Introduction: An Overview of Culture and IS; Part 1 The first three articles take a national perspective of culture and the last one an organizational perspective.; Chapter 1 Contextualizing Patterns of Work Group Interaction: Toward a Nested Theory of Structuration, Leslie A. Perlow, Jody Hoffer Gittell, Nancy Katz; Chapter 2 Michael D. Myers was the accepting senior editor for this paper., Geoff Walsham; Chapter 3 Reporting Bad News About Software Projects: Impact of Organizational Climate and Information Asymmetry in an Individualistic and a Collectivistic Culture, Bernard C. Y. Tan, H. Jeff Smith, Mark Keil, Ramiro Montealegre; Chapter 4 Competing Values in Software Process Improvement: An Assumption Analysis of CMM From An Organizational Culture Perspective, Ojelanki Ngwenyama, Peter Axel Nielsen; Part 2 The Role of Culture in IS Adoption and Diffusion; Chapter 5 Diffusing the Internet in the Arab World: The Role of Social Norms and Technological Culturation, Karen D. Loch, Detmar W. Straub, Sherif Kamel; Chapter 6 The Key Role of Organizational Culture in a Multi-system View of Technology-driven Change, Angel Cabrera, Elizabeth F. Cabrera, Sebastian Barajas; Chapter 7 Dangerous Liaisons? Component-Based Development and Organizational Subcultures, Jimmy C. Huang, Sue Newell, Robert D. Galliers, Shan-Ling Pan; Chapter 8 Assimilating New Technologies, Norton Hoffman, Robert Klepper; Chapter 9 A Qualitative Assessment of Arab Culture and Information Technology Transfer, Carole E. Hill, Karen D. Loch, Detmar W. Straub, Kamal El-Sheshai; Part 3 The Role of Culture in IT Use and Outcomes; Chapter 10 The Role of Culture in Knowledge Management: A Case Study of Two Global Firms, Dorothy Leidner, Maryam Alavi, Timothy Kayworth; Chapter 11 Impact of National Culture on Information Technology Usage Behaviour: An Exploratory Study of Decision Making in Korea and the USA, Kenneth J Calhoun, James T. C. Teng, Myun Joong Cheon; Chapter 12 Mexican and Swedish Managers' Perceptions of the Impact of EIS on Organizational Intelligence, Decision Making, and Structure, Dorothy E. Leidner, Sven Carlsson, Joyce Elam, Martha Corrales; Chapter 13 Culture and Consumer Responses to Web Download Time: A Four-Continent Study of Mono- and Polychronism, Gregory M. Rose, Roberto Evaristo, Detmar Straub; Part 4 The Role of Culture in IT Management; Chapter 14 Relating IT Strategy and Organizational Culture: An Empirical Study of Public Sector Units in India, Shivraj Kanungo, Sanjeev Sadavarti, Yadlapati Srinivas; Chapter 15 Developing a Management Culture in which Information Technology will Flourish: How the UK Can Benefit, Roger Tomlin; Chapter 16 The authors wish to express their appreciation to A. Teh, M.C. Ho, and F.B. Ahmad for their data collection effort in this research., Sandra Slaughter, Soon Ang; Chapter 17 Understanding an Organization's View of the CIO: The Role of Assumptions About IT, Michelle L. Kaarst-Brown;