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A comparison of the ethical attitudes of South African undergraduate and Honours students, majoring in Information Systems (IS), and their American counterparts was undertaken in order to test the hypothesis: Compared to their American counterparts, ...

This study describes relationships between educational institution and industry practices in the Information Systems area. It is based on the results of two surveys conducted in the Chicago metropolitan area. Each of the surveys was designed to answer ...

This paper reports on analyses done on data collected as part of an ongoing, longitudinal study of a national sample of information systems (I/S) professionals who have recently entered the work force. Path analysis, a form of structural equation ...

Organizations are shaped based on a number of implicit and explicit assumptions. Usually, these assumptions are made by the founder of a company. Management of Information Technology (IT) is shaped in much the same way. It is based on several ...

This paper presents a contingency model which causally relates information technology acquisition and diffusion (IT/AD) to organization culture (heterogeneous versus homogeneous), organization learning (innovative versus adaptive), and knowledge sharing ...

Much of the current work into developing computer-based systems (CBS) as aids for managerial decision-making within organizations, still explains system failures as a psychological or organizational problem, i.e. a problem of inadequate “acceptance” of ...

Formal methods are perceived to play an important role in end-user software training and learning. However, evidence does not exist to support the effectiveness of formalized training on future use of the target software. This study uses qualitative ...

During the eighties end-user computing has rapidly grown and has become an irreversible phenomenon. Information Systems departments are facing a highly changed environment that calls for new strategies. Finding new strategies is even more important ...

A post-employment followup survey of I/S professionals was used to assess the characteristics of the respondents' present jobs and their career and job attitudes. Present job characteristics were compared to the job preferences expressed by the ...

The purpose of this paper is to report the results of an empirical study of the placement and performance of 130 information systems professionals in a large utility company. Four distinct job environments were identified: 1) Centralized information ...

Using data provided by the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, individual careers of 405 persons in information systems (IS) professions were studied for the 1972-1986 period. The focus of this research is on identifying ...

A distributed database management system (DDBMS) offers an organization the ability to centralize or decentralize its management of data. In this paper we examine how the likelihood of DDBMS adoption is affected by four organizational factors, drawn ...

Based on innovation diffusion theory, an individual's decision to adopt an innovation is related to how the individual in question perceives the innovation. Of concern to this study is whether or not a natural language interface can modify how the ...

This paper analyzes the adoption of six different applications of an integrated office information system (OIS) by four categories of office workers: managers, project engineers, professionals, and secretaries over a three-year time period. The data ...

Today's systems developer should possess skills to deal with a range of social and technical issues during systems development. However, all developers do not excel in every skill dimension. Some may possess very good people skills but only average ...

This paper proposes a contingency framework for answering the questions: What is the range of options available in outsourcing relationships? And, how can the best, most appropriate relationship be identified? Answers to these questions are important ...

In this paper it is argued that existing and emergent technologies provide leadership opportunities for information systems (IS) professionals that allow them to expand their roles from technical managers to strategic leaders. Four particular leadership ...

In recent years, IS departments within non-IS product firms have been challenged by growing number of firms turning to outsourcing and packaged software for new applications development. These trends, along with general downsizing of IS operations, have ...

Information systems are nowadays developed and implemented in organizations flavored by changes in their environment and work practices. For information systems (IS) developers this is reflected in terms of changes in the information needs of users ...

From near-bankruptcy in 1987, Texaco Inc.—one of the largest companies in the world—has experienced a rapid return to profitability. Texaco's turnaround is attributed at least in part to Total Quality Management and a dramatic change in corporate ...

Power issues impact information systems design, development, and implementation. Our understanding of the sources of power affects how we interpret its potential impacts. This study examines the foundations of both personal and structural power sources. ...

This article reports the results of a survey of 21 internships in information systems. Results showed that there was a wide variety of activities used in the internship. However, older technologies, such as COBOL, were mentioned more often than the ...

This paper presents a learning method which is being used at the University of North Florida in the database processing class for Information Systems (IS) students. The method incorporates a major project utilizing Structured Query Language (SQL). This ...