Synopses & Reviews
Increasingly India, with its expertise in communication technology, is becoming the "global back office" to international supply chains. Many international companies (and examples are legion, but a few examples are IBM, Sony, Exxon/Mobil, etc.) have employed Indian resources to help them with their data, their computerized decision support and their knowledge management. With large corporations opening the path to India, it has allowed a substantial communications and decision-support infrastructure to develop in a number of Indian cities. Therefore, opportunities have emerged for both large and small enterprises in the global market place to utilize these developing Indian resources. DECISION SUPPORT FOR GLOBAL ENTERPRISES is a volume of a mixture of peer-reviewed and invited papers. The volume will have two primary goals: (1) Stimulate creative and thoughtful discussion between academic research leaders and the practitioner information systems community that will improve both the research and practice in the area. (2) Increase the awareness of the problems and challenges faced by global enterprises that can be met with innovative computerized decision support systems. In addition to the positive aspects, the limitations of these systems and technologies are also explored. Emphasized in the book will be research on the following topics: (1) the emerging enterprise decision making processes and technologies; (2) decision making in uncertain, rapidly changing conditions; (3) the changing infrastructure in organizations and society; (4) the expanding role of web technologies; and (5) emerging theories and practices for managing knowledge and in making decisions.
Synopsis
India is becoming the "global back office" to international supply chains. This book consists of peer-reviewed and invited papers with two primary goals: (1) Stimulate creative discussion between academic researchers and the practitioner IS community to improve the research and practice in the area. (2) Increase awareness of the problems and challenges faced by global enterprises that can be met with innovative decision support systems.
Table of Contents
Preface.- Overview: concepts, theories, and frameworks.- Understanding decision support systems for global enterprises.- Sources of unstructuredness in decision situations.- Critical success factors for implementing of business intelligence systems.- Support for collaborative and distributed decision making.- Management of knowledge transfer in distributed software organizations.- Meeting challenges: empirical studies.- A longitudinal study of information exchange in computer-mediated and face-to-face groups.- The email strategy investigation model (eSIM).- Effects of knowledge management capabilities on perceived performance.- Using social choice rule sets in multiple attribute decision making for information system selection.- Individual's response to security messages.- An analysis of ERP decision making practice and consequences for subsequent system life cycle stages.- SCOLDSS - a decision support system for the planning of solid waste collection.- Evolving technologies: next generation systems.- Semantic web technologies for enhancing intelligent DSS environments.- Towards a unified representation framework for modelbases and databases.- A multi-attribute auction format for procurement with limited disclosure of buyer's preference structure.- A generic model of self-incrementing knowledge-based decision support system using the Bolzmann Machine.