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作者:Kauffman, Robert J.; Tsai, Juliana Y.
作者单位:Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; New York University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Rochester
摘要:To increase their firms' competitiveness. information technology (IT) managers are adopting a strategy that many deemed risky in the past. Recent IT advances combined with certain firm and industry characteristics are prompting firms to move toward a unified procurement strategy for enterprise software solutions. Unified procurement Occurs when a firm elects to purchase all compatible products and services from a single vendor. Key benefits of unified procurement involve motivating managers to...
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作者:Cha, Hoon S.; Pingry, David E.; Thatcher, Matt E.
作者单位:University System of Maryland; Salisbury University; University of Arizona; Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; University of Louisville
摘要:We use an economic learning model to examine how knowledge parameters characterizing a sourcing relationship between it vendor and it client interact with production costs and coordination costs to affect the business value of alternative outsourcing strategies. This Information is then used to determine a fit-in's optimal rate of information technology (IT) Outsourcing. We find that the optimal Outsourcing rate is dependent oil the ability of the Outsourcing client to acquire production Knowl...
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作者:Robert, Lionel P., Jr.; Dennis, Alan R.; Hung, Yu-Ting Caisy
作者单位:University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; Rochester Institute of Technology; National University of Singapore
摘要:Traditionally, trust has been seen as a result of personal knowledge of an individual's past behavior. In this view, trust develops gradually over time based oil an individuals cognitive assessment of the other person's behavior. However, high levels of trust have been observed among members of virtual teams, who often have little prior history of working together and may never meet each other in person. To integrate these two seemingly contradictory views of trust. this study manipulated team...
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作者:Zwass, Vladimir
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作者:Ayal, Moshe; Seidmann, Abraham
作者单位:University of Rochester
摘要:This paper identifies and measures the various business Value benefits that accrue as a result of implementing and integrating large-scale enterprise information systems. Specifically, we look at the integration of electronic medical records for all patients with the radiology information system and a picture archiving and communication system at a regional medical center. Our work is among the first to carefully study and analyze the impact of enterprise information systems at a large-scale s...
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作者:Clemons, Eric K.
作者单位:University of Pennsylvania
摘要:Almost all attempts to data to monetize Internet applications targetted at individuals have focused on natural extensions of traditional media or traditional retailing, Most are either some form of consumer-focused advertising or of consumer-focused e-commerce And yet the Net is far more powerful than traditional media on one hand. and far more liberating, and thus inappropriate as an alternative to traditional media on the other. There are numerous potential online business models that are no...
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作者:Susarla, Anjana; Barua, Anitesh; Whinston, Andrew B.
作者单位:University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要:Application service providers (ASP), which host and maintain information technology (IT) applications across the Internet, offer in alternative to traditional models 4 IT service for user firms. We build oil prior literature in transaction cost economics (TCE) to argue that the contract design should address ex post transaction costs that result due to contractual incompleteness and opportunism. We argue that contract design is multidimensional, and that it is necessary to design governance st...