Information Systems Research articles from June 2000

Information Systems Research archives from June 2000

Research Commentary: The Organizing Logic for an Enterprise's IT Activities in the Digital Era-A Prognosis of Practice and a Call for Research.
June 1, 2000... P architectures. Today, however, increasing signs have accumulated that This wisdom might be inadequate in shaping appropriate insights for contemporary practice. This essay seeks to direct research attention toward the following question: How...

The Role of Multimedia in Changing First Impression Bias.
June 1, 2000... First impression bias refers to a limitation of human information processing in which people are strongly influenced by the first piece of information that they are exposed to, and that they are biased in evaluating subsequent information in...

Mean-Risk Trade-Offs in Inductive Expert Systems.
June 1, 2000... Notably absent in previous research on inductive expert systems is the study of meanrisk trade-offs. Such trade-offs may be significant when there are asymmetries such as unequal classification costs, and uncertainties in classification and...

Innovation and Control in Standards Architectures: The Rise and Fall of Japan's PC-98.
June 1, 2000... For more than a decade NEC dominated the Japanese PC market with its PC-98 architecture, which was incompatible both with its major Japanese rivals and the global PC standard. However, NEC was powerless to prevent the introduction of Japanese...

Integrating User Preferences and Real-Time Workload in Information Services.
June 1, 2000... We propose priority pricing as an on-line adaptive resource scheduling mechanism to manage real-time databases within organizations. These databases provide timely information for delay sensitive users. The proposed approach allows diverse...

The Production of Information Services: A Firm-Level Analysis of Information Systems Budgets.
June 1, 2000... Previous research has demonstrated that the production of information services can be characterized at the aggregate economy-wide level by the Cobb-Douglas production function. However, the underlying production process at the firm level has...