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Cultural Determinants on Information Technology

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The way we develop and implement information technology is affected by our cultural values. A body of research of cultural impacts on IT product design, IT project implementation, IT-enabled process change and IT-enabled organizational change has demonstrated that information technology is deeply dependent on the environmental context and social human factors from a cross-cultural perspective. However, most research were based on Hofstede’s unrivaled theory of culture, which were criticized by many IS researchers as too limited and simplistic. To our knowledge, there still lacks a comprehensive investigation which includes all possible determinants of culture that have impacts on information technology. In this study we identify a set of dimensions of culture from the most known culture theories through quantitative and inductive analysis to form a research framework of culture and a classification of cultural impacts on information technology, which provides an agenda for systematically researching the cultural impacts on information technology.

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  1. Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064, People’s Republic of China

    Cheng Luo

  2. Business Information Systems III, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91054, Erlangen, Germany

    Michael Amberg

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  1. Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

    Jiuping Xu

  2. Depart de Enge Mecânica e Industrial, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT/UNL), Caparica, Portugal

    Virgílio António Cruz-Machado

  3. LeBow College of Business Department of Decision Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Benjamin Lev

  4. Institute of Operations Research, Karlsruhe Institute ofTechnology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

    Stefan Nickel

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Luo, C., Amberg, M. (2014). Cultural Determinants on Information Technology. In: Xu, J., Cruz-Machado, V., Lev, B., Nickel, S. (eds) Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 281. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55122-2_136

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