Key issues in information systems management: A China's perspective

Research on key issues on IS management can keep IS researchers updated about latest key problems and challenged faced by IT industry and IT-related management, which can provide useful insights and clear directions for future IS studies in next few years. However, most of such researches have been done from the perspective of North America. a study from the perspective of an Asia country can provide additional findings to this important research issue, and thus contributes to the accumulative knowledge for the issue. This research intends to bridge the gap in the relevant research literature by analyzing key issues faced by China's enterprise senior managers through the first national wide survey of top ten IS management issues. The results of this study could provide some research insights for both IS practitioners and researchers who have research interests in China. The key IS management issues were identified after the data analysis, and the result is compared with US and other countries'. The comparison shows some similarities as well as some interesting differences.EI