Showing papers in "Information & Management in 2003"

TL;DR: It is concluded that TAM is a useful model, but has to be integrated into a broader one which would include variables related to both human and social change processes, and to the adoption of the innovation model.

TL;DR: An extension of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to explain the individual acceptance and usage of websites is empirically investigated and a new construct, "perceived visual attractiveness" of the website is introduced and demonstrates that it influences usefulness, enjoyment, and ease-of-use.

TL;DR: This study developed a comprehensive model and instrument for measuring learner satisfaction with asynchronous e-learning systems and examined evidence of reliability, content validity, criterionrelated validity, convergent validity, discriminant validity, and nomological validity.

TL;DR: It was found that KM methods can be categorized into four styles: dynamic, system-, human-oriented, and passive; the emphasis of the dynamic style is on both knowledge reusability through information technologies and knowledge sharing through informal discussions among employees, which results in higher performance.

TL;DR: The findings suggest a highly prominent and significant core influence path from job relevance to perceived usefulness and then technology acceptance, which teachers appear to consider a rich set of factors in initial acceptance but concentrate on fundamental determinants in their continued acceptance.

TL;DR: Using a "combine and conquer" strategy with the theory of planned behavior and the technology acceptance model, results indicate that a "Collected" model representing the underlying categories of cognitions from theTPB and the TAM provided a better fit than either the TAM or the TPB alone.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that those interventions found to influence the mediating variable of computer anxiety should be used to effectively enhance ease of use perceptions.

TL;DR: The results of this study indicate that information and system quality determine effectiveness while service quality has no impact.

TL;DR: This conceptual web site content/design model was used to study the features of global corporate web sites to determine if the content and design features have become globally standardized or if differences exist as a result of national culture and/or industry.

TL;DR: It is found that, while all three enablers may contribute to ERP implementation success, only strong and committed leadership can be empirically established as a necessary condition.

TL;DR: It is found that, at the graduate level, students are able to learn equally well in WebCT online courses despite their different learning styles, learning patterns, and background in terms of gender, age, job status, year of admission, previous Web-based learning experiences, and MIS preparation.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the antecedents, IT department technical quality, IT plan utilization, and top management of IT positively affected IT impact on the supply chain and a positive relationship between IT impact and firm performance is revealed.

TL;DR: A model that defines the influences on one's intent to share information, based upon the theory of reasoned action (TRA), is proposed and tested by surveying workers in a unit of a large governmental organization that often fails to reap the benefits, despite proclamations of support for IRM principles.

TL;DR: A study of e-business competitive advantage strategies using the success at Intel is presented, which shows that despite the rapid decline in stock values of many Internet related companies and the recession, Intel is still successful.

TL;DR: Examination of a number of aspects of information systems/information technology benefits realization in large Australian organizations reveals issues of identifying and structuring benefits, planning benefits realization, delivering, evaluating and reviewing these benefits, with some success and some failure.

TL;DR: An application of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) used to select the best web site for online advertising is presented and could be of use to managers and, because of its ease of implementation, others could benefit from this approach.

TL;DR: It is proposed that e-commerce initiatives are important strategic initiatives and that firms with a stronger EC market orientation will be more successful and that EC must be pursued carefully as a strategic initiative rather than as an appendage to an existing organization.

TL;DR: The empirical results support the idea that the contingent measurement approach has the potential to be an even more useful framework if it incorporates more contingency factors, such as environmental, organizational contexts, and other characteristics.

TL;DR: The argument presented in this paper is that traditional life cycle models are changing as a result of technologies that support their integration with other systems.

TL;DR: It is suggested that project participants can use the information in PROMQACS to identify shortcomings in their project-related activities and therefore take the appropriate action to improve their management practices in future projects.

TL;DR: Results show that partner trust, interdependence, and commitment affect the extent to which companies undertake EDI integration and increase the percentage of EDI exchange and performance, suggesting that companies contemplating EDI should set up compatible business processes and a high-quality partner relationship for implementation and performance.

TL;DR: This study presents an IS risk analysis method based on a business model that uses a systematic quantitative approach dealing with operational continuity and adds the first stage, organizational investigation, to traditional risk analysis.

TL;DR: Using a survey of 282 respondents, a factor analysis is conducted and a 12-item instrument is proposed that measures end-user computing knowledge and ability, and its theoretical and practical applications are discussed.

TL;DR: Refuting the notion of technology as a replacement of knowledge, this paper focuses on a gap between them that needs to be bridged, and two models of knowledge are reviewed.

TL;DR: The findings reveal that each methodology has had a different level of impact on software quality factors, which could help software-development organizations select the methodology or combination that best meets their quality requirement.

TL;DR: The relationships among perceived environmental uncertainty (PEUN), the level of the strategic applications and the facilitators of IS strategic alignment are examined using a systems approach to show some ways that these relationships impact the performance of a firm.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate the pivotal role of an organization's improved planning capability in mediating the effects of organization contexts and planning system dimensions on IS planning effectiveness.

TL;DR: In this paper, a field experiment was conducted in which users visited popular shopping websites, and the authors demonstrated how information load and emotions influence virtual exploratory and shopping decisions, specifically, that users' tendencies to approach or avoid environments are modeled on the basis of user reaction to the information load of a virtual environment and the emotions that such an environment elicits.

TL;DR: A framework of various job anchors is utilized to examine how a sample of IS personnel regard incentives provided by employers and the importance of these in assessing the employee's intent to leave.

TL;DR: The findings challenge the popular assumption that CIOs with greater technical backgrounds are unable to successfully influence other top executives and suggest a modified version of Holland's theory of vocational choice suggests a plausible explanation for the results.