-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] JGITM, Vol 19, No 4 Datum: Fri, 5 May 2017 14:18:12 -0400 Von: Prashant Palvia pcpalvia@uncg.edu An: AISWorld aisworld@lists.aisnet.org
Please distribute to colleagues and relevant lists. Sorry, I have been late in posting the contents. This issue was published on time in November, 2016. ************************* Dear IS friends:
JGITM is published by Taylor & Francis Group (T&F). We have a modern submission and review system, web site, as well as full marketing support. To submit papers, please go to: http://www.editorialmanager.com/ugit.
************************ JGITM is among the elite group of MIS journals included in the prestigious Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). It is included in both SSCI and CC/S&BS, both produced by Thomson Reuters. Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group (T&F), http:// www.tandfonline.com/UGIT Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Prashant Palvia, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, pcpalvia@uncg.edu ************************ CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: The journal invites contributions from all parts of the world from academic and industry scholars involved in research, management, and the utilization of global information resources. Besides quality work, at a minimum each submitted article should have the following three components: an IS topic, an international orientation (e.g., cross cultural studies or strong international implications), and strong evidence (e.g., survey data, case studies, experiments, secondary data, etc.). Please submit your manuscript to the submission site: http://www.editorialmanager.com/ugit
REVIEW PROCESS: Each suitable article is blind-reviewed by three members of the editorial review board. A recommendation is then made by the Editor-in-Chief or an Associate Editor. The final decision is made by the Editor-in-Chief. If a revision is recommended, the revised paper is sent for final approval to one of the Editors. ************************ CONTENTS OF VOLUME 19, NUMBER 4 (Oct-Dec, 2016) OF THE JOURNAL OF GLOBAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT (JGITM)
EDITORIAL PREFACE: BIG DATA ANALYTICS: A FIELD OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCHERS Jaideep Ghosh, Shiv Nadar University, India, jaideep.ghosh@snu.edu.in In recent years, the information systems (IS) research community has been experiencing an exciting time discovering and coming to grips with many unexplored or untapped opportunities for research that lie at the intersection of the disciplines of information systems and technology, big data, analytics, and data science. In this article, we discuss the some of the critical aspects of the big-data problem and show their importance as well as relevance to IS research. We also propose a number of research problems in this area that interested IS scholars can address to delve more deeply into the field as well as to generate further active interest of the subject within the IS community.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS OUTSOURCING REASONS AND RISKS: REVIEW AND EVOLUTION Reyes González (mr.gonzalez@ua.es), Jose Gascó & Juan Llopis The present article proposes a set of outsourcing reasons and risks—subsequently assessing them in the case of major Spanish companies through a survey that has been replicated twice. A questionnaire was administered to the Information Systems managers of the largest Spanish firms in order to achieve these aims. An analysis was carried out to check if the proposed reasons and risks are valid for firms regardless of their size or their degree of outsourcing, later complemented with a study of the effect that time has on them, showing a 12-year evolution.
IDIOCENTRISM VERSUS ALLOCENTRISM AND ETHICAL EVALUATIONS ON ILLEGAL DOWNLOADING INTENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND SOUTH KOREA Namkee Park, Hyun Sook Oh & Naewon Kang (nkang@dankook.ac.kr) This study examined the effects of the personality dimension of idiocentrism and allocentrism, individual experiences, and ethical evaluations on illegal downloading intention. Using data from surveys of college students in the United States and South Korea, the study uncovered that South Korean students are more likely to download illegal content than the U.S. counterpart. The study found the personal trait of self-reliance affected illegal downloading intention for the U.S. students, as expected, while that of interdependence affected the intention for South Korean students. Of more interest is that self-reliance, which is likely to be prominent in individualistic societies, played an important role in explaining illegal downloading intention among the students of South Korea where collectivistic culture has traditionally been predominant. Further, the role of individual experience and ethical evaluations played differently in accounting for illegal downloading intention among the U.S. and South Korean students.
