Information technology management in developing countries
Title:
Information technology management in developing countries
Author:
Dadashzadeh, Mohammad.
ISBN:
9781931777230
Publication Information:
Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2002.
Physical Description:
electronic texts (vi, 334 p. : ill. (some col.)) : digital files.
Contents:
1. IT industry success in small countries : the cases of Finland and New Zealand / Rebecca Watson, Michael D. Myers -- 2. Can national information infrastructures enhance social development in the least developed countries? : an empirical investigation / Peter Meso and Nancy Duncan -- 3. Information technology for relational business ecosystems : a case study in the Brazilian engineering industry / Luiz Antonio Joia -- 4. Geographic information systems in developing countries : issues in data collection, implementation and management / Brian E. Mennecke, Lawrence A. West, Jr. -- 5. Transfer of information technology to the Arab world : a test of cultural influence modeling / Detmar W. Straub, Karen D. Loch and Carole E. Hill -- 6. Information systems leadership roles : an empirical study of information technology managers in Norway / Petter Gottschalk -- 7. Out of Scandinavia : facing social risks in IT development in South Africa / Helana Scheepers, Lars Mathiassen -- 8. Dysfunctional development pathways of information and communication technology : cultural conflicts / G. Roland Kaye and Stephen Little -- 9. The context of introducing IT/IS-based innovation into local government in Colombia / Mahmoud M. Watad -- 10. Leapfrogging an IT labor force : multinational and indigenous perspectives / Eileen M. Trauth -- 11. Enterprise intelligence : a new concept of management for the new economy / Marcos Cavalcanti, Elisabeth Gomes --
12. Assessing the software industry in Egypt / Sherif Kamel -- 13. A model of a computer salary calculation system in Poland / Wojciech Jurkowski -- 14. Sticking to the basics : information technology at the glue factory / Charlene A. Dykman and Charles K. Davis -- 15. Information technology for knowledge management in China / Michelle W.L. Fong -- 16. Developing an expert system to software selection in small business / Leopoldo Colmenares -- 17. Software development in developing countries : framework for analysis of quality initiatives / Syed Zahoor Hassan -- 18. Requirements of IS development methodologies towards the new organizational paradigm : a Brasilian study using Delphi technique / Aline Franca de Abreu, Ruth Ferreira Roque Rossi.
Abstract:
The IT revolution has affected the entire world by producing a new, Internet-based, digital economy in which geographical distance and borders have become less of an obstacle to global trade. Thanks to IT, developing countries, in every region of the world, have the opportunity to break out of the mold of raw material supplier to the developed nations and experience unprecedented growth in the Internet economy as producers too. This title discusses the possible pitfalls and triumphs involved when implementing this entity into the structure of a developing country.
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