TY - Generic T1 - Inscribing Individuals into a Formalized System: The ``Labour'' Performed by Affective Spaces Y1 - 2016 A1 - Toll, Alexandra A1 - Mazmanian, Melissa ED - Introna, Lucas ED - Kavanagh, Donncha ED - Kelly, Séamas ED - Orlikowski, Wanda ED - Scott, Susan AB - A substantial amount of ongoing work in organizations can be characterized as processes of formalization in which unique circumstances are rendered legible to organizational frameworks and inscribed into institutionalized ways of knowing and doing. Embedded in these processes is the need to manage, distance, and condition the affective and physical experience of the players involved. Using twelve months of ethnographic data gathered in the Family Law unit of the courts in a large county of California, we explore how formalization happens. We find that a dynamic combination of actants (technologies of formalization) engender affective spaces that serve as passage points in the process of formalization. These affective spaces condition the bodies and emotions of customers in a manner that generally mitigates unstable intensity and renders the customer ready to focus on the ``facts'' of the case. We suggest that by attending to the multiple actants in an environment we are able to interrogate both the origin and effects of ``affect'' as well as better understand how key passage points work in the service of formalization processes. In so doing we expand the conversation about the challenges of public service delivery and put forth the beginning of a theory of how affective spaces serve organizational and institutional goals. JF - Beyond Interpretivism? New Encounters with Technology and Organization PB - Springer International Publishing CY - Cham SN - 978-3-319-49733-4 ER - TY - Generic T1 - When Is an Affordance? Outlining Four Stances Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lanamäki, Arto A1 - Thapa, Devinder A1 - Stendal, Karen ED - Introna, Lucas ED - Kavanagh, Donncha ED - Kelly, Séamas ED - Orlikowski, Wanda ED - Scott, Susan AB - Affordance has emerged as a core concept in information systems (IS) research during the last decade. This relational concept is applied to understand and theorize the relationship between the social and the technical. In the works of the concept originator James Gibson, the relation was mainly portrayed as an ever-existing fact between the natural environment and an animal. In contrast, IS research focuses on relationships in-the-making between artificial things and human beings. In the IS context, we have identified vagueness in temporal and relational ontology: when do affordances exist and between whom or what? In this paper, we delve into the temporal and relational questions that have been omitted in much of the IS literature. What kind of a relationship is an affordance and when does it occur? Based on our hermeneutic understanding, we identify four stances from the existing literature. We classify those stances as canonical affordance, designed affordance, potential affordance, and affordance as completed action. We further argue that each stance has its own assumptions, consequences, and thus strengths and weaknesses. JF - Beyond Interpretivism? New Encounters with Technology and Organization PB - Springer International Publishing CY - Cham SN - 978-3-319-49733-4 ER - TY - CONF T1 - Design of Organisational Ubiquitous Information Systems: A Framework for Digital Native and Digital Immigrant Users T2 - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems Y1 - 2014 A1 - Tilvawala, Khushbu A1 - Michael D. Myers A1 - Sundaram, David JF - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems UR - http://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2014/132 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Materiality, Health Informatics and the Limits of Knowledge Production Y1 - 2014 A1 - Robertson, Hamish A1 - Nicholas, Nick A1 - Rosenfeld, Tuly A1 - Travaglia, JoanneF. ED - Doolin, Bill ED - Lamprou, Eleni ED - Mitev, Nathalie ED - McLeod, Laurie KW - critical analysis KW - health informatics KW - knowledge production KW - materiality JF - Information Systems and Global Assemblages. (Re)Configuring Actors, Artefacts, Organizations T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg VL - 446 SN - 978-3-662-45707-8 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45708-5_9 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Understanding the Emergent Structure of Competency Centers in Post-implementation Enterprise Systems Y1 - 2014 A1 - Aryal, Arun A1 - El Amrani, Redouane A1 - Truex, DuaneP. ED - Doolin, Bill ED - Lamprou, Eleni ED - Mitev, Nathalie ED - McLeod, Laurie KW - assemblage theory KW - competency centers KW - enterprise systems KW - postimplementation JF - Information Systems and Global Assemblages. (Re)Configuring Actors, Artefacts, Organizations T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg VL - 446 SN - 978-3-662-45707-8 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45708-5_7 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Consumer Information Systems Development: Challenges for Cross- Disciplinary Research T2 - Consumer Information Systems and Relationship Management: Design, Implementation, and Use Y1 - 2013 A1 - Tuunanen, Tuure A1 - Michael D. Myers A1 - Cassab, Harold ED - Lin, Angela ED - Foster, Jonathan ED - Scifleet, Paul JF - Consumer Information Systems and Relationship Management: Design, Implementation, and Use PB - IGI Global CY - Hershey, PA SN - 978-1-4666-4082-5 ER - TY - CONF T1 - Design Of Ubiquitous Information Systems For Digital Natives T2 - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems Y1 - 2011 A1 - Tilvawala, Khushbu A1 - Myers, Michael A1 - Sundaram, David JF - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems SN - 9781864356441 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A Conceptual Framework for Consumer Information Systems Development JF - Pacific Asia Journal of the AIS Y1 - 2010 A1 - Tuunanen, Tuure A1 - Michael D. Myers A1 - Cassab, Harold AB - Consumer information systems (CIS) are an emerging area of inquiry for information systems researchers. IS researchers have traditionally emphasized efficiency and effectiveness of organizational processes and system use. However, design for consumer information systems requires more attention to be paid to processes of value creation embedded in the consumer experience. This shift in focus demands a reconsideration of current information systems development approaches. In this paper we propose a conceptual framework for consumer information systems development. The framework includes six elements of co-creation of consumer value. The framework is illustrated by reviewing the findings from three case studies. VL - 2 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Extending Design Science Research Methodology for a Multicultural World Y1 - 2010 A1 - Lawrence, Carl A1 - Tuunanen, Tuure A1 - Michael D. Myers ED - Jan Pries-Heje ED - Venable, John ED - Deborah Bunker ED - Nancy L. Russo ED - Janice I. DeGross JF - Human Benefit through the Diffusion of Information Systems Design Research T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communications Technology PB - Springer CY - New York N1 - IFIP Working Group 8.2/8.6 Working Conference in Perth, Australia, March/April 2010 Proceedings ER - TY - Generic T1 - Extending Design Science Research Methodology for a Multicultural World Y1 - 2010 A1 - Lawrence, Carl A1 - Tuunanen, Tuure A1 - Michael D. Myers ED - Jan Pries-Heje ED - Venable, John ED - Deborah Bunker ED - Nancy L. Russo ED - Janice I. DeGross JF - Human Benefit through the Diffusion of Information Systems Design Science Research T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology PB - Springer VL - 318 SN - 978-3-642-12112-8 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Manufacturing Accomplices: ICT Use in Securing the Safety State at Airports Y1 - 2010 A1 - Thomas Østerlie A1 - Ole Martin Asak A1 - Ole Georg Pettersen A1 - H{\aa}vard Tronhus ED - Jan Pries-Heje ED - Venable, John ED - Deborah Bunker ED - Nancy L. Russo ED - Janice I. DeGross JF - Human Benefit through the Diffusion of Information Systems Design Science Research T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology PB - Springer VL - 318 SN - 