| Approximating Block Accesses in Random Files: The Case of Blocking Factors Lower than One |
1991 |
217 |
Expressions available in the current literature to estimate the number of blocks accessed in a random file fail to work when the blocking factor is lower than one. A new expression is developed in this article to estimate the number of blocks accesse... |
| B2C Internet Commerce: A Tale of Two Nations |
2002 |
212 |
Much of the empirical information on E-Commerce activity is based on the U.S. and other developed nations.
This study extends our knowledge by conducting a comparative investigation of B2C Internet shopping in the U.S.
and Thailand. A unique featur... |
| Batched Searching in Database Organizations |
1988 |
143 |
Savings in the number of page accesses due to batching on sequential, tree-structured, and random files are well known and have been reported in the literature. This paper asserts that substantial savings can also be obtained in database organization... |
| Chinese institutions and standardization: The case of government support to domestic third generation cellular standard |
2011 |
94 |
There are unique and distinct institutional processes associated with the Chinese government's support of the domestically developed third generation (3G) cellular standard, TD-SCDMA. After postponing several times, China awarded three third generati... |
| The complexity of richness: Media, message, and communication outcomes |
2008 |
1317 |
Dynamic web-based multimedia communication has been increasingly used in organizations, necessitating a better understanding of how it affects their outcomes. We investigated factor structures and relationships involving media and information richnes... |
| Determinants of computing in very small businesses |
1994 |
888 |
This article focuses on computing in very small businesses (VSB). We have defined a business to be very small if it has less than 50 employees. They have been ignored in the mainstream MIS literature. However, given that small businesses constitute a... |
| Developing and Validating an Instrument for Measuring User-Perceived Web Quality |
2002 |
493 |
Many of the instruments to measure information and system quality were developed in the context of mainframe and PC-based technologies of yesteryears. With the proliferation of the Internet and World Wide Web applications, users are increasingly inte... |
| Developing a model of the global and strategic impact of information technology |
1997 |
268 |
In today's intensely competitive world, many firms have developed applications of information technology (IT) that provide a significant global competitive advantage. Most evidence of such IT use is anecdotal; the global competitive impact of IT has ... |
| A dialectic view of information systems outsourcing: Pros and cons |
1995 |
1678 |
In recent years, information systems (IS) outsourcing is increasing in business organizations as a way to govern their IS operations. Burgeoning IS costs, lack of IS organization's responsiveness to users, and a renewed emphasis on return on IS inves... |
| EDI in Strategic Supply Chain: Impact on Customer Service |
2001 |
1231 |
Many inter-organizational systems are increasingly using electronic data interchange (EDI) to support the strategic supply chain by way of delivering and processing business documents. In a vendor–customer relationship, EDI can provide many benefits ... |
| The Effect of Buffer Size on Pages Accessed in Random Files |
1988 |
164 |
Prior works, for estimating the number of pages (blocks) accessed from secondary memory to retrieve a certain number of records for a query, have ignored the effect of main memory buffer size. While this may not cause any adverse impact for special c... |
| The Effectiveness of Using Computers for Software Training: An Exploratory Study |
2007 |
370 |
Both academic institutions and corporations have invested huge amounts of resources in computer-based training and
education. The evidence in support of the effectiveness of computers and instructional technology in the classroom is mixed at
best. ... |
| An Empirical Evaluation of System Development Methodologies |
1990 |
869 |
Many methodologies and techniques may be used in the development of information systems. Two widely used methodologies are: system development life cycle, and proto-typing. In this article, we have extensively evaluated the two methodologies based on... |
| ERP Implementation Issues in Advanced and Developing Countries |
2001 |
4255 |
There is an increasing need to implement a total business solution which supports major functionalities of a business. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is designed to meet this need, and has been widely adopted by organizations in develope... |
| Examination of Infomediary Roles in B2C E-Commerce |
2007 |
465 |
This article provides a parsimonious research model that assists in the study of infomediary roles in B2C E-Commerce,
their level of integration and sophistication, and their impact on infomediary performance and
customers’ satisfaction. After an e... |
| An Examination of the IT Satisfaction of Small-Business Users |
1999 |
631 |
Although there are many articles in the NIS literature which address small-business computing, in effect the organizations represented in these studies are, in many ways, similar to medium- and large-sized organizations. In this article, we focus on ... |
