[AISWorld] Contents of JGIM 19(3) Jul-Sep 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 3, July-September 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
 
Offshore Vendors’ Software Development Team Configurations: An
Exploratory Study
 
Suranjan Chakraborty, Towson University, USA
Saonee Sarker, Washington State University, USA
Sudhanshu Rai, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Suprateek Sarker, Washington State University, USA
Ranganadhan Nadadhur, Wipro Technologies, USA
 
This research uses configuration theory and data collected from a major
IT vendor organization to examine primary configurations of distributed
teams in a global off-shoring context. The study indicates that
off-shoring vendor organizations typically deploy three different types
of configurations, which the authors term as thin-at-client,
thick-at-client, and hybrid. These configurations differ in terms of the
size of the sub-teams in the different distributed locations and the
nature of the ISD-related tasks performed by the distributed team
members. In addition, the different configurations were compared on
their inherent process-related and resource-related flexibilities. The
thick-at-client configuration emerged as the one that offers superior
flexibility (in all dimensions).However, additional analysis also
revealed contingencies apart from flexibility that may influence the
appropriateness of the distributed ISD team configuration, including the
volatility of the client organization’s environment and the extent to
which the ISD tasks can be effortlessly moved to the vendor’s home
location.
 
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PAPER TWO
 
Persistent Barriers to E-Commerce in Developing Countries: A
Longitudinal Study of Efforts by Caribbean Companies
 
William Wresch, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USA
Simon Fraser, The University of the West Indies at St. Augustine,
Trinidad and Tabago
 
Studies summarized by the United Nations Commission on Trade and
Development show that companies in developing countries face problems
executing e-commerce strategies. To determine which barriers might be
transitional and which might be persistent, a longitudinal study was
conducted of companies in five Caribbean countries. Interviews were
conducted with 23 companies in 2004. Interviews were repeated in 2008
with those companies that were still in operation. Some improvements
were found in general telecommunications support, but persistent
barriers were found in logistics services, and new problems were
identified in increased competition and increased shipping costs. As a
result of these changes, the general focus of managers shifted from
establishing web sites and making them visible to more general
managerial tasks connected to finding a place in an increasingly
competitive environment. The results of this study suggest improved
strategies for companies in developing countries seeking to use
e-commerce to expand their markets.
 
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PAPER THREE
 
Asymmetric Interaction in Competitive Internet Technology Diffusion:
Implications for the Competition Between Local and Multinational Online
Vendors
 
Peijian Song, Nanjing University, China
Cheng Zhang, Fudan University, China
Yunjie Xu, Fudan University, China
Ling Xue, University of Scranton, USA
Ke Wang, Fudan Univesity, China
Chenghong Zhang, Fudan University, China
 
This paper explores the diffusion of competitive Internet technology
products in the context of competition between local and multinational
corporations as well as how the diffusive interactions between
technologies affect their dominance in electronic markets. Drawing on
existing theories of innovation diffusion, and competitive dynamics, the
authors adopted a new diffusion model that incorporates the influence of
one technology’s adoption on the diffusion of other technology. The
authors then validated the model using longitudinal field data of the
two pairs of Internet technology products in Chinese electronic markets.
The findings of this investigation suggest that Internet product
diffusion can be better predicted by a competitive dynamic model than by
an independent-diffusion-process model. Further, results indicate that
the diffusive interaction between local and multinational
corporations’ technologies can be a two-way asymmetric interaction.
Such a pattern supports a conclusion of significant second-mover
advantage for local online vendors in fast-growing emerging markets. The
authors also examine the policy implications of these results,
specifically with respect to how asymmetric interaction effects can help
domestic online vendors gain second-mover advantage facing the entry of
multinational corporations.
 
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PAPER FOUR
 
Technology Adoption in Post-Conflict Regions: EDI Adoption in Kosovo
After the War
 
Larry Stapleton, Waterford Institute of Technology and Knewfutures,
Ireland, and University of Business and Technology, Pristina, Kosovo
 
Post-conflict developing regions are special cases of developing
countries which have received little attention in information systems
research. They are emergency situations which attract significant aid
designed to help create economic stability through, for example, the use
of IT. This study compared the experiences of Electronic Data
Interchange (EDI) adoption in the extreme environment of a post-conflict
region to other developing regions. Presenting data gathered from 68
companies in Kosovo, this paper provides an in-depth examination of EDI
technology adoption in a post-conflict region. The findings suggest that
EDI adoption in Kosovo comprises different features when compared with
other developing countries, indicating that current theories of
technology adoption have not fully accounted for EDI adoption in
post-conflict regions. From this finding, implications for interventions
in post-conflict regions are drawn. This paper contributes to the
understanding of technology adoption processes and offers new insight
into the process of technology adoption in this context. This paper
provides a starting point for further work which creates a basis for
more effective interventions in post-conflict zones, contributing to
economic development and stabilisation.
 
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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