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作者：Porra, J
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Colonial systems are presented as an alternative to the mechanistic and organic systems paradigms. They are based upon the inclusion of an evolutionary social history (Ernst Mayr), species-level evolution (Eldredge and Gould), and local context (Martin Heidegger) as central premises in the definition of human systems. The colonial viewpoint of systems is differentiated from the mechanistic and organic models by ten different axioms that define how systems operate during both homeostasis (stabi...
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作者：Pinsonneault, A; Barki, H; Gallupe, RB; Hoppen, N
作者单位：McGill University; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; Queens University - Canada; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
摘要：After discussing how group size might affect the effectiveness of electronic brainstorming (EBS) as an idea generating tool, Dennis and Valacich (1999) conclude that EBS is not likely to surpass nominal brainstorming for small groups, but that for large groups (i.e., nine or more members), EBS offers clear performance benefits over nominal group brainstorming, as well as verbal brainstorming. However, in our view, the existing theoretical and empirical evidence does not provide sufficient just...
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作者：Fichman, RG; Kemerer, CF
作者单位：Boston College; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：Innovation researchers have known for some time that a new information technology may I be widely acquired, but then only sparsely deployed among acquiring firms. When this happens, the observed pattern of cumulative adoptions will vary depending on which event in the assimilation process (i.e., acquisition or deployment) is treated as the adoption event. Instead of mirroring one another, a widening gap-termed here an assimilation gap-will exist between the cumulative adoption curves associate...
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作者：Segars, AH; Grover, V
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Improving strategic planning within the realm of information technology management is consistently identified by top corporate executives as a critical competitive issue. While relevant Literature in the area is replete with descriptions of planning tools and methodologies, investigations that examine this activity from the perspective of process-based characteristics, or profiles, are still in the formative stages. Through multivariate analysis of data gathered from 253 organizations, the fin...
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作者：King, JL
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine
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作者：Gopal, RD; Sanders, GL
作者单位：University of Connecticut; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY
摘要：The pervasiveness of software piracy throughout the world is having a profound effect on the software publishing industry and the development of digital intellectual properties and technologies-especially in developing countries, where the piracy rates are extremely high. An economic model is first presented that incorporates the incentive structures for governments, software publishers, and individual consumers. The analytical model provides the economic rationale for the reluctance of a numb...
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作者：Lyytinen, K; Mathiassen, L; Ropponen, J
作者单位：University of Jyvaskyla; Aalborg University; Nokia Corporation
摘要：This paper examines software risk management in a novel way, emphasizing the ways in which managers address software risks through sequential attention shaping and intervention. Software risks are interpreted as incongruent states within a socio-technical model of organizational change that includes task, structure, technology, and actors. Such incongruence can lead to failures in developing or implementing the system and thus to major losses. Based on this model we synthesize a set of softwar...
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作者：Dennis, AR; Kinney, ST
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Media richness theory argues that performance improves when team members use richer media for equivocal tasks. This experiment studied the effects of media richness on decision making in two-person teams using new media (i.e., computer-mediated and video communication). Media richness was varied based on multiplicity of cues and immediacy of feedback. Subjects perceived differences in richness due to both rues and feedback, but matching richness to task equivocality did not improve decision qu...
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作者：Marakas, GM; Yi, MY; Johnson, RD
作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Despite the recent empirical interest and advances in research with regard to the construct of computer self-efficacy (CSE), the results obtained to date have, in some cases, been either equivocal or contradictory. We suggest that such results may be attributable to a general lack of attention to the dynamic, multileveled, and multifaceted nature of the computer self-efficacy construct. We offer examples from the extant CSE Literature suggesting weaknesses in existing measures of the construct...
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作者：Iivari, J; Hirschheim, R; Klein, HK
作者单位：University of Oulu; University of Houston System; University of Houston; State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY
摘要：This paper analyses the fundamental philosophical assumptions of five contrasting information systems development (ISD) approaches: the interactionist approach, the speech act-based approach, the soft systems methodology approach, the trade unionist approach, and the professional work practice approach. These five approaches are selected for analysis because they illustrate alternative philosophical assumptions from the dominant orthodoxy identified in the research literature. The paper also p...
