...Jocelyn Cranefield; Mary Ellen Gordon; Prashant Palvia; Alexander Serenko; Tim Jacks Purpose The study aims to explore whether there is diversity of occupational culture among IT workers. Prior work conceptualizes IT occupational culture (ITOC) as based around six distinctive values (ASPIRE...

...Leida Chen; Xiaohan Zhang; Zhensheng Li Purpose Drawing upon the theory of information culture from information science and prior research on Chinese information practices. The purpose of this paper is to posit that instead of over-relying on Hofstede’s national cultural values, the IS field...

.... Jenny Kidd can be contacted at: jenny.kidd.1@city.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Information media Heritage Museums Culture United Kingdom Changes in the conceptualisation of “audience” have had a profound influence across the cultural sector, not least within...

...Indira R. Guzman; Jeffrey M. Stanton Purpose As the shortage in the information technology (IT) workforce continues, it is becoming increasingly important to understand the cultural dimensions of IT occupations that attract or drive away potential IT professionals. In the present study...

...Jeria L. Quesenberry In summary, Reconfiguring the Firewall: Recruiting Women to Information Technology across Cultures and Continents is a single source for state‐of‐the‐art research on the topic of women in IT. The book provides an expansive analysis of diverse intellectual discourses...

...Neil McBride Purpose This paper draws on a recent approach to ethnography in order to explore some cultural issues in the development of software quality procedures within software development. Methodologically, the purpose is to show how performance autoethnography can be effective...

... intellectual and cultural traditions that differ from Western cultures. Demographic variables (e.g. gender and age) that have been reported to be significant moderators of the influences of attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control on behavioral intention in other cultural samples were found...

...R. Willis; M. Chiasson Purpose ERP systems continue to fail. One success factor that has received little attention in the literature is cultural fit – which emphasizes the need for ERP systems to be chosen and adapted to current organizational practices. However, the dynamics behind culture...

..., same sex versus coeducational schools), and individual differences. The impact of culture on these various factors is also explored. Findings The model indicates that parents, particularly fathers, are the key influencers of girls' choice of IT careers. Teachers and counselors provide little...

...Norhayati Zakaria; Jeffrey M. Stanton; Shreya T.M. Sarkar‐Barney The Internet, World Wide Web, and related information technologies, originally developed in Western countries, have rapidly spread to a great variety of countries and cultures. Many of these technologies facilitate and mediate...

... barring this free flow of information, citing a concern for the privacy of citizens as the primary motivation. The need for privacy is the reflection of a society′s cultural attributes. A framework is developed for exploratory analysis of the cultural motivations for data protection legislation. Based...