Information technology has had a major impact on individuals, organizations and society over the past 50 years. There are few organizations that can afford to ignore IT and few individuals who would prefer to be without it. As managerial tasks become more complex, so the nature of the required information systems (IS) changes - from structured, routine support to ad hoc, complex enquiries at the highest levels of management. Global Information Systems aims to present the many complex and inter-related issues associated with culture in the management of information systems. The editors have selected a wide range of contemporary articles from leading experts in North America and Europe that represent a wide variety of different national and cultural environments. They offer valid explanations for, rather than simply pointing out cultural differences in articles that cover a variety of national cultures, including: China, Egypt, Finland, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Jamaica, Peru South Korea, Kuwait, Mexico, Singapore, Sweden, the United Arab Emirate, the UK, and the US.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: An Overview of Culture and IS; Part 1 The first three articles take a national perspective of culture and the last one an organizational perspective.; Chapter 1 Contextualizing Patterns of Work Group Interaction: Toward a Nested Theory of Structuration, Leslie A. Perlow, Jody Hoffer Gittell, Nancy Katz; Chapter 2 Michael D. Myers was the accepting senior editor for this paper., Geoff Walsham; Chapter 3 Reporting Bad News About Software Projects: Impact of Organizational Climate and Information Asymmetry in an Individualistic and a Collectivistic Culture, Bernard C. Y. Tan, H. Jeff Smith, Mark Keil, Ramiro Montealegre; Chapter 4 Competing Values in Software Process Improvement: An Assumption Analysis of CMM From An Organizational Culture Perspective, Ojelanki Ngwenyama, Peter Axel Nielsen; Part 2 The Role of Culture in IS Adoption and Diffusion; Chapter 5 Diffusing the Internet in the Arab World: The Role of Social Norms and Technological Culturation, Karen D. Loch, Detmar W. Straub, Sherif Kamel; Chapter 6 The Key Role of Organizational Culture in a Multi-system View of Technology-driven Change, Ángel Cabrera, Elizabeth F. Cabrera, Sebastián Barajas; Chapter 7 Dangerous Liaisons? Component-Based Development and Organizational Subcultures, Jimmy C. Huang, Sue Newell, Robert D. Galliers, Shan-Ling Pan; Chapter 8 Assimilating New Technologies, Norton Hoffman, Robert Klepper; Chapter 9 A Qualitative Assessment of Arab Culture and Information Technology Transfer, Carole E. Hill, Karen D. Loch, Detmar W. Straub, Kamal El-Sheshai; Part 3 The Role of Culture in IT Use and Outcomes; Chapter 10 The Role of Culture in Knowledge Management: A Case Study of Two Global Firms, Dorothy Leidner, Maryam Alavi, Timothy Kayworth; Chapter 11 Impact of National Culture on Information Technology Usage Behaviour: An Exploratory Study of Decision Making in Korea and the USA, Kenneth J Calhoun, James T. C. Teng, Myun Joong Cheon; Chapter 12 Mexican and Swedish Managers’ Perceptions of the Impact of EIS on Organizational Intelligence, Decision Making, and Structure, Dorothy E. Leidner, Sven Carlsson, Joyce Elam, Martha Corrales; Chapter 13 Culture and Consumer Responses to Web Download Time: A Four-Continent Study of Mono- and Polychronism, Gregory M. Rose, Roberto Evaristo, Detmar Straub; Part 4 The Role of Culture in IT Management; Chapter 14 Relating IT Strategy and Organizational Culture: An Empirical Study of Public Sector Units in India, Shivraj Kanungo, Sanjeev Sadavarti, Yadlapati Srinivas; Chapter 15 Developing a Management Culture in which Information Technology will Flourish: How the UK Can Benefit, Roger Tomlin; Chapter 16 The authors wish to express their appreciation to A. Teh, M.C. Ho, and F.B. Ahmad for their data collection effort in this research., Sandra Slaughter, Soon Ang; Chapter 17 Understanding an Organization’s View of the CIO: The Role of Assumptions About IT, Michelle L. Kaarst-Brown;