This seminar aims to question why it is we undertake research in the field of information management. By focussing on the differences between the different agendas of academics and practitioners in this field, conclusions are drawn with regard to the need to align more closely the two agendas so that the results of our research are more readily available and implementable in practice. The semin...

Business Process Management (BPM) enables a company to successfully align business practices with strategic objectives and increase business performance. Functional silos or roadblocks disappear and the company is better positioned to satisfy all stakeholders – customer, owners, and employees (by Robert M. Curtice, 1997). Over the years, many organizations have tried to find pathways to establi...

This article explores the broader context of the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the cross-border environment from the perspective of one of the world’s largest providers of IT hardware, software and services. It highlights a number of new and emerging thoughts and approaches around the continuing challenges of globalisation as it relates to business growth, investment,...

Modern societies are characterized by competing organizations that rely predominantly on incentive schemes to align the behavior of their members with the organizations’ objectives. This study contributes to explaining why in so many cases incentive schemes have gradually crowded out cooperation as an organization device. Our explanation does not draw on free-riding, the obvious Achilles’ heel ...

Consumers often infer quality information from prices and rely on their reference prices. This paper incorporates both behavioral regularities nto the classic utility function. The analytical investigation reveals five qualitatively different types of consumers, three of which are relatively new o modeling literature. The authors test the model’s theoretical insights using a new experimental me...

Although a firm’s use of shorter-term debt can potentially help it to reduce agency costs of debt and align managers’ interests with those of shareholders, the use of this type of debt increases the firm’s refinancing risk. We hypothesize that firms with debt that has a shorter maturity hold larger cash reserves to reduce important costs they could incur if they have difficulty refinancing thei...

This study seeks to understand the longitudinal effects of external pressures on the assimilation of IT innovations in organizations, making the distinction between pressures from organizations' exchange partners and pressures from the institutional environment. Analyzing 11-year survey data on the adoption and usage of enterprise resource planning (ERP) in Fortune 1000 companies, I have found ...

Owing to lack of standardization for eliciting patient symptoms, the limited time available during clinical encounters, and the often-competing priorities of patients and providers, providers may not appreciate the full spectrum of the patient's symptom experience. Using electronically collected patient-reported outcomes to capture the review of system outside of the clinic visit may not only i...

There have been many approaches towards investing in innovation projects. There has been very little discussion about the need to align such investments with the mission, vision, goals, leadership style, value discipline and risk appetite of an organization. This paper reviews existing approaches to innovation related investments and suggests the setting up of a proper innovation portfolio mana...

We address empirical methods to assess the reliability and design of affective self-reports. Previous research has shown that students may have subjectively different understandings of the affective state they are reporting [18], particularly among younger students[10]. For example, what one student describes as “extremely frustrating” another might see as only “mildly frustrating.” Further, wh...