The importance of situating culture in cross-cultural IT management

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 26-30

  Weisinger, Judith Y ^a   Trauth, Eileen M ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

(IT); Contextualism; Cross cultural information technology (IT) management; Cross cultural research; Global IT; Global IT management; IT workforce; Situating culture

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGERS; RESEARCH; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

WORKFORCE;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0037322732     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2002.808259     Document Type: Article

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