Information Systems Research articles from December 1999

Information Systems Research archives from December 1999

Information and communication: alternative uses of the Internet in households.
December 1, 1999... Is the Internet a superhighway to information or a high-tech extension of the home telephone? We address this question by operationalizing information acquisition and entertainment as the use of the World Wide Web and interpersonal...

Information technology assimilation in firms: the influence of senior leadership and IT infrastructures.
December 1, 1999... IT assimilation is regarded as an important outcome in the efforts of firms to leverage the potential of information technologies in their business activities and strategies. Despite significant investments in information technology,...

Designing workflow coordination: centralized versus market-based mechanisms.
December 1, 1999... As a result of the increasing diffusion of decision-making within and between organizations, distributed scheduling methods have been proposed as alternatives to centralized, hierarchical, top-down production control schemes. While distributed...

Dimensionality of the strategic grid framework: the construct and its measurement.
December 1, 1999... The recent dramatic impact of information technology (IT) on organizational performance has necessitated appropriate strategies for managing this organizational resource. IT impacts firms in different ways, and management needs a clear and...

Evaluating the impact of DSS, cognitive effort, and incentives on strategy selection.
December 1, 1999... Decision support system (DSS) researchers have long debated whether or not the provision of a DSS would lead to greater decision-making effectiveness, efficiency, or both. The work described in this paper examines how DSS designers can guide...

Research note. Electronic brainstorming: illusions and patterns of productivity.
December 1, 1999... In a recent article in Information Systems Research, Pinsonneault et al. (1999) present a thorough and compelling summary of theoretical factors that act to enhance and impair productivity in electronic brainstorming (EBS) groups as contrasted...

Research Note. The illusion of electronic brainstorming productivity: theoretical and empirical issues.
December 1, 1999... After discussing how group size might affect the effectiveness of electronic brainstorming (EBS) as an idea generating tool, Dennis and Valacich (1999) conclude that EBS is not likely to surpass nominal brainstorming for small groups, but that...