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作者：Backhouse, James; Hsu, Carol W.; Silva, Leiser
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; National Chengchi University; University of Houston System; University of Houston
摘要：This paper addresses the role of power and politics in setting standards. It examines the interaction of external contingencies, powerful agents, resources, meaning, and membership of relevant social and institutional groupings in generating succesful political outcomes. To study these interactions, the paper adopts the circuits of power, a theoretical framework taken from the social sciences, and applies it to understanding the creation and development of the first standard in information sec...
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作者：Markus, Lynne; Steinfield, Charles W.; Wigand, Rolf T.; Minton, Gabe
作者单位：Bentley University; Michigan State University; University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Little Rock; University of Arkansas Fayetteville
摘要：Vertical information systems (VIS) standards are technical specifications designed to promote coordination among the organizations within (or across) vertical industry sectors. Examples include the bar code, electronic data interchange (EDI) standards, and RosettaNet business process standards in the electronics industry. This contribution examines VIS standardization through the lens of collective action theory, applied in the literature to information technology product standardization, but ...
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作者：Shaft, TM; Vessey, I
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; University of Queensland; Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
摘要：Although there is a long tradition of empirical studies of software developers, few studies have focused on software maintenance. Prior work is predicated on the belief that higher levels of software comprehension are associated with higher levels of performance on modification tasks. This study provides a more complete understanding of the relationship between software comprehension and modification. We conceptualize software maintenance as inter-linking comprehension and modification, and ar...
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作者：Tanriverdi, H
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Unlike technologies that are applicable in a few specific industries, information technologies have a wide range of applicability across almost all industries. The fundamental principles of good IT management are also applicable in many industries. Thus,firms whose business units operate in different industries have all opportunity to exploit cross-unit IT synergies by applying their IT resources and management processes across multiple units. This study, examines sources of cross-unit IT syne...
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作者：Weitzel, Tim; Beimborn, Daniel; Koenig, Wolfgang
作者单位：Otto Friedrich University Bamberg; Goethe University Frankfurt
摘要：This paper is motivated by the following question: What drives the diffusion of a communication standard and what results can we expect? Past literature provides many instructive but mostly unrelated answers. Frequent findings are startup problems, penguin effects, and tendencies toward monopoly. But substantial problems in applying the models to concrete standardization problems reveal that the dynamics are probably more complex. Not all networks are ultimately conquered by a single standard ...
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作者：Banker, Rajiv D.; Bardhan, Indranil R.; Chang, Hsihui; Lin, Shu
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of California System; University of California Riverside; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Firms have been investing over $5 billion a year in recent years on new information technology, and software in their manufacturing plants. In this study, we develop a conceptual model based on the theory of dynamic capabilities to study how manufacturing plants realize improvements in plant performance by leveraging plant information systems to enable implementation of advanced manfacturing capabilities. We develop hypotheses about relationships between information systems, their impact on ma...
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作者：Cotteleer, Mark J.; Bendoly, Elliot
作者单位：Marquette University
摘要：This paper investigates the influence of enterprise systems implementation on operational performance. The work extends the literature on enterprise systems by focusing on changes in process dynamics as a source for ongoing firm-level performance improvement. A case discussion of Tristen Corporation, a firm that implemented ERP and subsequently experienced benefits through gains to its continuous improvement efforts, is examined in light of theorized impacts of such implementations on process ...
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作者：Miranda, Shaila M.; Kim, Yong-Mi
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：IS research has considered the outsourcing decision from the perspective of transaction cost economics (TCE) and institutional theory. In this research, we consider how the appropriation of the logic of transaction cost economics is contingent on decision makers' institutional context. The institutional contexts contrasted are professional versus political contexts. In a survey of 214 city governments in the United States, we substantiate the existence of these two institutional contexts, a di...
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作者：Allen, Gove N.; March, Salvatore T.
作者单位：Tulane University; Vanderbilt University
摘要：Ad hoc query formulation is an important task in effectively utilizing organizational data resources. To facilitate this task, managers and casual end-users are commonly presented with database views expressly constructed for their use. Differences in the way in which things, states, and events are represented in such views can affect a users ability to understand the database, potentially leading to different levels of performance (i.e., accuracy, confidence, and prediction of the accuracy of...
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作者：Padmanabhan, Balaji; Zheng, Zhiqiang; Kimbrough, Steven O.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of California System; University of California Riverside
摘要：Due to the vast amount of user data tracked online, the use of data-based analytical methods is becoming increasingly common for e-businesses. Recently the term analytical eCRM has been used to refer to the use of such methods in the online world. A characteristic of most of the current approaches in eCRM is that they use data collected about users' activities at a single site only and, as we argue in this paper, this can present an incomplete picture of user activity. However, it is possible ...
