Editorial Preface
Abstract
The Editors ' Desk very same processes used for any quality Three Missing Pieces in Global research agenda. An enabling research Information Technology support infrastructure must supplement elements that focus on technological. Scholarly journals such as this serve a interpersonal, sociological, and variety of purposes within the academic managerial issues. Vital elements of an world. For scholars, the journal has enabling global research infrastructure played an essential role in scholarly include cross-cultural relationships and communication for several centuries. research partnerships, an agreed upon Moreover, journals represent the final research focus, and a culturally unbiased repository of knowledge within management perspective. academic disciplines--they are a permanent record of individual and A Controversy That Need To Be institutional accomplishment. Given this Resolved lofty purpose, it is pertinent to consider the many unanswered questions, several Intuitively, the information requirements interesting controversies, and a few of globally competing organizations are serious problems that need to be significantly more complex than those of resolved. One example from each of domestic firms. Yet, the international these three categories will suffice for this information systems utilized by many preface concerning the missing pieces of firms are generally less sophisticated our discipline. than domestic systems serving the