The work system approach addresses the common core of Information Systems and Operations Management: • Both take a systems approach. • Both emphasize performance improvement for operational systems. • Both emphasize business processes and information. • Both recognize the importance of human knowledge and skills. The work system approach addresses the core of both fields by viewing all systems ...

Nearly 10 years ago, Orlikowski and Iacono examined the conceptualization of Information Technology in Information Systems Research (ISR) articles published in 1990s, and found that the majority of these articles were not thoroughly engaged with IT artifact. They proposed that IS researchers should start to theorize about the IT artifact and employ rich conceptualizations of IT. In order to ass...

A web-based information system for management of scientific electronic journals is presented in the paper. Journal management requires exchange of information between many participants in the publishing process, including authors, reviewers, editors, and lectors. Each participant in the process plays a different role, and cooperates with other participants. The web system is implemented using o...

Received: 26 July 2001 Revised: 21 February 2002 : 10 July 2002 Accepted: 23 August 2002 Abstract Existing competence systems are based on a rationalistic view of competence. While these competence systems might work in job-based organizations, we argue that in more dynamic settings, such as in knowledge-based organizations, the interest-informed actions that capture the emergent competencies o...

Received: 11 May 2005 Revised: 17 December 2005 Accepted: 3 January 2006 Abstract Two important views in the development of information systems are the action view and the reaction view which govern the areas of business process modelling and information systems modelling, respectively. We suggest an approach to mediate between these partially conflicting views by specifying a language-mapping ...

As part of the University of British Columbia’s federally funded research initiative to improve the scholarly and public quality of academic publishing on a global basis, the Public Knowledge Project has released Open Journal Systems (OJS). This is open source software that can be freely downloaded. The intent is to help journals and scholarly societies seriously consider publishing in an open ...

This article explores the evolution of the environmental agenda in organization and management research. This is done by studying how the research community responded to calls for interdisciplinarity voiced in key journals in the mid-1990s. It finds that some aspects of the interdisciplinary agenda have not been taken up; in particular the study of the biophysical environment has been difficult...

As can be seen e.g. by the cutting edge section of RISK Magazine, research papers mainly focus on market risk, credit risk, and—with a little less attention—operational risk. Although these risk types are very important for financial institutions, the true landscape of risk is much more complex and far from being well explored and understood. There is a variety of “other” risks looming on the h...

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Prof. Nosrat Safaeian from Sari, Australia received the Outstanding Achievement Award for Stewardship from the Iranian Society for Range Management at the 5th National Conference held in Boroujerd, Lorestan, Iran. He was born in Khorramabad and graduated in Ecology and Range Management from Montpellier, Science and Technique University, French in 1979.  I am honoured to introduce Prof. Nosrat S...