Scope and Coverage

The journal's scope is multidisciplinary. It will publish research and applied articles from all areas of MIS as well as functional IT applications that have international focus. The journal will also consider a variety of methodological approaches. The journal encourages manuscript submissions from authors all over the world, both from academia and industry. In addition, the journal will also include reviews of MIS books that have bearing on global aspects. Practitioner input will be specifically solicited from time-to-time in the form of invited columns or interviews.

Besides quality work, at a minimum each submitted article should have the following three components:  an MIS topic, an international orientation (e.g., cross cultural studies or strong international implications), and strong evidence (e.g., survey data, case studies, experiments, secondary data, etc.).

Articles in the Journal of Global Information Technology Management will include, but are not limited to the following areas:

• Frameworks/models for global information systems (GIS)
• Development, evaluation and management of GIS
• Electronic Commerce - global issues
• Internet related issues
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) - global issues
• Supply Chain Management (SCM) - global issues
• Customer Resource Management (CRM) - global issues
• Societal impacts of IT in developing countries
• IT and Economic Development
• IT diffisuion in developing countries
• IT human resource issues
• DSS/EIS/ES in international settings
• Organizational and management structures for GIS
• Transborder data flow issues
• Electronic data interchange
• Telecommunications
• Distributed global databases and networks
• Cultural and societal impacts
• Comparative studies of nations
• Applications and case studies