To attain the strategic goal of deriving competitive advantage from Enterprise System (ES) adoption, organizations rely on users’ exploration of the system features and eventually integrating the system application tightly with job tasks. Research on how to align users’ interest with the organization’s strategic goal and enhance user motivation to explore ES features is of great significance bu...

In recent years, many security threats have entered into the organizations’ information and changed the  organizational performance resulting in their exorbitant costs. This question is of particular importanceabout government agencies that use information and Internet systems. This issue enabled the top managers of organizations to implement a security system and minimize these costs. Using In...

This article argues that the relationship between information systems theory and organization theory may be reinforced by introducing an information view of organizations. Although voluminous bodies of literature developed within each field and links among them are extant, their mutual informing is still insufficient. An information view of organizations could help in conveying results of infor...

The introduction of IS in SMEs requires numerous decisions. To derive a decision it is necessary to collect and evaluate alternative options. Since IS can hardly be regarded as an end in itself, it is necessary to also focus on the people affected by the system and the potential organisational change and to perceive the various options and how they influence the organisation. The selection and ...

Abstract: This study examines the chronological use of web 2.0 technologies within a university setting with the goal of strengthening the level of community communication, interaction and collaboration. We provide an analysis of the structural potential of web 2.0 technologies, and their practical usage as a key determinant of the technology’s impact on a specific organisation, as well as an a...

The business value of investments in Information Systems (IS) has been, and is predicted to remain, one of the major research topics for IS researchers. However, the fundamental question of the causal relationship between IS investments and firm performance still remains unexplained. We argue that this lack of causal explanations is one of the main reasons why the IS community still lacks a the...

introduction: hospitals require a central monitoring and improve planning process in order to enhance patient care quality. regarding the current developments in health care systems, the question is which information system can support transformation of hospitals. this review article focuses on the capacity of enterprise resource planning (erp) systems for the transformation of hospitals. metho...

conclusions: the results of the present research indicates that the emphasis of the his evaluation moves from technical subjects to human and organizational subjects, and from objective to subjective issues. therefore, this issue entails more familiarity with more qualitative evaluation methods. in most of the reviewed studies, the main focus has been laid on the necessity of using multi-method...

The deployment of information-sharing systems in large organizations can significantly impact existing policies and procedures with regard to authority and control over information. Unless information-sharing systems explicitly support organizational structures and needs, these systems will be rejected summarily. The Postdoc system is a deployed Web-based information-sharing system created spec...