978-3-642-12112-8 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Open sourcing regulation: the development of the Creative Commons licences as a form of commons based peer production Y1 - 2010 A1 - Prodromos Tsiavos A1 - Edgar A. Whitley JF - For submission to Organization Science UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46277557_Open_sourcing_regulation_the_development_of_the_Creative_Commons_licences_as_a_form_of_commons_based_peer_production ER - TY - Generic T1 - The Role of Social Networks in Early Adoption of Mobile Devices Y1 - 2010 A1 - Heidi Tscherning A1 - Lars Mathiassen ED - Jan Pries-Heje ED - Venable, John ED - Deborah Bunker ED - Nancy L. Russo ED - Janice I. DeGross JF - Human Benefit through the Diffusion of Information Systems Design Science Research T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology PB - Springer VL - 318 SN - 978-3-642-12112-8 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - From Generative Fit to Generative Capacity: Exploring an Emerging Dimension of Information Systems Design and Task Performance JF - Information Systems Journal Y1 - 2009 A1 - Avital, M A1 - Te'eni, D VL - 4 UR - http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120174765/abstract IS - 19 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Information Literacy in Kenya JF - The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries Y1 - 2009 A1 - Tilvawala, Khushbu A1 - Myers, Michael David A1 - Andrade, Antonio Diaz AB - There are a growing number of information and communications technologies (ICT)initiatives in developing countries. These initiatives are usually undertaken on the basis thatthey are important for social and economic development. However, one barrier to theefficient utilisation of ICT in developing countries is the relatively low level of informationliteracy. Without the ability to manipulate and use information effectively, investments inICT-for-development projects may be unsuccessful. In this research project, three ICTinitiatives in Kenya are analysed in the light of the dimensions of information literacy.Implications for other developing countries are discussed. VL - 39 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Analyzing Public Open Source Policy: The Case Study of Venezuela Y1 - 2008 A1 - Maldonado, Edgar A1 - Tapia, Andrea AB - This research examines public open source software (OSS) adoption policies using a framework built upon the analysis of information and communication technology (ICT) policies. The legislative and objective framework is used to picture the formal public OSS policies applied in Venezuela. Preliminary results indicate negligence for the inclusion of the private sector in the migration plan. Future research looks for an analysis in situ of the activities carried out in the country, and the validation of the framework. JF - Information Technology in the Service Economy: Challenges and Possibilities for the 21st Century UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09768-8_17 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Bandwithing Together: Municipalities as Service Providers in a Policy Environment Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tapia, Andrea A1 - Ortiz, Julio AB - In this paper we have highlighted three things. First, that public organizations are engaged in a technologically driven servitization of their traditional service products. Second, that public organizations must approach this servitization differently because of the decision-making role of citizens in the process. Third, it is essential to study the influence citizens have on this process through studying the public policy process around decisions concerning the delivery of technology and technologically driven services. In this paper we provide an overview of four constituencies and their relationships involved in municipal wireless broadband policy. The idea that the growth of information technology-dependent services and activities (education, healthcare, and Web 2.0, for instance) are dependent on wide-scale availability of broadband access, and that local governments are jumping into this market to establish the necessary infrastructures for such services, makes this a very hotly contested space. While national and international political issues are debated on the Internet daily, new avenues for very local, political speech and action on the Internet seem to go hand-in-hand with municipal wireless broadband issues. The creation of public policy, while normally seen as a top-down process, has always drawn varying input from the outside through avenues such as lobbying, town meetings, referendums, and public action. We claim that in the case of municipal wireless broadband policy, policy efforts have been turned upside-down, with the majority of policy making now happens at the local level. JF - Information Technology in the Service Economy: Challenges and Possibilities for the 21st Century UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09768-8_16 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Challenges of Consumer Information Systems Development: The Case of Interactive Television Services T2 - Advances in Information Systems Research, Education and Practice Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tuunanen, Tuure A1 - Michael D. Myers A1 - Cassab, Harold ED - Avison, David ED - Kasper, George M ED - Pernici, Barbara ED - Ramos, Isabel ED - Dewald Roode JF - Advances in Information Systems Research, Education and Practice T3 - IFIP 20th World Congress , TC8, Information Systems, September 7-10, 2008, Milan, Italy PB - Springer CY - New York ER - TY - Generic T1 - An Epistemology of Organizational Emergence: The Tripartite Domains of Organizational Discourse and the Servitization of IBM Y1 - 2008 A1 - Carter, Michelle A1 - Takeda, Hirotoshi A1 - Truex, Duane AB - This paper draws from 21 years of discourse to examine a narrative about IBM’s transition to a service-oriented company. Covering three leadership eras during a period of sweeping change for IBM and the information technology industry, this discourse, found in the IBM Corporation’s annual reports, in illustrates the emergence of policy, technology, and business models in one of the largest and most influential IT companies in the world. Our purpose in drawing from these texts is twofold: (1) to provide a more thorough discussion of the notion of “emergence” in IT organizational settings, and (2) to introduce a fuller process model of how emergence is manifest in organizational discourse than is currently present. In much of the information systems literature, the term emergence has been informally used in describing organizational contexts and the process of IS development (Markus and Robey 1988; Orlikowski 1996; Pfeffer and Leblebici, 1977). In three papers, Truex and his colleagues formally describe and situate a theory of emergence in the discourse on ISD methods (Truex and Baskerville 1998, Truex, Baskerville, and Klein 1999; Truex, Baskerville, and Travis 2000). They liken ISD to “emergent grammars” in a linguistic system. However, they stop short of developing a full epistemology of the notion and provide little more than analogical and descriptive examples grounded in linguist Paul Hopper’s (1987, 1988) emergent grammar hypothesis. The incomplete development of the epistemology and an ontology of the emergence construct has proven problematic for scholars attempting to apply emergence theory in practice (Bello et al. 2002). While researchers or practitioners might find the idea of emergent organizations inviting, without descriptive and explanatory models, the concept is difficult to use in the practice or study of information systems. Accordingly, this paper seeks to contribute to the development of a theory of emergence. We draw from the organizational communication and organizational discourse literature. In a subset of this community, scholars have advanced theories on the nature of organization as a discursive construction. For them, discourse is the very foundation on which “organization” is built (Fairhurst and Putnam 2004; Heracleous 2006; Heracleous and Barrett 2001; Taylor and Robichaud 2004; Taylor and Van Every 2000). Using this meta-theoretical framework, we explore how emergence arises through an examination of IBM’s annual