Showing papers in "International Journal of Information Management in 1997"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the theoretical and empirical work that has been conducted in relation to virtual communities in society, using it as a basis for an integrative three phase Virtual Communities in Society model, including variables that affect individuals' decision to join virtual communities, variables that explain how members of virtual communities affect their immediate environment, and variables that describe how virtual communities are transforming society.

TL;DR: The use of information literacy has been suggested by some to be of some use, but its content is often not defined as discussed by the authors, with an emphasis being placed on links with the process of knowledge creation.

TL;DR: This work is based upon 20 empirical case studies of engineering designers working within their normal design environment, based upon a detailed discussion on the relationship between information, knowledge and memory.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed three important pieces of research funded by Reuters over the period 1994-1996 that surveyed the understanding of, and use of information by managers and found that whilst managers are well aware of the importance of information, they frequently do not feel in control of their use of it.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between managers' perceptions towards their individual information system usefulness, ease of use, strengths, weaknesses, actual usage and adopted level of technological sophistication.

TL;DR: The potential of knowledge-based systems (KBS) to leverage human resource management (HRM) expertise and to promote organizational development remains unrealized as mentioned in this paper, and the current and potential use of KBS within HRM is examined.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the use of the Internet and the World Wide Web for marketing and compare Internet and WOW marketing with traditional media marketing, and how marketing and organizations are going to respond to these, which leads to the need for new business strategies.

TL;DR: Examination of internet usage in Singapore showed that internet users in Singapore generally comprise teenagers and young adults, and messaging and browsing activities are performed more frequently than downloading or purchasing activities.

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework was developed to address multinational companies' IS global policy formulation and several implications for IS management issues in Arab Gulf countries (AGC), and the uniqueness of the business and IS problems confronting MNCs in the AGC were illustrated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the use of information within new product development and report on their use of IT to support this, and provide an improved understanding of the methods by which members of the design team currently retrieve, apply and subsequently transfer their information.

TL;DR: A certain methodology for evaluating investments in information technology, placing special emphasis on investments in telecommunications infrastructure is proposed, based on both economical and technical criteria.

TL;DR: It seems that the factors which affect job satisfaction are similar to those which affect user information satisfaction, and a comprehensive framework is developed which allows to investigate the relationships between the two constructs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the ways in which Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is harnessed by the business community in Ireland to increase its competitive position and to reduce the adverse effects of its geographic isolation.

TL;DR: This paper presents an approach to actively managing intranet development by recognizing and treating it as an extension of end-user computing.

TL;DR: In this paper, four possible strategies are identified from interviewees' accounts and interpreted using an adaptation of Baker and Faulkner's (strategies for managing suppliers of professional services) archetypes: reciprocal, client dominant, vendor dominant and preferred vendor.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate under which conditions it can be expected that the negotiation partners substitute a competitive definition of the situation for a cooperative one, and present several research propositions focusing on the transformation form a win-lose context to a winwin context.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that organisational redesign through information and communication technologies (ICTs) should be treated explicitly as an emerging field of inquiry, and it will provide the basis for a new generation of organisational theories for the information economy.

TL;DR: The paper argues that object-orientation provides the needed transparency and consistency between the models of business systems and the model of IT systems and adopts the use of object-oriented methods as a basis for redesigning banking business processes and information systems.

TL;DR: In this article, the fundamental ideas of business process re-engineering, with IT as an enabling agent, are considered, and their consistency with sound management practice is examined, with a focus on cost and efficiency.

TL;DR: In this paper, an explorative research study was conducted to find out to which extent external information, internal competence, and the use of information technology (IT) can explain variations in perceived innovation sucess.

TL;DR: The article addresses the important developments and trends in the information consulting industry in the 80s and 90s and addresses the strategies and steps the consulting firms have adopted in order to prepare themselves for the future.

TL;DR: Although the general precepts of user-centred implementation are validated, concepts such as 'information', 'support', and 'complexity', basic to discussions of implementation procedures are shown to be multi-faceted, and strongly dependent on user perceptions.

TL;DR: This paper found that marketing managers do not view key information systems issues in the same way as either chief executive officers or information technology managers, and this mismatch between the users and those who control the strategy and development of the systems is a possible source of dissatisfaction.

TL;DR: A case study of a corporate strategic information processing system in a UK company is explored in this paper, where a strategic-oriented system model that incorporates information scanning-refining-reporting into manufacturing automation and control systems is proposed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a high level of misconception, misunderstanding, and misinterpretation has been identified during an investigation at three British and three Brazilian companies, and the authors of BPR literature all seem to be working with completely different mind sets.

TL;DR: The patterns and formats of information provision by newspapers and television news programmes are examined in this article, with a case study of two incidents from the Gulf War, and a content analysis is carried out, with a novel scheme of groups and categories to interpret and display information transfer patterns.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the specification, monitoring and achievement of the objectives of the redesign initiative, and apply total quality concepts to the process of conducting the process redesign by addressing the associated risks.

TL;DR: In this paper, a brief history of Chinese MIS and management support systems in state-owned enterprises is described, which is divided into three periods: experimental (1980-1985), development (1985-1990), and adjustment (1991-present).