Managing IT in Government, Business & Communities

Chapter 1: Adopting the Entrepreneurial Process in the Study of Information Systems and Small Business

Figure 1: Modelling the Entrepreneurial Process

Chapter 2: Optimal Purchase Decision Criteria for Information Technology

Figure 1: Pareto Curve for Athlon Chip Pricing

Chapter 4: Maintaining the Own Responsibility: Selected Information Systems Architecture, Selective Outsourcing and Organizational Learning as a Base for a Sustainably Positioned Information Technology Service

Figure 1: Interdependences Between Business Processes and Information Systems

Figure 2: The Structure of User Support Tasks

Figure 3: The Development of Costs and the Development of Reliability

Figure 4: Working Tasks and Communication Flow

Chapter 5: Using Spreadsheets as a Decision Support Tool: An Application for Small Businesses

Figure 1: A Model to Assist Small Businesses to Interact with Customers on the Internet

Figure 2: Level of Financial Commitment Screen

Figure 3: Information Technology Expertise Screen

Figure 4: The Implementation Screen

Figure 5: Input Form to Select Overall Business Strategy

Chapter 8: An Analysis of Factors that Influence the Ability of SMEs to Derive Benefit in Four Phases of Electronic Commerce: 34 Australian Case Studies

Diagram 1: Four Phases of E-Commerce Business Transformation Among SMEs

Chapter 9: Electronic Government in Japan: IT Utilization Status of Local Governments

Figure 1: System of Analysis

Figure 2: Utilization Status of E-Mail by Position

Figure 3: Change in Utilization Status of E-Mail

Figure 4: Addressing Attitude on Digitalization

Chapter 10: Concerns and Solutions on Electronic Voting Systems Adoption

Figure 1: Network Frame on Internet-based EVS

Chapter 12: E-Business Development Issues in UK SMEs

Figure 1: Consumer Online Spending at UK Sites 1997 2002

Chapter 14: Virtualisations and its Role in Business

Figure 1: Structure of a Modern Organisation

Figure 2: Creating the Virtual Project Team

Chapter 15: Virtual Organization: Duality of Human Identities in Consciousness and Entity

Figure 1: Dual Identities of Human Players in Both Real and Virtual Organizations

Chapter 16: Interorganizational Relationships, Strategic Alliances, and Networks: The Role of Communication Systems and Information Technologies

Figure 1: Forms of Interorganizational Relationship

Figure 2: Patterns of Dyadic Relationship

Figure 3: Classification of Strategic Alliance Based on Core-Competence

Figure 4: Five Key Organizing Principles for the 21st Century

Figure 5: Elements and Problem Area of Ion and IT

Figure 6: Classification of Communication Measures (Examples)

Chapter 18: Using the Web for Enhancing Decision-Making: UN Project Failures in Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA)

Figure 1: Monitoring and Assessment of Aid Projects in SSA

Figure 2: The Internet is an Intelligence-Gathering Tool