Information Technology & People: Volume 17 Issue 4

Virtual teams: team control structure, work processes, and team effectiveness

Gabriele Piccoli, Anne Powell, Blake Ives

Seeks to determine the impact managerial controls have on the effectiveness of virtual teams. Using an experimental design compares self‐directed virtual teams to counterparts…

The comparative importance of human resource management practices in the context of business to business (B2B) electronic commerce

Damien Power

Examines the relationship between how people are managed, and the effectiveness of business to business (B2B) e‐commerce implementations. The human resource management practices…

On the emancipatory role of rural information systems

Shivraj Kanungo

The use of information technology in rural and underserved settings is receiving increasing attention because of the immense potential it brings for improving the quality of life…

Trust and temporary virtual teams: alternative explanations and dramaturgical relationships

Niki Panteli, Elizabeth Duncan

The paper uses the dramaturgical perspective for conceptualising trust development within temporary virtual teams. The underlying assumption is that temporary teams do not have…

Are they really listening?: An investigation into published online privacy policies at the beginning of the third millennium

Steve McRobb, Simon Rogerson

Many authors have identified fears about a lack of personal privacy online as a major disincentive to the take‐up of e‐commerce by private consumers. The publication of a privacy…

Note from the publisher

Rebecca Marsh

Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace

Edgar A. Whitley

Awards for Excellence

Management Information Systems for the Information Age (4th ed.)

Adriane B. Davis