Online collaboration is increasingly improving partnerships for organizations across the globe, strengthening existing relationships and creating new alliances that would previously have been inconceivable. Through these new global networks come significant issues, opportunities, and challenges for the consideration of researchers, organizational managers, and information professionals.

Handbook of Research on Information Management and the Global Landscape collects cutting-edge studies that deliver deep insights into the array of information management issues surrounding living and working in a global environment. Collecting over 20 authoritative chapters by recognized experts from distinguished research institutions worldwide, this truly international reference work emphasizes a regional theme while contributing to the global information environment, creating an essential addition to library reference collections.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Asymmetric telecommunications market
E-commerce diffusion
Global internet diffusion
Global IT outsourcing
Global landscape
Government surveillance
Information Management
Information Systems Research
International ICT spillover
Internet adoption
IT governance mechanisms
IT investment management processes
Mediated learning
Mobile number portability
Mobile phone communication innovation
Pre-negotiation and negotiation stages
Privacy Protection
Web-based surveys

Reviews & Statements

The research presented in this publication relates to the many issues surrounding living and working in a global environment. The chapters are organized by those that take a truly global perspective and those that emphasize a regional theme while contributing to the global environment.

– M. Gordon Hunter, University of Lethbridge, Canada

This book focuses on the opportunities and challenges that have emerged as technology crosses cultural borders.

– Book News Inc. (March 2009)

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Editor/Author Biographies

M. Gordon Hunter is Professor of Information Systems in the Faculty of Management at The University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Gordon has previously held academic positions at universities in Canada, Singapore, and Hong Kong. He has held visiting positions at universities in Australia, Monaco, Germany, New Zealand, and the U.S. During July and August of 2005 Gordon was a Visiting Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Felix B Tan is Professor of Information Systems and Chair of Business Information Systems discipline at Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand). He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Global Information Management. He is on the Executive Council and is Fellow of the Information Resources Management Association. He was also on the Council of the Association for Information System between 2003-2005. Dr. Tan’s current research interests are in electronic commerce, global information management, business-IT alignment, and the management of IT. Dr. Tan has published in MIS Quarterly, Information & Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on Personal Communications, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Information Technology, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, as well as other journals and refereed conference proceedings. Dr. Tan has over 25 years experience in information systems management and consulting with large multinationals, as well as university teaching and research in Singapore, Canada, and New Zealand.

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Associate Editors

Patrick Chau, University of Hong Kong, China

Brian Corbitt, RMIT University, Australia

Frank Dubois, American University, USA

Roberto Evaristo, 3M Corporation, USA

Gerald Grant, Carleton University, Canada

Ray Hackney, Manchester Metropolitan Univ., UK

G. Harindranath, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

M. Gordon Hunter, University of Lethbridge, Canada

Lech Janczewski, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Karen D. Loch, Georgia State University, USA

M. Lynne Markus, Bentley College, USA

Fred Niederman, St. Louis University, USA

Bernard Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Editorial Review Board

Anil Aggarwal, University of Baltimore, USA

Norman P. Archer, McMaster University, Canada

Jan G. Clark, University of Texas, USA

Narciso Cerpa, Universidad de Talca, Chile

George Ditsa, United Arab Emirates University, UAE

Ibrahim Ebeltagi, University of Wolverhampton, UK

Liliane Esnault, Lyon Graduate School of Bus., France

R. Brent Gallupe, Queen’s University, Canada

Tor Guimaraes, Tenessee Technological University, USA

Xunhua Guo, Tsinghua University, China

Zixiu Guo, University of New South Wales, Australia

Syed Zahoor Hassan, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

Se-Joon Hong, Korea University, Korea

Jean Huang, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Lihua Huang, Fudan University, China

Wayne Huang, Ohio University, USA

Se-Joon Hong, Korea University, Korea

Rekha Jain, Indian Institute of Management, India

Shaobo Ji, Carleton University, Canada

Jaak Jurison, Fordham University, USA

Sherif Kamel, American University in Cairo, Egypt

Atreyi Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Md Khaled Khan, Monash University, Australia

Hee-Woong Kim, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Yong Jin Kim, Sogang University, Korea

Hsiangchu Lai, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Vincent Lai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Renata Lebre La Rovere, University Fed. do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Albert Lederer, University of Kentucky, USA

Jae Kyu Lee, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Hans Lehmann, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Maris Martinsons, City University of Hong Kong, China

Neil McBride, DeMontfort University, UK

Peter Meso, Georgia State University, USA

Annette Mills, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA

Christine Nielsen, University of Baltimore, USA

Syed Nasirin, Brunel University, UK

Michael Parent, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Gregory Rose, Washington State University, USA

Pauline Ratnasingham, University of Central Missouri, USA

Mike Roseman, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Mikko Ruohonen, University of Tampere, Finland

Barry Shore, University of New Hampshire, USA

V. Sridhar, Management Development Institute, India

Mark Srite, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA

Robert Stegwee, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Kar Yan Tam, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong

Thompson Teo, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Eileen Trauth, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Lai Lai Tung, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Rossouv von Solms, Port Elizabeth Technikon, South Africa

Jiri Vorisek, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic

Bruce White, Dakota State University, USA

Chee Sing Yap, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia

Cheng Zhang, Fudan University, China