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作者：Keil, M; Tan, BCY; Wei, KK; Saarinen, T; Tuunainen, V; Wassenaar, A
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; National University of Singapore; Aalto University; University of Twente
摘要：One of the most challenging decisions that a manager must confront is whether to continue or abandon a troubled project. Published studies suggest that failing software projects are often allowed to continue for too long before appropriate management action is taken to discontinue or redirect the efforts. The level of sunk cost associated with such projects has been offered as one explanation for this escalation of commitment behavior. What prior studies fail to consider is how concepts from r...
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作者：Swanson, EB; Dans, E
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; IE University
摘要：Aging information systems are expensive to maintain and most are eventually retired and replaced. But what determines (in the choices made by managers) whether and when a system reaches end-of-life? What shapes managers' judgements about a system's remaining life expectancy and do these judgments influence the maintenance effort itself? System maintenance and prospective replacement are examined here in new terms, positing that managers equilibrate (balance) their allocation of maintenance eff...
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作者：Nelson, KM; Nadkarni, S; Narayanan, VK; Ghods, M
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln; University of Kansas; Boeing
摘要：This paper utilizes a qualitative methodology, revealed causal mapping (RCM), to investigate the phenomenon of software operations support expertise. Software operations support is a large portion of the IS work performed in organizations. While we as researchers have access to generalized theories and frameworks of expertise, very little is known about expertise in this critical area. To understand software operations support expertise, a mid-range theory is evoked from interviews with expert...
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作者：Lee, A
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作者：Schultze, U
作者单位：Southern Methodist University
摘要：Information systems research has traditionally focused on information as an object that serves as input to decision making. Such a perspective attends mainly to the use of information. Increasingly, however, organizations are concerned about the production of information. This paper focuses on the work of producing informational objects, an activity central to knowledge work. Based on data collected during an eight-month ethnographic study of three groups of knowledge workers-computer system a...
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作者：Freeman, LA; Jarvenpaa, SL; Wheeler, BC
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：This paper reports on a survey of North American IS programs and secondary data assessing the supply and demand of Information Systems (IS) doctorates. The data document a large and growing lack of supply to meet current and future demand. Demographic factors-including the number of university students, their selection of majors, and retirements among IS faculty-favor a probable scenario for continuing strong demand for IS faculty in the longer term. We argue that the severe imbalance will con...
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作者：Agarwal, R; Karahanna, E
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Extant explanations of why users behave in particular ways toward information technologies have tended to focus predominantly on instrumental beliefs as drivers of individual usage intentions. Prior work in individual psychology, however, suggests that holistic experiences with technology as captured in constructs such as enjoyment and flow are potentially important explanatory variables in technology acceptance theories. In this paper, we describe a multi-dimensional construct labeled cogniti...
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作者：Trauth, EM; Jessup, LM
作者单位：Northeastern University; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：This research considers whether interpretive techniques can be used to enhance our understanding of computer-mediated discussions. The case study considered in this research is the use of a group support system (GSS) to support employee discussions about gender equity in a university. Transcripts of the four discussions were analyzed using two analysis techniques: a positivist approach, which was focused on the GSS sessions themselves, and an interpretive approach which broadened the scope to ...
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作者：Lim, KH; Benbasat, I
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; University of British Columbia
摘要：With the advent of multimedia and intranet technologies, managers and information systems designers face a new challenge: how to capture and present information using a variety of representation formats (text, graphics, audio, video, and animations) so that members of an organization can make better sense out of the information available. In this study, we develop a task-representation fit model to generate several predictions about the potential of multimedia to alleviate the limitations of t...
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作者：Taudes, A; Feurstein, M; Mild, A
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business
摘要：In recent years, the use of option pricing models to support IT investment decisions has been proposed in the MIS literature. In this paper, we discuss the practical advantages of such techniques for the selection of a software platform. First, we argue that traditional quantitative approaches to a cost-benefit analysis give only a partial picture of such decision situations: due to the long planning horizon required because of the time-consuming and resource-intensive implementation process, ...
