{"title":"Interactive Data: Technology and Cost of Capital","authors":"S. Sarah Zhang, Ryan Riordan, Christof Weinhardt","doi":"10.1007/978-3-642-35761-9_14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35761-9_14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":309896,"journal":{"name":"European Conference on Information Systems","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132566718","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":"From asp to web services: identifying key performance areas and indicators for healthcare","authors":"M. Guah, W. Currie","doi":"10.4018/978-1-59140-763-8.CH010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-763-8.CH010","url":null,"abstract":"Value creation from e-business for customers in healthcare is an important topic in academic and practitioner circles. This paper reports the findings from a two-year research study, which found that disappointing results from the much hyped application service provider (ASP) business model, is currently being replaced by perceived new opportunities from Web Services. Yet past failings from ASP do not guarantee future success with web services models, particularly as evidence shows that accruing value added benefits from e-business initiatives is often fraught with difficulty. Healthcare is no exception, and is likely to pose more problems given the complexity of the organisational structures, processes, procedures and activities within this vertical sector. This research study calls for a more rigorous approach in identifying and evaluating key performance areas and indicators from new e-business initiatives involving emerging technologies and platforms such as Web services. Yet the measures and metrics used for healthcare may differ from those adopted in other sectors. Healthcare professionals will therefore need to develop context specific KPAs and KPIs, and caution against accepting ‘face value’ the value proposition devised by Web service providers.","PeriodicalId":309896,"journal":{"name":"European Conference on Information Systems","volume":"70 45","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134197217","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}
Ralph Pfaller, Marina Fiedler, A. Picot, Anja Tuschke
{"title":"Rules Of Efficiency Or Legitimacy? Antecedents Of It-Outsourcing - A Longitudinal Approach","authors":"Ralph Pfaller, Marina Fiedler, A. Picot, Anja Tuschke","doi":"10.5465/AMBPP.2013.10393ABSTRACT","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2013.10393ABSTRACT","url":null,"abstract":"It still remains unclear whether the decision to outsource IT is governed by rule of efficiency or from institutional constraints imposed by the state and the professions in order to gain legitimac...","PeriodicalId":309896,"journal":{"name":"European Conference on Information Systems","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114832473","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}
Niklas Leicht, Nicolas Knop, Christoph Müller-Bloch, J. Leimeister
{"title":"When is Crowdsourcing Advantageous? The Case of Crowdsourced Software Testing","authors":"Niklas Leicht, Nicolas Knop, Christoph Müller-Bloch, J. Leimeister","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3159166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3159166","url":null,"abstract":"Crowdsourcing describes a novel mode of value creation in which organizations broadcast tasks that have been previously performed in-house to a large magnitude of Internet users that perform these tasks. Although the concept has gained maturity and has proven to be an alternative way of problem-solving, an organizational cost-benefit perspective has largely been neglected by existing research. More specifically, it remains unclear when crowdsourcing is advantageous in comparison to alternative governance structures such as in-house production. Drawing on crowdsourcing literature and transaction action cost theory, we present two case studies from the domain of crowdsourced software testing. We systematically analyze two organizations that applied crowdtesting to test a mobile application. As both organizations tested the application via crowdtesting and their traditional in-house testing, we are able to relate the effectiveness of crowdtesting and the associated costs to the effectiveness and costs of in-house testing. We find that crowdtesting is comparable in terms of testing quality and costs, but provides large advantages in terms of speed, heterogeneity of testers and user feedback as added value. We contribute to the crowdsourcing literature by providing first empirical evidence about the instances in which crowdsourcing is an advantageous way of problem solving.","PeriodicalId":309896,"journal":{"name":"European Conference on Information Systems","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121317127","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":"Synthesizing and Integrating Research on IT-based Value Co-Creation: a Meta-Analysis","authors":"Markus Mandrella, S. Trang, L. Kolbe","doi":"10.17705/1jais.00606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00606","url":null,"abstract":"IT value research has witnessed growing interest in the use of joint IT resources and capabilities following recent shifts in market competition from the firm to the network level. Despite research efforts in this domain, there remain substantial inconsistencies in the IT value cocreation literature regarding the effect of interorganizational IT on business value and the role of methodological and contextual factors. Drawing on the resource-based view and the relational view of the firm, we conducted a meta-analysis to synthesize and integrate the body of knowledge of IT-based value cocreation. Our analysis of 80 studies, encompassing 21,843 observations, highlights the value-generating effect of four interorganizational IT capabilities: IT-based relation-specific assets, IT-based knowledge sharing, IT-based complementary capabilities, and IT-based governance. Insights from our preliminary meta-analysis reveal that contradictory findings are driven by the conceptualization of IT variables as interorganizational IT resources. A further