| Exploring the effects of direct experience on IT use: An organizational field study |
2008 |
319 |
Empirical studies have investigated the effect of attitude and behavior on IT acceptance in organizations but yielded ambiguous results. Possibly they have not effectively accounted for the moderating effects of experience gained through direct inter... |
| Expressions for Batched Searching of Sequential and Hierarchical Files |
1985 |
429 |
Batching yields significant savings in access costs in sequential, tree-structured, and random files. A direct and simple expression is developed for computing the average number of records/pages accessed to satisfy a batched query of a sequential fi... |
| The Feasibility Study in Information Systems: an Analysis of Criteria and Contents |
1988 |
5986 |
The feasibility study has been prescribed and described as an important step in information system development. Yet there has been little research on issues pertaining to its con-tents and criteria. This paper addresses these issues and reports resea... |
| A field examination of system life cycle techniques and methodologies |
1993 |
633 |
There is a myriad of system development methodologies, techniques, and tools that have been developed ever since businesses started using computers for information processing. However, there is no real consensus on the aptness or applicability of the... |
| Global Information Architectures: Alternatives and Tradeoffs |
1993 |
225 |
The alignment of information architectures with business strategies is important for organizations in order to achieve global pre-eminence. Past architectures have been limited in that they consider only technical and computer-based aspects of inform... |
| Global Information Technology: A Meta Analysis of Key Issues |
2002 |
269 |
Recently, there has been an increasing number of studies and articles that have identified and ranked global information technology (IT) issues in various parts of the world. The objective of this article is to aggregate the results of these studies ... |
| Heuristic Optimization of Physical Data Bases: Using a Generic and Abstract Design Model |
1988 |
759 |
Designing efficient physical data bases is a complex activity, involving the consideration of a large number of factors. Mathematical programming-based optimization models for physical design make many simplifying assumptions; thus, their applicabili... |
| Information requirements of a global EIS: An exploratory macro assessment |
1996 |
356 |
Rapid changes in the world economy and politics have accelerated the drive of businesses into international expansion. Information technology (IT) has made an important contribution in both the facilitation and the driving of a global business. As a ... |
| Information Systems Education and Research: Are We Leaders or Laggards |
1997 |
370 |
Every discipline should periodically indulge in self-introspection to assess its value to the various stakeholders. In this writing, I exhort the MIS academic community to examine the value of the education and research that it provides to its variou... |
| Information Systems Management Issues: Reporting and Relevance |
1999 |
366 |
Reports of key information systems issues have been published over the last two decades in many journals. Leading IS journals (e.g., MIS Quarterly, Information & Management, among others) have published key IS management issue reports every three or ... |
| An Interactive DSS Tool for Physical Database Design |
1991 |
308 |
The design of efficient physical databases is a complex activity involving the consideration of a large number of factors. Because of the complexity, mathematical programming approaches seeking to optimize the physical database have to make many simp... |
| Key Data Management Issues in a Global Executive Information System |
2001 |
635 |
Information technology plays a significant role in a global organization. Senior executives of these organizations need constant and timely access to global information for making decisions. This information originates in different places worldwide f... |
| Key Information Systems Issues: An Analysis of MIS Publications |
1996 |
759 |
Reports of key MIS issues based on the perceptions of senior IS executives appear periodically in the MIS literature. In this article, we provide another perspective on key MIS issues by examining published MIS articles. A content analysis of MIS art... |
| Measuring the Impact of Global Information Technology Applications |
2005 |
904 |
The objective of this study is to develop a means of assessing the impact of global information technology applications. Building on the prior work of Pal via (1997), Sethi and King (1994) and Mahmood and Soon (1991) a multi-factor global IT impact m... |
| A Model and Instrument for Measuring Small Business User Satisfaction with Information Technology |
1996 |
1116 |
Measurement of the value of computing in very small businesses has been largely ignored in the MIS literature. This article develops a comprehensive model for examining the satisfaction of small business users with information technology (SBUSIT). It... |
| Models and Requirements for Using Strategic Information Systems in Developing Nations |
1990 |
