List of Tables

Chapter 2: Impact on Society: The Missing Dimension in Evaluating the Benefits of IT in the Public Sector

Table 1: Objectives and benefits of electronic marketplaces categorized under MIS success measures (DeLone & McLean, 1992)

Chapter 4: Analysis of the Cross-Cultural Dimensions of National Web Portals

Table 1: Hofstede's cultural dimensions

Table 2: Common portal features

Table 3: Content diversity and variations in visual effects among national portals

Table 4: Hofstede's indices of cultural dimensions (a selected sample)

Table 5: Power difference examples

Table 6: Individualism-collectivism examples

Table 7: Masculine-feminine examples

Table 8: Uncertainty avoidance examples

Chapter 6: Software Confederations—An Architecture for Global Systems and Global Management

Table 1: The comparison of autonomous components an object-oriented components

Chapter 9: Managing Information Technology Component of Knowledge Management: Outsourcing as a Strategic Option in Developing Countries

Table 1: Nature of IT management, IT infrastructure capability and KM rankings

Chapter 14: Culture and E-Business in Thailand

Table 1: E-business initiatives reasons

Table 2: E-business issues

Table 3: Culture factors

Table 4: Language used in Thai web pages

Table 5: E-business initiatives barriers

Chapter 16: Job Satisfaction in the Information and Communication Sector: The Case of Egypt

Table 1: Ranking of job aspects by importance

Table 2: Groups of job aspects

Chapter 17: Evaluating the Factors Affecting Decision Support System Usage by Strategic Decision Makers in Egypt: Using a Structural Equation Modelling Approach

Table 1: Key factors identified in IS implementation literature

Table 2: Cronbah's coefficient ± for constructs

Table 3: Recommended values of goodness-of-fit measures

Table 4: Fit measures for task characteristics model

Chapter 18: The Perception of Managers on the Impacts of the Internet in Brazilian Hotels: An Exploratory Study

Table 1: Managers' profile

Table 2: Hotels profile

Table 3: Biggest benefit that the Internet can bring to a hotel

Table 4: Biggest difficulty for the hotel to use the Internet

Table 5: Effect of managers' age on the perception of the importance of Internet use

Table 6: Effect of managers experience time on their perception

Table 7: Effect of hotel rate on the perception of managers

Table 8: Effect of the number of rooms in the perception of managers

Chapter 19: Information Technology Project Management to Achieve Efficiency in Brazilian Companies

Table 1: Immature organization x mature organization (adapted from Paulk et al., 1995)

Table 2: Life cycle phases characteristics (Kezner, 2001)

Table 3: Comparative analysis

Chapter 20: Adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning Software by Organizations in India: A Managerial Framework

Table 1: The growth of the ERP market in India

Table 2: Market share of ERP vendors in India for the year 1998–1999

Table 3: Planning stage

Table 4: Implementation stage

Table 5: Post implementation review stage