reports and industry-level discourses, which were, in turn, influenced in part by the IBM declarations and subsequent behavioral changes. We introduce a new process model of organizational emergence by extending and addressing shortcomings in a set of current perspectives in the literature. The tripartite domain model identifies three domains—context, task, and negotiation-at-hand—as integral components of any concrete occurrence of discourse. To test its efficacy, we apply the tripartite domain model post hoc to a longitudinal set of IBM Corporation data. The tripartite domain model provides a lens to examine the servitization of IBM and, in the process, illustrates the emergent discourse on the notion of “service” and on the evolution of the meaning of “customer” in the IBM dataset. JF - Information Technology in the Service Economy: Challenges and Possibilities for the 21st Century UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09768-8_30 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Integration of Different ERP Systems – The Case of Mergers and Acquisitions T2 - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems Y1 - 2008 A1 - Von Vangerow, Andreas A1 - Myers, Michael David ED - Huang, Wayne ED - Teo, Hock Hai JF - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems CY - Suzhou, China ER - TY - Generic T1 - Publishing in the ERA era T2 - Australasian Conference on Information Systems Y1 - 2008 A1 - John W Lamp A1 - Michael D. Myers A1 - Julie Fisher A1 - David Wilson A1 - Felix B. Tan A1 - Deborah Bunker AB - Internationally, there is a move by governments to assess research outputs according to quality. Central to this is the ranking of journals. The most ambitious exercise is the Australian Research Council's current exercise to rank over 19,500 academic journals. This exercise is being keenly observed by a number of governments, and most academics. These changes have the potential for major change in the way academics will choose a publication outlet for their research. The consequences of those decisions could be far reaching for individual journals, especially unranked journals, and for conferences. Responding to this new assessment regime can either be fragmented and driven by market forces, or driven by a strategic understanding of the new regime and ensuring that changes improve publishing opportunities and rankings. This panel session brings together Australian and New Zealand publishers and members of editorial boards of large and small IS journals, and researchers in this field to develop some strategic perspectives. JF - Australasian Conference on Information Systems CY - Christchurch ER - TY - Generic T1 - A Symmetric Analysis of the Border Control Information Systems for People and Trade T2 - 16th European Conference on Information Systems Y1 - 2008 A1 - Edgar A. Whitley A1 - Boriana Rukanova ED - Golden W. ED - Acton T. ED - Conboy K. ED - van der Heijden H. ED - Tuunainen V. K. JF - 16th European Conference on Information Systems CY - Galway SN - 978-0-9553159-2-3 UR - ECIS2008.pdf ER - TY - Generic T1 - Toward Understanding the Capability Cycle of Software Process Improvement: A Case Study of a Software Service Company Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tong, Yu A1 - Xu, Lingling A1 - Shan Ling Pan AB - The emergence of a service economy facilitates proliferation of software service companies (SSCs), small firms offering various software services such as software maintenance, testing, and customization. Given the unique characteristics of SSCs (i.e., small-scale projects, limited resources, strong customer dependency, etc.), software process improvement (SPI) in SSCs faces additional challenges. Based on Helfat and Peteraf’s framework of a dynamic capability lifecycle, this study aims to understand how dynamic capabilities are developed to facilitate SPI implementation, and how these capabilities can be maintained and transformed in a changing context. An in-depth interpretive case study was conducted in a SSC, namely SGSC, which is the an offshore software service center of a leading U.S. document management company, Xerox Corporation. Drawing insights from the framework, this study demonstrates the evolution of key resources and dynamic capabilities as well as their impacts on the success of the SPI project. Responding to the ownership transfer from Xerox to Fuji Xerox group in 2005, the center decided to implement new SPI process. As shown in Figure 1, three capabilities (i.e., capability to strategize, capability to be flexible, and capability to integrate and engender trust) were built up during the first two phases (i.e., establishing direction and implementing SPI). Development of each capability was accomplished through some actions with the support of various resources. After development, capabilities can evolve over time (Zollo and Winter 2002). Two capabilities (capability to strategize and capability of integrate and engender trust) were maintained through regular exercise, which helps to refresh the company’s memory and facilitate the creation of embedded knowledge. Besides being maintained, capabilities may also branch into different forms when external factors have a strong impact to alter the current development trajectory. At SGSC, ownership transfer resulted in a dramatic change in terms of external relationships and internal structure. With changes in the supporting resources, capabilities built up in previous phases were further transformed into different branches. Capability to be flexible was renewed because of better communication and sharing resources with external partners. Capability to strategize was also renewed after obtaining a long-term view from the new parent company. Figure 2 summarizes the life cycle of three capabilities in this study. By integrating theoretical perspective with empirical evidence, this paper contributes to both researchers and practitioners. For researchers, it constitutes one of the first empirical studies to extend Helfat and Peteraf’s general framework of the capability life cycle by demonstrating how capabilities can be transformed through altered resources over time. Moreover, this study advances the SPI literature by suggesting a conceptual framework for SPI implementation in a small-scale, service-oriented company. Practically, this study provides invaluable suggestions to managers on how firms can successfully implement SPI strategy when facing dramatic changes in the external environment or internal structure. JF - Information Technology in the Service Economy: Challenges and Possibilities for the 21st Century UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09768-8_33 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Understanding the Exchange Intention of an Individual Blogger Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tan, Wee-Kek A1 - Tan, Chuan-Hoo A1 - Teo, Hock-Hai AB - This research explores the issue of how ablogring, a circle/community of blogs with a common theme (Xanga 2008; Chua and Xu 2007), could be utilized to form a loosely distributed exchange of products for monetary and nonmonetary returns. Specifically, we present a research model that identifies factors influencing a blogger’s intention to participate in a commercial exchange, a commercial activity involving a blogger and a reader within a blogring. A blogring is conceptualized as a natural segmentation of user-alike whereby members (i.e., bloggers and readers) converge toward common interests reflected in the blog contents (Kumar et al. 2004; Gumbrecht 2004). The formation of this social network provides bloggers with the social capital to engage in collaboration and cooperation with other members (Putnam 2000; Peece 2002). Economizing on this social capital, bloggers could engage in product, service, and/or money exchanges. We term this process the economic leverage of personal blog (Balasubramanian and Mahajan 2001). Such an economic leverage includes selling, barter trading, and outright giving away items that can be identified or associated with the shared interests of the blogring. In other words, any exchange between bloggers and readers need not necessarily be for monetary returns but could also involve an exchange of knowledge or expertise in return for approval-related utility (Balasubramanian and Mahajan 