Information Systems Research articles from June 2005

Information Systems Research archives from June 2005

Editorial notes.
June 1, 2005... The synergistic relationship between Information Systems Research and the Information Systems Society is an important element of the information systems academic community. A call is made for members of the community to strengthen this...

Collaborating on multiparty information systems development projects: a collective reflection-in-action view.
June 1, 2005... Growth of Web-based applications has drawn a great number of diverse stakeholders and specialists into the information systems development (ISD) practice. Marketing, strategy, and graphic design professionals have joined technical developers,...

Lying on the Web: implications for expert systems redesign.
June 1, 2005... We consider a new variety of sequential information gathering problems that are applicable for Web-based applications in which data provided as input may be distorted by the system user, such as an applicant for a credit card. We propose two...

Is out of sight, out of mind? An empirical study of social loafing in technology-supported groups.
June 1, 2005... Research on group behavior has identified social loafing, i.e., the tendency of members to do less than their potential, as a particularly serious problem plaguing groups. Social Impact Theory (SIT) helps explain social loafing in terms of two...

Toward comprehensive real-time bidder support in iterative combinatorial auctions.
June 1, 2005... Many auctions involve selling several distinct items simultaneously, where bidders can bid on the whole or any part of the lot. Such auctions are referred to as combinatorial auctions. Examples of such auctions include truck delivery routes,...

The economic incentives for sharing security information.
June 1, 2005... Given that information technology (IT) security has emerged as an important issue in the last few years, the subject of security information sharing among firms, as a tool to minimize security breaches, has gained the interest of practitioners...

Reputation mechanism design in online trading environments with pure moral hazard.
June 1, 2005... This paper offers a systematic exploration of reputation mechanism design in trading environments with opportunistic sellers of commonly known cost and ability parameters, imperfect monitoring of a seller's actions, and two possible seller...