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作者：Lyytinen, K; Mathiassen, L; Ropponen, J
作者单位：University of Jyvaskyla; Aalborg University; Nokia Corporation
摘要：This paper examines software risk management in a novel way, emphasizing the ways in which managers address software risks through sequential attention shaping and intervention. Software risks are interpreted as incongruent states within a socio-technical model of organizational change that includes task, structure, technology, and actors. Such incongruence can lead to failures in developing or implementing the system and thus to major losses. Based on this model we synthesize a set of softwar...
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作者：Dennis, AR; Kinney, ST
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Media richness theory argues that performance improves when team members use richer media for equivocal tasks. This experiment studied the effects of media richness on decision making in two-person teams using new media (i.e., computer-mediated and video communication). Media richness was varied based on multiplicity of cues and immediacy of feedback. Subjects perceived differences in richness due to both rues and feedback, but matching richness to task equivocality did not improve decision qu...
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作者：Dewan, S; Michael, SC; Min, CK
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Hankuk University Foreign Studies
摘要：This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the link between the scale and scope of the firm and information technology (IT) investments, emphasizing the role of IT in coordination and control. We extend the economic production function framework to include variables related to the boundaries of the firm, including related and unrelated diversification, vertical integration and growth options, and we estimate the resulting model on a data set based on annual surveys of IT spending by large U....
