{"title":"Effect of Inventor Status on Intra-Organizational Innovation Evolution","authors":"S. Kaza, Hsinchun Chen","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.688","url":null,"abstract":"Innovation is one of the primary characteristics that separates successful from unsuccessful organizations. Organizations have a choice in selecting knowledge that is recombined to produce new innovations. The selection of knowledge is influenced by the status of inventors in an organization's internal knowledge network. In this study, we model knowledge flow within an organization and contend that it exhibits unique characteristics not incorporated in most social network measures. Using the model, we also propose a new measure based on random walks and team identification and use it to examine innovation selection in a large organization. Using empirical methods, we find that inventor status determined by the new measure had a significant positive relationship with the likelihood that his/her knowledge would be selected for recombination. We believe that the new measure in addition to modeling knowledge flow in a scientific collaboration network helps better understand how innovation evolves within organizations.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127332012","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 Game Brand Image Information Influence to the Inexperienced Consumer's Product Evaluation","authors":"J. Storgårds, V. Tuunainen, Anssi Öörni","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.674","url":null,"abstract":"It is widely held that brands positively influence the perceived quality of products. Further, brands act as signals of quality when attribute level data is missing. Hence, brands are often posited to enhance evaluation, particularly among the less experienced consumers. Surprisingly little evidence, however, exists to support these beliefs in the context of digital games, pointing us to wonder the reasoning behind brand investments.In this experimental research, the ideas from the information processing theory of consumer choice by Bettman are used to study the brand influence to consumer evaluations in the context of digital games. The results of this study indicate that evaluation is not greatly biased by the brand image.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129045248","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}
Georgios A. Dafoulas, K. Swigger, R. Brazile, F. Alpaslan, Victor Lopez Cabrera, F. Serçe
{"title":"Global Teams: Futuristic Models of Collaborative Work for Today's Software Development Industry","authors":"Georgios A. Dafoulas, K. Swigger, R. Brazile, F. Alpaslan, Victor Lopez Cabrera, F. Serçe","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.231","url":null,"abstract":"This paper emphasises the importance of global teams in the field of software development. The paper presents an approach for setting up pilot studies simulating those key features that make global software development teams particularly attractive to exploit and challenging to manage. The underlying research is supported by a research project funded by the US National Science Foundation with the participation of universities from US, Turkey, Panama and the UK. The paper provides detailed guidelines for setting up simulations resembling globally dispersed software development teams and discusses preliminary data of two pilot studies with involving collaboration between teams residing in the US and the UK. Key concerns of this research are those factors affecting collaborative work when global teams are involved. Such factors include differences caused by distance, culture, time zones and technology.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129073305","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}
Jaideep Godara, Philip L. Isenhour, Andrea L. Kavanaugh
{"title":"The Efficacy of Knowledge Sharing in Centralized and Self-Organizing Online Communities: Weblog Networks vs. Discussion Forums","authors":"Jaideep Godara, Philip L. Isenhour, Andrea L. Kavanaugh","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.948","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge sharing has emerged as a miracle cure to the negative impacts of constant fluxes of workforce and demographics, such as rapidly aging baby-boomer workforce. As a result, increasingly more organizations are focusing on real time knowledge sharing and collaboration. This paper explores the impact of collaborative software on an online community's control structure and subsequently on knowledge sharing in that community.Using a framework comprising theories of Legitimate Peripheral Participation and Weak-ties, we analyzed self-organizing online communities (e.g., weblog networks) and centralized online communities (e.g., discussion forums communities) with respect to the efficacy of knowledge sharing in these communities. Findings of this study indicate that self-organizing communities of practice facilitate more weak-ties among their members than centralized communities. These findings suggest that self-organizing communities would facilitate greater dissemination of knowledge among their members than centralized communities. Abundance of weak-ties in the self-organizing communities also makes these communities better environments for the discovery of new information.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"482 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125685989","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":"Reducing I.T. Project Management Failures: A Research Proposal","authors":"G. J. Hidding, J. Nicholas","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.879","url":null,"abstract":"Failures rates of Information Technology (I.T.) projects remain high, even after decades of efforts to reduce them. However, most efforts to improve project success have focused on variations within the traditional project management paradigm. We argue that a root cause of high I.T. project failure rates is the traditional paradigm itself, as promulgated by, e.g., PMBOK. Discussions with an expert panel resulted in the formulation of a new paradigm described in this paper: Value-Driven Change Leadership (VDCL). This paper proposes empirical research to ascertain the role of the new paradigm in reducing I.T. project failure rates. The initial phase of our research, reported in this paper, resulted in a survey questionnaire and pilot data from several I.T. projects. The paper describes the research methodology for an empirical study to investigate the role of VDCL in reducing I.T. project failure rates.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130587811","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}
J. Millaire, Pierre-Majorique Léger, G. Babin, R. Pellerin
