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作者:Pavlou, Paul A.; El Sawy, Omar A.
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Riverside; University of Southern California
摘要:A burning question for information systems (IS) researchers and practitioners is whether and how IT can build a competitive advantage in turbulent environments. To address this question, this study focuses on the business process level of analysis and introduces the construct of IT leveraging competence-the ability to effectively use IT functionalities. This construct is conceptualized in the context of new product development (NPD). IT leveraging competence is shown to indirectly influence co...
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作者:Burton-Jones, Andrew; Straub, Detmar W., Jr.
作者单位:University of British Columbia; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要:Although DeLone, McLean, and others insist that system usage is a key variable in information systems research, the system usage construct has received little theoretical scrutiny, boasts no widely accepted definition, and has been operationalized by a diverse set of unsystematized measures. In this article, we present a systematic approach for reconceptualizing the system usage construct in particular nomological contexts. Comprising two stages, definition and selection, the approach enables ...
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作者:Li, Xiao-Bai; Sarkar, Sumit
作者单位:University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Lowell; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要:To respond to growing concerns about privacy of personal information, organizations that use their customers' records in data-mining activities are forced to take actions to protect the privacy of the individuals involved. A common practice for many organizations today is to remove identity-related attributes from the customer records before releasing them to data miners or analysts. We investigate the effect of this practice and demonstrate that many records in a data set could be uniquely id...
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作者:Kim, Dongmin; Benbasat, Izak
作者单位:University of New Brunswick; University of British Columbia
摘要:A trust-assuring argument refers to a claim and its supporting statements used in an Internet store to address trust-related issues. Although trust-assuring arguments often appear in Internet stores, little research has been conducted to understand their effects on consumer trust in an Internet store. The goals of this study are (1) to investigate whether or not the provision of trust-assuring arguments on the website of an Internet store increase consumer trust in that Internet store and (2) ...
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作者:Dellarocas, Chrysanthos
作者单位:University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要:Reputation mechanisms have become an important component of electronic markets, helping to build trust and elicit cooperation among loosely connected and geographically dispersed economic agents. Understanding the impact of different reputation mechanism design parameters on the resulting market efficiency has thus emerged as a question of theoretical and practical interest. Along these lines, this note studies the impact of the frequency of reputation profile updates on cooperation and effici...