APPLICATIONS OF GLOBAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - KEY ISSUES FOR MANAGEMENT

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: IVES, B; JARVENPAA, SL
• 署名单位: University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
• 刊物名称: MIS QUARTERLY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0276-7783
• DOI: 10.2307/249433
• 发表日期: 1991
• 页码: 33-49
• 关键词: MULTINATIONAL-CORPORATIONS; data flow

摘要

Carefully crafted investments in global information technology offer firms an opportunity to increase control and enhance coordination, while opening access to new global markets and businesses. But engineering such global systems presents numerous challenges to management. In this article, we relate these challenges as they were described to us by 25 senior managers from Fortune 500 firms responsible for implementing and managing global applications of information technology. Among the findings of the interviews are four common approaches for managing global information technology.