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作者：Henderson, John C.; Cooprider, Jay G.
作者单位：Boston University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Information technology is playing an increasingly integral role in the competitive strategies of many organizations. As this trend continues, it is not surprising that there is growing emphasis on the ability of organizations to plan, design and implement critical information systems. A major strategy to improve the effectiveness of these processes is the use of computer-based planning and design aids. However, there is little empirical evidence that using this technology provides a significan...
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作者：Straub, Detmar W., Jr.
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Information security has not been a high priority for most managers. Many permit their installations to be either lightly protected or wholly unprotected, apparently willing to risk major losses from computer abuse. This study, based on the criminological theory of general deterrence, investigates whether a management decision to invest in IS security results in more effective control of computer abuse. Data gathered through a survey of 1,211 randomly selected organizations indicates that secu...
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作者：Saharia, Aditya N.; Diehr, George
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; California State University System; California State University San Marcos
摘要：This article presents a scheme called Difference Table for maintaining database snapshots stored at sites remote from a central database which are refreshed only upon user request. Database snapshots are currently in widespread use where a subset of the central database is extracted and transmitted to a local workstation and utilized for decision support. The Difference Table method checks each update to a central database table against the definition of the snapshot. If the update is relevant...
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作者：Westland, J. Christopher
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：As corporate management attempts to extract more end user benefit from information systems department expenditures, interest has grown toward the use of information systems auditing to assure software quality. This research shows that information systems departments are motivated by end users to provide lower quality systems than they would if allowed to pursue their own objectives. The research continues by demonstrating that auditing cannot a priori be assumed to raise the quality of corpora...
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作者：Reich, Blaize Horner; Benbasat, Izak
作者单位：University of British Columbia
摘要：A case research strategy was utilized to study first-mover strategic systems which companies had built and offered to their customers in support of a primary product or service. The study investigated eleven systems to discover the factors which enabled or inhibited the following outcomes: developing a first-mover customer-oriented strategic system (COSS); achieving a high level of adoption of the COSS by customers; obtaining competitive advantage from the COSS. In general, the findings suppor...