2001). With this understanding, we next present our research model. The research model (Figure 1) draws from three streams of literature. First, we reference the similarity attraction theory (Byrne 1971), which posits that people prefer to interact with like-minded others. For instance, salespeople generally prefer to sell to prospects sharing characteristics (e.g., gender and age) with themselves (Dwyer et al. 1998). Hence, we conjecture that bloggers could be more inclined to commercial exchange with readers who have similar interests. We term this blogger-reader similarity. Second, the general premise of the social network dictates that members could place higher priority on relationships and ties with other members within a blogring compared with individuals’ personality attributes. Hence, we could posit that the stronger the tie (Frenzen and Davis 1990; Marsden and Campbell 1984) between a buyer and a seller, the higher the likelihood for purchase (Frenzen and Davis). Additionally, the closer a reader is to the blogger, the greater the ease of engaging in an exchange due to greater influence exerted by the blogger over the reader (Burkhardt 1994). Third, building on the decision-making framework proposed by Luce, Bettman, and Payne (2001), we hypothesize that the decision of whether to engage in an exchange depends on the appraisal of the exchange situation, which in turn is influenced by blogger-reader similarity and social network. A positive appraisal should lead to a higher exchange intention from the blogger. However, any negative peer pressure against commercialism exerted by other blogring members could negatively moderate the appraisal (Luce et al. 2001), thus leading to lower exchange intention. JF - Information Technology in the Service Economy: Challenges and Possibilities for the 21st Century UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09768-8_32 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Building Virtual Spaces Y1 - 2007 A1 - Tapia, Andrea A1 - El-Nasr, Magy A1 - Yucel, Ibrahim A1 - Zupko, Joseph A1 - Maldonado, Edgard AB - The percentage of young women choosing educational paths leading to science and technology-based employment has been dropping for several years [1, 2]. In our view, the core cause for this phenomenon is a lack of interest and social support on the part of the girls and their families and not a lack of ability. The specific aim of this paper is to evaluate the utility of building virtual environments in influencing girls’ interest in computer-related educational paths and careers. This is evaluated through an intervention, or action-research, in the form of a class named Gaming for Girls. This class was offered to middle and high school girls three times over the years 2005–2006. We assert playing and developing computer games can lead to the acquisition of tangible IT skills and a higher sense of self-efficacy in terms of computer use. In particular, we discuss intervention methods that aim at changing socialization patterns by bringing girls into an all-girl classroom, reducing game violence by altering the forms of game action, and removing potentially negative character designs by allowing girls to design characters and game interaction themselves. We assert that within the information economy, playing video games is an advantage. JF - Virtuality and Virtualization ER - TY - Generic T1 - The Role of Shapers in Knowledge-Sharing Y1 - 2007 A1 - Majchrzak, Ann A1 - Wagner, Chris A1 - Riehle, Dirk A1 - Thoeny, Peter A1 - Shah, Sunir A1 - Cunningham, Ward AB - Wikis are a collaborative technology that allows for new ways of working and sharing knowledge. While most firms today have been experimenting with wikis, an important element of the use of wikis that has generally been ignored is the role of the people who shape the wiki pages. Shapers ensure the sustainability of a wiki community by helping to ensure that new ideas and contributions are made and organized. This panel consists of four practitioners who play critical shaping roles in their wiki communities, and two academics who will begin, moderate, and summarize the session. The panel of practitioners will share their thoughts on why they shape, how they shape, and how other communities can help to encourage participants to adopt the shaping role. JF - Virtuality and Virtualization ER - TY - Generic T1 - The Tension Between Expectations of Availability and the Reality of Availability in Hybrid Teams Y1 - 2007 A1 - Ocker, Rosalie A1 - Huang, Haiyan A1 - Trauth, Eileen A1 - Purao, Sandeep AB - The demands of the global world increasingly dictate that people travel in order to conduct work. Oftentimes, this means that team members are neither strictly here nor there. Teams such as these are hybrids, where members alternate between co-located and distributed contexts. The pervasive nature of information and communication technologies, however, continues to impose an expectation of availability on the team members even as they travel. In this paper, we take a reflexive research stance to inform our understanding of the complexities of accomplishing knowledge work within a hybrid team configuration. An illustrative case highlights issues and outcomes associated with member availability that arose during the writing of a research paper. Categorical reasons for member unavailability are identified and contrasted with the expectation of availability. We suggest that the issues and conflict we experienced may be traced to the ambiguous nature of the task and the early project phase requiring problem for mulation. JF - Virtuality and Virtualization ER - TY - Generic T1 - Virtual Patients Y1 - 2007 A1 - Bonnie Kaplan A1 - Elkin, Peter A1 - Gorman, Paul A1 - Koppel, Ross A1 - Sites, Frank A1 - Talmon, Jan AB - In medical education and clinical care, representations of the patient help health care teams in planning and coordinating patient care, sometimes over geographic distances. This takes forms ranging from telemedicine consultations to using simulations and information and communication technology representations to plan, and at times, perform clinical procedures such as are done in intensive care units or in surgery. The increasing reliance on computer-mediated interaction in health care generally is considered the means to more efficient, equitable, and cost-effective care with reduced errors. Clinical work, then, may be carried out with simulated images and processes rather than through such physical processes as examining the patient directly. Instead of treating the actual person, one result may be that clinicians are treating computer-mediated representations of that person. This session explores virtuality in health care environments, with a particular focus on the virtual patient. Panelists discuss treating representations of patients by addressing how: (1) usability studies reveal the extent to which physicians may pay more attention to representations of the patient condition rather than to the actual patient, (2) images may be considered as more real than the patient, (3) different graphic representations of patient data have different consequences, and (4) virtuality affects quality of care in virtual intensive care units. From different research and theoretical perspectives and studies in these different environments with different technologies, panelists discuss repercussions of virtuality on teamwork and service delivery in health care. Their presentations of developments leading towards virtual patients point towards significant issues of virtuality in other environments. JF - Virtuality and Virtualization ER - TY - Generic T1 - American Discourses of the Digital Divide and Economic Development: A Sisyphean Order to Catch Up? Y1 - 2006 A1 - Tu, Leslie A1 - Lynette Kvasny AB - Discourses about technology and its role in development have been constant themes within IFIP Working Group 8.2 (see the Barcelona proceedings—Wynn et al. 2002). In this paper, we examine how strands of discourse—institutionalized ways of thinking and speaking—shape debate about the digital divide and urban poverty in America. As research is widely esteemed as a wellspring of new ideas, we are especially interested in how discourses inform scholarly inquiry into urgent social problems. As information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly