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作者：Schultze, U
作者单位：Southern Methodist University
摘要：Information systems research has traditionally focused on information as an object that serves as input to decision making. Such a perspective attends mainly to the use of information. Increasingly, however, organizations are concerned about the production of information. This paper focuses on the work of producing informational objects, an activity central to knowledge work. Based on data collected during an eight-month ethnographic study of three groups of knowledge workers-computer system a...
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作者：Freeman, LA; Jarvenpaa, SL; Wheeler, BC
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：This paper reports on a survey of North American IS programs and secondary data assessing the supply and demand of Information Systems (IS) doctorates. The data document a large and growing lack of supply to meet current and future demand. Demographic factors-including the number of university students, their selection of majors, and retirements among IS faculty-favor a probable scenario for continuing strong demand for IS faculty in the longer term. We argue that the severe imbalance will con...
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作者：Agarwal, R; Karahanna, E
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Extant explanations of why users behave in particular ways toward information technologies have tended to focus predominantly on instrumental beliefs as drivers of individual usage intentions. Prior work in individual psychology, however, suggests that holistic experiences with technology as captured in constructs such as enjoyment and flow are potentially important explanatory variables in technology acceptance theories. In this paper, we describe a multi-dimensional construct labeled cogniti...
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作者：Trauth, EM; Jessup, LM
作者单位：Northeastern University; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：This research considers whether interpretive techniques can be used to enhance our understanding of computer-mediated discussions. The case study considered in this research is the use of a group support system (GSS) to support employee discussions about gender equity in a university. Transcripts of the four discussions were analyzed using two analysis techniques: a positivist approach, which was focused on the GSS sessions themselves, and an interpretive approach which broadened the scope to ...
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作者：Lim, KH; Benbasat, I
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; University of British Columbia
摘要：With the advent of multimedia and intranet technologies, managers and information systems designers face a new challenge: how to capture and present information using a variety of representation formats (text, graphics, audio, video, and animations) so that members of an organization can make better sense out of the information available. In this study, we develop a task-representation fit model to generate several predictions about the potential of multimedia to alleviate the limitations of t...
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作者：Taudes, A; Feurstein, M; Mild, A
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business
摘要：In recent years, the use of option pricing models to support IT investment decisions has been proposed in the MIS literature. In this paper, we discuss the practical advantages of such techniques for the selection of a software platform. First, we argue that traditional quantitative approaches to a cost-benefit analysis give only a partial picture of such decision situations: due to the long planning horizon required because of the time-consuming and resource-intensive implementation process, ...
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作者：Cooper, RB
作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston
摘要：Many calls for reengineering suggest that information technology (IT) can be employed to enable significant organizational change. However, organizational inertia typically inhibits such change, resulting in IT development that reflects the organizational status quo. Of interest, then, are strategies and techniques that can be employed to support IT-enabled reengineering. Key to such reengineering is creativity. Therefore, this paper attempts to better understand creativity during IT requireme...
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作者：Markus, ML; Lee, AS
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作者：Mennecke, BE; Crossland, MD; Killingsworth, BL
作者单位：Iowa State University; Missouri State University; University of North Carolina; East Carolina University
摘要：This research investigated how the use of a spatial decision support system (SDSS)-a type of geographic information system (GIS)-influenced the accuracy and efficiency of different types of problem solvers (i.e., professionals versus students) completing problems of varied complexity. This research-the first to simultaneously study these variables-examined subjects who completed a problem involving spatially-referenced information. The experiment was guided by a research model synthesized from...
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作者：Keil, M; Mann, J; Rai, A
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; Old Dominion University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：Software projects can often spiral out of control to become runaway systems that far exceed original budget and schedule projections. The behavior that underlies many runaway systems can best be characterized as escalation of commitment to a failing course of action. The objectives of this study were to: (1) understand the extent to which IS projects are prone to escalate, (2) compare the outcomes of projects that escalate with those that do not, and (3) test whether constructs associated with...
