[AISWorld] JGITM, Vol 20, No 1

[Prashant Palvia]

Please distribute to colleagues and relevant lists.  Sorry, I have been a
little late in posting the contents. This issue was published on time in
February, 2017.
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Dear IS friends:

JGITM is published by Taylor & Francis Group (T&F). We 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 20, NUMBER 1 (Jan-March, 2017) OF THE JOURNAL OF GLOBAL
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT (JGITM)

EDITORIAL PREFACE: INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS: THE NEXT BIG CHALLENGE FOR IS
CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH?
Tim Jacks, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, tjacks at siue.edu
Cultural studies have long been an important part of IS research. But we
may be experiencing another phenomenon in IS culture research: research on
culture, per se, is slowly trending in a flat or downward direction in
JGITM (see Table 1) as well as in the Association of Information Systems
(AIS) e-Library of affiliated journals and conference proceedings (see
Table 2). This is not to say that cultural studies are any less relevant
than they used to be. But there may be a theoretical shift taking place
such that cultural studies are being subsumed into a newer and larger
theoretical framework called Institutional Logics. The Institutional Logics
(IL) perspective is a meta-theory whose scope is extremely broad. ILs are
defined as socially constructed, historical patterns of material practices
and symbolic systems (including assumptions, values, beliefs, and rules) by
which individuals and organizations provide meaning to their social
reality, organize time and space, and guide their daily activity. The
editorial article introduces IL and its role in IS cross-cultural research.

EVALUATING INFORMATION SYSTEMS OFFSHORE PROJECT SUCCESS: CAN SUCCESS AND
FAILURE COEXIST?
Peter J. Haried (pharied at uwlax.edu) & Craig C. Claybaugh
This article addresses how the evaluation of information systems offshore
projects can result in situations where success and failure may coexist.
Based on multiple dyadic case studies across eight information systems
offshore projects and taking into account both client and vendor
stakeholder perspectives, we argue that both relational and outcome
criteria should be considered in the evaluation of information systems
offshore projects. We suggest that information systems offshore projects
can be evaluated as a successful failure (relational success + outcome
failure), or as a failed success (relational failure + outcome success), in
addition to pure successes and failures. We discuss implications and also
point to future research directions.

PATTERNS OF COMBINED ICT USE AND INNOVATION IN THE EUROPEAN REGIONS
Margarita Billon, Fernando Lera-Lopez (lera at unavarra.es) & Rocío Marco
This article investigates the existence of combined patterns of regional
innovation and the information and communication technologies (ICT) use,
and the factors explaining them at a regional level in the European Union
(EU). The use of canonical correlation analysis (CCA) allows us to identify
two differentiated patterns of regional innovation and ICT use. The main
pattern is defined by those regions combining high levels of ICT use and
innovation. This pattern is mostly explained by institutional factors, such
as the quality of government, and by region-specific characteristics, such
as total employment in knowledge-intensive services, total research and
development (R&D), lifelong learning (LifeLong), and gross domestic product
(GDP). We also identified a second pattern that corresponds with regions
showing strong disparities between innovation and ICT use levels. This
pattern is mainly determined by R&D and by institutional variables such as
government quality and fiscal decentralization. Our findings shed light on
the factors that jointly explain innovation and ICT diffusion, and could be
useful in the design of innovation and ICT diffusion policies at both
regional and national levels.

GLOBAL MONITORING AND CONTROL: A PROCESS IMPROVEMENT FRAMEWORK FOR GLOBALLY
DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAMS
Muhammad Wasim Bhatti (mwasim_bhatti at yahoo.com) & Ali Ahsan
Global software development (GSD), a fundamentally different paradigm from
traditional software engineering, has observed continuous growth and lot of
acceptance in the last few years. Organizations gain many advantages of
GSD, but face additional challenges not observed in collocated teams’
environment. Literature reveals that existing process improvement
frameworks do not explicitly accommodate the complex and challenging needs
of GSD. In literature, it is found that one of the major challenges is weak
monitoring and controlling of distributed teams. In this study, therefore,
we developed a process improvement framework to improve the monitoring and
controlling of distributed teams in a GSD environment. The proposed
framework is constructed by using grounded theory methodology, and it is
validated by using the methods of face validity, content validity,
construct validity, convergent validity, and discriminant validity. The
detailed analysis depicts that the proposed framework is a valid framework
for global monitoring and control in a GSD environment.

THE EXPERT OPINION: MOBILE PAYMENTS PLATFORM: AN INTERVIEW WITH KYUNG-TAE
HA, FOUNDER AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, ISAACLANDKOREA, SEOUL, KOREA
Conducted by:
Kyootai Lee, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea, kyootai at sogang.ac.kr
Kailash Joshi, University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA, joshik1815 at gmail.com
This interview provides insights into the mobile payments business and its
international aspects in the FinTech era. It discusses the transformation
in business models of the company from desktop based online payments to
mobile payment systems, and its global expansion strategies to leverage the
increasing use of mobile devices for FinTech applications. CEO Ha is an
online payments expert in Korea. He was an engineer in Samsung Electronics
before he built this company.

BOOK REVIEW: BIG DATA: A PRIMER. INDIA: SPRINGER INDIA, BY MOHANTY,
HRUSHIKESHA, BHUYAN, PRACHET, AND CHENTHATI, DEEPAK (EDS). (2015)
Reviewed by: Robert Vinaja, Texas A&M University San Antonio, Texas, USA,
bvinaja at tamusa.tamus.edu
The world is witnessing an explosion of data. Organizations are not the
only contributors of massive volumes of data. Because of the widespread
adoption of the Internet, individuals contribute to this massive stream of
data generation, even in the form of social network data. In this new
generation of the Internet of things, even devices and appliances produce
data. The book "Big Data: A Primer" originated as the result of a symposium
on big data held in February 2015 in Bhubaneswar, India. Also, the book has
a balanced perspective since some authors are academics whereas others work
in the industry. A combination of perspectives provides a rounded view of
big data.

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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).