[AISWorld] JGITM, Vol 17, No 3, July - September, 2014

[Prashant Palvia]

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Dear IS friends:

JGITM was taken over by Taylor & Francis Group (T&F) in February 2014. T&F
has a remarkable record: it has been in existence since 1798 (more than 200
years) and publishes about 2000 journals. We now have a modern submission
and review system, web site as well as full marketing support.  To submit
papers, please go to: http://www.editorialmanager.com/ugit.

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JGITM is among the elite group of MIS journals included in the prestigious
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI).  It is included in both SSCI and
CC/S&BS, both produced by Thomson Reuters.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group (T&F), http:// www.tandfonline.com/UGIT
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Prashant Palvia, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, pcpalvia at uncg.edu
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CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: The journal invites contributions from all parts of
the world from academic and industry scholars involved in research,
management, and the utilization of global information resources. Besides
quality work, at a minimum each submitted article should have the following
three components:  an IS topic, an international orientation (e.g., cross
cultural studies or strong international implications), and strong evidence
(e.g., survey data, case studies, experiments, secondary data, etc.).
Please submit your manuscript to the submission site:
http://www.editorialmanager.com/ugit

REVIEW PROCESS: Each suitable article is blind-reviewed by three members of
the editorial review board. A recommendation is then made by the
Editor-in-Chief or an Associate Editor. The final decision is made by the
Editor-in-Chief.  If a revision is recommended, the revised paper is sent
for final approval to one of the Editors.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 17, NUMBER 3, (July - September, 2014) OF THE JOURNAL OF
GLOBAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT (JGITM)

SPECIAL ISSUE: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN INDIA AND THE INDIAN REGION
Guest Editor: Jaideep Ghosh

IT IN INDIA AND THE INDIAN REGION
Jaideep Ghosh, National Institute of Science, Technology and Development
Studies, India, jghosh20770 at gmail.com
Since the resurgence of growth in the globalization of IT products and
services in the late 1990s, the performance of the IT/ITES and BPO sectors
in India has indeed been remarkable. Nevertheless, over the past several
years, India's position as a leading, global IT player has been neither
fully steady nor sufficiently stable. IT in India and the Indian region has
a number of exciting stories to tell. This special issue of JGITM features
three articles, all particularly relevant to its theme: IT in India and the
Indian Region.

A TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION MODEL FOR BROADBAND INTERNET ADOPTION IN INDIA
Jordan Fletcher, The MITRE Corporation, jlfletcher at mitre.org
Shahram Sarkani, George Washington University, sarkani at gwu.edu
Thomas A. Mazzuchi, George Washington University, mazzu at gwu.edu
Since 1980, corporations have spent nearly 50% of their revenue on
technology, yet 50% of these new systems fail. The field of technology
acceptance modeling posits that user acceptance is a root cause of these
failures. Technology acceptance studies endeavor to determine the factors
that lead users to adopt or reject a technology, but existing models have
multiple weaknesses that impact their effectiveness and applicability. This
study used enterprise systems engineering principles to analyze and improve
existing technology acceptance models, and proposed a new model that could
be applied to disadvantaged user populations. The study analyzed IT survey
results from 338 firms across India and used the revised technology
acceptance model to identify factors that were correlated to broadband
internet use.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IMPACT AND ROLE OF FIRM AGE AND EXPORT ACTIVITY: AN
EMERGING ECONOMY CONTEXT
Gaurav Dixit, Sharda Group, India, gaurav.dixit at sharda.ac.in
Prabin Panigrahi, Indian Institute of Management Indore, India,
prabin.panigrahi at iimidr.ac.in
This study seeks to deepen the understanding of research in business value
of Information Technology (IT) by examining the role of contextual factors
such as firm age and export activity in IT impact following contingency
theory perspective. The study is set in India and provides generalization
in a new setting of emerging economy. An empirical study was conducted
using data from 320 firms between 2007 and 2010. The results indicate that
IT investments enable firms to reduce their operational costs without
contingencies related to firm age and export activity. However, the impact
of IT investment for improving profit is contingent on export levels such
that the impact is higher for high exports firms.