1015 |
Strategic information systems (SIS) are a reality in the United States and other advanced nations. They are being developed and used in many organizations to provide them with a competitive advantage. We contend that such systems would have significa... |
| Objectivity in MIS Research |
1995 |
175 |
I wish to bring up two issues that seem to hamper objectivity in MIS research. I will call them "Strike it when it is hot" issue and "Elephant and the blind men" issue.... |
| On the Computability of Agent-Based Workflows |
2006 |
175 |
Workflow research is commonly concerned with optimization, modeling, and dependency. In this research, we however address a more fundamental issue. By modeling humans and machines as agents and making use of a theoretical computer and statecharts, we... |
| On end-user computing productivity Results of controlled experiments |
1991 |
225 |
Two important classes of end-users are: command level users, and end-user programmers. For each of these classes, controlled experiments have been conducted to measure their productivity. For command level users working with databases, our results in... |
| The ORION Project: Staged Business Process Reengineering at FedEx |
1996 |
1511 |
Technical innovation, process reengineering, and organizational adaptation of the ORION project are described.... |
| A Profile of Information Systems Research Published in Information & Management |
2007 |
1021 |
Information & Management (I&M) has been consistently regarded as one of the top academic journals in information systems (IS). In a spirit of introspection, this article profiles research published in I&M: we identified the most productive authors an... |
| Reexamining Technology Acceptance in Online Task Behaviors |
2006 |
493 |
With rapid advances in information technology, information systems and software have become more versatile and multifunctional. However, users may have varying degrees of preferences to different functions and tasks that can be accomplished using a s... |
| Research Issues in Global Information Technology Management |
1998 |
1052 |
Information technology (IT) is rapidly becoming an essential requirement for the conduct of international business. In many cases, IT is a driving force as evinced by its role in business expansion and competitive advantage in worldwide markets. Anec... |
| The role of trust in e-commerce relational exchange: A unified model |
2009 |
3211 |
Recently, studies of B2C e-commerce have used intention theory to understand the role of trust of Internet transactions but most have investigated only a component of e-commerce (e.g., initial adoption or continuance) and neglected the role of good r... |
| The Roles of Habit and Web Site Quality in E-Commerce |
2006 |
1419 |
Previous research has primarily examined consumers’ perceived usefulness of web sites and trust in the web retailer as two major predictors of web site use and e-commerce adoption. While the consumers’ repeated behavior in the past (i.e., habit) may ... |
| Sensitivity of the Physical Database Design to Changes in Underlying Factors |
1988 |
365 |
Several articles have reported on the optimization of the complete physical database design or significant parts of it. However, few results are available on the sensitivity of the physical database design to change in underlying factors that influen... |
| The Social Influence Model of Technology Adoption |
2010 |
2409 |
Human innovation, in combination with the internet, networking, and communications technologies have produced a new platform for social and business networking, formation of community, and communication. This emerging phenomenon is generally known as... |
| Strategies for global information systems development |
2004 |
1111 |
Developing global information systems is a formidable task. Multinational companies operate in regions that are thousands of miles, many time zones, and many cultures away from headquarters. Organizing the activities and aligning the tasks and mindse... |
| Testing an Extended Model of IT Acceptance in the Chinese Cultural Context |
2006 |
1023 |
Research on technology acceptance and diffusion is critical, providing insights into how organizations can manage the adoption and use of information technology. With globalization, it is important to understand IT adoption in other cultures. The pri... |
| Timing Strategies for Feasibility Studies in Information Systems Development |
1990 |
1323 |
The feasibility study has been prescribed and described as an important step in information system development. One of the key issues pertaining to the feasibility study is. its time of preparation and presentation during the system development life ... |
| Trust in E-Commerce. |
2005 |
337 |
Web-based businesses succeed by cultivating consumers’ trust, starting with their beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and willingness to perform transactions at Web sites and with the organizations behind them.... |
| Understanding the Adoption of Web-Enabled Transaction Processing By Small Businesses |
2007 |
652 |
The promise of the Internet and e-commerce has led to the increasing use of the web for transaction processing. Many organizations have adopted web-enabled transaction processing for applications such as processing payments online, selling products o... |