“…IT is increasingly applied to organizational tasks, processes, and functions as widely varying as transaction, data, document, and order processing (Dinan, Painter, & Rodite, 1990;Lasher, Ives, Jarvenpaa, 1991;Strader, Lin, & Shaw, 1999), decision support (Hagglund, 1989), workforce scheduling (Kumar & Arora, 1999), financial planning & reporting (Jablonsky & Barsky, 2000;Green, 2000), human resource management (Strauss, Weisband, and Wilson, 1998;Scott & Timmeran, 1999), new product development (Corso & Paolucci, 2001;Baba & Nobeoka, 1998), marketing (Good & Stone, 1995) and customer relationship management (Cooper, Watson, Wixom, & Goodhue, 2000), manufacturing (Fulkerson, 2000;Freund, 1997), organizational design (Nault, 1998) and the facilitation of geographical dispersed work-teams (Mowshowitz, 1994), and enterprise resource planning (Robey, Ross, & Boudreau, 2002). And while the while the specifics of how the application of IT to these processes may help organizations achieve the aforementioned goals varies widely, the common denominator is requirement that data or information be analyzed, retrieved, stored, displayed, accessed, exchanged, or otherwise processed.…”