Information Systems: Behavioral & Social Methods最新文献

{"title":"The Past, Present and Future of Information Systems Research","authors":"A. Kar","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1366962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1366962","url":null,"abstract":"Information systems research has long been an area of interest for researchers as it started evolving as a discipline with its own identity, since the late 20th century, since the early 1970s. This paper attempts to analyze the research trends in information systems research in contemporary times, by analyzing publications for 8 years, of the top three academic journals in the discipline, namely, \"MIS Quarterly\", \"Information Systems Research\" and \"Journal of Management Information Systems\". For accomplishing the same, the abstracts of over 950 articles have been studied and analyzed, from these journals, to understand the change in research focus over the period 2002 to 2009 and understand how the recent future of studies in the discipline will shape up.","PeriodicalId":193943,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems: Behavioral & Social Methods","volume":"260 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122938829","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}

{"title":"The Arab Grid for Learning: A Model for System-Wide Resource Sharing and Services","authors":"S. DiGangi, Theodore G. Lynn, A. Alhakami","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1440137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1440137","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout the world significant investments have and are being made in the design, development and deployment of digital learning content, learning management systems, content repositories and brokerage systems to facilitate the exchange of metadata and associated content to educational software systems. The experience in Europe and the US is that with all these projects financed, designed, implemented and maintained independently, the impact of these initiatives has been reduced and return on investment sub-optimal. Sustainability suffers and content is hard to find. With hindsight, the Arab world should be able to overcome these issues by creating a system-wide infrastructure to enable the discovery and identification of learning resources across different projects and technical systems in the Arab world and beyond in a uniform way. This paper provides an overview of the Arab Grid for Learning, an initiative lead by Obeikan Research and Development in conjunction with Cambridge University Press, Arizona State University and Dublin City University to provide a network of national portals with a common learning platform, online content service, and social networking system for all educators and learners across the Arab World.","PeriodicalId":193943,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems: Behavioral & Social Methods","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114894707","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}

{"title":"Price Rigidity in Internet Retailing","authors":"R. Kauffman, Dongwon Lee","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1339852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1339852","url":null,"abstract":"Price rigidity involves prices that do not change with the regularity predicted by standard economic theory, and is of long-standing interest to firms and industries, and relates to the economy as a whole. As information technology (IT) changes the processes by which strategic pricing decisions are implemented in business operations, there is a need to develop a more substantial managerial understanding of firm pricing in production process terms. In the 1990s, technology-driven pricing was largely in the domain of the airlines, hotels and rental car companies in the practice of revenue yield management. Now it is possible for bricks-and-clicks firms, and even traditional retailers, to implement systems that permit significant adjustments to be made to prices in situations where menu costs previously made rapid price changes difficult to achieve in an economical way. As a result, we believe that the issue of price rigidity on the Internet should be considered with broader and more deeply insightful inquiry. We draw upon theoretical perspectives that are largely new to the field of Information Systems (IS), but that offer rich opportunities for theory building and empirical research in settings of high interdisciplinary interest. Such studies will provide a distinctive foundation for IS research and serve as a guide to research for a variety of new economic phenomena in economies that are influenced by firm investments in Internet technology. In our analysis of the relevant theories, we identified those that are most likely to enhance our understanding of pricing on the Internet, and we have discussed a series of logical contradictions among competing and complementary theories that must be reconciled to identify the most relevant ways to understand the Internet retailing context.","PeriodicalId":193943,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems: Behavioral & Social Methods","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121886514","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}

{"title":"Knowledge Ecosystems: Technology, Motivations, Processes, and Performance (Doctoral Dissertation)","authors":"David A. Bray, PhD","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1016486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1016486","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge ecosystems include the influential relationships among knowledge technologies, motivational antecedents, knowledge transfer processes, and organizational performance outcomes. I perform three studies to investigate these elements of knowledge ecosystems and further contribute to the extant literature. First, I seek to research how knowledge technologies and organizational structure influence the accuracy of organizational knowledge in turbulent environments - to include research as to whether a top-down or a bottom-up approach to managing knowledge in organizations confronting environmental turbulence is superior. This premise of a bottom-up approach is embodied in knowledge ecosystems, which this dissertation explores from multiple perspectives across the three studies. As part of my inquiry, I suggest that knowledge technologies present knowledge transfer opportunities that augment organizational structure. This specific study employs an agent-based simulation as part of its investigation. Second, I seek to research how knowledge technologies augment the motivational antecedents of incentives, values, and competence-based trust. As part of this inquiry, I also seek to research whether knowledge technologies and motivational antecedents ultimately influence organizational responsiveness. Of note, I suggest that knowledge technologies influence the contexts associated with knowledge exchange in ways similar to how communication technologies influence the contexts associated with social dilemmas. This specific study develops and refines a survey instrument as part of its investigation. Third, I seek to research how the role criticality of personnel influences knowledge sharing vs. knowledge protection. As part of this inquiry, I also seek to research whether the role criticality of personnel ultimately influences organizational responsiveness and efficiency. Of note, I suggest that organizational responsiveness represents a performance outcome distinct from organization efficiency - thus separating two performance outcomes typically treated (to date) as a single performance construct in the extant literature. This study also develops and refines a survey instrument as part of its investigation. These three interwoven studies inform each other, integrating four elements that conceptually comprise knowledge ecosystems. Cumulatively, this dissertation examines closely both the theoretical and empirical dynamics present in knowledge ecosystems.","PeriodicalId":193943,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems: Behavioral & Social Methods","volume":"86 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133615970","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}

