Advances in Information Technology/Systems and Manufacturing Systems

This research monograph is on primarily on Information Technology/System (IT/S), Analytics and IoT and on tools such as VTs (virtual teams), ESMs (Enterprise Social Media), Organizations related topics such as innovation, advanced mfg, and personality areas. These topics are viewed from the lens of management. We raise important research issues in this short volume; and hope that management community will address these issues in their future research. Every effort was made to ensure that we are contributing to knowledge. I do hope that bulk of propositions/hypotheses presented in this book will verifiable in the real world (as these are based on intuitive reasoning that is based on theory. Any shortcomings of this book are my own responsibility.