Showing papers in "International Journal of Information Management in 2002"

TL;DR: Focusing on business-to-consumer markets, this paper examines how value is added in the stream of activities involved in providing m-commerce to the consumer, and analyses the key players and technologies that form part of the m- commerce value chain, providing a foundation for future strategic analysis of the industry.

TL;DR: This study examines factors that motivate users to accept technology and suggests that social pressure is an important factor affecting technology acceptance.

TL;DR: The approach of this work is to consider the intended reuse and level of application for knowledge in order to determine the requirements for its acquisition, and an overall framework for the requirements of capturing, storing and reusing information and knowledge in engineering design is generated.

TL;DR: A review of research in the area of creating collaborative application taxonomies is presented, and commercial products and research prototypes in the domain of collaborative computing are examined.

TL;DR: The four cycles method introduced in this paper attempts to combine the strengths of both the comprehensive and incremental planning to be able to recognise emerging trends and to make an e-business strategy.

TL;DR: The authors conclude that the Welsh retail sector is partially failing to capitalise on the opportunities that e-commerce presents, which in turn may lead to future job losses, and prosperity being eroded by e- commerce competition from overseas.

TL;DR: A unifying framework that utilizes two Internet technologies, Web-based pull technology and push technology, in supporting classroom-based learning is proposed and evaluated, and two fully operational education support systems based on the framework for two different types of courses are developed.

TL;DR: Arguing that the evaluation of an information system should be seen as a form of communication, this paper describes the approach and evaluation model that was created and applied in a bank faced with the challenge of assessing the value of its main e-banking channel in operation.

TL;DR: Examination of the views of information systems (IS) designers from the United States, Japan and Korea on the importance of IS development factors indicated that the IS designers did not view the relative importance of theIS development factors, the same in terms of contributing to the success and failure of IS projects.

TL;DR: This approach aims to address the research issue: ''How can modular product development be carried out through the intelligent agents of the collaboration information system to meet a customer's requirements using modules that come from suppliers that are geographically separated and operate on differing computer platforms?''

TL;DR: An objective investigation of the commercial use of World Wide Web in Singapore by randomly sampling, manually accessing, and evaluating commercial WWW sites in 11 various industries of Singapore is conducted.

TL;DR: This paper discusses and analyses the latest generation of information kiosks, Kiosks 21, which feature information provision/promotion, interaction, transaction and relationships and proposes a range of areas for research and development.

TL;DR: It was concluded that all approaches have a strong future orientation and strong ties to decision-making, and advocate that information is ennobled in one way or the other.

TL;DR: Investigation of online auction sites in Taiwan finds that brand-new products are offered more than used ones, and easily describable products are more popular, and for auction types, English is the most common one.

TL;DR: The framework of TSMC's virtual fabrication is introduced, the competitive advantages resulted from virtual fabrication are investigated, and the implications ofTSMC's experience are discussed.

TL;DR: This paper explores some of the key areas of application of short-range embedded wireless interactivity, including in the home, the workplace, in-transit, and for public spaces, and evaluates the key benefits and problems associated with these applications.

TL;DR: The search for contingency approaches to information systems design (ISD) began in the early 1980s when it was recognised that there was no single best methodology for all ISD projects and when there existed heterogeneous methodologies to select from.

TL;DR: The future promise of sophisticated use of the capabilities of current SIS is likely to be compromised, due to the lack of awareness, amongst respondents, of the criticality of organizational and strategic barriers.

TL;DR: An approach to cause mapping that has been developed for the purpose of helping managers improve their decision-making in complex tasks in ever-changing environments and the approach to theory-driven construction and analysis of cause maps is proposed.

TL;DR: The results underscore the importance of quality legal rules and creditor protection in global spread of e-commerce.

TL;DR: The paper provides an analysis of the changing business environment for media firms, investigates the specific approach chosen by one major player, Egmont, and concludes by assessing the important factors forMedia firms doing successful and profitable business in the new era.

TL;DR: This research examines the modal properties of these approaches in terms of their configurational characteristics, economic rationales and managerial requirements and identifies and explores the corresponding communication system requirements, especially for key dispersion-related communication configurations and systems.

TL;DR: Les evolutions intervenues depuis 1999 dans le domaine des portails par sujet, outils de decouverte des ressources de l'internet, au niveau de leurs principales caracteristiques are examined.

TL;DR: The results of this application suggest that patterns offer a way of recognizing under which circumstances different interventions are most appropriate, but the study suggests that their application is limited.

TL;DR: The limits of scientific knowledge and the way in which it is translated into information in the management and prevention of health risks are shown.

TL;DR: The OST demonstrated its effectiveness in highlighting the assumptions underpinning different technological and organisational choices at CallCentre and was able to assist the organisation in its decision-making process.