Cross-organizational and cross-border IS/IT collaboration
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PREFACE
Cross-organizational and cross-border IS/IT collaboration Nicholas C. Romano Jr. & James B. Pick
Published online: 23 February 2012 # Institute of Information Management, University of St. Gallen 2012
As globalization moves forward, many IS/IT investments are being deployed across organizations located in different countries and world regions. Cross-system and inter-system integration and collaboration technologies play essential roles and often determine investment success or failure. However, economic, social and other factors outside the system must also be taken into consideration for global IS/IT projects to be successful and productive. Academic literature has extensively focused on trying to explain IS/IT productivity, but has rarely examined the links between international and multinational collaboration processes and the payoffs in the realm of electronic markets. Despite the intensive research for more than two decades of different aspects on IS/IT collaboration, many findings are based on the cultural environment of North America or Western Europe. In addition, most of the investigation has been conducted in the context of a single country. As corporate reality demands that firms cooperate across national, economic and social boundaries, collaboration models need to be constructed, validated, and further refined in terms of the Global Electronic Markets.
N. C. Romano Jr. (*) Oklahoma State University, 700 N. Greenwood Ave., Tulsa, OK 74106-0700, USA e-mail: [email protected] J. B. Pick University of Redlands, 1200 East Colton Avenue, Redlands, CA 92625, USA e-mail: [email protected]
IS/IT collaboration in the global economy differs substantially from collaboration in any single country or region for several reasons. First, IS/IT infrastructures differ significantly in terms of stage of development and maturity. Second, regulatory, legal, social, and cultural environments may also vary substantially. Third, various stakeholders in global IS/IT projects often have different or even conflicting goals and ascribe to their own definitions of project success. In addition, managing globally distributed teams requires a high level of coordination and collaboration that exceeds that needed for more typical virtual teams within one economy or region. For IS/IT projects to be successful and productive in the global economy researchers and practitioners need to address the aforementioned and other issues. This special issue of Electronic Markets seeks to make a broad inter-disciplinary contribution to the literature in this area. The main objective of the special issue is to examine the linkages between global and inter-organizational collaboration and business success of varied kinds, in the context of electronic markets. As an emerging area in electronic markets, the articles in this issue have from a variety of methods, viewpoints, theory, and perspectives. The four articles in this special section relate to the following areas: & & & &
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