Information Systems Research articles from March 2001

Information Systems Research archives from March 2001

Research commentary: technology-mediated learning--a call for greater depth and breadth of research.
March 1, 2001... Universities and corporate training facilities have been investing in information technologies to improve education and training at an increasing rate during the past decade. Many new companies are emerging to provide tools and services to...

Alignment between business and IS strategies: a study of prospectors, analyzers, and defenders.
March 1, 2001... Alignment between business strategy and IS strategy is widely believed to improve business performance. This paper examines the impact of alignment on perceived business performance using Miles and Snow's popular classification of Defender,...

A foundation for flexible automated electronic communication.
March 1, 2001... In this paper the author describes a formal language for communication based on linguistics-more specifically, a theory of natural language communication and models of natural language conversations. The language has a small number of general...

Cognitive support for real-time dynamic decision making.
March 1, 2001... This research examines how decision makers manage their attentional resources when making a series of interdependent decisions in a real-time environment. Decision strategies for real-time dynamic tasks consist of two main overlapping cognitive...

A conceptual model and algebra for On-Line Analytical Processing in decision support databases.
March 1, 2001... Data warehousing and On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) are two of the most significant new technologies in the business data processing arena. A data warehouse, or decision support database, can be defined as a "very large" repository of...

Research report: A reexamination of IT investment and the market value of the firm--an event study methodology.
March 1, 2001... Evaluating the effectiveness of Information Technology (IT) investments has always been an elusive but important goal of IS researchers. This study builds on a prior study that examined changes in the market value of the firm as reflected by...

Editorial notes.
March 1, 2001... As most of you are probably aware, I will be stepping down as Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of ISR when my three-year term ends, on December 31, 2001. In this issue you will find a call for nominations for the next EIC. I encourage you to take this...