
Country Environments and the Adoption of IT Outsourcing
 
Wen Guang Qu, Zhejiang University, China
Alain Pinsonneault, McGill University, Canada
 
Research on information technology (IT) outsourcing adoption has been
confined to a single-country perspective. The understanding of how
country-specific variables influence the adoption of IT outsourcing is
limited. This study uses new institutional economics to build a
framework that links country-level factors to the adoption of IT
domestic outsourcing. The authors suggest that country-level factors,
such as the maturity of the IT-related legal system, social trust,
uncertainty avoidance, Internet penetration, and the maturity of the IT
outsourcing market, affect the opportunism costs and coordination costs
involved in domestic IT outsourcing and influence its adoption among
firms. The results show that the maturity of the IT-related legal
system, social trust, and the maturity of the IT outsourcing market are
positively associated with IT outsourcing adoption. The authors conclude
the paper with a discussion of the study’s implications for practice
and future research.
 
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=49654
 
PAPER THREE
 
Evaluating Web Site Support Capabilities in Sell-Side B2B Transaction
Processes: A Longitudinal Study of Two Industries in New Zealand and
Taiwan
 
Wei-Hsi Hung, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Chia-An Tsai, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Shin-Yuan Hung, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Robert J. McQueen, The University of Waikato, New Zealand
Jau-Jeng Jou, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
 
Business-to-business (B2B) transactions supported by the World Wide Web
(Web) have become a major portion of e-commerce transactions. Despite
growth, knowledge of the degree of Web site support capabilities in the
B2B transaction process is limited. This paper longitudinally compares
how Web sites supported the B2B transaction process in New Zealand and
Taiwan between 2001 and 2007. The results indicate that, on average, New
Zealand Web sites scored higher than those in Taiwan in both years. Yet,
the rate of improvement of Taiwanese Web site scores is significant.
Specifically, the support capability of several Web functions, including
privacy, company information, financial information and product catalog
has improved over the study period. The authors found that the sampled
Web sites in New Zealand and Taiwan provide different support
capabilities to the activities in the B2B transaction process. Taiwanese
Web sites are more concerned with providing after-sale services via the
Internet whereas New Zealand Web sites are more concerned with sharing
information. These two countries’ Web sites share a similar focus on
supporting B2B transactions, which provides strong support for users to
conduct product promotion and information provision related activities
over the Web. Based on these findings, this study suggests several
implications for associated academics and practitioners.
 
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=49655
 
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Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM) in your 
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Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database: 
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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