Synopses & Reviews
In today's global society, it has become increasingly important to address the current challenges, obstacles, and solutions encountered by researchers in the field of information resources management. Global, Social, and Organizational Implications of Emerging Information Resources Management: Concepts and Applications highlights recent trends and advancements as they impact all facets of information resources management in an ever-changing society. This collection provides focused discussions of the role outsourcing has played in modern business, the development of Web information systems, and social issues such as explorations of age-based salary differences and workplace stress.
Table of Contents
Ch. 1. A Paradigmatic and Methodological Review of Research in Outsourcing -- Ch. 2. Outsourcing in the Healthcare Industry: Information Technology, Intellectual Property, and Allied Aspects -- Ch. 3. Evolving Relationship between Law, Offshoring of Professional Services, Intellectual Property, and International Organizations -- Ch. 4. Ensuring Correctness, Completeness, and Freshness for Outsourced Tree-Indexed Data -- Ch. 5. The Post-Offshoring IS Organization -- Ch. 6. Is Information Systems (IS) Offshoring an Extension of IS Outsourcing?: Concept, Definition and Determinants -- Ch. 7. Hybrid Offshoring: Composite Personae and Evolving Collaboration Technologies -- Ch. 8. Exploratory Study on Effective Control Structure in Global Business Process Sourcing -- Ch. 9. An Outsourcing Acceptance Model: An Application of TAM to Application Development Outsourcing Decisions -- Ch. 10. Testing for the Applicability of the TAM Model in the Arabic Context: Exploring an Extended TAM with Three Moderating Factors -- Ch. 11. Factors Influencing the Use of Decision Support Tools of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems -- Ch. 12. Software Quality Management: Measurement and Research Directions -- Ch. 13. Is "Usefulness" or "Use" the Superior Metric When Assessing Web-Based Information System Success? -- Ch. 14. Identification of Critical Success Factors (CSF) and their Relative Importance for Web-Based Information Systems Development -- Ch. 15. Media Richness in Online Consumer Interactions: An Exploratory Study of Consumer-Opinion Web Sites -- Ch. 16. Revisiting the Impact of Information Technology Investments on Productivity: An Empirical Investigation Using Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) -- Ch. 17. Building the IT Workforce of the Future: The Demand for More Complex, Abstract, and Strategic Knowledge -- Ch. 18. Perception Gaps about Skills Requirement for Entry-Level IS Professionals between Recruiters and Students: An Exploratory Study -- Ch. 19. The Relationship Between the Fulfillment of the IT Professional s Psychological Contract and their Organizational Citizenship and Innovative Work Behaviors -- Ch. 20. Inter-Team Negotiation Support, Coalition Formation, and Negotiation Outcomes: An Empirical Study -- Ch. 21. Impact of Age on Information Technology Salaries -- Ch. 22. An Empirical Investigation of Stress Factors in Information Technology Professionals -- Ch. 23. Information Technology Portfolio Management: Literature Review, Framework, and Research Issues.