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作者：Shanks, Graeme; Weber, Ron
作者单位：University of Melbourne; Monash University
摘要：Allen and March provide a critique of one of our papers in which we argue composites should be represented as entities/objects in a conceptual model rather than relationships/associations (Shanks et al. 2008). They contend we have addressed a non-issue. Furthermore, they argue our theoretical rationale and empirical evidence have flaws. In this paper, we provide a response to their arguments. We show that the issue we address is substantive. We show, also, that our theoretical analysis and emp...
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作者：Dimoka, Angelika; Hong, Yili; Pavlou, Paul A.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：Online markets pose a difficulty for evaluating products, particularly experience goods, such as used cars, that cannot be easily described online. This exacerbates product uncertainty, the buyer's difficulty in evaluating product characteristics, and predicting how a product will perform in the future. However, the IS literature has focused on seller uncertainty and ignored product uncertainty. To address this void, this study conceptualizes product uncertainty and examines its effects and an...
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作者：Ceccagnoli, Marco; Forman, Chris; Huang, Peng; Wu, D. J.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：It has been argued that platform technology owners cocreate business value with other firms in their platform ecosystems by encouraging complementary invention and exploiting indirect network effects. In this study, we examine whether participation in an ecosystem partnership improves the business performance of small independent software vendors (ISVs) in the enterprise software industry and how appropriability mechanisms influence the benefits of partnership. By analyzing the partnering acti...
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作者：Mithas, Sunil; Tafti, Ali; Bardhan, Indranil; Goh, Jie Mein
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; IE University
摘要：Do information technology investments improve firm profitability? Ifs, is this effect because such investments help improve sales, or is it because they help reduce overall operating expenses? How does the effect of IT on profitability compare with that of advertising and of research and development? These are important questions because investments in IT constitute a large part of firms discretionary expenditures, and managers need to understand the likely impacts and mechanisms to justify an...
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作者：Romanow, Darryl; Cho, Sunyoung; Straub, Detmar
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Gwinnett College
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作者：von Krogh, Georg; Haefliger, Stefan; Spaeth, Sebastian; Wallin, Martin W.
作者单位：Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich
摘要：Open source software (OSS) is a social and economic phenomenon that raises fundamental questions about the motivations of contributors to information systems development. Some developers are unpaid volunteers who seek to solve their own technical problems, while others create OSS as part of their employment contract. For the past 10 years, a substantial amount of academic work has theorized about and empirically examined developer motivations. We review this work and suggest considering motiva...
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作者：Chua, Cecil Eng Huang; Lim, Wee-Kiat; Soh, Christina; Sia, Siew Kien
作者单位：University of Auckland; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Nanyang Technological University
摘要：The information technology project control literature has documented that clan control is often essential in complex multistakeholder projects for project success. However, instituting clan control in such conditions is challenging as people come to a project with diverse skills and backgrounds. There is often insufficient time for clan control to develop naturally This paper investigates the question, How can clan control be enacted in complex IT projects? Recognizing social capital as a reso...
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作者：Sun, Heshan
作者单位：University of Arizona
摘要：Post-adoptive system use is often characterized by cycles of adaptation, in which people actively revise how they use information systems. This paper investigates how and why individual users revise their system use at the feature level. A new concept, adaptive system use (ASU), is conceptualized as a user's revisions of which and how system features are used. This research identifies four specific ASU behaviors that collectively describe how people revise their use of system features. A model...
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作者：Hu, Daning; Zhao, J. Leon; Hua, Zhimin; Wong, Michael C. S.
作者单位：University of Zurich; City University of Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：In the wake of the 2008 financial tsunami, existing methods and tools for managing financial risk have been criticized for weaknesses in monitoring and alleviating risks at the systemic level. A 2009 article in Nature suggested new approaches to modeling economic meltdowns are needed to prevent future financial crises. However, existing studies have not focused on analysis of systemic risk at the individual bank level in a banking network, which is essential for monitoring and mitigating conta...
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作者：Lee, Allen S.; Baskerville, Richard L.
作者单位：Virginia Commonwealth University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：Tsang and Williams offer some good and provocative ideas in their critique of our earlier article on generalizing and generalizability. In this essay we will advance some new ideas by building on those collected in both Tsang and Williams and our original article (Lee and Baskerville 2003). Because IS is a pluralist scientific discipline, one in which both qualitative and quantitative (and both interpretive and positivist) research approaches are valued, generalize is unlikely to be a viable t...