WHICH FACTORS INFLUENCE THE ADOPTION OF SOCIAL SOFTWARE?  AN EXPLORATORY
STUDY OF INDIAN IT CONSULTANCY FIRMS
Alivelu Manga Mukkamala, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark,
alivelu.mukkamala at gmail.com
Liana Razmerita, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, lr.ibc at cbs.dk
The rationale behind traditional knowledge management initiatives is to
create, capture, share, organize and use intangible assets such as
organizational knowledge. Recently, organizations are adopting new forms of
information and communication technologies such as social software to
encourage employees to create and share knowledge. This paper explores the
adoption of social software tools by Indian knowledge workers working for
IT consultancy firms. A mixed method approach has been applied, and drawing
on social dilemma theory and Hofstede’s cultural theory, this study
discusses the factors affecting the adoption of social software by
knowledge workers.

THE EXPERT OPINION: AN INTERVIEW WITH SACHIN BHATIA, FOUNDER & CHIEF
EXECUTIVE OFFICER, METRO INFRASYS PVT. LTD., INDIA
Conducted by: Avinash Kshitij, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India,
pdavinash at gmail.com
Sachin Bhatia, Founder and CEO of Metro Infrasys Pvt. Ltd, is an engineer
by qualification. He has worked in more than twenty tolling projects
comprising of more than 300 lanes over the past decade. The interview
discusses the impact of IT on the organization, and the technical and
managerial issues and challenges the organization faces as an organization
operating in India.

BOOK REVIEW: DYNAMICS OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: ASIA-PACIFIC BUSINESS
CASES, EDITED BY PREM RAMBURUTH, CHRISTINA STRINGER, AND MANUEL SERAPIO,
PUBLISHER: CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reviewed by Jaideep Ghosh, National Institute of Science, Technology and
Development Studies, India, jghosh20770 at gmail.com
Dynamics of International Business: Asia-Pacific Business Cases is a well
designed book to facilitate teaching of business and management courses
with many interesting international business case situations from the
Asia-Pacific region. The book has four main sections that discuss: the
international business environment, strategy and entrepreneurship in
international business, problems of managing people in international
business, and operations in international markets. The book will be useful
to instructors, students as well as to practitioners.
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For copies of the above articles, please check for the Journal of Global
Information Technology Management (JGITM) in your institution's library.
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MISSION: The mission of the Journal of Global Information Technology
Management (JGITM) is to continue to be the premier journal on Global
Information Technology Management.  It is a refereed international journal
supported by global IT scholars from all over the world.  JGITM publishes
articles and reports related to all aspects of the application of
information technology for international business.  For example, it will
report on information resource management, managerial and organizational
concerns, educational issues, and innovative applications related to global
IT. Very important to the journal is its emphasis on quality and
relevance.  The journal disseminates this knowledge to researchers,
practitioners, academicians, and educators all over the world on a timely
basis.  Finally, the journal is international in all respects: content,
article authorship, readership, and the editorial board.

SCOPE AND COVERAGE: The journal's scope is multidisciplinary. It publishes
research, applied, and educational articles from all areas of MIS as well
as functional IT applications that have international focus. The journal
also entertains a variety of methodological approaches. It encourages
manuscript submissions from authors all over the world, both from academia
and industry. In addition, the journal will also include educational cases
and reviews of MIS books that have bearing on global aspects. Practitioner
input will be specifically solicited from time-to-time in the form of
industry columns and CIO interviews.

Articles in the journal include, but are not limited to the following
areas:  Frameworks and models for global information systems (GIS),
Development, evaluation and management of GIS, Electronic Commerce,
Internet related issues, Societal impacts of IT in developing countries, IT
and Economic development, IT Diffusion in developing countries, IT human
resource issues, DSS/EIS/ES in international settings, Organizational and
management structures for GIS, Transborder data flow issues, Electronic
data interchange, Telecommunications, Distributed global databases and
networks, Cultural and societal impacts, Comparative studies of nations,
and Applications and case studies (both educational and research).
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Please participate in the 2015 GITMA Annual World conference to be held in
St. Louis, USA on June 21-23, 2015.  http://www.gitma.org. The submission
deadline is November 15, 2014.
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