SIGMIS-CPR '13Pub Date : 2013-05-30DOI: 10.1145/2487294.2487320
M. Adya, Michael J. Gallivan, Gaëtan Mourmant, F. Niederman
{"title":"How visible is scholarly research on it personnel?: a funny thing happened on the way to publishing in JAIS","authors":"M. Adya, Michael J. Gallivan, Gaëtan Mourmant, F. Niederman","doi":"10.1145/2487294.2487320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2487294.2487320","url":null,"abstract":"This panel will discuss the visibility of IS research beyond the immediate community of SIG MIS scholars and propose actions that IS academics and educators can take to raise its visibility.","PeriodicalId":149561,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS-CPR '13","volume":"473 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116793025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIGMIS-CPR '13Pub Date : 2013-05-30DOI: 10.1145/2487294.2487330
Andreas Schilling, Sven Laumer, Tim Weitzel
{"title":"Together but apart: how spatial, temporal and cultural distances affect FLOSS developers' project retention","authors":"Andreas Schilling, Sven Laumer, Tim Weitzel","doi":"10.1145/2487294.2487330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2487294.2487330","url":null,"abstract":"Companies rely more and more on virtual teams which consist of globally dispersed members. Unfortunately, members' separation can raise considerable interpersonal challenges. In order to prevent conflicts from deescalating and ensure effective teamwork, companies pay careful attention to the management of members' spatial, temporal and cultural distances. While initiatives developing Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) similarly combine a worldwide distributed workforce, relatively little is known about how members' separation affects their collaboration. However, without such an understanding no adequate advice can be derived for managers of FLOSS initiatives on how to foster members' collaboration and retention. Building on lessons learned from the organizational domain this research hypothesizes that spatial, temporal and cultural distances are key factors for FLOSS developers' team integration and project retention. To evaluate our research hypotheses, we study FLOSS developers' contribution and conversation behavior and extract objective figures on their spatial, temporal and cultural distances to each other.","PeriodicalId":149561,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS-CPR '13","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114694428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIGMIS-CPR '13Pub Date : 2013-05-30DOI: 10.1145/2487294.2487308
B. Phillips, Sherry D. Ryan, G. Harden, C. S. Guynes, John C. Windsor
{"title":"Motivating students to acquire mainframe skills","authors":"B. Phillips, Sherry D. Ryan, G. Harden, C. S. Guynes, John C. Windsor","doi":"10.1145/2487294.2487308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2487294.2487308","url":null,"abstract":"There has been a perception in both industry and in academia that mainframe skills are obsolete. As a result, there has been a decline in curricula addressing these skills. However, recent evidence shows that many organizations are still actively supporting mainframe technologies and report a need for students graduating in information technology to be trained in those skills, especially as much of their current mainframe workforce moves toward retirement. This paper examines the question of what motivates students to acquire mainframe skills. To do so, this research is investigates IBM's Master the Mainframe contest, a competition that attempts to engender enthusiasm for acquiring mainframe skills and ensure an adequate supply of such skills to organizations relying on them.","PeriodicalId":149561,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS-CPR '13","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122658312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIGMIS-CPR '13Pub Date : 2013-05-30DOI: 10.1145/2487294.2487301
Olav Spiegel, Puja Abbassi, D. Schlagwein, K. Fischbach
{"title":"Going it all alone in web entrepreneurship?: a comparison of single founders vs. co-founders","authors":"Olav Spiegel, Puja Abbassi, D. Schlagwein, K. Fischbach","doi":"10.1145/2487294.2487301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2487294.2487301","url":null,"abstract":"There is a considerable amount of entrepreneurial activity in the information technology (IT) industry, especially in the Web. Many claim that the founders are the single most critical factor in startup success. The entrepreneurial self-efficacy theory and the jack-of-all-trades theory suggest that founders with diverse skills and broad experience will be able to successfully create a business alone. Alternatively, social capital theory suggests that founders who have high social capital and who engage in social networking will be able to go alone. Others, however, claim that team building is crucial for startup success as to bringing complementary skills together.\u0000 In this study, we investigate if having a diverse skill set, higher experience, or more social connections is indeed a determinant of single founders, while co-founders have more specialized (yet complementary) skills. Our results are derived from analysis of 91 Web startups and their 183 (co-) founders. Contradicting existing theory, we could not find determinants for starting a new business alone. However, we find that co-founders do indeed complement each other's skills.\u0000 Our results suggest that existing entrepreneurial theory needs to be expanded and revised to accommodate for the contradictions found and that future research is required in this area.","PeriodicalId":149561,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS-CPR '13","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131252786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIGMIS-CPR '13Pub Date : 2013-05-30DOI: 10.1145/2487294.2487326
