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作者：Jarvenpaa, Sirkka L.; Ives, Blake
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Southern Methodist University
摘要：Letters to shareholders in 649 annual reports published between 1972 and 1987 were analyzed for CEOs' views about information technology. Significant differences were found across industries banking, publishing, petroleum, and retailing in the number of times information technology was mentioned, the types of applications discussed, and the content of the discussion. The results of the industry analysis were in keeping with expectations based on the relative information intensity oft he variou...
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作者：George, Joey F.; Easton, George K.; Nunamaker, J. F., Jr.; Northcraft, Gregory B.
作者单位：University of Arizona; California State University System; San Diego State University; University of Arizona
摘要：As organizational environments become more turbulent and as managers spend more time in meetings in an effort to deal with that turbulence, using information technology to support meetings has become more important. This paper reports on an experiment that compared meetings supported by information technology to meetings with conventional manual support only. The experiment differs from most previous group decision support system (GDSS) experiments in that solutions to the task it used could b...
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作者：Zmud, Robert W.; Lind, Mary R.; Young, Forrest W.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University; University of North Carolina; North Carolina A&T State University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：The primary objective of this study was to identify the perceptual dimensions used by 158 managers and their professional staff at a single large manufacturing firm in differentiating fourteen distinct communication channels available in the firm. Six candidate criteria for differentiating these channels were examined (channel accessibility, information quality, immediate feedback, cue variety, personalization, and receiver accessibility) using multidimensional scaling. A secondary objective i...
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作者：Venkatraman, N.; Zaheer, Akbar
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Strategic advantage through information technology is a popular and an important theme, but the extent of research support is minimal, anecdotal, and sporadic. This paper reports the results of a quasi-experimental study on the impact of dedicated electronic integration [between a focal insurance carrier and its independent agents in the property and casualty (P&C) market] for the focal carrier. The results indicate that the agents that are electronically interfaced with the carrier report imp...