hailed as drivers of industry and commerce, we believe that it will be instructive to examine economic development discourse, which strongly informs the case for bridging the digital divide. First, using Fairclough’s three-level framework for critical discourse analysis (CDA), we reveal that the discursive hegemony of economic development alarmingly constrains approaches to urban revitalization. Linking economic development to the digital divide, we show how the ongoing evolution of ICTs has become tightly linked to economic development. Both are discourses of equality in which those who lack money and technology are cast as needy problem sectors that will be left behind, failing to reap a host of benefits. Hence, there is an urgent call for these “have-nots” to catch up to models of prosperity embodied by the wealthy or technology savvy. We find fault with this discourse because it narrowly privileges money and technology, and raises alarm at their mere absence, while obscuring substantive needs—hunger, homelessness, ill health—of actual consequence. We propose that, in order truly to realize the potential of ICT, we must first reinvent discourse—discarding the mantra of catching up—and set in motion efforts to address self-determined needs, supported by ICT. JF - Social Inclusion: Societal and Organizational Implications for Information Systems ER - TY - Generic T1 - Inclusion Through the Ages? Gender, ICT Workplaces, and Life Stage Experiences in England Y1 - 2006 A1 - Griffiths, Marie A1 - Keogh, Claire A1 - Moore, Karenza A1 - Helen Richardson A1 - Tattersall, Angela AB - This exploratory paper examines the various challenges that women working in information and communications technology (ICT) in England face in relation to their age, their life stage, and their career stage, with these three aspects being at least partially related. We first examine the literature currently available in relation to women, age and ICT work, arguing that age tends to be the forgotten variable in research on women in ICT. Using eight case studies of individual female ICT professionals in their twenties, thirties, forties, and fifties, we explore the nuances of experience these women have in relation to their career and their caring responsibilities. We consider the possibility that women in ICT may have heterogeneous experiences of working in what are often “masculinized” environments related to, but not determined by, their age. Based on our interpretations of our empirical data, we adapt Super’s career-stage theory to better frame our subsequent theoretical assertions. To conclude, we suggest that exploring age, life stage, and/or career stage in relation to female ICT professionals’ circumstances and experiences means that we can better theorize gender in the field of information systems, and hence develop more relevant gender inclusion strategies. JF - Social Inclusion: Societal and Organizational Implications for Information Systems ER - TY - Generic T1 - Social Inclusion and the Information Systems Field: Why Now? Y1 - 2006 A1 - Trauth, Eileen A1 - Debra Howcroft AB - This conference, with its theme of social inclusion, builds upon the debates that have taken place within the IFIP 8.2 community over the past several years. As information and communications technology, and the information systems based upon them, become ever more pervasive, the human impacts—both positive and negative—and the associated societal disparities will continue to arise. It is our hope that the topics discussed at this conference will be considered mainstream in the future. JF - Social Inclusion: Societal and Organizational Implications for Information Systems ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Viewing Information Technology Outsourcing Organizations through a Postcolonial Lens T2 - IFIP International Federation of Information Processing, Volume 208, Social Inclusion: Societal and Organizational Implications for Information Systems Y1 - 2006 A1 - Mayasandra, Ravishankar A1 - Shan Ling Pan A1 - Michael D. Myers ED - Eileen M. Trauth ED - Debra Howcroft ED - Butler, Tom ED - Brian Fitzgerald ED - Janice I. DeGross JF - IFIP International Federation of Information Processing, Volume 208, Social Inclusion: Societal and Organizational Implications for Information Systems PB - Springer CY - Boston N1 - IFIP Working Group 8.2, Limerick, Ireland ER - TY - Generic T1 - Beliefs about Computing: Contrary Evidence from a Study of Mobile Computing Use among Criminal Justice Personnel Y1 - 2005 A1 - Tapia, Andrea A1 - Steve Sawyer AB - In this paper, we explore how technological determinism can act as a belief System. To do so, we draw on a multi-organization field trial of uses of mobile computing by criminal justice personnel. Our findings make clear that mobile computing does not yet meet operational needs. In high contrast, we find that the belief these mobile computing technologies will solve the preponderance of organizational, informational, and communication problems that beset contemporary criminal justice efforts is unchanged by the shortcomings of the current environment. While the devices, applications, and telecommunications network never worked as intended or expected, their introduction was met with acceptance, enthusiasm, and the deterministic belief that they would make work better. We go beyond the common explanation of learning from a field trial and explore the contradictions inherent to the findings through the lens of technological determinism. In doing this, we highlight several implications that deterministic beliefs have regarding organizational value of field trials and research conceptions regarding the introduction of new computing technologies. JF - Designing Ubiquitous Information Environments: Socio-Technical Issues and Challenges UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-28918-6_10 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Friend or Foe? The Ambivalent Relationship between Mobile Technology and its Users Y1 - 2005 A1 - Jarvenpaa, Sirkka A1 - Lang, Karl A1 - Tuunainen, Virpi AB - This paper reports on an empirical study that examined the total user experience of mobile technology users. We held a total of 33 focus group sessions comprised of 222 active mobile device users in four highly developed countries (Finland, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United States) with high penetration of mobile technology. We are specifically focusing on manifestations of paradoxes with regard to mobile technology. We identify eight major technology paradoxes that play a central role in the mobile technology usage experience: (1) empowerment-enslavement, (2) independence- dependence, (3) fulfills needs-creates needs, (4) competence-incompetence, (5) planning-improvisation, (6) engaging-disengaging, (7)public-private, and (8) illusion-disillusion. Our findings suggest conceptualizing the phenomenon of mobile technology usage experience from a context-based and process-oriented perspective where paradoxes of technology shape user experience and determine coping strategies. JF - Designing Ubiquitous Information Environments: Socio-Technical Issues and Challenges ER - TY - JOUR T1 - An Information Retrieval Model Based on Latent Semantic Indexing with Intelligent Preprocessing JF - JIKM Y1 - 2005 A1 - Kumar, Ch. Aswani A1 - Ankush Gupta A1 - Mahmooda Batool A1 - Shagun Trehan VL - 4 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Privacy Considerations in Location-Based Advertising Y1 - 2005 A1 - Xu, Heng A1 - Teo, Hock-Hai AB - The emergence of mobile communication and positioning technologies has presented advertisers and marketers with a new type of advertising approach: location-based advertising (LBA). Advertisers could deliver contextually appropriate advertising messages through wireless devices on a geographically targeted basis and could reach mobile consumers when they are most likely to make a purchase (Kölmel and Alexakis 2002). However, because LBA could also associate the lifestyle habits, behaviors, and movements with a consumer ’s personal identity, privacy concern is particularly salient for LBA. Drawing on the privacy literature and the exchange theory, we employ an experimental approach to develop and lest an adoption model by including risk-beneflt analysis as