Information Systems Research articles from June 2001

Information Systems Research archives from June 2001

Research commentary: desperately seeking the "IT" in IT research--a call to theorizing the IT artifact.
June 1, 2001... The field of information systems is premised on the centrality of information technology in everyday socio-economic life. Yet, drawing on a review of the full set of articles published in Information Systems Research (ISR) over the past ten...

The impact of e-commerce announcements on the market value of firms.
June 1, 2001... Firms are undertaking growing numbers of e-commerce initiatives and increasingly making significant investments required to participate in the growing online market. However, empirical support for the benefits to firms from e-commerce is weaker...

Technology requirements and work group communication for telecommuters.
June 1, 2001... As organizations implement more and more distributed work arrangements such as telecommuting, there is a need to understand the determinants of success of this new work setting. This research investigated three variables believed to impact...

An evaluation of self-organizing map networks as a robust alternative to factor analysis in data mining applications.
June 1, 2001... Kohonen's self-organizing map (SOM) network is one of the most important network architectures developed during the 1980s. The main function of SOM networks is to map the input data from an n-dimensional space to a lower dimensional (usually...

The effects of time pressure on quality in software development: an agency model.
June 1, 2001... An agency framework is used to model the behavior of software developers as they weigh concerns about product quality against concerns about missing individual task deadlines. Developers who care about quality but fear the career impact of...

Research report: richness versus parsimony in modeling technology adoption decisions--understanding merchant adoption of a smart card-based payment system.
June 1, 2001... The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) has received considerable research attention in the IS field over the past decade, placing an emphasis on the roles played by perceived ease-of-use and perceived usefulness in influencing technology...