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作者：Dennis, Alan R.; Fuller, Robert M.; Valacich, Joseph S.
作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; Washington State University
摘要：This paper expands, refines, and explicates media synchronicity theory, originally proposed in a conference proceeding in 1999 (Dennis and Valacich 1999). Media synchronicity theory (MST) focuses on the ability of media to support synchronicity, a shared pattern of coordinated behavior among individuals as they work together. Weexpandonthe original propositions of MST to argue that communication is composed of two primary processes: conveyance and convergence. The familiarity of individuals wi...
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作者：Pries-Heje, Jan; Baskerville, Richard
作者单位：Roskilde University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：Managers frequently face ill-structured of wicked problems. Such problems are characterized by a large degree of uncertainty with respect to how the problem should be approached and how to establish and evaluate the set of alternative solutions. A design theory nexus is a set of constructs and methods that enable the construction of models that connect numerous design theories with alternative solutions. It thereby offers a unique problem-solving approach that is particularly useful for addres...
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作者：Gefen, David; Carmel, Erran
作者单位：Drexel University; American University
摘要：In a world that is flat, where all clients and providers can easily transact with one another, offshoring represents the proposition that information technology providers from low-wage nations can now underbid providers from high-wage nations and win contracts. We examined a particularly flat world-an online programming marketplace-and found that this profound tilt to low-wage nations is overstated We analyzed the entire history of transactions at one of the major online programming marketplac...
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作者：Xue, Yajiong; Liang, Huigang; Boulton, William R.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; East Carolina University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; Western Washington University
摘要：This study identifies governance patterns for information technology investment decision processes and explores the impact of organizations' investment characteristics, external environment, and internal context on the shaping of those patterns. By identifying the lead actors of the initiation, development, and approval stages in IT governance, the patterns of 57IT investment decisions at 6 hospitals are analyzed. The results reveal seven IT governance archetypes: (1) top management monarchy, ...
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作者：March, Salvatore T.; Storey, Veda C.
作者单位：Vanderbilt University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
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作者：Rutner, Paige S.; Hardgrave, Bill C.; McKnight, D. Harrison
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Southern University; University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business
摘要：The information technology professional regularly expected to work with colleagues in both IT and other areas of the organization. During these interactions, the IT employee is expected to conform to occupational or organizational norms regarding the display of emotion. How do these display norms affect the IT professional? This study examines an IT professional's emotional dissonance, the conflict between norms of emotional display and an employee's felt emotion. Emotional dissonance is studi...
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作者：Hsieh, J. J. Po-An; Rai, Arun; Keil, Mark
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：Digital inequality is one of the most critical issues in the knowledge economy. The private and public sectors have devoted tremendous resources to address such inequality, yet the results are inconclusive. Theoretically grounded empirical research is needed both to expand our understanding of digital inequality and to inform effective policy making and intervention. The context of our investigation is a city government project, known as the LaGrange Internet TV initiative, which allowed all c...
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作者：Straub, Detmar W.; Ang, Soon
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; Nanyang Technological University
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作者：Son, Jai-Yeol; Kim, Sung S.
作者单位：Yonsei University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Although Internet users are expected to respond in various ways to privacy threats from online companies, little attention has been paid so far to the complex nature of how users respond to these threats. This paper has two specific goals in its effort to fill this gap in the literature. The first, so that these outcomes can be systematically investigated, is to develop a taxonomy of information privacy-protective responses (IPPR). This taxonomy consists of six types of behavioral responses-re...
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作者：Gefen, David; Wyss, Simon; Lichtenstein, Yossi
作者单位：Drexel University; University College Dublin
摘要：This study examines the role of business familiarity in determining how software development outsourcing projects are managed and priced to address risks. Increased business familiarity suggests both more prior knowledge, and hence reduced adverse selection risk, and increased implied trust about future behavior, and hence implied reduced moral hazard risk. Preferring high business familiarity partners may also alleviate concerns about incomplete contracts. By reducing these risks, higher busi...
