This article addresses the issue of scaling of information systems (IS) in both theoretical and
empirical terms. Scaling is an important issue in IS, especially in the contemporary context of …

This paper describes a research study, carried out over the period 1993 to 1995, of the
efforts made in India to develop and use geographical information systems (GIS) 2 to aid …

Our paper is motivated by one simple question: Why do so many action research efforts fail
to persist over time? We approach this question, the problem of sustainability, building on a …

The current landscape of the information systems research literature concerned with
developing countries is surveyed by examining a range of research articles published from …

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This book offers key insights into how to manage software development across international
boundaries. It is based on a series of case studies looking at the relationships between firms …

In this paper, utilizing the often taken-for-granted notions of space and time, we develop an
understanding of how collaboration is possible among virtual team-members spread across …

The developing countries account for the majority of the world's population, and are
important for this reason alone. In addition, developing countries contain millions of people …

A comparative case study was designed to assess the consequences of implementing a
particular geographic information system (GIS) in two neighboring county government …

This paper outlines how the grounded theory methodology was adapted to develop a
process model of collaboration in virtual teams. The data analysis was conducted using an …