The case methodology for the purposes of instruction was first initiated by Christopher Langdell at the Harvard University Law School around 1870 (Osigweh, 1989). The Har[...]

Supply chain management is a common strategy employed by businesses to improve organizational processes by optimizing the transfer of goods, information, and services bet[...]

This paper highlights the efforts to support female academics in the information systems (IS) discipline over recent years. The development of the AIS task force on women[...]

Purpose– This paper aims to analyze the relationships between four constructs – business environment characteristics, competitive priorities, supply chain structures, and[...]

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 [...]

In order to explore what benefits are being realized from executive information systems (EISs), the kinds of benefit/cost analyses being performed, and the factors that a[...]

Majority of the organizations are continuously under threat because of employees’ mishandling of sensitive information. While information security is an integral part of [...]

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 in[...]

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 pape[...]

This paper reports on a panel discussion held at AMCIS 2014 and subsequent panel member research and findings. We focus on curriculum design, program development, and sus[...]

Intention theories, such as the Theory of Reasoned Action, the Theory of Planned Behavior, and the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), have been widely adopted to explain [...]

This paper builds on academic and industry discussions from the 2012 and 2013 pre-ICIS events: BI Congress III and the Special Interest Group on Decision Support Systems [...]

Rapid developments in the area of telecommunications and information technologies have brought about dramatic changes in the way organizations conduct business and have i[...]

Information systems (IS) offshoring has become a widespread practice and a strategic sourcing choice for many firms. While much has been written by researchers about the [...]

We identify managerial challenges and opportunities faced by business process outsourcing (BPO) firms in India by interviewing 28 executives in lower (n = 10), middle (n [...]

Advances in information technologies (IT) have enabled organizations to seek solutions for their business problems from beyond their own workforce through digital crowdso[...]

Advances in information technologies enable firms to collect detailed consumer data and target individual consumers with tailored ads. Consumer data are among the most va[...]

Dynamic web-based multimedia communication has been increasingly used in organizations, necessitating a better understanding of how it affects their outcomes. We investig[...]

Workflow research is commonly concerned with optimization, modeling, and dependency. In this research, we however address a more fundamental issue. By modeling humans and[...]

In today's dynamic environment, managers and organizations are faced with varied choices in communicating information for enhanced decision making. In business, the selec[...]

Employees' failures to follow information security policy can be costly to organizations, causing organizations to implement security controls to motivate secure behavior[...]

This paper uses management science methodology to compare the cost-effectiveness of two different approaches to preventing coronary heart disease in the province of New B[...]

While the importance of information technology in reducing soaring healthcare costs and enhancing service quality is increasingly being recognized, significant challenges[...]

Stakeholders, both internal and external, can have differing and sometimes conflicting perspectives and priorities even though each has a vested interest in organizationa[...]

Global outsourcing of IT and IT-enabled services (ITES) has now become an accepted corporate strategy of a vast majority of firms around the world. The functions being of[...]