Introduction

Rapid development of information technology (IT) has the capability of providing most organizations to conduct their business operations efficiently. It is even more significant for multinational corporations (MNCs). Undoubtedly, a well-designed global information system is a critical success factor for managing and operating the MNCs smoothly and effectively. In the past decade, researchers have identified a number of IT issues that relate to an organization's transition to globalization (Burn et al., 1993; Edberg et al., 2001; Nelson, 1996; Palvia et al., 1992; Sankar & Prabhakar, 1992; Watson et al., 1997). However, the challenges of information technology dealing with transforming enterprises to globalized organizations are not just identifying the IT issues, but consolidating and resolving these issues to support the organizations towards globalization. The intent of this chapter is to identify and classify the IT issues in globalization process, and develop a global transition framework based on these IT issues.