SIGMIS CPR '07Pub Date : 2007-04-19DOI: 10.1145/1235000.1235035
Trevor D. Moore, M. Serva
{"title":"Understanding member motivation for contributing to different types of virtual communities: a proposed framework","authors":"Trevor D. Moore, M. Serva","doi":"10.1145/1235000.1235035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1235000.1235035","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research indicates that the type and purpose of a virtual community (wiki, blog, and Internet Forum) may play a role in determining a member's motivation for contribution to a virtual community, but does not fully explore this idea. This study aggregates the disparate ideas and terminology of previous research on virtual communities and presents a more parsimonious grouping of fourteen motivational factors. These fourteen factors provide a framework for examining what drives members to contribute. Two preliminary studies offer some support for the framework.","PeriodicalId":219078,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '07","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124836400","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 '07Pub Date : 2007-04-19DOI: 10.1145/1235000.1235003
P. Mahatanankoon
{"title":"The effects of post-educational professional development activities on promotion and career satisfaction of IT professionals","authors":"P. Mahatanankoon","doi":"10.1145/1235000.1235003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1235000.1235003","url":null,"abstract":"Seeking new career opportunities and retaining IT jobs still require considerable time spent on various professional development activities. This study hypothesizes that these professional development activities are vital to organizational tenure as well as to career satisfaction. A survey was used to examine the effects of time spent on professional development activities on promotion and career satisfaction. The result showed that informal professional development activities had no effect on organizational tenure and career satisfaction, while formal professional development activities contributed most to the progress of an IT career. Strategies and explanations for these findings are discussed.","PeriodicalId":219078,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '07","volume":"5 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125149283","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 '07Pub Date : 2007-04-19DOI: 10.1145/1235000.1235013
Tim Klaus, Stephen C. Wingreen, J. Blanton
{"title":"Examining user resistance and management strategies in enterprise system implementations","authors":"Tim Klaus, Stephen C. Wingreen, J. Blanton","doi":"10.1145/1235000.1235013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1235000.1235013","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is an initial investigation of the management strategies best suited to address user resistance. Despite its relationship to adoption, little is known about user resistance. User resistance is investigated in the enterprise systems (ES) environment because the complexity and richness of ES leads users to manifest the full range of resistant behaviors and beliefs. The Q-methodology revealed eight naturally-existing types of ES resistance and the management strategies preferred by each respective group. The results have implications for both research in the field of user resistance and adoption, and practitioners involved in system implementation.","PeriodicalId":219078,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '07","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131265901","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 '07Pub Date : 2007-04-19DOI: 10.1145/1235000.1235014
Willy Dertz, M. Sein
{"title":"Research in progress: where are all the people? the curious case of one-person IT departments","authors":"Willy Dertz, M. Sein","doi":"10.1145/1235000.1235014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1235000.1235014","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a research-in-progress study that examines the characteristics of IT-departments that consist of a single employee. Spurred by the findings of a master's student project, we examined the data from another study we had conducted that revealed that fully 44% of municipalities in a Scandinavian country have such one-person-departments. Our survey also revealed that these \"departments\" provide full service to the municipalities which are quite heavy users of IT services. The obvious question is \"how is it possible for the apparently skeletal IT department to provide full service?\" Have we stumbled upon a new form of organizing the IT function? In this paper, we aim to map such departments to the models and frameworks that appear in the IS literature. We plan to conduct a series of interpretive case studies to understand how and why this structure emerged and what implications this has for IT personnel employed in these departments and the IT service delivery for organizations.","PeriodicalId":219078,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '07","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129861040","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 '07Pub Date : 2007-04-19DOI: 10.1145/1235000.1235017
W. Smith, F. Bélanger, T. L. Lewis, Kristi Honaker
{"title":"Fostering resilience in IT: a resource toolkit for faculty","authors":"W. Smith, F. Bélanger, T. L. Lewis, Kristi Honaker","doi":"10.1145/1235000.1235017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1235000.1235017","url":null,"abstract":"The Fostering Resilience in IT tutorial is a hands-on training session for faculty interested in incorporating soft skills training in IT-related courses. Soft skills include such abilities as controlling and using one's emotions (emotional intelligence), dealing with team issues and stress (coping strategies) and talking the language of business. These skills are increasingly recognized as key to success in IT-related disciplines [1, 5].","PeriodicalId":219078,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '07","volume":"32 17","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132914045","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 '07Pub Date : 2007-04-19DOI: 10.1145/1235000.1235021
Bijoy Bordoloi
{"title":"Economics of offshore outsourcing: anything new under the sun?","authors":"Bijoy Bordoloi","doi":"10.1145/1235000.1235021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1235000.1235021","url":null,"abstract":"Based on International Economics, this paper provides a theoretical perspective of the economic rationale behind the current phenomenon of offshore outsourcing of IT related activities.","PeriodicalId":219078,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '07","volume":"165 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133790248","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 '07Pub Date : 2007-04-19DOI: 10.1145/1235000.1235043
