MIS Quarterly articles from December 1998

MIS Quarterly archives from December 1998

Computer-aided systems and communities: mechanisms for organizational learning in distributed environments.
December 1, 1998... Introduction This paper focuses on the role of computer-aided systems (CAS) for enhancing organizational learning in distributed environments. The basic research questions are: how do features of CAS enhance organizational learning, and...

Coping with systems risk: security planning models for management decision making.(includes appendix)
December 1, 1998... Introduction The likelihood that a firm's information systems are insufficiently protected against certain kinds of damage or loss is known as "systems risk." The underlying problem with systems risk is that managers are generally unaware...

Uses and consequences of electronic markets: an empirical investigation in the aircraft parts industry.(includes appendices)
December 1, 1998... Introduction An increasingly important application of information technology is the electronic market. An electronic market is defined as "an inter-organizational information system that allows the participating buyers and sellers in some...

Redesigning reengineering through measurement-driven inference.(includes appendices)
December 1, 1998... Redesigning Reengineering As the 10-year mark approaches for business process reengineering (BPR) - based on seminal articles by Davenport and Short (1990) and Hammer (1990) - the phenomenon has lost much of the hyperbole and attention in...

Production and transaction economies and IS outsourcing: a study of the U.S. banking industry.(includes appendices)
December 1, 1998... Introduction The strategic importance of information systems (IS) in banking is widely substantiated (OECD 1992; Office of Technology Assessment 1987). Yet, in spite of this, some banks, such as Continental Bank (Huber 1993), have...

Survey instruments in information systems.
December 1, 1998... The Usefulness of Surveys Surveys are among the more popular methods used by the information systems research community. They are popular because they: * are easy to administer and are simple to score and code, * allow the...