Management Information Systems for Enterprise Applications: Business Issues, Research and Solutions (Electronic book text)

Over the past two decades, the service economy has become the largest part of most industrialized nations economies according to key economic indices, such as contribution to GDP and employment. In parallel, the concept of service has been developed in different disciplines as a key theoretical construct that drastically impacts recent research initiatives. Management Information Systems for Enterprise Applications: Business Issues, Research and Solutions provide the conceptual and methodological foundations that reflect interdisciplinary concerns regarding research in management information systems. This book investigates the future of management information systems by means of analyzing a variety of MIS and service-related concepts in a wide range of disciplines, including computer science, software engineering, operations research, management of information systems, economics, management theory, marketing, business strategy, cognitive sciences, anthropology, humanities and the arts, as well as novel concepts and knowledge from related areas.