T. Hall, David N. Wilson, A. Rainer, D. Jagielska
{"title":"the neglected technical skill?","authors":"T. Hall, David N. Wilson, A. Rainer, D. Jagielska","doi":"10.1145/1235000.1235043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1235000.1235043","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we discuss the importance of communication in software development. Communication has long been recognized as an important element of a successful software project. The quality of communication within the development team and between the development team and external entities impacts on the performance of the software project. However there is little evidence to suggest that approaches to software development have adequately emphasized high quality communications. Our findings suggest that the SEI's family of Capability Maturity Models, arguably the most influential models of software development, address communication in a very superficial way. We consider the impact of poor communication on the performance of a team of developers working in a software organization that has been assessed at CMM Level 5. We conducted multi-level interviews with all developers in the software team. Our main findings are that, although the team recognizes the importance of communication, many communication problems are reported. Furthermore, we found that human-centric processes, such as communication, were much less mature than the technical processes. We discuss the typical personality traits that may mitigate against developers being good communicators. We conclude that one way to overcome this is for development models to address communication more explicitly.","PeriodicalId":219078,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '07","volume":"344 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133565172","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 '07Pub Date : 2007-04-19DOI: 10.1145/1235000.1235020
Christine Koh, Soon Ang, Gillian Yeo
{"title":"Does IT outsourcing create firm value?","authors":"Christine Koh, Soon Ang, Gillian Yeo","doi":"10.1145/1235000.1235020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1235000.1235020","url":null,"abstract":"The continued growth of IT outsourcing seems to reflect a fundamental belief among businesses that outsourcing creates wealth and delivers value to companies that outsource. Such a belief is supported by theories of production and transaction cost economies. These theories suggest that IT outsourcing should indeed generate greater wealth and create greater value for firms that outsource vis-à-vis firms that prefer to manage and operate their IT in-house. Yet, to date, there is little objective evidence to show how IT outsourcing actually does create value to companies. Drawing on transaction and production cost economies, we argue that IT outsourcing should create value for firms. We test our hypothesis using an event study of 420 IT outsourcing announcements by U.S. public listed companies during the period 1989-1999. Results showed that IT outsourcing did create value for firms in terms of positive short-term stock market returns.","PeriodicalId":219078,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '07","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121140077","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 '07Pub Date : 2007-04-19DOI: 10.1145/1235000.1235050
Indira R. Guzman, D. Joseph, Nadia Papamichail, J. Stanton
{"title":"RIP - beliefs about IT culture: exploring national and gender differences","authors":"Indira R. Guzman, D. Joseph, Nadia Papamichail, J. Stanton","doi":"10.1145/1235000.1235050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1235000.1235050","url":null,"abstract":"This multi country study of the IT occupational culture builds on US data to examine differences in IT occupational perceptions in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Malaysia, India and Australia. In this research in progress we present survey data about the adaptation to the cultural characteristics of the IT occupation and its relationship with occupational commitment. This paper presents the initial data results collected in the above five countries. So far, our preliminary data supports previous findings in that adaptation to the occupational culture in the information technology field predicts occupational commitment and more significantly affective occupational commitment. While no significant differences were found across countries, further analysis is currently being conducted to evaluate possible differences by gender and nationality.","PeriodicalId":219078,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '07","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124422493","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 '07Pub Date : 2007-04-19DOI: 10.1145/1235000.1235015
Edgar A. Maldonado, Andrea H. Tapia
{"title":"National information technology policy in a globalized world: building an IT workforce for Venezuela","authors":"Edgar A. Maldonado, Andrea H. Tapia","doi":"10.1145/1235000.1235015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1235000.1235015","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we examine the effects of globalization on national level information technology (IT) policy. We compare national-level IT policies leading toward the development of a national-level information economy. We examine the IT policies from two long-established, successful, developed countries, Japan and Germany, distilling common policy elements. We then compare those elements to the newly created IT policy for the developing country of Venezuela, which is making the first, tentative steps toward developing an internal IT workforce. This new policy stresses the need for technological independence in a globalizing world and creation and maintenance of highly trained IT human resources. Due to the recent oil boom, Venezuela has claimed economic power and has the potential to provide Venezuela with opportunities that nations in similar stages of development do not have. Most importantly we stress the need for Venezuela to create national-level IT policy that fits it own needs.","PeriodicalId":219078,"journal":{"name":"SIGMIS CPR '07","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130687445","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}