Showing papers in "Information & Management in 1997"

TL;DR: This study compares the TAM model across three different countries: Japan; Switzerland; and the United States, and indicates that TAM holds for both the U.S. and Switzerland, but not for Japan, suggesting that the model may not predict technology use across all cultures.

TL;DR: The results suggest that user Satisfaction is an important factor affecting system usage and that user satisfaction has the strongest direct effect on individual impact.

TL;DR: The explanatory theory suggests that the use of MIS in the Chinese business culture has been, and will continue to be, shaped by factors such as paternalism, personalism and high context communications.

TL;DR: An analysis of the content of corporate home pages provides useful insights and provides valuable insight into the future trends of home page usage by large business organizations.

TL;DR: This study uses data from past ISS studies and also those collected from a field survey to analyze the differences in the perceived importance of ISS factors between four groups of subjects from North America, namely, the user staff, the IS staff, and the managers of the two groups.

TL;DR: The experimental study of 100 subjects shows that the dimensions of competence relate differently to individual factors, such as gender, education, self-efficacy, and specific software-syntax skills.

TL;DR: The role of Information Systems in Mergers and Acquisitions includes the categories and strategic objectives of external growth as well as consideration of the possible choices for the hardware and software configuration after completion of the MA Factor Analysis.

TL;DR: The results indicate that IT implementation research is sensitive to the evolving role of IT in organizations, and there is a shift in emphasis from studying individual IT to organizational and inter-organizational IT.

TL;DR: This research attempts to identify the benefits that organizations gain by using EDI, the conditions under which these advantages can be attained, and their variation with time.

TL;DR: Progress is reported toward the development of a model (called GLITS) to measure the strategic global impact of IT on an international firm and this foundational model should have significant utility for both practitioners and researchers.

TL;DR: A model explaining the effects of EDI on three structural variables of inter-organizational relationships: channel intensity, formalization and information quality suggests that EDI use improves cooperation between trading partners and leads to greater satisfaction and performance in electronically-mediated business transactions.

TL;DR: Results of the study indicate that two different types of information processing occur when subjects are reviewing the expert system recommendations.

TL;DR: It is found that UIS provides a sound indication of job satisfaction, however, none of the user computer-background parameters has any significant effect on UIS and job satisfaction.

TL;DR: This research provides practicing IT managers with alternative perspectives on the problems and a variety of coping mechanisms from which to choose, and provides suggestions for future researchers.

TL;DR: It is found that the relationships between management styles, user participation, and system success are different over different MIS growth stages.

TL;DR: It is more useful and more appropriate to analyse the characteristics of meetings before considering using a GSS to support one, and an instrument is developed with five meeting process and outcome constructs.

TL;DR: Results suggest that designers perceived JAD as being superior to the traditional IS design method with respect to the quality of user-designer interactions, effectiveness of consensus management, and user acceptance of design specifications.

TL;DR: A model that captures the exception handling activities required in operational-level information processes is developed, sufficiently general to allow evaluation of the performance of information flow processes employing any combination of people and information technologies (IT).

TL;DR: Examining IS planning in the context of Singapore, a small island of 650 square kilometers in South-East Asia, found that the macro-economic features of the firms, the degree of participation in IS planning by various executives, critical success factors and benefits of IS planning, and other planning parameters were examined.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss types of software piracy, organized anti-piracy campaigns, forms of intellectual property protection for software, such as trade secrets, patents, licensing, copyrights, civil liability, and criminal liability.

TL;DR: A study of the group dynamics of a virtual community, determined through its members' communication on e-mail, demonstrates that during the strike this virtual community went through a series of phases that marked its evolution from a large disorganized group of dispersed individuals, into a united virtual community.

TL;DR: An EIS user taxonomy was developed by querying 98 of the Corporate 1000 CEOs on the ways in which they used their EIS by revealing three dimensions underlying these types: organizational monitoring; information access; and organizational understanding.

TL;DR: Dynamic Process Modeling integrates customer-oriented process modeling with computerized visual process simulation to promote better understanding of the required process and determine its performance through simulation of the proposed redesign alternatives prior to selection and implementation.

TL;DR: Certain critical areas in the client/server environment in which security exposure is likely are discussed and organizations must become aware of these critical areas and ensure that appropriate security measures are implemented to reduce the possibility of loss.

TL;DR: On average the CIOs in the high productivity group have been with the company for three years, as compared to eight years in the low productivity group, and companies in theHigh productivity group spent 46% of software budget on in-house development of new applications, as opposed to 60% for theLow productivity group.

TL;DR: The relationship between support infrastructure, training, various computer configurations, and the computer literacy of work groups is explored and only one kind of infrastructure support was found to be related to computer literacy: obtaining information from a resident expert in the work group.

TL;DR: The results indicated that compatibility, relative advantage, complexity, champion, management support, openness, and formalization factors were indicative of ISDN implementation success.

TL;DR: The results support the premise that IT used in purchasing is not a homogeneous phenomenon, but can, instead, be represented by three dimensions: base computer systems and support, purchasing-specific applications, and vender communications.

TL;DR: Processes and analytical methods for shaping a data warehousing strategy and for determining the contents of the data warehouse are described and some cautionary conclusions about the development of monolithic data warehouses to serve an entire organization are presented.

TL;DR: A powerful conceptual framework for such VMISs is presented using the knowledge representation language Telos, andabilities of this integrated hybrid modelling framework include meta-level facilities, constraint enforcement, and inference facilities.