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作者：Forte, Andrea; Larco, Vanessa; Bruckman, Amy
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：How does self-governance happen in Wikipedia? Through in-depth interviews with 20 individuals who have held a variety of responsibilities in the English-language Wikipedia, we obtained rich descriptions of how various forces produce and regulate social structures on the site. Although Wikipedia is sometimes portrayed as lacking oversight, our analysis describes Wikipedia as an organization with highly refined policies, norms, and a technological architecture that supports organizational ideals...
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作者：[Anonymous]
摘要：Collaboration engineering is an approach for the design and deployment of repeatable collaboration processes that can be executed by practitioners without the support of collaboration professionals such as facilitators. A critical challenge in collaboration engineering concerns how the design activities have to be executed and which design choices have to be made to create a process design. We report on a four-year design science study in which we developed a design approach for collaboration ...
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作者：Nelson, H. James; Armstrong, Deborah J.; Nelson, Kay M.
作者单位：Southern Illinois University System; Southern Illinois University; State University System of Florida; Florida State University; University of Kansas; Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：While many of the changes that information systems professionals encounter are incremental requiring only modifications to an existing mind-set, others represent radical changes that require a fundamental shift in mind-set in order to fully benefit from the change. The goal of this study was to examine how software development concept thinking changes as individuals shift their mind-set to the object-oriented software development approach. The results indicate that the transition may not be as...
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作者：Chen, Li; Goes, Paulo; Marsden, James R.; Zhang, Zhongju
作者单位：University of Connecticut; University of Arizona
摘要：In the work presented here, we develop and apply preference markets in evaluating early stage technology. Partnering with a Fortune 5 company, we developed and implemented two internal preference markets (field experiments). In both cases, nonmonetary (play money) incentives were utilized, but one market provided additional nonmonetary (play money) incentives. Working with the partner company, our investigation started with seven emerging technologies and expanded to a total of 17 emerging tec...
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作者：Zwass, Vladimir
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作者：Susarla, Anjana; Barua, Anitesh; Whinston, Andrew B.
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Application service providers (ASP), which host and maintain information technology (IT) applications across the Internet, offer in alternative to traditional models 4 IT service for user firms. We build oil prior literature in transaction cost economics (TCE) to argue that the contract design should address ex post transaction costs that result due to contractual incompleteness and opportunism. We argue that contract design is multidimensional, and that it is necessary to design governance st...
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作者：Tiwana, Amrit; Keil, Mark
作者单位：Iowa State University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：Although the choice of control mechanisms in systems development projects has been extensively studied in prior research, differences in such choices across internal and outsourced projects and their effects on systems development performance have not received much attention. This study attempts to address this gap using data on 57 outsourced and 79 internal projects in 136 organizations. Our results reveal a paradoxical overarching pattern: controllers attempt greater use of control mechanism...
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作者：Fang, Yulin; Neufeld, Derrick
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：Prior research into open source software (OSS) developer participation has emphasized individuals' motivations for joining these volunteer communities, but it has failed to explain why people stay or leave in the long run. Building upon Lave and Wenger's theory of legitimate peripheral participation (LPP), this paper offers a longitudinal investigation of one OSS community in which sustained participation is hypothesized to be associated with the coevolution of two major elements of LPP theory...
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作者：Lowry, Paul Benjamin; Romano, Nicholas C., Jr.; Jenkins, Jeffrey L.; Guthrie, Randy W.
作者单位：Brigham Young University; Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater; International Business Machines (IBM); IBM USA; University of Arizona; Microsoft; California State University System; California State Polytechnic University Pomona
摘要：Process satisfaction is one important determinant of work group collaborative system adoption, continuance, and performance. We explicate the computer-mediated communication (CMC) interactivity model (CMCIM) to explain and predict how interactivity enhances communication quality that results in increased process satisfaction in CMC-supported work groups. We operationalize this model in the challenging context of very large groups using extremely lean CMC. We tested it with a rigorous field exp...
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作者：Ravichandran, T.; Liu, Yu; Han, Shu; Hasan, Iftekhar
作者单位：Yeshiva University
摘要：A large body of research has examined the performance effects of diversification. However, these results have been mixed, and scholars have called for examining contingencies under which the effects of different types (related, unrelated, geographic) and levels of diversification on performance vary. This study attempts to fill this gap in the literature by arguing that examining the performance effects of diversification is incomplete without taking into consideration the firm's information t...
