Modern information management technology is an effective means by which to provide access to large amounts of distributed and diverse information. Often information management systems provide functionality which is based on metadata, i.e. data describing data, in order to support users in searching for and retrieving data required to perform a specific task. This is especially true for environm...

What is the secret to a successful career in academia? Is that secret different for a woman than it is for a man? This study focuses on whether male and female academics have distinctive patterns of representation as authors in top management information systems journals. Archival data, consisting of author information, article information, and editorial board gender composition, was collected ...

Die Arbeitspapiere des Lehrstuhls für Wirtschaftsinformatik dienen der Darstellung vorläufiger Ergebnisse, die i. d. R. noch für spätere Veröffentlichungen überarbeitet werden. Die Autoren sind deshalb für kritische Hinweise dankbar. Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Insbesondere die der Übersetzung, des Nachdruckes, des Vortrags, der Entnahme von Abbildungen und Tabellen – auch bei nur auszugsweiser Ve...

Business and Information Systems (IS) alignment is a key management issue and has been largely investigated. Yet, little research shows companies how a fit between these "two worlds" can be achieved. The assumption of this paper is that making explicit the business model can contribute to improving the business/IT alignment. Moreover information systems supporting environmental scanning, strate...

Managing an organization is a delicate art of achieving alignment between its various internal and external components. In particular, the alignment between an organization’s strategy, its environment and its information system has traditionally been a key management issue and has been largely investigated. However, the contribution of information systems towards achieving alignment between the...

A comprehensive review was conducted of IT value articles in the Communications of the ACM, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, and MIS Quarterly from 1993 to 1998. IT-value measures published during this period were documented, classified, analyzed, and reported. The review of these journal articles revealed a schism between the use of organizationlevel mea...

This paper reports on a study of the use of blogs to support a Management Information Systems Strategy class requiring higher level thinking skills. Comparison of the use of private vs. public blogs showed that public sites were more effective in providing students with the skills to assess the potential of emerging technologies and to integrate blogs into their daily activites.

introduction: voluntary counseling and testing (vct) for hiv infection is a confidential service offered to individuals in the community. this study intended to present a pattern for regional surveillance of vct services in iran. methods: this was an applied descriptive study. at first, the existing regional vct surveillance in 2009 was investigated through visiting the clinical deputy of medic...

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...