Foreword: Information Systems Frontiers

Foreword Information Systems: Modeling and Analysis

The success of an enterprise is now largely dependent on how its information resources are designed, operated and managed, especially with IS emerging as a critical input to be leveraged for significant organizational productivities. In this context, research on modeling and analysis of Information Systems is critical. In this issue, a set of seven papers that address these areas is presented. ...

Information systems frontiers editorial December 2012

Information Systems Frontiers (ISF) has crossed its first decade. We would like to thank all the Advisory Editors, the Executive Editors, the special issue editors and the various referees from across the world and of course Springer, the publishers, who have made this journal a success. In this last issue of 2012, ISF brings to you, nine articles which span the various topics at the frontiers ...

Information systems frontiers: Keyword analysis and classification

Information Systems Frontiers in Knowledge Management

There can be no doubt that contemporary developments in information technology, including information systems developments, have changed business and organizational practices in many ways. For example, the world's ®nancial systems are so closely coupled that that a small decrease in interest rates in the United States may cause a disproportionately large rise in stock market values in South Eas...

Foreword: Special Issue on Information Systems in Developing Countries

The developing countries account for the majority of the world’s population, and are important for this reason alone. In addition, developing countries contain millions of people who lack access to resources such as clean water, adequate housing, and education for satisfying basic human needs. Moreover, many people in developing countries lack the freedom to make choices in their own lives (Sen...