MIS Quarterly back issues from December 2004:
Reprise: the parable of the golf balls.(EDITOR'S COMMENTS)
Dec 01, 2004; ... <Pre>When I was as at Dartmouth, they had this summer home in Mainethat some wealthy alumni had donated to the school for facultyvacationing. Each summer, and the summers are short in Maine,they drew out of a hat the names of 12 faculty members who had ...
Reach and grasp (1).(ISSUES AND OPINIONS)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Abstract The short history of Information Systems suggests persistent anxiety about the field's purported lack of academic legitimacy. A common refrain in the anxiety discourse is that legitimacy can be obtained only by creating a strong theoretic core for the field. This essay ...
Innovating mindfully with information technology (1).(RESEARCH ARTICLE)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Abstract Although organizational innovation with information technology is often carefully considered, bandwagon phenomena indicate that much innovative behavior may nevertheless be of the "me too" variety. In this essay, we explore such differences in innovative behavior ....
An empirical investigation of Net-enabled business value (1).(RESEARCH ARTICLE)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Abstract Many traditional organizations have undertaken major initiatives to leverage the Internet to transform how they coordinate value activities with customers, suppliers, and other business partners with the objective of improving firm performance. This paper addresses ...
The role of individual memory and attention processes during electronic brainstorming (1).(RESEARCH ARTICLE)(Electronic brainstorming applications)(Idea generation performance data )
Dec 01, 2004; ... Abstract Electronic brainstorming (EBS) applications and their methodologies may have achieved the benchmark of enabling interactive users to perform as well as nominal groups. The current challenge is to view this as a plateau and not an endpoint, and to seek ways of improving ...
Bridging user organizations: knowledge brokering and the work of information technology professionals (1).(RESEARCH ARTICLE)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Abstract This interpretive case study examines knowledge brokering as an aspect of the work of information technology professionals. The purpose of this exploratory study is to understand knowledge brokering from the perspective of IT professionals as they reflect upon their ...
Business competence of information technology professionals: conceptual development and influence on IT-business partnerships (1).(RESEARCH ARTICLE)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Abstract This research aims at improving our understanding of the concept of business competence of information technology professionals and at exploring the contribution of this competence to the development of partnerships between IT professionals and their business clients. ...
User acceptance of hedonic information systems (1).(RESEARCH NOTE)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Abstract This paper studies the differences in user acceptance models for productivity-oriented (or utilitarian) and pleasure-oriented (or hedonic) information systems. Hedonic information systems aim to provide self-fulfilling rather than instrumental value to the user, are ...