the major antecedent to behavioral intention. Two environmental variables—industry privacy self-regulation and privacy legislation—are included to further assess the role of industry self-regulator versus government legislator in bearing the responsibility of assuring consumer privacy. Our findings extend individual adoption research into the new L-Commerce context and offer several important implications for various players in the LBA industry: wireless advertising service/content providers, merchants, privacy advocates and government legislators. JF - Designing Ubiquitous Information Environments: Socio-Technical Issues and Challenges ER - TY - Generic T1 - The Role of Ubiquitous Computing in Maintaining Work-Life Balance: Perspectives from Women in the Information Technology Workforce Y1 - 2005 A1 - Quesenberry, Jeria A1 - Trauth, Eileen AB - Transformations in ubiquitous Computing and shifts in the domestic nature of home life are placing greater demands on men and women to balance work and life. Although work-life balance has been heavily investigated for many years, the majority of this research gives very little discussion to the role of technology. Thus, the question remains: Can ubiquitous computing address the issues raised by work-life balance? The purpose of this paper is to explore a particular instance of how ubiquitous computing is utilized to maintain work-life balance from the perspectives of women in the Information technology workforce. JF - Designing Ubiquitous Information Environments: Socio-Technical Issues and Challenges ER - TY - Generic T1 - The Choice of Critical Information Systems Research Y1 - 2004 A1 - Debra Howcroft A1 - Trauth, Eileen AB - Accompanying the development and diffusion of information technologies throughout organizations and society is the research challenge to examine the relationship between information systems and the organizations and societies within which they are embedded. As the field of information systems matures, it is fitting that consideration be given to the ways in which such an examination is carried out. Thus, there is a research need not only to examine and assess the ways in which information systems are used and affect people; there is also a research need to examine and assess the research approaches that are used to carry out these assessments. This paper examines the enactment of the critical tradition in IS research and the possibilities for new insights that can arise from shifting the lens from positivist or interpretive to critical. This consideration leads to a discussion of issues that arise from the choice of critical IS research, followed by some recommendations for addressing these issues. JF - Information Systems Research UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-8095-6_12 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Cores and Definitions: Building the Cognitive Legitimacy of the Information Systems Discipline Across the Atlantic Y1 - 2004 A1 - Rowe, Frantz A1 - Duane P. Truex A1 - Lynette Kvasny AB - The issue of the legitimacy of Information Systems is important for researchers in this field because other disciplines have begun to lay claim to research topics often thought to belong to the domain of IS research, and the field itself is under challenge in academic intuitions around the world (Avison 2002). Benbasat and Zmud’s (2003) opinion is that IS has gained socio-political legitimacy but not cognitive legitimacy in large measure because the object of study in much IS research is not clearly delineated. In part, they are defining a disciplinary boundary issue and beginning to define criteria by which our field may be distinguished from reference disciplines or other related disciplines. Therefore, to gain more cognitive legitimacy, a clearer understanding of what we mean by “an information system” and of the central issues driving its creation and use is needed if it is at the core of that which we study. This paper advances that discourse by examining the role of a handful of French scholars, many of whom are not well known out of French academic circles, but whose thoughts on the issue are useful in furthering the debate on the ontological grounding of our field. JF - Information Systems Research UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-8095-6_6 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Enterprise System as an Orchestrator of Dynamic Capability Development: A Case Study of the IRAS and TechCo Y1 - 2004 A1 - Tan, Chee A1 - Lim, Eric A1 - Pan, Shan A1 - Chan, Calvin AB - Corporations are perpetually hunting for ways to develop exclusive, sustainable, and competitive advantages that will enable them to leapfrog ahead of their industrial adversaries. Notably, the debut of enterprise systems (ES) during the recent decade has given rise to frequent talk of the utilization of integrative, IT-inspired business mechanisms to achieve the much sought-after but elusive competitive edge. Others, however, have argued that the search for sustainable competitiveness should instead be anchored in organizational efforts to cultivate and build up firm-specific dynamic capabilities. Cognizant of the various perspectives, this paper takes a holistic approach in proposing the achievement of sustainable competitive advantages by examining the manner in which ES adoption can contribute to the forging of dynamic capabilities. In particular, Montealegre’s (2002) process model of capability development is adopted as the analytical framework to explore the strategization of ES development in two different organizations, with the main distinction being that one of them subscribes to commercially available SAP applications while the other chooses to develop its ES in-house. Through comparing and contrasting evidence from both cases, this study attempts to decipher how ES adoption can be strategized to develop strategic capabilities and understand the implications between off-the-shelf and bespoke ES in affecting the process of dynamic capability development. JF - Information Systems Research UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-8095-6_28 ER - TY - Generic T1 - The Great Quantitative / Qualitative Debate: The Past, Present, and Future of Positivism and Post-Positivism in Information Systems Y1 - 2004 A1 - Michael D. Myers A1 - Straub, Detmar W A1 - Mingers, John A1 - Geoff Walsham ED - Bonnie Kaplan ED - Duane P. Truex ED - Wastell, David ED - Wood-Harper, A T ED - Janice I. DeGross JF - Information Systems Research: Relevant Theory and Informed Practice PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers CY - Norwell, MA N1 - IFIP, International Federation of Information Processing ER - TY - Generic T1 - Information Systems Research and Development by Activity Analysis and Development: Dead Horse or the Next Wave? Y1 - 2004 A1 - Mikko Korpela A1 - Anja Mursu A1 - Soriyan, Abimbola A1 - Eerola, Anne A1 - Häkkinen, Heidi A1 - Toivanen, Marika AB - We argue that the currently dominant methods in Information Systems are not satisfactory for emancipatory research and development whose starting point is work. Activity theory was proposed as such an emancipatory research-cum-development approach in IS a decade ago. However, the potential identified in the theory has not fully materialized. As our own contribution toward making activity theory more operational in IS, we present an elaborated framework, ActAD, and review our experience in applying it to descriptive research, practical analysis, and constructive research. We claim that in order to fully unleash the potential of activity theory, activity-based methods should be developed further for IS requirements analysis projects and IS implementation projects, as well as for facilitating software development. The most appropriate way of developing such applied methods is through collaborative action research in real-life information systems work—the information systems practitioners developing their own work through activity analysis and development, with researcher participation. JF - Information Systems Research UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-8095-6_25 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Resistance or Deviance? A High-Tech Workplace During the Bursting of the Dot-Com Bubble Y1 - 2004 A1 - Tapia, Andrea AB - Under certain