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作者：Agerfalk, Par J.; Fitzgerald, Brian
作者单位：Uppsala University; University of Limerick
摘要：This paper presents a psychological contract perspective on the use of the open source development model as a global sourcing strategy-opensourcing, as we term it here-whereby commercial companies and open source communities collaborate on development of software of commercial interest to the company. Building on previous research on information systems outsourcing, a theoretical framework for exploring the opensourcing phenomenon is derived. The first phase of the research concerned qualitati...
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作者：Leonardi, Paul M.; Bailey, Diane E.
作者单位：Northwestern University; Northwestern University; Stanford University
摘要：Studies have shown the knowledge transfer problems that arise when communication and storage technologies are employed to accomplish work across time and space. Much less is known about knowledge transfer problems associated with transformational technologies, which afford the creation, modification, and manipulation of digital artifacts. Yet, these technologies play a critical role in offshoring by allo wing the distribution of work at the task level, what we call task-based offshoring For ex...
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作者：Venkatesh, Viswanath; Brown, Susan A.; Maruping, Likoebe M.; Bala, Hillol
作者单位：University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; University of Arizona; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：Employees' underutilization of new Information systems undermines organizations efforts to gain benefits from such systems. The two main predictors of individual-level system use in prior research-behavioral intention and facilitating conditions-have limitations that we discuss. We introduce behavioral expectation as a predictor that addresses some of the key limitations and provides a better understanding of system use. System use is examined in terms of three key conceptualizations: duration...
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作者：Parsons, Jeffrey; Wand, Yair
作者单位：Memorial University Newfoundland; University of British Columbia
摘要：Organizing phenomena into classes is a pervasive human activity. The ability to classify phenomena encountered in daily life in useful ways is essential to human survival and adaptation. Not surprisingly, then, classification-oriented activities are widespread in the information systems field. Classes or entity types play a central role in conceptual modeling for information systems requirements analysis, as well as in the design of databases and object-oriented software. Furthermore, classifi...
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作者：Levina, Natalia; Vaast, Emmanuelle
作者单位：New York University; Long Island University; Long Island University-Brooklyn Campus
摘要：Increasingly, firms source more complex and strategic as well as harder to codify information technology projects to low-cost offshore locations. Completing such projects successfully requires close collaboration among all participants. Yet, achieving such collaboration is extremely difficult because of the complexity of the context: multiple and overlapping boundaries associated with diverse organizational and national contexts separate the participants. These boundaries also lead to a pronou...
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作者：Dibbern, Jens; Winkler, Jessica; Heinzl, Armin
作者单位：University of Mannheim
摘要：Gaining economic benefits from substantially lower labor costs has been reported as a major reason for offshoring labor-intensive information systems services to low-wage countries. However, if wage differences are so high, why is there such a high level of variation in the economic success between offshored IS projects? This study argues that offshore outsourcing involves a number of extra costs for the client organization that account for the economic failure of offshore projects. The object...
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作者：Olsson, Helena Holmstrom; Conchuir, Eoin O.; Agerfalk, Par J.; Fitzgerald, Brian
作者单位：University of Gothenburg; University of Limerick; Uppsala University
摘要：This paper investigates two-stage offshoring as experienced by the Irish sites of two large global companies, head-quartered in the United States, with significant software development operations. As part of these companies, the Irish sites act as abridge in their offshoring arrangements: While the U.S. sites offshore work to Ireland, the Irish sites offshore work further to India and, hence, have experience of being both customer and vendor in two-stage offshore sourcing relationships. Using ...
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作者：Choudhury, Vivek; Karahanna, Elena
作者单位：University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：The Internet has the potential to fundamentally change the structure of marketing channels, but only if consumers choose to adopt electronic channels. Thus, this paper aims to develop a more nuanced understanding of consumer channel choices. Specifically, it contends that it is important to examine consumers' intent to adopt electronic channels, not as a monolithic decision, but as a choice they make at each of four stages in the purchase process: requirements determination, vendor selection,p...
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作者：Gregg, Dawn G.; Walczak, Steven
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver
摘要：Businesses can choose who they want to be online. Product and company attributes that are directly perceivable in the real world can be manipulated tomake a favorable impression on online buyers. This study examines whether creating a more professional online e-image can signal consumers about unobservable product or company quality, and whether this signal influences their willingness to transact with the company, and ultimately the prices they are willing to pay for the company's goods and s...
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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; Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Las Vegas
摘要：In this paper, we present an economic learning model that helps to formalize the complex relationships among an offshoring firm's knowledge levels, production costs, and coordination costs. Specifically, we model a domestic firm's use of a selective offshore strategy (i.e., offshoring only a portion of its information technology activities) to exploit, through IT investments or contractual provisions, the foreign vendor's large, scale-driven repository of production knowledge. We illustrate th...
