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JGITM 2009 12.4 Article 1
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Cultural Influence on IS Practices in China: A Literature Analysis
Xiang-Hua Lu and Michael S H Heng
There are many published papers dealing with the impacts of Chinese culture on IS
practices. Although these papers contributed to a higher level of awareness of the
influence of culture, their findings are fragmented and difficult to build on. The aim of
this paper is to address this inadequacy and to contribute to a fuller picture via an
exhaustive literature review of published refereed papers in this area. We develop the
culture analysis framework along the dimensions of harmony maintenance,
individualistic collectivism, hierarchical power structure and high context based on
the prior studies. We use these four dimensions to structure the findings of our
literature review and analyze their influences on three types of IS practices. We
conclude with a discussion of the practical and research implications of our study.
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