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作者：Lucas, Henry C., Jr.; Agarwal, Ritu; Clemons, Eric K.; El Sawy, Omar A.; Weber, Bruce
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Pennsylvania; University of Southern California; University of Delaware
摘要：Information technology has arguably been one of the most important drivers of economic and social value in the last 50 years, enabling transformational change in virtually every aspect of society. Although the Information Systems community is engaged in significant research on IT, the reach of our findings may be limited. In this commentary, our objective is to focus the IS community's attention on the striking transformations in economic and social systems spawned by IT and to encourage more ...
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作者：Woodard, C. Jason; Ramasubbu, Narayan; Tschang, F. Ted; Sambamurthy, V.
作者单位：Singapore Management University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Singapore Management University; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business
摘要：As information technology becomes integral to the products and services in a growing range of industries, there has been a corresponding surge of interest in understanding how firms can effectively formulate and execute digital business strategies. This fusion of IT within the business environment gives rise to a strategic tension between investing in digital artifacts for long-term value creation and exploiting them for short-term value appropriation. Further, relentless innovation and compet...
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作者：Liu, De; Li, Xun; Santhanam, Radhika
作者单位：University of Kentucky; University of Louisiana System; Nicholls State University; University of Kentucky
摘要：Because digital games are fun, engaging, and popular, organizations are attempting to integrate them within organizational activities as serious components, with the anticipation that they can improve employees' motivation and performance. But in order to do so and to obtain the intended outcomes, it is necessary to first obtain an understanding of how different digital game designs impact players' behaviors and emotional responses. Hence, in this study, we address one key element of popular g...
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作者：Garg, Rajiv; Telang, Rahul
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：With an abundance of products available online, many online retailers provide sales rankings to make it easier for consumers to find the best-selling products. Successfully implementing product rankings online was done a decade ago by Amazon, and more recently by Apple's App Store. However, neither market provides actual download data, a very useful statistic for both practitioners and researchers. In the past, researchers developed various strategies that allowed them to infer demand from ran...
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作者：George, Joey F.; Carlson, John R.; Valacich, Joseph S.
作者单位：Iowa State University; Baylor University; University of Arizona
摘要：Why do people select the media they choose for a particular type of communication? The media choice literature has considered myriad contextual factors that influence media choice, from proximity of the communication partners, to the urgency of the situation, to time pressure, and so on. From this body of work, a contingency-based theory of media choice has emerged. An alternative approach is to investigate how communication strategies and media characteristics affect choice. We identified two...
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作者：Zachariadis, Markos; Scott, Susan; Barrett, Michael
作者单位：University of Warwick; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Cambridge
摘要：Building on recent developments in mixed methods, we discuss the methodological implications of critical realism and explore how these can guide dynamic mixed-methods research design in information systems. Specifically, we examine the core ontological assumptions of CR in order to gain some perspective on key epistemological issues such as causation and validity, and illustrate how these shape our logic of inference in the research process through what is known as retroduction. We demonstrate...
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作者：Leonardi, Paul M.
作者单位：Northwestern University; Northwestern University
摘要：The goal of this study is to augment explanations of how newly implemented technologies enable network change within organizations with an understanding of when such change is likely to happen. Drawing on the emerging literature on technology affordances, the paper suggests that informal network change within interdependent organizational groups is unlikely to occur until users converge on a shared appropriation of the new technology's features such that the affordances the technology enables ...
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作者：Zhang, Xiaojun; Venkatesh, Viswanath
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville
摘要：By distinguishing between employees' online and offline workplace communication networks, this paper incorporates technology into social network theory to understand employees' job performance. Specifically, we conceptualize network ties as direct and indirect ties in both online and offline workplace communication networks, thus resulting in four distinct types of ties. We theorize that employees' ties in online and offline workplace communication networks are complementary resources that int...
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作者：Su, Ning
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：With China emerging as a new frontier of global IT outsourcing, many Chinese IT service suppliers are actively expanding in three major markets: Asia, especially Japan, the West, especially the United States, and the Chinese domestic market. Compared to multinational suppliers and established Indian suppliers, Chinese IT service firms are at a relatively early, but rapidly growing stage, which offers a unique opportunity to explore an understudied topic in the information systems literature: i...
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作者：Sutanto, Juliana; Palme, Elia; Tan, Chuan-Hoo; Phang, Chee Wei
作者单位：Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：Privacy has been an enduring concern associated with commercial information technology ( IT) applications, in particular regarding the issue of personalization. IT-enabled personalization, while potentially making the user computing experience more gratifying, often relies heavily on the user's personal information to deliver individualized services, which raises the user's privacy concerns. We term the tension between personalization and privacy, which follows from marketers exploiting consum...
