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Research has established the importance of creating a sense of community in an online learning environment. How to promote community is less well understood. To better understand how to create learning communities, it is important to provide context by isolating variables such as the impact of the passage of time on feelings of community. This study provides that context by addressing the question,...
Team creativity in information systems development is becoming an important factor of success. This research looks at how team's creativity is influenced by the degree of team's knowledge sourcing and by the learning orientation of the team. This empirical study was conducted by gathering data from 148 graduate students working in teams on an e-commerce project. The research model was tested using...
The frequent use of global virtual teams for accomplishing organizational tasks helps explain the continued interest in research designed to identify and disentangle the relationships among factors influencing team performance. Participative goal setting represents one factor that may be particularly important in these settings. 52 self-directed global virtual teams, consisting of 318 participants,...
Personality is always important in determining the users' behavior. A wide variety of systems and devices are also known to possess various kinds of personalities which can be described as a set of features. When users' personality and target systems' personality are matched, it can be said that the degree of personality matching is good. This paper deals with the issue of the importance of personality...
The proliferation of information and communication technology (ICT) throughout workplace and home life is thought to increase feelings of being overloaded, drained, and/or burned out. This phenomenon is termed "technostress." In this relatively new line of research, scholars have employed predominantly questionnaire surveys and experiments to investigate the phenomenon. This paper argues...
This study experimentally examines the effects of information revelation in multi-attribute reverse auctions. In particular, two treatments are carried out: revelation of limit-sets which indicate the admissible bids, and revelation of limit-sets and winning bids. The results show no significant difference between the auctions with different information revelation in terms of allocative efficiency,...
Current IS research is inconclusive about the role of conflict within virtual teams (VTs). In this paper, we argue that conflict should be treated as part of the process and not as an antecedent or post-facto analysis to VT performance. We propose the concept of conflictual balance, grounded in structural balance theory (SBT) [12], to study the complex relationship between conflict and VT performance...
Because patients customarily receive medical text that is difficult to understand, we are developing a simplification algorithm to support simpler writing by medical professionals. Our algorithm relies on term familiarity and automatically suggests alternative wordings from different sources. We conducted a user study (N=17) to evaluate its effectiveness on reducing perceived and actual difficulty...
Advertisers on Social Network Sites often use recommendations by others in a user's networks to endorse products. While these familiar others are hypothesized to be more effective in influencing users than unfamiliar others, there is a catch: familiarity does not necessarily ensure similarity to the familiar person, a potential problem because the combination of familiarity and dissimilarity has been...
Recommender systems are popular tools in e-commerce websites for helping people find the products that fit them. Many algorithms have been proposed, mostly to improve their accuracy. The underlying assumption is that accuracy will increase user satisfaction and ultimately lead to high purchase intention. However, past research has suggested that accuracy does not necessarily lead to satisfaction....
This study investigated how external influences motivate senior management to commit to information system security (ISS) by examining the mediating role of senior management between external influences and organizational change. Neo-institutional theory was used to examine normative, mimetic, and coercive mechanisms that affect ISS assimilation in organizations. Findings show senior management beliefs...
Online learning has matured as a mechanism that can change how we deliver education. Open education resources are proliferating, and institutions are creating massive open online courses (MOOCs). In addition, efforts are underway to develop platforms that allow individuals to create, lead, and participate in their own courses. This bottom-up, peer-to-peer model of education illuminates new dilemmas...
We present an alignment model of Business Intelligence and incentive systems with the aim to increase the information quality. We propose two hypotheses: An aligned incentive system leads to higher quality of information. However, information quality that is not subject to incentives will decrease after the introduction of such an incentive scheme. This can be explained by a crowding-out effect of...
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