ABSTRACT
Since the emergence of IS as an academic discipline, researchers have observed that the deployment of information technology (IT) in organizations seems to follow no predicable pattern. Rather, the dynamics of IT adoption and use, and the outcomes of such use in organizational settings, were seen to be largely dependent on a host of variables external to the technology itself. One such variable – culture – has been identified by some as a key management variable to be considered in the successful deployment and management of IT in organizations (Cash et al., 1994; Lucas and Baroudi, 1994).
