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Researchers and practitioners have long been interested in identifying the criteria that users consider important in assessing whether a system is worth using. However, past research in this domain has not taken into account the characteristics of a ...

Social network sites SNS are venues for information sharing that provide a variety of communication features capable of stirring emotions, attitudes and beliefs. This paper highlights the role of SNS feedback features and the meanings they communicate ...

Despite the growing literature on the notion of Data Privacy Concern, we lack an agreed upon conceptualization and operationalization of this overarching construct. The present paper argues that the concept of privacy is highly context-dependent and ...

We develop a formal and testable model of trust and its determinants.We use a multi-method approach (two laboratory experiments and a case study).Ability, benevolence and integrity are non-linearly related to trusting behaviors.For initial trust, ...

Assurance has different meanings, depending on the source, audience, and interpretation. We applied institutional theory and the Capability Maturity Model to conceptualize assurance: its symbolic aspects to gain social acceptance, and its substantive ...

We attempted to determine how formal management control systems (MCS) are used by project managers in IS development (ISD) contexts. This involved investigating the antecedents of two types of project MCS use (interactive and diagnostic), and their ...

An important factor that can influence the user-analyst relationship during information systems development is how analysts communicate with users. The present study examines the extent to which analyst multicommunicating behaviors during meetings with ...

Drawing on the concept of organizational integration, we developed a typology that allows us to classify organizational IT applications and better understand, explain, and potentially predict their impacts. As a preliminary test of the typology, the ...

This paper examines user participation in information systems security risk management and its influence in the context of regulatory compliance via a multi-method study at the organizational level. First, eleven informants across five organizations ...

Empirical results both from information technology acceptance research as well as from other fields suggest that attitude and subjective norms may have a nonlinear relationship. Based on the economic theory of complementarities, the present paper ...

Conceptualization and measurement of constructs provide many opportunities for contributing to information systems research and practice by providing a better understanding and explanation of interesting and important phenomena. To assist researchers in ...

Conceptualization and measurement of constructs provide many opportunities for contributing to information systems research and practice by providing a better understanding and explanation of interesting and important phenomena. To assist researchers in ...

Despite calls for improving current approaches to conceptualizing and measuring the construct of information system use, theoretical advances in this regard are still insufficient. The present paper proposes to expand the focus of existing ...

This paper reports on an ongoing research project on intranet usability. Intranets are web-based information systems that are thought to boost employee productivity and improve organizational performance. For its part, usability is considered to be a ...

The notion of integration is central to the understanding of organizations in general as well as of contemporary phenomena such as e-commerce, virtual organizations, virtual teams, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation. Yet, the concept ...

Researchers from a wide range of management areas agree that conflicts are an important part of organizational life and that their study is important. Yet, interpersonal conflict is a neglected topic in information system development (ISD). Based on ...

Drawing both from the IS literature on software project risk management and the contingency research in Organization Theory literature, the present study develops an integrative contingency model of software project risk management. Adopting a profile ...

Electronic brainstorming (EBS) has been proposed as a superior approach to both nominal brainstorming (working alone) and face-to-face brainstorming (verbal). However, existing empirical evidence regarding EBS's superiority over nominal brainstorming is ...