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作者:Chen, ANK; Edgington, TM
作者单位:Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要:To maintain competitive advantage, a firm's investment decisions related to knowledge creation are likely to be strategic in nature. However, strategic investments usually have an element of risk linked to uncertain and deferred investment benefits. To date, such-investment decisions relating to knowledge workers have not been extensively researched. In this paper, we explore the following research question: How do we strategically assess knowledge creation over time giving consideration to co...
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作者:Malhotra, A; Gosain, S; El Sawy, OA
作者单位:University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Southern California
摘要:The need for continual value innovation is driving supply chains to evolve from a pure transactional focus to leveraging interorganizational partner ships for sharing information and, ultimately, market knowledge creation. Supply chain partners are (1) engaging in interlinked processes that enable rich (broad-ranging, high quality, and privileged) information sharing, and (2) building information technology infrastructures that allow them to process information obtained from their partners to ...
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作者:Swanson, EB; Ramiller, NC
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Portland State University
摘要:Although organizational innovation with information technology is often carefully considered, bandwagon phenomena indicate that much innovative behavior may nevertheless be of the me too variety. In this essay, we explore such differences in innovative behavior. Adopting a perspective that is both institutional and cognitive, we introduce the notion of mindful innovation with IT. A mindful firm attends to an IT innovation with reasoning grounded in its own organizational facts and specifics. W...
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作者:Street, CT; Meister, DB
作者单位:Queens University - Canada; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要:While many large businesses start out as a small enterprise, remarkably little is known about how an organization actually changes internally during the periods of growth. Small business growth is known to strain internal communication processes, for example, which likely limits growth opportunities. Information systems are often called upon to remedy such deficiencies. Through a participatory action research project, we investigated the ways in which a small business management team developed...
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作者:Subramani, M
作者单位:University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要:Supply chain management systems (SCMS) championed by network leaders in their supplier networks are now ubiquitous. While prior studies have examined the benefits to network leaders from these systems, little attention has been paid to the benefits to supplier firms. This study draws from organizational theories of learning and action and transaction cost theory to propose a model relating suppliers' use of SCMS to benefits. It proposes that two patterns of SCMS use by suppliers-exploitation a...
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作者:Braa, J; Monteiro, E; Sahay, S
作者单位:University of Oslo; Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU)
摘要:Our paper is motivated by one simple question: Why do so many action research efforts fail to persist overtime? We approach this question, the problem of sustainability, building on a perspective on action research identifying the pivotal importance of networks. More precisely, local action research interventions need to be conceptualized and approached as but one element in a larger network of action in order to ensure sustainability. A vital aspect of our perspective is that local interventi...
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作者:Wade, M; Hulland, J
作者单位:York University - Canada; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要:Information systems researchers have a long tradition of drawing on theories from disciplines such as economics, computer science, psychology, and general management and using them in their own research. Because of this, the information systems field has become a rich tapestry of theoretical and conceptual foundations. As new theories are brought into the field, particularly theories that have become dominant in other areas, there maybe a benefit in pausing to assess their use and contribution...
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作者:Bassellier, G; Benbasat, I
作者单位:McGill University; University of British Columbia
摘要:This research aims at improving our understanding of the concept of business competence of information technology professionals and at exploring the contribution of this competence to the development of partnerships between IT professionals and their business clients. Business competence focuses on the areas of knowledge that are not specifically IT-related. At a broad level, it comprises the organization-specific knowledge and the interpersonal and management knowledge possessed by IT profess...
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作者:Mårtensson, P; Lee, AS
作者单位:Stockholm School of Economics; Virginia Commonwealth University
摘要:In dialogical action research, the scientific researcher does not speak science or otherwise attempt to teach scientific theory to the real-world practitioner, but instead attempts to speak the language of the practitioner and accepts him as the expert on his organization and its problems. Recognizing the difficulty that a practitioner and a scientific researcher can have in communicating across the world of science and the world of practice, dialogical action research offers, as its centerpie...
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作者:Kumar, N; Benbasat, I
作者单位:City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY); University of British Columbia
摘要:Most of the recent research in data visualization has focused on technical and aesthetic issues involved in the manipulation of graphs, specifically on features that facilitate data exploration to make graphs interactive and dynamic. The present research identifies a gap in the existing knowledge of graph construction, namely potential problems in both 3D and 2D graphs that will impede comprehension of information when three or more variables are used in a graphical representation. Based on th...