Global E-Business Alliances: the Socio-Cultural Perspective, Influence, and Mitigation
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
12-1-2005
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-306-7.ch005
Abstract
With increasing ability to interact globally through the electronic medium, businesses are able to tap into newer business opportunities externally as well as capitalize internally on pools of resources and talents spread across the globe. However one of the major hindrances to the utilisation of these opportunities and talents through global alliances is cross-cultural issues. While technology renders the geographical boundaries redundant, it aggrandizes the chasms in socio-cultural value systems of physically disparate alliance partners. This chapter discusses the gamut of global e-business alliance: the primary reasons for their needs, their socio-cultural perspective, and the various factors that influence such alliances. Finally the corresponding mitigating approaches to those negatively influencing factors are suggested.
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Global E-Business Alliances: the Socio-Cultural Perspective, Influence, and Mitigation, in Y.-C. Lan (Ed.), Global Information Society: Operating Information Systems in a Dynamic Global Business Environment, IGI Global, p. 94-112
Scholar Commons Citation
Unhelkar, Bhuvan, "Global E-Business Alliances: the Socio-Cultural Perspective, Influence, and Mitigation" (2005). School of Information Systems and Management Sarasota Manatee Campus Faculty Publications. 39.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/qmb_facpub_sm/39
Comments
This chapter is also published in: Global Information Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-939-7.ch228