E-Adoption and Technologies for Empowering Developing Countries: Global Advances

E-Adoption and Technologies for Empowering Developing Countries: Global Advances

Sushil K. Sharma
Release Date: January, 2012|Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 342
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0041-6
ISBN13: 9781466600416|ISBN10: 1466600411|EISBN13: 9781466600423
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Description & Coverage
Description:

The adoption of technology has provided opportunities for increased participation in global affairs both at an individual and organizational level. As a discipline, e-adoption focuses on the requirements, policies, and implications of widespread technology use in developed and developing countries.

E-Adoption and Technologies for Empowering Developing Countries: Global Advances reviews the impact technology has had on individuals and organizations whose access to media and resources is otherwise limited. With overviews of topics including electronic voting, electronic delivery systems, social Web applications, and online educational environments, this reference work provides a foundation for understanding the interplay between technology and societal growth and development.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Competing Organizational Cultures
  • Content management systems
  • Digital Natives
  • Electronic Delivery Systems
  • Electronic Voting
  • Location-Based Mobile Advertising
  • Organizational Learning
  • Social Web Networks
  • Students and Online Environments
  • Technology and E-Government
Reviews & Statements

I hope that the diverse and comprehensive coverage of e-adoption in this authoritative edited book will contribute to a better understanding of all topics, research, and discoveries as well as an expansion of knowledge in this evolving, significant field of study.

– Sushil K. Sharma, Ball State University, USA
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Sushil K. Sharma is currently Associate Dean and Professor of Information Systems and Executive Director of the MBA and Certificate Programs at the Miller College of Business, Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana, USA). He co-edited five books that include the Handbook of Research on Information Assurance and Security and Creating Knowledge-based Healthcare Organizations. He is also the co-editor of the book: Managing E-Business (Heidelberg Press, Australia). Dr. Sharma has authored over 100 refereed research papers in many peer-reviewed national and international MIS and management journals, conferences proceedings and books. He serves on editorial boards of several national and international journals and has also edited special issues. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of E-Adoption. His primary teaching and research interests are in e-commerce, computer-mediated communications, community and social informatics, information systems security, e-government, ERP systems, database management systems, cluster computing, Web services and knowledge management. He has a wide consulting experience in information systems and e-commerce and he has served as an advisor and consultant to several government and private organizations including projects funded by the World Bank.
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Editorial Advisory Board
  • Kursat CAGILTAY, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
  • Sumit Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
  • Robert J. Kauffman, Arizona State University, USA
  • Gottfried Vossen, University of Muenster, Germany
  • Edward J. Dudewicz, Syracuse University, USA
  • San Murugesan, Multimedia University, Malaysia
  • Sushil Jajodia, BDM International Professor, USA
  • Liisa von Hellens, Griffith University, Australia
  • Kamel Rouibah, Kuwait University, Kuwait