Nicola Marsden
{"title":"Attitudes towards online communication: an exploratory factor analysis","authors":"Nicola Marsden","doi":"10.1145/2487294.2487326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2487294.2487326","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of an exploratory factor analysis regarding attitudes of professionals towards online communication. Using items based on the theoretical approaches to scientific study of online communication identified by Walther and Parks (2002), an attitude survey was conducted with N=100 professionals regarding their approach to online and face to face communication. The factor analysis yielded three approaches focusing on 1.) media choice, 2.) the hyperpersonal options of online communication, and 3.) social cues in online communication. These can help understand the use of information technology by today's work-force.","PeriodicalId":149561,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS-CPR '13","volume":"1058 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116286762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIGMIS-CPR '13Pub Date : 2013-05-30DOI: 10.1145/2487294.2487296
E. Bishop, Larry Buttelwerth, Dan Clark, H. Enns, T. Ferratt, K. Gallagher, J. Prasad, Paul Stoddard
{"title":"Issues in managing information technology (IT) professionals","authors":"E. Bishop, Larry Buttelwerth, Dan Clark, H. Enns, T. Ferratt, K. Gallagher, J. Prasad, Paul Stoddard","doi":"10.1145/2487294.2487296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2487294.2487296","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of our panel is to understand: issues that Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are currently facing or expect to be facing in the next few (e.g., 3-5) years with regard to managing people responsible for information systems and technology; e.g., issues could include such traditional human resource (HR) issues as recruiting, retention, and development in light of contemporary phenomena, such as Big Data, Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, and Enterprise Social Networking or other HR issues, such as job/work design, stress, outsourcing, managing a diverse workforce, or managing change how CIOs have addressed, are addressing, or expect to address those issues through practices that have demonstrated or are demonstrating success, practices that they expect to be successful, or challenges that they have experienced (including obstacles or practices that have not worked so well) and what they have done to address those challenges","PeriodicalId":149561,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS-CPR '13","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116305694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIGMIS-CPR '13Pub Date : 2013-05-30DOI: 10.1145/2487294.2487307
Thomas Wirtky, Sven Laumer, Andreas Eckhardt, Tim Weitzel
{"title":"Using social software for enhancing IS talents' e-learning motivation","authors":"Thomas Wirtky, Sven Laumer, Andreas Eckhardt, Tim Weitzel","doi":"10.1145/2487294.2487307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2487294.2487307","url":null,"abstract":"In the aftermath of the global economic recession, 34% of all companies struggle to fill open positions. IS talents are the top-5 employees in demand. The countries' education systems are not flexible enough to provide enough workers with the right skills at the right point in time. E-learning could be part of the solution, if it were realizing its potential. The facts indicate that success of e-learning in the academic context is considerable, but users are not enough motivated to participate in corporate e-learning inhibiting life-long learning. Given the advent of social software and its potential to increase user motivation, this paper specifically develops a model predicting the impact of social software features on user motivation to participate in corporate asynchronous e-learning activities. Providing guidance for future e-learning research and implementations, it bases its findings on broad literature reviews.","PeriodicalId":149561,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS-CPR '13","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122753502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIGMIS-CPR '13Pub Date : 2013-05-30DOI: 10.1145/2487294.2487323
Lee B. Erickson, E. Trauth
{"title":"Getting work done: evaluating the potential of crowdsourcing as a model for business process outsourcing service delivery","authors":"Lee B. Erickson, E. Trauth","doi":"10.1145/2487294.2487323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2487294.2487323","url":null,"abstract":"Crowdsourcing is the use of large groups of individuals to perform tasks traditionally performed by employees or designated agents. For business process outsourcing (BPO) service providers, the crowd may represent a new way to reduce costs and increase efficiencies associated with labor-intensive services. The ability to connect with the crowd to get work done may also open up new possibilities for workers in rural or economically depressed areas, and those within emerging markets. It is unclear, however, what challenges a crowdsourced services business model creates for organizations. An exploratory case study examining the potential of the crowd as a source of on-demand labor for delivering labor-intensive BPO services reveals the key role of information technology in overcoming economic, technical, and social challenges. Five key challenges were identified and are discussed: 1) protecting sensitive data, 2) ensuring quality of work, 3) ensuring timely completion of tasks, 4) managing increased workload, and 5) ensuring the sustainability of the model.","PeriodicalId":149561,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS-CPR '13","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127763368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}