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International Business and IT

Author: Masood Samii

Until relatively recently, it was the domestic perspective of business which was the driving force behind information technology applications. But in the age of globalization, there is an increasing need for IT to be more 'global friendly'.

International Business & IT is a breakthrough text that analyses the relationship between international business operations and information technology. Firstly, it assesses the impact of current developments in IT on the operation of multinational corporations on both a practical and theoretical level and explores how it can improve competitive advantage. Secondly, it investigates how doing business in an international environment affects the design, implementation and management of information systems for global enterprises.

The text offers a much-needed overview of the key trends in IT and global business management, with contributors from the fields of IT, international business, business development and marketing. Taking a multi-disciplinaryapproach, the text includes unique case studies of global companies to complement and illuminate the theoretical grounding of each chapter and raise the issues that are of real relevance to managers working internationally.

International Business & IT is essential reading for academics, students and practitioners working in the fields of IT, International Business and Strategy.

Table of Contents:

1	International business and IT	1
2	Globalization and IT	9
3	Factors influencing the internationalization of e-commerce : toward a systems dynamics approach	21
4	Incorporating IT into global business negotiations	33
	IT and transformation of finance	53
6	IT infrastructure and global operations	67
7	Web design for international business	83
8	Designing and managing data warehouses in a global environment	111
9	IT and globalization at Reebok	137
10	Electronic commerce in low-income countries	147
11	The role of e-commerce in scaling up small businesses in developing economies : a B2B information architecture model and IT infrastructure	161
12	Internal and external environments factors affecting access to technology in Southeast Asian institutions of higher learning	179

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Kenya: The Quest for Prosperity, Vol. 2

Author: Norman N Miller

Kenya is one of Africa’s most important and controversial nations. It has simultaneously been heralded for its political stability and economic success and criticized as a wellspring of elitism and class exploitation. Kenya remains a close ally of the West and a symbol of capitalism in Africa, and it occupies a position of strategic importance to the Middle East and the Indian Ocean. Yet all of these distinctions are now coming under question in the fourth decade of independence.Kenya’s exquisite natural beauty and renowned wildlife refuges hide a more mundane reality. The country is vast, rural, poor, and without oil or other mineral wealth. It is dependent on smallholder agriculture and export earnings from international tourism, tea, and coffee. Although the population is only 28 million, less than 20 percent of Kenya’s land area is readily available for dense human settlement. Population growth has slowed, but demographic pressures still pose very serious socioeconomic, ecological, and environmental challenges.In this second edition of a critically acclaimed profile, Miller and Yeager address these and other social issues while tracing political and economic developments from early precolonial times to the contemporary period and the recent fourth-term reelection of President Daniel arap Moi. The book captures the aggressive, self-confident spirit that characterizes Kenya and provides unique insights into how this nation of contemporary Africa is faring in its continuing quest for prosperity.