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Article: Information systems design decisions in a global versus domestic context.
- Article from:
- MIS Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 1, 1995
- Author:
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Keywords: IS management, global IS, distribution policy, IS planning, O-methodology, IS project managers, international business
ISRL Categories: EF, EGO1, EHO111, ELO9, HB31
Introduction
The popular as well as the academic literature predicts a revolution in management thinking and practice as more and more industries are transformed into global enterprises. "The world," we are told, "has begun to resemble a global village" (Doktor, et al., 1991, p. 259). This village will be "a global marketplace for ideas, money, goods, and services that knows no national boundaries" (Hamilton, 1986, p.30). Few large firms will be able to resist selling in that ...