Decision Support for Global Enterprises [Paperback]

India is becoming the global back office to international supply chains, creating a substantial communications and decision-support infrastructure for large and small enterprises in the global market place to utilize these resources. Decision Support for Global Enterprises consists of peer-reviewed and invited papers with two primary goals: (1) Stimulate creative discussion between academic researchers and the practitioner IS community to improve the research and practice in the area. (2) Increase awareness of the problems and challenges faced by global enterprises that can be met with innovative decision support systems. Limitations are also explored, covering the following topics: (1) the emerging enterprise decision making processes and technologies; (2) decision making in uncertain, changing conditions; (3) the changing infrastructure in organizations and society; (4) the expanding role of web technologies; and (5) emerging theories and practices for managing knowledge and making decisions.

Overview: Concepts, Theories, and Frameworks.- Understanding Decision Support Systems for Global Enterprises.- Sources of Unstructuredness in Decision Situations: Towards a framework for DSS Development.- Critical Success Factors for Implementation of Business Intelligence Systems: A Study of Engineering Asset Management Organizations.- Support for Collaborative and Distributed Decision Making.- Management of Knowledge Transfer in Distributed Software Organizations: The Outsourcers Perspective.- Meeting Challenges: Empirical Studies.- A Longitudinal Study of Information Exchange in Computer-Mediated and Face-to-Face Groups.- The Email Strategy Investigation Model (eSIM): A DSS for Analysis of Email Processing Strategies.- Effects of Knowledge Management Capabilities on Perceived Performance: An Empirical Examination.- Using Social Choice Rule Sets in Multiple Attribute Decision Making for Information System Selection.- Individuals Response to Security Melsï