Although hypermedia systems are becoming more sophisticated and readily available as oo the shelf products , there are few hypermedia applications within business and industrial organizations. This paper argues that this phenomena is rooted in the concept of hypermedia applications as standalone programs. Larger acceptance of hypermedia within organizations will occur once this technology is be...

Enterprise Content Management Systems (ECMS) are often introduced in organizations without careful consideration of their support for organizational business processes. This paper explores the use of ECMS in a Diversification type of organization. A Diversification type of organization is characterized by low levels standardization and integration of business processes between business units. W...

Information and communication systems (ICS) impact their organizational environment in significant ways; hence, the design, implementation, and use of ICS are inseparably linked to fundamental issues of organizational design and behavior. Current research in the field of business and information systems engineering (BISE), however, is primarily technologyor practice-oriented and concerned with ...

New system design and evaluation methodologies are being developed to address social, organizational, political, cultural, and other nontechnological issues in information systems. This paper presents a social interactionist framework for researching these kinds of organizational issues. The framework is influenced by theoretical models of organizational change, user resistance, adoption and us...

The topic of collaboration in cross-organizational and cross-border settings is an emerging subfield of information systems research. This paper presents a compressive literature review of 52 research papers, published from 2000 to 2007, in four leading journals. The focus of the analysis are topics of investigation, sources of data, and the underlying theories. The results indicate that most o...

The debate between protagonists of different theoretical approaches continues in the Information Systems field, with little prospect of resolution. The debate is typically characterized by tendentious arguments as advocates from each approach offer a somewhat one-sided condemnation of other approaches. A recent debate in the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS) illustrates the man...

This paper evaluates the effects of the use of Product Lifecycle Management and its three sub-systems Organizational Memory, Project and Resource Management and Cooperative Work systems on three components of knowledge integration in New Product Development: knowledge transfer, translation and transformation. A second aim of this paper is to explicate and discuss the use of the crisp set versio...

Biological research and development are routinely producing terabytes of data that need to be organized, queried and reduced to useful scientific knowledge. Even though data integration can provide solutions to such biological problems, it is often problematic due to the sources’ heterogeneity and their semantic and structural diversity. Moreover, necessary updates of both structure and content...

How information systems (IS) affect organizations and enable radical organizational change has been explored from a variety of perspectives. Through a case study in the investment banking industry, we will examine the changing nature of IS–organization relationships focusing on the crucial role that IS play and will continue to play as organizations strive for competitive advantage in a global ...

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