MIS Quarterly articles from December 2004

MIS Quarterly archives from December 2004

Reprise: the parable of the golf balls.(EDITOR'S COMMENTS)
December 1, 2004... When I was as at Dartmouth, they had this summer home in Maine that some wealthy alumni had donated to the school for faculty vacationing. Each summer, and the summers are short in Maine, they drew out of a hat...

Reach and grasp (1).(ISSUES AND OPINIONS)
December 1, 2004... Abstract The short history of Information Systems suggests persistent anxiety about the field's purported lack of academic legitimacy. A common refrain in the anxiety discourse is that legitimacy can be obtained only by creating a strong...

Innovating mindfully with information technology (1).(RESEARCH ARTICLE)
December 1, 2004... Abstract Although organizational innovation with information technology is often carefully considered, bandwagon phenomena indicate that much innovative behavior may nevertheless be of the "me too" variety. In this essay, we explore such...

An empirical investigation of Net-enabled business value (1).(RESEARCH ARTICLE)
December 1, 2004... Abstract Many traditional organizations have undertaken major initiatives to leverage the Internet to transform how they coordinate value activities with customers, suppliers, and other business partners with the objective of improving...

The role of individual memory and attention processes during electronic brainstorming (1).(RESEARCH ARTICLE)(Electronic brainstorming applications)(Idea generation performance data )
December 1, 2004... Abstract Electronic brainstorming (EBS) applications and their methodologies may have achieved the benchmark of enabling interactive users to perform as well as nominal groups. The current challenge is to view this as a plateau and not an...

Bridging user organizations: knowledge brokering and the work of information technology professionals (1).(RESEARCH ARTICLE)
December 1, 2004... Abstract This interpretive case study examines knowledge brokering as an aspect of the work of information technology professionals. The purpose of this exploratory study is to understand knowledge brokering from the perspective of IT...

Business competence of information technology professionals: conceptual development and influence on IT-business partnerships (1).(RESEARCH ARTICLE)
December 1, 2004... Abstract This research aims at improving our understanding of the concept of business competence of information technology professionals and at exploring the contribution of this competence to the development of partnerships between IT...

User acceptance of hedonic information systems (1).(RESEARCH NOTE)
December 1, 2004... Abstract This paper studies the differences in user acceptance models for productivity-oriented (or utilitarian) and pleasure-oriented (or hedonic) information systems. Hedonic information systems aim to provide self-fulfilling rather than...