moderator meta-analysis explains divergent empirical findings in the literature. We find that the use of relational-level value and perceptual measures, use of single respondents, and the context of developing countries and supply chain and networked interdependencies result in larger estimates of business value. In contrast, the use of network-level, firm-level, and objective measures; use of matched-pair approaches; and the context of developed countries and pooled interdependencies result in smaller estimates. Overall, this paper provides clarity and structure to the current understanding of the research field by providing explanations for inconsistent findings as well as a foundation for future research and theory development.","PeriodicalId":309896,"journal":{"name":"European Conference on Information Systems","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122647358","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":"Small Slovene Firms and (Strategic) Information Technology Usage","authors":"D. Lesjak, M. Lynn","doi":"10.5771/0949-6181-2000-2-152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/0949-6181-2000-2-152","url":null,"abstract":"The extent to which information technology (IT) is used strategically is measured in a sample of 147 small Slovene firms. Slovenia is interesting from a small business perspective, because from 1990, when the transformation of its economy started, the number of small business has increased almost 6 times (from almost 6.500 to nearly 35.000 in 1998). The results have shown IT industry leadership and also IT’s role in a firm to be the strongest predictors in the strategic usage of IT. It was also found that IT is particularly well utilized in firms emphasizing innovation and, to a lesser degree, an efficiency strategy. Firms pursuing a low-cost strategy were the least likely to utilize IT strategically.","PeriodicalId":309896,"journal":{"name":"European Conference on Information Systems","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129264778","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":"Towards a Secure Web-Based Health Care Application","authors":"Susanne Röhrig, Konstantin Knorr","doi":"10.4018/978-1-930708-13-6.CH007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-930708-13-6.CH007","url":null,"abstract":"INTRODUCTION In healthcare a lot of data are generated that in turn will have to be accessed from several departments of a hospital. The information kept within the information system of a hospital includes sensitive personal data that reveal the most intimate aspects of an individuals life. Therefore, it is extremely important to regard data protection laws, privacy regulations, and other security requirements. When designing information systems for healthcare purposes, it is an imperative to implement appropriate access control mechanisms and other safeguards. Furthermore, a tendency to use the Internet as a communications media can be observed. As the Internet is an insecure transmission media, the security requirements that must be met by the overall system are high. During the project MobiMed (Privacy and Efficiency of Mobile Medical Systems; further information about the project can be found at http:// www.ifi.unizh.ch/ikm/MobiMed/), a prototype was developed to show the feasibility of the implementation of security mechanisms required in a Webbased healthcare application.","PeriodicalId":309896,"journal":{"name":"European Conference on Information Systems","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132919736","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":"Explaining Virtual Community Participation: Accounting for the IT Artifacts through Identification and Identity Confirmation","authors":"K. Shen, M. Khalifa","doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-09450-2_8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09450-2_8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":309896,"journal":{"name":"European Conference on Information Systems","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129903804","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":"ICT and Innovation in Small Companies","authors":"P. Schubert, J. Fisher, Uwe Leimstoll","doi":"10.26041/FHNW-3218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26041/FHNW-3218","url":null,"abstract":"The small business sector is very important to most economies generating significant wealth and employment. It has generally been accepted that small business owners are less likely to embrace innovation and less likely to have a well-defined business strategy. Yet for companies to grow and continue to be successful innovation is critical. Given the importance of this sector there is a need for governments and policy makers to understand innovation in small business particularly in terms of ICT implementation and use in order to formulate appropriate programs and policies. There have been few studies reported in the literature however, that have looked at innovation in the small business sector. This study investigated small Swiss businesses with 10 to 49 employees. A survey of 389 small businesses found that most see themselves as innovative and most use IT to support innovation. Further the study found a strong link between companies who invest in ICT, how these companies use ICT and their level of innovativeness. The study supports a hypothesis model which describes the features of innovative companies, how they use ICT for innovation and strategies they employ for gaining competitive advantage.","PeriodicalId":309896,"journal":{"name":"European Conference on Information Systems","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114580621","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":"Service-oriented architectures: Modeling the selection of services and platforms","authors":"Thomas Widjaja, Peter Buxmann","doi":"10.1007/978-3-8349-8731-0_15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-8731-0_15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":309896,"journal":{"name":"European Conference on Information Systems","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125116326","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}