Change agentry—the next IS frontier
MIS Quarterly
Hong Kong's EDI bandwagon derailed or on the right track?
Proceedings of the IFIP TC8 WG8.6 international working conference on diffusion, adoption and implementation of information technology on Facilitating technology transfer through partnership: learning from practice and research
A research manifesto for global information management
Journal of Global Information Management
Enterprise resource planning: cultural fits and misfits: is ERP a universal solution?
Communications of the ACM
Electronic commerce in China: emerging success stories
Information and Management
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An important line of research on global information management examines the effects of national culture on information technology (IT) development, operations, management, and use. This chapter argues that global information management researchers should not lose sight of structural conditions related to business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce activity. Structural conditions are physical, social, and economic arrangements that shape e-commerce business models and influence individual and organizational use of the Internet. Examples include geography (which affects the physical distribution of goods purchased online), space (which influences the choice of access technology for e-commerce), and financial infrastructure (which is related to credit card use). Structural conditions differ from country to country -- and even from location to location within country, but they are not necessarily related to dimensions of natural culture. Therefore, valid explanations of global differences in e-commerce activity require a careful assessment of relevant structural factors.