{"title":"The Effect of Network Exposure on the Diffusion of Enterprise System","authors":"J. Millaire, Pierre-Majorique Léger, G. Babin, R. Pellerin","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.942","url":null,"abstract":"This paper uses the diffusion of innovations in a network context to try to explain the massive adoption of enterprise systems in the automotive industry. We argue that a firm's decision to choose and adopt an enterprise system is influenced by its network peers, both by direct and indirect network exposure. Our results suggest that network exposure and industry exposure differ based on the time and the category of firms looking to acquire a system. Network exposure seems to be more important at the earlier stage, and then resurfaces at the later stage of enterprise system life cycle.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"50 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130680180","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":"Efficiency, Economic and Environmental Assessment of Ground Source Heat Pumps in Central Pennsylvania","authors":"S. Blumsack, J. Brownson, Lucas Witmer","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.179","url":null,"abstract":"The energy use of a ground-source heat pump (GSP) for heating, cooling and hot water in a Central Pennsylvania residence (namely, the author's house) is analyzed, compared to a simulation of electricity and a heating-oil furnace (with electric cooling) for these same energy uses. Energy demands for space conditioning in the house are simulated by building a model of the house using the Transient Energy System Simulation (TNRSYS) tool. Overall, the efficiency gain for the ground-source heat pump compared to electricity is 43% for cooling and 81% for heating. For home heating and hot water, the ground-source heat pump has a 42% efficiency gain over a fuel-oil furnace. The system modeled in this paper has a payback period of between four and five years compared to an all-electric system. The payback period compared to a hybrid system of fuel-oil heat and electric cooling is between two and three years.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130747907","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":"Future Development of Project Management Competences","authors":"A. Silvius, R. Batenburg","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.742","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a study into the expected development of the competences of the project manager in the year 2027. The study was performed amongst the members of IPMA-Netherlands during the summer of 2007. In the study the 46 competences of the International Competence Baseline 3 (ICB 3) were tested against the expectations of the respondents for the development of project management. Based on four scenarios for the future of Europe, the members indicated which of the competences are expected to become more important, equally important or less important than today.The aim of the study was to provide insight in the expected future development of the project management competences. This goal is relevant for both practitioners and educators.The conclusions are that the study shows indications that project management is developing from an 'occupation' into a true 'profession'. Part of this development is a broader orientation of the project manager in which especially the competences related to the relationship of the project with its environment grow strongly in importance.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132449159","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 Potential of Renewable Energy to Reduce the Dependence of the State of Hawaii on Oil","authors":"D. Arent, J. Barnett, G. Mosey, A. Wise","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.962","url":null,"abstract":"Deriving nearly 90% of its primary energy resources from oil, the State of Hawaii is more dependent on oil than any other U.S. state. The price of electricity in Hawaii is also more than twice the U.S. average. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 directed assessment of the economic implications of Hawaii's oil dependence and the feasibility of using renewable energy to help meet the state's electrical generation and transportation fuel use. This paper is based on the assessments and report prepared in response to that directive.Current total installed electrical capacity for the State of Hawaii is 2,414 MWe, 83% of which is fuel-oil generated, but already including about 170 MWe of renewable capacity. The assessments identified about 2,133 MWe (plus another estimated 2,000 MWe of rooftop PV systems) of potential new renewable energy capacity. Most notable, in addition to the rooftop solar potential, is 750 MWe and 140 MWe of geothermal potential on Hawaii and Maui, respectively, 840 MWe of potential wind capacity, primarily on Lanai and Molokai, and one potential 285 MWe capacity specific solar project (PV or solar thermal) identified on Kauai. Important social, political, and electrical-grid infrastructure challenges would need to be overcome to realize this potential. Among multiple crop and acreage scenarios, biofuels assessment found 360,000 acres in Hawaii zoned for agriculture and appropriate for sugarcane, enough to produce 429 million gallons of ethanol-enough to meet about 64% of current 2005 Hawaiian gasoline use. Tropical oil seed crops-potentially grown on the same land-might meet a substantial portion of current diesel use, but there has been little experience growing such crops in Hawaii. The U.S. Department of Energy and the State of Hawaii initiated in January 2008 a program that seeks to reduce Hawaii's oil dependence and provide 70% of the state's primary energy from clean energy sources by 2030. The Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative (HCEI) activities will be concentrated in two areas: 1) HCEI Working Groups will be formed and made up of private, state, and U.S. government experts in the areas of Transportation and Fuels, Electricity Generation, Energy Delivery and Transmission, and End-Use Efficiency; and 2) Partnership Projects will be undertaken with local and mainland partners that demonstrate and commercialize new technologies and relieve technical barriers.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131972488","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}
H. Scholl, Karine Nahon, Jin-Hyuk Ahn, Olga H. Popova, Barbara Re
{"title":"E-Commerce and E-Government: How Do They Compare? What Can They Learn from Each Other?","authors":"H. Scholl, Karine Nahon, Jin-Hyuk Ahn, Olga H. Popova, Barbara Re","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.2009.682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.682","url":null,"abstract":"For more than a decade e-Commerce and e-Government applications have made major impacts in their respective sectors, private and public. Some time ago, we presented early insights from a comparative study of the two phenomena. This paper reports on more robust findings from an ongoing empirical investigation and deepens our understanding of similarities and differences between e-Commerce and e-Government. The findings show that despite major similarities the two phenomena follow quite separate and distinct trajectories.","PeriodicalId":211759,"journal":{"name":"2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130980616","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}