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The Global Text Project (http://globaltext.org/) was initiated in early 2006 to develop a series of free, open
content, electronic textbooks. A description of the Global Text Project is available on the project’s website.
The first book in the series is on information systems, because the founders of the Global Text Project are both
Information Systems professors who knew many other IS academics who wanted to help start the book. IS
professors have a long history of cooperating with each other on a global scale. Creation of an open content
textbook on information systems required the cooperation of the worldwide community of faculty and their
students, as well as practitioners.
The IS community, of all academic communities, should be the one that is an early adopter of technology that
holds the promise of being able to create a state-of-the-art open electronic textbook. The Information Systems
textbook created by the community aims to evolve over time to be best-in-class, up-to-date, and, perhaps most
importantly, make available at no cost to students anywhere in the world, but particularly to students in the
developing world.
The impetus for developing the business fundamentals text as the second of the proof of concept texts was based
on the realization that it is a mistake to teach information systems in a vacuum, i.e. without giving students an
appreciation of the organizational settings in which they operate. Accordingly, a table of contents was prepared and
volunteers were recruited to serve as chapter editors and reviewers for a book on business fundamentals. Most
chapter editors are academics who wrote their own chapters while, in other cases, teams of graduate students wrote
segments of a chapter as a part of a course assignment. All contributions are gratefully acknowledged and the
contributors names are noted at the beginning of each chapter
Donald J McCubbrey - Personal Name
2nd Edition
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BusinessFundamentals.
Management
English
2009
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