Collaboration Issues in Cross-Organizational and Cross-Border IS/IT Minitrack Introduction

Investments in IS/IT represent a substantial portion of many firms’ corporate capital spending. As globalization progresses, many such investments are being deployed across nations and world regions. Cross-system integration and collaboration technologies play essential roles and often determine the success or failure of IT systems and projects. Despite the intensive investigation for two decades of different aspects of IS/IT collaboration, defined in the context of this minitrack as the integration of people, systems, processes and infrastructure across organizations, borders, nations and world regions to enable productive teamwork toward accomplishing mutual goals, many findings are based solely on the cultural environment of North America or Western Europe. As corporate reality demands that firms cooperate across national, economic and social boundaries, collaboration models need to be constructed, validated, and further refined in terms of the Global economy.