AWARENESS AND ATTITUDES OF SMALL-SCALE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS OPERATORS IN LAGOS, NIGERIA TOWARD E-WASTE HAZARDS Williams Nwagwu (nwagwwe@unisa.ac.za) & Margaret Okuneye Electronic waste, consisting of fairly used and unusable electronic and electrical equipment, is the fastest growing solid waste in the world, and it contains substances that are toxic to human health and environment. Businesses anchored on e-waste thrive in Lagos, Nigeria, and many studies have examined the hazards caused by e-waste, but none of the studies examined the awareness and attitudes of the e-waste dealers toward the health hazards of the waste they generate. The aim of this study is to examine the awareness and attitudes of e-waste dealers in Lagos, Nigeria toward the health hazards of e-waste, understand the factors influencing their behavior, and the likelihood that they will embrace adequate e-waste management practices as well as how these variables are related to their socio-demographic characteristics. The study is guided by the Theory of Reason Action. Data analysis was guided by binary logistic regression. The e-waste dealers are aware about the health hazards of their goods and are willing to adopt adequate behavior toward managing them. However, they would be willing to co-operate with the Lagos State government in this regard more than they would with their trade association or federal government agencies. The negative attitude of the e-waste dealers toward e-waste, despite their high level of awareness about e-waste hazard, is a very significant observation. The Lagos State government should lead mass awareness programs encompassing all the stakeholders of e-waste.
THE EXPERT OPINION: AN INTERVIEW WITH JO O’FLYNN, CTO, SILAH GULF Conducted by Virginia Kleist, West Virginia University, virginia.kleist@mail.wvu.edu Jo O’Flynn heads Silah’s IT department. Her key responsibility includes framing the IT strategy for the company along with providing innovative solutions to align business processes and objectives. In this interview, she describes her company and its business, the role of IT and many IT applications. Among other topics, she goes on to talk about strategic applications of IT, the role of IT in internationalization of the business, the attributes of a successful IT leader, and the role of women in IT.
BOOK REVIEW: NEW TRENDS IN INTELLIGENT INFORMATION AND DATABASE SYSTEMS (2015) Reviewed by: Robert Vinaja, Texas A&M University San Antonio, Texas, USA, bvinaja@tamusa.tamus.edu Dariusz Barbucha, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, John Batubara An ambitious objective for researchers has been to create computers that can mimic or replicate human intelligence. Researchers have achieved only partial success in reaching this goal. This book contains 38 chapters based on papers presented at the Seventh Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems taking place in Bali, Indonesia. It is organized into five sections. The book provides a solid collection of innovative research. This book will be very appealing to researchers and practitioners interested in applications of newer databases and artificial intelligence to enhance information systems.
******************************************** For copies of the above articles, please check for the Journal of Global Information Technology Management (JGITM) in your institution's library. ******************************************** MISSION: The mission of the Journal of Global Information Technology Management (JGITM) is to continue to be the premier journal on Global Information Technology Management. It is a refereed international journal supported by global IT scholars from all over the world. JGITM publishes articles and reports related to all aspects of the application of information technology for international business. For example, it will report on information resource management, managerial and organizational concerns, educational issues, and innovative applications related to global IT. Very important to the journal is its emphasis on quality and relevance. The journal disseminates this knowledge to researchers, practitioners, academicians, and educators all over the world on a timely basis. Finally, the journal is international in all respects: content, article authorship, readership, and the editorial board.
SCOPE AND COVERAGE: The journal's scope is multidisciplinary. It publishes research, applied, and educational articles from all areas of MIS as well as functional IT applications that have international focus. The journal also entertains a variety of methodological approaches. It encourages manuscript submissions from authors all over the world, both from academia and industry. In addition, the journal will also include educational cases and reviews of MIS books that have bearing on global aspects. Practitioner input will be specifically solicited from time-to-time in the form of industry columns and CIO interviews.
Articles in the journal include, but are not limited to the following areas: Frameworks and models for global information systems (GIS), Development, evaluation and management of GIS, Electronic Commerce, Internet related issues, Societal impacts of IT in developing countries, IT and Economic development, IT Diffusion in developing countries, IT human resource issues, DSS/EIS/ES in international settings, Organizational and management structures for GIS, Transborder data flow issues, Electronic data interchange, Telecommunications, Distributed global databases and networks, Cultural and societal impacts, Comparative studies of nations, and Applications and case studies (both educational and research). _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org