The World IT Project

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.
Contents: PrefaceForewordAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsThe World IT Project: A Long Journeyin the Making (Prashant Palvia, Jaideep Ghosh, Tim Jacks, Alexander Serenko, and Aykut Hamit Turan)Information Technology Issues in Argentina (Claudio Freijedo, Victor Veriansky, Alicia Cortagerena, Pablo Rota, and Tim Jacks)Information Technology Issues in Bangladesh (Md. Rakibul Hoque and Prashant Palvia)Information Technology Issues in Brazil (Carlo Gabriel Porto Bellini, Valter Moreno Jr., Alexandre Reis Graeml, and Tim Jacks)Information Technology Issues in Canada (Alexander Serenko, Nick Bontis, Prashant Palvia, and Aykut Hamit Turan)Information Technology Issues in China (Jie Yu, Yue Guo, and Prashant Palvia)Information Technology Issues in Egypt (Myriam Raymond, ShiKui Wu, and Alexander Serenko)Information Technology Issues in Finland (Mikko Ruohonen, Nicholas Mavengere, A K M Najmul Islam, Alexander Serenko, Ulla-Riitta Ahlfors, and Aykut Hamit Turan)Information Technology Issues in France (Hajer Kefi, Michel Kalika, and Prashant Palvia)Information Technology Issues in Germany (Elisabeth F Mueller, Jaideep Ghosh, and Prashant Palvia)Information Technology Issues in Ghana (Jerry Godwin Diabor, Alexander Serenko, and Jaideep Ghosh)Information Technology Issues in Greece (Alexander Serenko and Gokul Bhandari)Information Technology Issues in Hungary (Tamara Keszey, Ádám Katona, and Prashant Palvia)Information Technology Issues in India (Jaideep Ghosh, Dolphy Abraham, and Prashant Palvia)Information Technology Issues in Iran (Jaideep Ghosh, Dolphy Abraham, Prashant Palvia, and Hamid Nemati)Information Technology Issues in Italy (Chiara Frigerio, Marcello Martinez, Mario Pezzillo Iacono, Federico Rajola, and Tim Jacks)Information Technology Issues in Japan (Hiroshi Sasaki, Osam Sato, and Prashant Palvia)Information Technology Issues in Jordan (Aykut Hamit Turan, Naciye Güliz Uğur, and Prashant Palvia)Information Technology Issues in Lithuania (Eglė Vaičiukynaitė, Rimantas Gatautis, Elena Vitkauskaitė, and Tim Jacks)Information Technology Issues in Macedonia (Nikola Levkov, Mijalche Santa, Tim Jacks, and Aykut Hamit Turan)Information Technology Issues in Malaysia (Ainin Sulaiman, Noor Ismawati Jaafar, and Prashant Palvia)Information Technology Issues in Mexico (Gustavo Parés, Ricardo Luis Parés Arce, Vicente Cubells Nonell, Eder Espinos Diaz, Luis Humberto Rojas Pineda, and Prashant Palvia)Information Technology Issues in New Zealand (Jocelyn Cranefield, Mary Ellen Gordon, Zlatko Kovačić, Gillian Oliver, Alexander Serenko, and Aykut Hamit Turan)Information Technology Issues in Nigeria (Olayinka David-West, Eugene Ohu, and Prashant Palvia)Information Technology Issues in Pakistan (Ijaz A Qureshi, Moazzam Hussain, Hassan Raza, Shaista Shahid, Prashant Palvia, and Aykut Hamit Turan)Information Technology Issues in Peru (Rolando A Gonzales, Eddy A Morris, and Tim Jacks)Information Technology Issues in Poland (Stanislaw Wrycza, Damian Gajda, and Prashant Palvia)Information Technology Issues in Portugal (Rui Dinis Sousa, João Álvaro Carvalho, Luis Alfredo Martins do Amaral, and Prashant Palvia)Information Technology Issues in Romania (Doina Fotache, Vasile-Daniel Pavaloaia, Luminiţa Hurbean, Octavian Dospinescu, Alexander Serenko, and Tim Jacks)Information Technology Issues in Russia (Tim Jacks, Nikolay Kazantsev, and Alexander Serenko)Information Technology Issues in South Africa (Kennedy Njenga, Brenda Scholtz, Jean Paul van Belle, and Alexander Serenko)Information Technology Issues in South Korea (Kyootai Lee, Youngkyun Kim, and Prashant Palvia)Information Technology Issues in Taiwan (Benjamin Yeo, Alexander Serenko, and Tim Jacks)Information Technology Issues in Thailand (Savanid Vatanasakdakul, Chadi Aoun, and Wachara Chantatub)Information Technology Issues in Turkey (Aykut Hamit Turan, Naciye Güliz Uğur, and Prashant Palvia)Information Technology Issues in the UK (Anne Powell, Penny Hart, and Tim Jacks)Information Technology Issues in the USA (Tim Jacks and Prashant Palvia)Information Technology Issues in Vietnam (Prashant Palvia, Hao Wu, and Tim Jacks)Index
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.Global Information Technology;World IT View;Organizational Issues;Technological Issues;Individual IT Issues;National Culture;IT Occupational Culture;Organizational Factors;Survey0Key Features:There is no book currently in the market which describes and interprets the important information technology issues in different parts of the worldIn order to get a world view, readers will have to consult different sources such as journals, magazines, books and newspapers and yet the information will be grossly incomplete as well as outdated