The World It Project: Global Issues in Information Technology

Understanding the key IT issues facing firms within their surrounding contexts is critical for the firm, government, and their international counterparts.

In response to the dominant and pervasive bias in Information Systems (IS) research towards American and Western views, the World IT Project was launched and is the largest study of its kind in the field. This book captures the organizational, technological, and individual issues of IT employees across 37 countries.

The book enables management and staff to formulate business and IT-related policies and strategies. Likewise, it allows policymakers, governments and vendors to address important issues at the national level as well as to respond to the needs of partners and stakeholders in other countries. It also offers current and future academic scholars a grounded understanding of the international IT environment and provides a sound foundation to launch many international IT studies.

Readership: Students in International Business and International Informations Systems; relevant to MNCs, international agenices as well as governmental and non-governmental organizations, especially for senior managers, IT managers, and HR managers in the 37 countries covered in the book.

Prashant Palvia, PhD, is a Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. He has worked extensively in the field of Global IT Management and chairs the conferences of the Global IT Management Association. Professor Palvia is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Global Information Technology Management and Associate Editor for Information & Management. His research interests include global IT management, societal issues of IT, healthcare IT, and security and privacy. He has published 116 journal articles, 5 books, 21 book chapters, and numerous conference proceedings. His articles have appeared in such journals as the MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Communications of the ACM, Communications of the AIS, Information & Management, and Decision Support Systems. Jaideep Ghosh is a Professor at the Shiv Nadar University, India. His research interests include applications of social networks, big data analytics, system dynamics, financial modeling and econometric methods in IS, operations, and decision sciences. He is an editorial board member of several peer-reviewed journals. His research articles have appeared in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Sociological Methods & Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, International Journal of Production Research, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, the Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Social Indicators Research, and Scientometrics, among others. His awards include several best paper awards, the best track chair award, and the Ramanujan Fellowship awarded by the Science and Engineering Research Board of the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.

Tim Jacks is an Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in the USA. He has been an active member of the World IT Project core research team since its inception in 2013. His research interests include culture, business/ IT strategic alignment, and healthcare informatics. He is a pioneer in the area of IT Occupational Culture and its impact on organizations. He has published in a variety of academic journals including Communications of the Association of Information Systems, the DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Information Technology and People , and Decision Support Systems.

Alexander Serenko is an Associate Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and a Lecturer at the University of Toronto. His research interests pertain to scientometrics, knowledge management, and technology addiction. Alexander has published more than 80 articles in refereed journals, including MIS Quarterly, European Journal of Information Systems, Information & Management, Communications of the ACM, and Journal of Knowledge Management. He has also won six Best Paper awards at Canadian and international conferences.

Aykut Hamit Turan works as a Professor at the University of Nizwa, Oman and the Sakarya University, Turkey. His research interests include global IT management, healthcare IT, IT acceptance and adoption, and IT diffusion in SMEs. He has published a number of journal articles in such outlets as the European Journal of Information Systems, the Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Information & Management, the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, and Communication of the ACM. He has also published papers in the proceedings of more than 25 international conferences.