Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2011: Quality Research in Pacific Asia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 7-11 July 2011

Information Systems Success Research: The "20-Year Update?" Panel Report from PACIS, 2011

A Social Network Analysis of the Co-Authorship Network of the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems from 1993 to 2008

Using bibliographic data extracted from an Endnote database, social network analysis techniques were used to generate and analyse a network of co-authors with the aim of developing an understanding of the research community that produces the research knowledge published by the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS). The PACIS community was found to be a healthy small-world commu...

Community Websites and what makes them Sustainable: Evidence from Australia

Australia is leading the way in promoting the use of the Internet as a means of strengthening local communities. The Australian Domain Name Authority (auDA) has announced the release of Community Geographic Domain Names (CGDN), to be solely used by not-for-profit, self-funded local community groups. As Australian communities attempt to establish a management group and develop a website under th...

Making Sense of IS with the Cynefin Framework

This paper examines aspects of the field of Information Systems (IS) concerned with its diversity and with the rapid changes within the discipline that have been incurred by the continued evolution of the IS artefact. This examination is done in order to establish the suitability of the Cynefin framework, developed for knowledge management, as a suitable tool for sense-making in IS. A descripti...

The Future of Outsourcing in the Asia-Pacific Region: Implications for Research and Practice - Panel Report from PACIS 2014