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作者：Tiwana, Amrit; Keil, Mark
作者单位：Iowa State University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：Although the choice of control mechanisms in systems development projects has been extensively studied in prior research, differences in such choices across internal and outsourced projects and their effects on systems development performance have not received much attention. This study attempts to address this gap using data on 57 outsourced and 79 internal projects in 136 organizations. Our results reveal a paradoxical overarching pattern: controllers attempt greater use of control mechanism...
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作者：Fang, Yulin; Neufeld, Derrick
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：Prior research into open source software (OSS) developer participation has emphasized individuals' motivations for joining these volunteer communities, but it has failed to explain why people stay or leave in the long run. Building upon Lave and Wenger's theory of legitimate peripheral participation (LPP), this paper offers a longitudinal investigation of one OSS community in which sustained participation is hypothesized to be associated with the coevolution of two major elements of LPP theory...
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作者：Lowry, Paul Benjamin; Romano, Nicholas C., Jr.; Jenkins, Jeffrey L.; Guthrie, Randy W.
作者单位：Brigham Young University; Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater; International Business Machines (IBM); IBM USA; University of Arizona; Microsoft; California State University System; California State Polytechnic University Pomona
摘要：Process satisfaction is one important determinant of work group collaborative system adoption, continuance, and performance. We explicate the computer-mediated communication (CMC) interactivity model (CMCIM) to explain and predict how interactivity enhances communication quality that results in increased process satisfaction in CMC-supported work groups. We operationalize this model in the challenging context of very large groups using extremely lean CMC. We tested it with a rigorous field exp...
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作者：Ravichandran, T.; Liu, Yu; Han, Shu; Hasan, Iftekhar
作者单位：Yeshiva University
摘要：A large body of research has examined the performance effects of diversification. However, these results have been mixed, and scholars have called for examining contingencies under which the effects of different types (related, unrelated, geographic) and levels of diversification on performance vary. This study attempts to fill this gap in the literature by arguing that examining the performance effects of diversification is incomplete without taking into consideration the firm's information t...