{"title":"An Economic Analysis of Homepage Creators","authors":"Koji Domon","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1324485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1324485","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers the behaviors of homepage creators who supply as well as demand content on the Internet while facing content competition. The Internet makes possible an aspect we have not experienced with communication tools as telephone, radio, and TV. We present three propositions. The first is a condition for maximizing the social welfare, in which effects of viewer's externalities must be equal to its competitive effects. The second concerns the effect of network externalities when various sized asymmetric groups interconnect their networks, and the conditions under which one group benefits more than the others is dependent on the increasing or decreasing return to network size. The third states a condition that the amount of content under network externalities is socially insufficient. We finally indicate, by use of an example, the increasing return to network size in the Internet and the decreasing one in the telephone network, noting that the amount of content is socially insufficient on the Internet.","PeriodicalId":193943,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems: Behavioral & Social Methods","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131072943","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}

{"title":"Strategic Alignment: What Else? A Practice Based View of IS Value","authors":"F. D. Vaujany","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1323867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1323867","url":null,"abstract":"Literature about IS strategic management or IS strategic value is abundant. Nonetheless, the bulk of existing studies are focused on the concept of alignment. They do not make sense of a strategic value \"in practice\" and still draw on notions such as activity or process to make sense of alignment. By means of a practice-based view of technology, three praxis are suggested here for the modeling of strategic value: legitimacy-related (based on adoption praxis), assimilative (related to design and acceptance praxis) and appropriative (linked to local adaptation and improvisation praxis). They are introduced by means of a \"thought experiment\" (a short story about a rifle).","PeriodicalId":193943,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems: Behavioral & Social Methods","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133048886","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}

{"title":"To Be a Network Society: A Cross-National Perspective on the Internet in Britain","authors":"E. Helsper, W. Dutton, Monica M. Gerber","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1323813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1323813","url":null,"abstract":"This working paper was prepared for the Oxford Internet Surveys (OxIS) input to the World Internet Project (WIP). It compares Britain with other European nations and the wider world in its adoption and use of the Internet. It draws from the Oxford Internet Surveys (OxIS)and the World Internet Project (WIP), along with other publicly available data to compare and contrast patterns of adoption, use and impact.","PeriodicalId":193943,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems: Behavioral & Social Methods","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123668861","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}

{"title":"On Commercial Media Bias","authors":"F. Germano","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1374241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1374241","url":null,"abstract":"Within the spokes model of Chen and Riordan (2007) that allows for non-localized competition among arbitrary numbers of media outlets, we quantify the effect of concentration of ownership on quality and bias of media content. A main result shows that too few commercial outlets, or better, too few separate owners of commercial outlets can lead to substantial bias in equilibrium. Increasing the number of outlets (commercial and non-commercial) tends to bring down this bias; but the strongest effect occurs when the number of owners is increased. Allowing for free entry provides lower bounds on fixed costs above which substantial commercial bias occurs in equilibrium.","PeriodicalId":193943,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems: Behavioral & Social Methods","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125122115","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}

{"title":"Social Networks that Matter: Twitter Under the Microscope","authors":"B. Huberman, Daniel M. Romero, Fang Wu","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1313405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1313405","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars, advertisers and political activists see massive online social networks as a representation of social interactions that can be used to study the propagation of ideas, social bond dynamics and viral marketing, among others. But the linked structures of social networks do not reveal actual interactions among people. Scarcity of attention and the daily rythms of life and work makes people default to interacting with those few that matter and that reciprocate their attention. A study of social interactions within Twitter reveals that the driver of usage is a sparse and hidden network of connections underlying the “declared” set of friends and followers.","PeriodicalId":193943,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems: Behavioral & Social Methods","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134049088","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}

{"title":"Digital Quality of Life: Communities","authors":"D. Castro","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1284987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1284987","url":null,"abstract":"Information technology (IT) has become so pervasive that its effects on society can be seen in the interactions between citizens and their communities. Strong communities have strong bonds between its members and with other communities, and IT is helping to link people and communities together all across the world. As discussed in this report, IT has shepherded in a new era of online communities that supplement those found in the physical world. The interactions afforded by IT make it possible for the residents of smaller and remote communities to have access to products, services, and cultural opportunities that previously were available only in large cities. In addition, IT has introduced new media that are shaping personal relationships in the real and virtual worlds. Finally, IT is enhancing existing communities and fostering civic activity. Even businesses have found that IT has allowed them to be better corporate citizens and take on more corporate social responsibility.","PeriodicalId":193943,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems: Behavioral & Social Methods","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129234922","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}