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作者：Riemer, Kai; Johnston, Robert B.
作者单位：University of Sydney
摘要：The founders of sociomateriality argue that the difficulty of maintaining distinctions between material and social entities, increasingly encountered empirically, also necessitates a commitment to inseparability at the ontological level. Yet reservations have been voiced that this proposal is contrary to experience, incoherent, and of little practical use. While not denying the phenomenon, the critics insist that the ontological commitment to separated entities must be maintained. We show that...
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作者：Zhang, Xiaojun; Venkatesh, Viswanath
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville
摘要：A key objective of knowledge management system (KMS) implementations is to facilitate job outcomes, such as job performance and job satisfaction. Prior KMS research indicates many KMS implementations have failed to achieve their intended job outcomes, such as job performance and job satisfaction, and one important reason for failure could be that employees do not know how to use a KMS to enhance job outcomes. Given that research on this topic is scant and the findings inconsistent, this paper ...
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作者：Uotila, Juha; Keil, Thomas; Maula, Markku
作者单位：University of Warwick; University of Zurich; Aalto University
摘要：Standards are central to many information technology (IT) applications, and the development processes for these standards play a key role in the evolution of information systems (IS). We model the development of IT standards by technology suppliers as a coevolutionary technological search process under supply-side network effects, and we examine how the characteristics of the standards development process influence its outcomes. In line with common intuition and prior research, we find that pe...
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作者：Vaast, Emmanuelle; Safadi, Hani; Lapointe, Liette; Negoita, Bogdan
作者单位：McGill University; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of Warwick
摘要：This research questions how social media use affords new forms of organizing and collective engagement. The concept of connective action has been introduced to characterize such new forms of collective engagement in which actors coproduce and circulate content based upon an issue of mutual interest. Yet, how the use of social media actually affords connective action still needed to be investigated. Mixed methods analyses of microblogging use during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill bring insights o...
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作者：Li, Xinxin
作者单位：University of Connecticut
摘要：Collecting and displaying product reviews written by consumers is a common practice for many retail websites. These websites, however, differ in their choice to reveal aggregate review statistics on the product list displayed while consumers browse or search to make initial product selections. This study proposes an analytical model to examine the conditions in which revealing average star ratings on the product list is more profitable than not revealing this information. Noting that consumers...
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作者：Guo, Xunhua; Wei, Qiang; Chen, Guoqing; Zhang, Jin; Qiao, Dandan
作者单位：Tsinghua University; Renmin University of China
摘要：Content generated on intra-organizational blogging platforms may help managers understand the emerging ideas, issues, and opportunities of their companies, whereas the difficulty is how to go beyond the overload of information and obtain an overall view. This paper proposes a system framework for extracting representative information from intra-organizational blogging platforms, as well as the REPSET (REPresentative SET) method, which serves as the core component of the extraction system. Draw...
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作者：Kim, Keongtae; Mithas, Sunil; Kimbrough, Michael
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：This study documents variation across industries in creditors' perceptions of the risk of information technology (IT) investments. The associations we document between IT investments and both initial bond ratings and yield spreads suggest that credit-rating agencies and bond investors consider IT investments in automate and informate industries less risky than those in transform industries. We document that IT investments are associated with more volatile future cash flows in transform industr...
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作者：Sergeeva, Anastasia; Huysman, Marleen; Soekijad, Maura; van den Hooff, Bart
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：In this paper, we argue that the use of technology is structured not only by users, technology, and social context, but also by onlookers (i.e., actors for whom the use is visible, but who are not directly involved in the activities of use themselves). Building on the technology-in-practice lens and insights of an ethnographic study in operating rooms where nurses used mobile technology for various work-related and recreational purposes, we show how onlookers contribute to structuring collecti...
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作者：Ayabakan, Sezgin; Bardhan, Indranil; Zheng, Zhiqiang (Eric); Kirksey, Kirk
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Texas System; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
摘要：Recent healthcare reform has focused on reducing excessive waste in the U.S. healthcare system, with duplicate testing being one of the main culprits. We explore the factors associated with duplicate tests when patients utilize healthcare services from multiple providers, and yet information sharing across these providers is fragmented. We hypothesize that implementation of health information sharing technologies will reduce the duplication rate more for radiology tests compared to laboratory ...
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作者：Ghoshal, Abhijeet; Lahiri, Atanu; Dey, Debabrata
作者单位：University of Louisville; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：We examine the commitment problem faced by a software vendor in ending critical support, in the presence of network security risks. When releasing a new version of a product, in order to drive up its demand, the vendor must cease supporting the old version. However, the vendor's ability to leverage the increased demand can be limited because of a commitment problem. For, when the demand increases and the vendor accordingly sets a higher price, many consumers might opt not to upgrade, creating ...
