Information Systems Research articles from December 2001

Information Systems Research archives from December 2001

Editorial notes.(diversity in information systems)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Izak Benbasat With this issue we reach the end of the 12th year of ISR's service to the IS community. Because of the additional workload on our operations, imposed by the large number of submissions received for the special issue on...

Research commentary: transformational issues in researching IS and net-enabled organizations.
December 1, 2001... The conduct of net-enabled business, known variously as electronic commerce (EC) or e-Business, has changed the landscape and opportunities for IS research by shifting the focus from internal to customer/partnering systems. The article examines...

Membership size, communication activity, and sustainability: a resource-based model of online social structures.
December 1, 2001... As telecommunication networks become more common, there is an increasing interest in the factors underlying the development of online social structures. It has been proposed that these structures are new forms of organizing which are not...

Collaborative decision making: a connectionist paradigm for dialectical support.
December 1, 2001... The facilitation and analytical support of argumentation-based collaborative decision making is the focus of this research. We model collaborative decision making as an argumentation process. We develop a connectionist modeling framework, a...

Should optional properties be used in conceptual modelling? A theory and three empirical tests.
December 1, 2001... An important feature of some conceptual modelling grammars is the features they provide to allow database designers to show real-world things may or may not possess a particular attribute or relationship. In the entity-relationship model, for...

Beyond EDI: impact of continuous replenishment program (CRP) between a manufacturer and its retailers.(electronic data interchange)
December 1, 2001... Electronic data interchange (EDI), used traditionally to exchange business documents, has recently been extended to facilitate interorganizational collaborative processes such as the continuous replenishment program (CRP). The key...