[AISWorld] Contents of JGITM, Vol 19, 1, Jan-March 2016

[Prashant Palvia]

Please distribute to colleagues and relevant lists.  Sorry, I have been a
little late in posting the contents. This issue was published in time in
March, 2016.
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Dear IS friends:

JGITM was taken over by Taylor & Francis Group (T&F) in February 2014. 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 19, NUMBER 1, (25 February, 2016) OF THE JOURNAL OF
GLOBAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT (JGITM)

EDITORIAL PREFACE: IMPORTANCE OF GLOBALIZATION IN THE INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY CONVERGENCE ERA
Kyootai Lee, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, kyootai at sogang.ac.kr
Kailash Joshi, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA,
joshi at umsl.edu
IT convergence is a prevalent phenomenon now a days. It is becoming
important to understand the impacts of IT convergence on global IT
management. We identify the need for global strategies for firms to
leverage resources and competencies across the globe to develop standard,
customizable platforms and IT-enabled products. We also discuss
localization strategies that can help meet the diverse needs of different
countries/regions. Finally, we identify some of the global IT/information
system (IS) management responses to challenges and opportunities arising
from the convergence that should be addressed in future research.

LEVELS OF BUSINESS TO BUSINESS E-COMMERCE ADOPTION AND COMPETITIVE
ADVANTAGE IN SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES: A COMPARISON STUDY BETWEEN
EGYPT AND THE UNITED STATES
Ibrahim Elbeltagi, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK,
jonathan.moizer at plymouth.ac.uk
Haseba Hamad, Salahaddin University, Erbil, Iraq
Jonathan Moizer, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK
Mohamed A. Abou-Shouk, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt, maa15 at fayoum.edu.eg
Business-to-business e-commerce adoption has become increasingly important
for small and medium-sized enterprises, allowing them to gain and sustain
competitive advantage. Business-to-business adopted at different levels
based on different resource endowments leads to competitive advantage being
gained and sustained in proportion to that level of adoption. This study
uses structural equation modeling to investigate how levels of
business-to-business e-commerce adoption affects and contributes to gaining
and sustaining competitive advantage in both U.S. and Egyptian
manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises. The key finding is that
small and medium-sized enterprises can achieve growth in market share and
sales that helps them to improve their position in the global market
through higher levels of business-to-business e-commerce adoption.
Implications of the study, its limitations and directions for future
research, are also discussed.

THE INFLUENCE OF NATIONAL CULTURE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT,
IMPLEMENTATION, AND SUPPORT CHALLENGES IN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES
Xiang Fang, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA, fangx at miamioh.edu
Albert L. Lederer, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
John “Skip” Benamati, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA,
benamajh at muohio.edu
Rapidly changing information technology challenges information technology
management throughout the world. In-group collectivism, uncertainty
avoidance, and assertiveness dimensions of national culture distinguish
Chinese and U.S. culture. Vendor competitiveness, management confusion,
incompatibility, poor quality, and training demands describe the
challenges. Data from 91 Chinese and 246 American information technology
managers revealed that U.S. information technology organizations experience
more unexpected work, delays, and costs from management confusion and poor
quality. Vendor competitiveness leads to management confusion,
incompatibility, and poor quality in both cultures. However, only poor
quality leads to training demands in China while management confusion,
incompatibility, and poor quality do in the United States.

EXPLORING THE PREDICTORS OF THE INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL DIVIDE
Maria Skaletsky, Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA,
mskaletsky at bentley.edu
Robert D. Galliers, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire,
UK, orsrg at wbs.warwock.ac.uk
Dominique Haughton, Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA,
dhaughton at bentley.edu
Olumayokun Soremekun, Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
The digital divide, while attracting considerable research and political
attention since the introduction of the Internet, remains an apparently
intractable issue for parts of the developing world. While most prior
research focuses on national income as the most significant predictor of
the digital divide and thus leaves little room for intervention when
financial resources are scarce, the current study identifies institutional
stability and infrastructure development as being of similar importance,
thereby demonstrating a route out of the otherwise apparent impasse. In
this study, we employ TreeNet, a software tool based on the gradient
descent algorithm, which has not been previously used in digital divide
studies. This tool allows for the determination of the relative importance
of predictors of digital development and the importance of predictors that
propel countries to top or bottom levels of digital development. The
authors also uncover important interactions among predictors of digital
development. Separate models were built for the level of Internet use and
for the number of mobile phone subscriptions at a country level and these
models were found to be different. As a result, the authors were able to
determine critical thresholds of infrastructure at which the level of
digital development drastically increases.

THE EXPERT OPINION: AN INTERVIEW WITH PHILLIP YOHAN CHO
Interview conducted by Kyootai Lee and Kailash Joshi
This interview provides insights into the mobile games business and its
international reach in today’s connected world. It discusses the mobile
games industry, business models, and global expansion strategies from the
perspective of a mobiles games company co-founder Phillip Yohan Cho. He is
a mobile games business expert in Korea. He has managed mobile game and
marketing platform projects in other small to medium sized enterprises
(SMEs) founded in Korea and the United States, and worked for several
companies after graduating from New York University.

BOOK REVIEW: SOFTWARE SOURCING IN THE AGE OF OPEN: LEVERAGING THE UNKNOWN
WORKFORCE BY ÅGERFALK, PÄR J., FITZGERALD, BRIAN, AND STOL, KLAAS-JAN
Reviewed by: Robert Vinaja, Texas A&M University San Antonio, Texas, USA,
bvinaja at tamusa.tamus.edu
Information technology (IT) developers are constantly looking for new and
innovative software development methods to create high-quality systems in
shorter cycle times and at reduced costs. Meanwhile, the recent
developments in cloud computing, mobile computing, and social media have
enabled the creation of new paradigms. One of these new concepts is
crowdsourcing. Although crowdsourcing may seem new, surprisingly the
concept was introduced as early as 2006 by J. Howe in his article “The Rise
of Crowdsourcing,” published in Wired magazine. According to a recent study
by Gartner entitled “Harnessing a Global Talent Pool Through
Crowdsourcing,” many organizations have plans to take advantage of
crowdsourcing. According to this study, crowdsourcing is the application of
cloud computing concepts (scalability, elasticity) to IT software
development. Crowdsourcing provides organizations with access to
experienced developers and can significantly reduce the development
lifecycle time.


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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).