Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology

by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Editor)

Information technology is one of the most rapidly changing disciplines. The Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology provides comprehensive coverage of the most important issues, concepts, trends and technologies in information science and technology.

Genres: Technology

3121 pages, Hardcover

First published January 7, 2005

About the author

Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., received his Doctorate in Business Administration from the Nova Southeastern University (Florida, USA). Dr. Khosrow-Pour taught undergraduate and graduate information system courses at the Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg for almost 20 years. He is currently Executive Editor at IGI Global (www.igi-global.com). He also serves as Executive Director of the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) (www.irma-international.org) and Executive Director of the World Forgotten Childrens Foundation (www.world-forgotten-children.org). He is the author/editor of more than 100 books in information technology management. He is also currently the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Green Computing, International Journal of Library and Information Services, International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and International Journal of Natural Computing Research, and is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Information Resources Management Journal, Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, Journal of Cases on Information Technology, and the Journal of Information Technology Research, and has authored more than 50 articles published in various conference proceedings and scholarly journals.

Reviews

[Alejandro Teruel · Rating 1 out of 5]

Judging from two chapters I read, the fourth edition of this so-called Encyclopedia is a scam. One of the two chapters I read is supposed to a research paper on social issues in software development teams and the other is supposed to be the entry on object-oriented programming. The research paper is deeply flawed and shallow, and the introduction to object-oriented programming is written in such poor English and contains so many conceptual flaws and errors that if it had been written by sophomore Computer Science students ten years ago as a homework assignment, they would have received an F.