摘要
Accelerated globalization since the 1980s and particularly the 1990s and the development of web-based information and communication technologies （ICT） go hand in hand. Nonetheless, there has been little explicit research on the influence of ICT on the globalization of firms. Despite a rich literature of the implementation of ICT and the design of global information systems in firms, the influence of ICT on the globalization of firms has not been explicitly researched from a management perspective. This paper serves to provide an overview on existing literature in this field and to develop a basic framework for the study of the influence of ICT on the globalization of firms. Specifically, the paper reflects on the influence of ICT on the three subprocesses of globalization： internationalization, global network building, and global evolutionary dynamics.
