期刊名称：Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology
印刷版ISSN：1547-5840
电子版ISSN：1547-5867
出版年度：2007
卷号：4
页码：381-393
出版社：Informing Science Institute
摘要：A research conception is developed to enable qualitative and quantitative research on the affect of
culture on the curricular content of business and information systems degree programs. The frame
raises the interconnected issue of globalizing business and information systems education (theories
of organization, management, and employees¡¯ motivation, and the use of information systems)
and the affects of a society¡¯s culture. The paper asserts that a society¡¯s culture affects the
business and information systems curricula. The essay assumes that any organization is an infoscape
(an information landscape). A person¡¯s culture shapes tacitly his or her understandings of
the nature and functionality of an organization and its information systems and how to manage
them. The conception, following Hofstede and Hofstede, presents an understanding of the Power
Distance and Uncertainty Avoidance dimensions and four organizational views: the organization
as Pyramid, Market, Machine, and Family. The conception also proposes a relation of organizational
type to organizational governance styles: Monarchical, Feudal, Federal, and Anarchical.
Finally, the conception also includes the relationship between organizational models and styles of
managing organizations: Directive, Analytic, Conceptual, and Social.
关键词：Global business education, global information systems education, cultural impact,
power distance, uncertainty avoidance, organizational theory, management theory, management
style
