Information Systems Research articles from March 1999

Information Systems Research archives from March 1999

Electronic trading and work transformation in the London insurance market.
March 1, 1999... The integration of information and communications technologies (IT) is playing a key role in transforming the nature of work. The link between IT and transformation is poorly understood, and further theoretical developments are needed to...

Depicting the use and purpose of documents to improve information retrieval.
March 1, 1999... In this paper we discuss a new kind of information system that helps people be ready for information work and locate documents. This system differs from a traditional information retrieval system by relying extensively on descriptions of both...

Colonial systems.
March 1, 1999... Colonial systems are presented as an alternative to the mechanistic and organic systems paradigms. They are based upon the inclusion of an evolutionary social history (Ernst Mayr), species-level evolution (Eldredge and Gould), and local context...

A case for using real options pricing analysis to evaluate information technology project investments.
March 1, 1999... The application of fundamental option pricing models (OPMs), such as the binomial and the Black-Scholes models, to problems in information technology (IT) investment decision making have been the subject of some debate in the last few years....

Nonlinear and noncompensatory models in user information satisfaction measurement.
March 1, 1999... This study applies nonlinear and noncompensatory models to examine how users evaluate their satisfaction with their information systems (IS) environment. Several instruments have been developed in the literature to measure user information...