Global E-Business Alliances: the Socio-Cultural Perspective, Influence, and Mitigation

Bhuvan Unhelkar

doi:10.4018/978-1-59140-306-7.ch005

Global E-Business Alliances: the Socio-Cultural Perspective, Influence, and Mitigation

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With increasing ability to interact globally through the electronic medium, businesses are able to tap into newer business opportunities externally as well as capitalize internally on pools of resources and talents spread across the globe. However one of the major hindrances to the utilisation of these opportunities and talents through global alliances is cross-cultural issues. While technology renders the geographical boundaries redundant, it aggrandizes the chasms in socio-cultural value systems of physically disparate alliance partners. This chapter discusses the gamut of global e-business alliance: the primary reasons for their needs, their socio-cultural perspective, and the various factors that influence such alliances. Finally the corresponding mitigating approaches to those negatively influencing factors are suggested.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Global Information Society: Operating Information Systems in a Dynamic Global Business Environment
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-306-7.ch005
State	Published - Dec 1 2005
Externally published	Yes

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