circumstances, a critical orientation to the study of workplace deviance/resistance is necessary to understand ICT-enabled workplace culture and employee behavior. The critical orientation to workplace deviance characterizes acts in opposition to an organization with the potential to do harm as semi-organized, group resistance to organizational authority. The questions that drive this research are, does technology enable deviance? When does an act of social deviance become an act of resistance against domination? The answers depend on the perspective of the labeler. To discuss these, I offer the example of a case study of a small software development company called Ebiz.com. For the first few years of the existence of Ebiz.com, the social control exerted on the employees increased yet there were no observable or discussed acts of employee retaliation. I argue that the social environment of the dot-com bubble allowed several myths to propagate widely and affect human behavior. As the market began to fail, and dot-corns began to close, the employees seemed to recognize their situation and enact deviant behavior, or resist. Most importantly, what I have learned from this work is that ICT work may lead to increased deviant or resistant behaviors and that ICT work may also provide a means to do increased deviant or resistant behavior. JF - Information Systems Research UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-8095-6_31 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Supporting Engineering of Information Systems in Emergent Organizations Y1 - 2004 A1 - Purao, Sandeep A1 - Duane P. Truex AB - Research related to information systems development has roughly followed two diverse paths. The first, pursued by the software engineering community, is aimed at creating techniques for the efficient engineering of IT artifacts. The second, pursued by communities such as IFIP 8.2, attempts to understand and anticipate the impact of IT on organizations or upon one another by incorporating social science theories. The two views are in conflict because the former treats information systems merely as reflections of requirements, whereas the latter views them as agents of change. As a result, the two streams have suffered from increasing emphasis on minutiae and are, at worst, in danger of losing their relevance. Recent research in emergent systems development and developers’ engagement in problem and design spaces suggest a possible approach to integrating the two streams. In particular, we argue that novel R-forms (representation techniques) can proactively facilitate the engineering of information systems in emergent organizations. Using insights from research in both streams, we develop a set of requirements that can guide the development of new R-forms that may take into account both the engineering of the IT artifact as well as the emergent nature of organizational context in which the IT artifact will be deployed. JF - Information Systems Research UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-8095-6_11 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Symbolic Processes in ERP Versus Legacy System Usage Y1 - 2004 A1 - Ng, Martin A1 - Tan, Michael AB - Being hailed as possessing the ability to drive effective business reengineering and management of core and support processes, it is not surprising that enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have been adopted by more than 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies at the turn of the century. In contrast, legacy systems have frequently been attached with negative connotations. Yet at the same time, it is common knowledge that some legacy systems are not replaced when companies adopt ERP solutions, while new in-house systems still continue to be developed. While risks and time involved have been highlighted as possible reasons for the non-replacement of legacy systems, little attention has been paid to process issues as well as the symbolic meanings attached to the ERP vis-a-vis the other coexisting information systems. This research employs symbolic interactionism as the informing theoretical perspective in an ethnographic study of a large government authority in Singapore. Our findings surprisingly indicate that contrary to popular belief, the end-users in that organization tend to attach rather favorable symbols to their legacy and new in-house developed systems, while displaying relatively negative sentiments towards their ERP package. In this paper, we first discuss the different symbolism attached over the years to the coexisting systems. Next, we highlight how certain symbols gradually got sedimented over time. Finally, we demonstrate how the consequent manifestations of these symbolic realities influenced certain organizational actions that impacted the usage and perpetuation of the coexisting systems. JF - Information Systems Research UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-8095-6_49 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Twenty Years of Applying Grounded Theory in Information Systems: A Coding Method, Useful Theory Generation Method, or an Orthodox Positivist Method of Data Analysis ? Y1 - 2004 A1 - Bryant, Tony A1 - Hughes, Jim A1 - Myers, Michael A1 - Trauth, Eileen A1 - Cathy Urquhart JF - Information Systems Research UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-8095-6_35 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Twenty Years of Applying Grounded Theory in Information Systems: A Coding Method, Useful Theory Generation Method, or an Orthodox Positivist Method of Data Analysis? Y1 - 2004 A1 - Bryant, Tony A1 - Hughes, Jim A1 - Michael D. Myers A1 - Trauth, E.M. A1 - Cathy Urquhart ED - Bonnie Kaplan ED - Duane P. Truex ED - Wastell, David ED - Wood-Harper, A T ED - Janice I. DeGross JF - Information Systems Research: Relevant Theory and Informed Practice PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers CY - Norwell, MA ER - TY - Generic T1 - Young Turks, Old Guardsmen, and the Conundrum of the Broken Mold: A Progress Report on Twenty Years of Information Systems Research Y1 - 2004 A1 - Bonnie Kaplan A1 - Duane P. Truex A1 - Wastell, David A1 - Wood-Harper, A. JF - Information Systems Research UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-8095-6_1 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Back to Basics: Sharing Goals and Developing Trust in Global Virtual Teams Y1 - 2003 A1 - Robert J. Tucker A1 - Niki Panteli JF - Information Systems Perspectives and Challenges in the Context of Globalization ER - TY - Generic T1 - Factors Influencing Ireland's Software Industry: Lessons for Economic Development through IT Y1 - 2003 A1 - Ciara Heavin A1 - Brian Fitzerald A1 - Eileen M. Trauth JF - Information Systems Perspectives and Challenges in the Context of Globalization ER - TY - Generic T1 - The Footprint of Regulation: How Information Systems are Affecting the Sources of Control in a Global Economy Y1 - 2003 A1 - Prodromos Tsiavos A1 - Ian Hosein A1 - Edgar A. Whitley JF - Information Systems Perspectives and Challenges in the Context of Globalization ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Regulating Architecture and Architectures of Regulation: Contributions from Information Systems JF - International Review of Computing Law and Technology Y1 - 2003 A1 - Ian R Hosein A1 - Prodromos Tsiavos A1 - Edgar A. Whitley VL - 17 SN - 1360-0869 UR - IRCLT2003.pdf ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Beyond Models of National Culture in Information Systems Research JF - Journal of Global Information Management Y1 - 2002 A1 - Michael D. Myers A1 - Tan, Felix AB - Many IS scholars argue that global organizations need to understand cultural differences if they are to successfully deploy information technology. We agree that an understanding of cultural differences is important, but suggest that the concept of “national culture” that has tended to dominate the IS research literature is too simplistic. In this article, we challenge information systems researchers to go beyond models of national culture. We propose that IS researchers should adopt a more dynamic view of culture – one that sees culture as contested, temporal and emergent. VL - 10 ER - TY - Generic T1 - The Digital Divide at Work and Home: The Discourse about Power and Underrepresented