Information Systems Research articles from September 2003

Information Systems Research archives from September 2003

Editorial notes.
September 1, 2003... Recently I was writing a letter to a set of authors to explain that their paper had been rejected for publication by the editors without being sent to individual referees. This policy is designed both to give authors faster decisions on...

Generalizing generalizability in information systems research.
September 1, 2003... Generalizability is a major concern to those who do, and use, research. Statistical, sampling-based generalizability is well known, but methodologists have long been aware of conceptions of generalizability beyond the statistical. The purpose...

Replicating online Yankee auctions to analyze auctioneers' and bidders' strategies.
September 1, 2003... We present a simulation approach that provides a relatively risk-free and cost-effective environment to examine the decision space for both bid takers and bid makers in web-based dynamic price setting processes. The applicability of the...

Improving analysis pattern reuse in conceptual design: augmenting automated processes with supervised learning.
September 1, 2003... Conceptual design is an important, but difficult, phase of systems development. Analysis patterns can greatly benefit this phase because they capture abstractions of situations that occur frequently in conceptual modeling. Naive approaches to...

Portfolios of control in outsourced software development projects.
September 1, 2003... This paper examines the evolution of portfolio of controls over the duration of outsourced information systems development (ISD) projects. Drawing on five cases, it concludes that many findings from research on control of internal ISD projects...