"This book offers solutions, best practices, and case studies on information management on a global scale among developed, developing, and emerging nations, including discussions of organizational and managerial implications"--Provided by publisher.

Presents the theoretical and empirical research on the business value of information technology, as well as the use of management of information technology for increasing organizational performance and gaining strategic advantages. The betterment of information technology payoff and information...

The IT revolution has affected the entire world by producing a new, Internet-based, digital economy in which geographical distance and borders have become less of an obstacle to global trade. Thanks to IT, developing countries, in every region of the world, have the opportunity to break out of...

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