Groups in the Information Society Y1 - 2002 A1 - Lynette Kvasny A1 - Eileen M. Trauth JF - Global and Organizational Discourse about Information Technology ER - TY - Generic T1 - The Discourse of a Large Scale Organizational Transformation: The Reengineering of IBM, 1989-1994 Y1 - 2002 A1 - Emmanuel Monod A1 - Duane P. Truex A1 - Richard Baskerville JF - Global and Organizational Discourse about Information Technology ER - TY - Generic T1 - An exploration of the emergence, development and evolution of regulatory characteristics of Information Systems T2 - 23rd International Conference on Information Systems Y1 - 2002 A1 - Prodromos Tsiavos A1 - Edgar A. Whitley A1 - Ian R Hosein ED - Linda Applegate ED - Robert D. Galliers ED - Janice I. De Gross JF - 23rd International Conference on Information Systems CY - Barcelona, Spain UR - ICIS2002.pdf ER - TY - Generic T1 - ICT, Power, and Developmental Discourse: A Critical Analysis Y1 - 2002 A1 - Mark Thompson JF - Global and Organizational Discourse about Information Technology ER - TY - CHAP T1 - IT Industry Success in Small Countries: The Cases of Finland and New Zealand T2 - Cases on Global IT Applications and Management: Successes and Pitfalls Y1 - 2002 A1 - Watson, Rebecca A1 - Michael D. Myers ED - Felix B. Tan JF - Cases on Global IT Applications and Management: Successes and Pitfalls PB - Idea Group Publishing CY - Hershey, PA ER - TY - Generic T1 - New Words and Old Books: Challenging Conventional Discourses about Domain and Theory in Information Systems Research Y1 - 2002 A1 - Bonnie Kaplan A1 - Lynette Kvasny A1 - Steve Sawyer A1 - Eileen M. Trauth JF - Global and Organizational Discourse about Information Technology ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perceptions of Self in Art and Intelligent Agents Y1 - 2002 A1 - Tenhaaf, Nell AB - The article discusses the term “embodiment” according to the different meanings it has in contemporary cultural discourse on the one hand, and in Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Life modeling on the other. The discussion serves as a backdrop for analysis of an interactive artwork by Vancouver artist Liz Van der Zaag, “Talk Nice”, which behaves like an Intelligent A gent that interacts socially with humans. “Talk Nice” has features corresponding to both conceptions of embodiment, and it elicits further ideas about the significance of those notions for definitions of selfhood. JF - Socially Intelligent Agents UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47373-9_29 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Regulating Architecture and Architectures of Regulation: Contributions from Information Systems T2 - British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association Conference Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ian R Hosein A1 - Prodromos Tsiavos A1 - Edgar A. Whitley ED - BILETA JF - British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association Conference CY - Amsterdam UR - Bileta2002.pdf ER - TY - CHAP T1 - A Classification Scheme for Interpretive Research in Information Systems T2 - Qualitative Research in IS: Issues and Trends Y1 - 2001 A1 - Heinz K. Klein A1 - Michael D. Myers ED - Eileen M. Trauth JF - Qualitative Research in IS: Issues and Trends PB - Idea Group Publishing CY - Hershey, PA ER - TY - Generic T1 - Defining Away the Digital Divide: A Content Analysis of Institutional Influences on Popular Representations of Technology Y1 - 2001 A1 - Lynette Kvasny A1 - Duane P. Truex JF - Realigning Research and Practice in Information Systems Development ER - TY - Generic T1 - What Do We Mean by Information Technology? Perspectives on Studying Computing Y1 - 2001 A1 - Steve Sawyer A1 - Steven Haynes A1 - Duane P. Truex A1 - Ojelanki K. Ngwenyama JF - Realigning Research and Practice in Information Systems Development ER - TY - Generic T1 - Addressing the Shortcomings of Interpretive Field Research: Reflecting Social Construction in the Write-up Y1 - 2000 A1 - Ulrike Schultze A1 - Michael D. Myers A1 - Eileen M. Trauth JF - Organizational and Social Perspectives on IT ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Addressing the Shortcomings of Interpretive Field Research: Reflecting Social Construction in the Write-Up T2 - Organizational and Social Perspectives on Information Technology Y1 - 2000 A1 - Ulrike Schultze A1 - Michael D. Myers A1 - Trauth, Eileen ED - Baskerville, R. ED - Stage, J ED - DeGross, J I JF - Organizational and Social Perspectives on Information Technology PB - Kluwer CY - Norwell, MA ER - TY - Generic T1 - Developing a Virtual Community-based Information Systems Digital Library: A Proposal and Research Program Y1 - 2000 A1 - John R. Venable A1 - Julie Travis JF - Organizational and Social Perspectives on IT ER - TY - Generic T1 - Information Technology and the Cultural Reproduction of Social Order: A Research Paradigm Y1 - 2000 A1 - Lynette Kvasny A1 - Duane P. Truex JF - Organizational and Social Perspectives on IT ER - TY - Generic T1 - Machine Agency as Perceived Autonomy: An Action Perspective Y1 - 2000 A1 - Jeremy Rose A1 - Duane P. Truex JF - Organizational and Social Perspectives on IT ER - TY - Generic T1 - The Uses and Abuses of Evaluative Criteria for Qualitative Research Methods Y1 - 1999 A1 - Richard Baskerville A1 - Steve Sawyer A1 - Eileen M. Trauth A1 - Duane P. Truex A1 - Cathy Urquhart JF - New Information Technologies in Organizational Processes ER - TY - Generic T1 - Exploring a chairman of the board's construction of organizational reality: the Colruyt case Y1 - 1997 A1 - Janson, M. A1 - Guimaraes, T. A1 - Brown, A. A1 - Taillieu, T. JF - Proceedings of the IFIP TC8 WG 8.2 international conference on Information systems and qualitative research PB - Chapman & Hall, Ltd. CY - Philadelphia, PA, USA SN - 0-412-82360-8 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Panel–-assessing critical social theory research in information systems Y1 - 1997 A1 - Ngwenyama, O. A1 - Davis, G. A1 - Lyytinen, K A1 - Truex, D. A1 - Cule, P. JF - Proceedings of the IFIP TC8 WG 8.2 international conference on Information systems and qualitative research PB - Chapman & Hall, Ltd. CY - Philadelphia, PA, USA SN - 0-412-82360-8 ER - TY - Generic T1 - The Merits Of Three Qualitative Research Methods T2 - Seventeenth International Conference on Information Systems Y1 - 1996 A1 - Michael D. Myers A1 - Heinz K. Klein A1 - Truex, Duane A1 - Eleanor Wynn JF - Seventeenth International Conference on Information Systems CY - Cleveland, Ohio ER - TY - Generic T1 - The Influence of Societal Factors on the Diffusion of Electronic Data Interchange in the Netherlands Y1 - 1993 A1 - Eileen M. Trauth A1 - Frank E. J. M. Derksen A1 - Hein M. J. Mevissen JF - Human, Organizational, and Social Dimensions of Information Systems Development ER - TY - Generic T1 - Using Communication Theory for Systems Design: A Model for Eliciting Information Requirements Y1 - 1993 A1 - Margaret Tan JF - Human, Organizational, and Social Dimensions of Information Systems Development ER - TY - Generic T1 - Customer Orientation as a Basis for Computer Supported Technologies in Software Production Y1 - 1992 A1 - Jos J. M. Trienekens A1 - Rob J. Kusters JF - The Impact of Computer Supported Technologies in Information Systems Development ER - TY - Generic T1 - Systems Without Method: The Impact of New Technologies on Information Systems Development Projects Y1 - 1992 A1 - Richard Baskerville A1 - Julie Travis A1 - Duane P. Truex JF - The Impact of Computer Supported Technologies in Information Systems Development ER - TY - Generic T1 - A Tale of Two Countries: Case Experiences and Expectations Y1 - 1992 A1 - Ivan Aaen A1 - Aila Siltanen A1 - Carsten Sørensen A1 - Veil-Pekka Tahvanainen JF - The Impact of Computer Supported Technologies in Information Systems Development ER - TY - Generic T1 - The Spring model for knowledge based systems analysis: A case study involving small and medium sized enterprises T2 - Developing and managing expert system programs Y1 - 1991 A1 - Edgar A. Whitley A1 - Angeliki Poulymenakou A1 - Tony Cornford ED - Jerald Feinstein ED - Elias M. Awad ED - Larry Medsker ED - Efrain Turban JF - Developing and managing expert system programs PB - IEEE Computer Society Press CY - Washington, DC SN - –8186–2250–4 UR - IEEE1991.pdf ER -