Best Practices and Conceptual Innovations in Information Resources Management: Utilizing Technologies to Enable Global Progressions (Advances in Information Resources Management)

✍ Scribed by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 428
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Continuous technological innovation amidst the increasing complexity of organizational structures and operations has created the need to achieve a new level of skillful performance and innovative procedures within the information resources management sector. Best Practices and Conceptual Innovations in Information Resources Management: Utilizing Technologies to Enable Global Progressions provides authoritative insight into emerging developments in information resources management and how these technologies are shaping the way the world does business, creates policies, and advances organizational practices. With chapters delving into pertinent aspects of such disciplines as knowledge management, open source software, systems engineering, project management, and IT governance, this book offers audiences solutions for improved organizational functioning.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 8
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 12
Preface......Page 21
Integrating the Fragmented Pieces of IS Research Paradigms and Frameworks: A Systems Approach......Page 28
Could the Work System Method Embrace Systems Concepts More Fully?......Page 50
The Distribution of a Management Control System in an Organization......Page 63
Making the Case for Critical Realism: Examining the Implementation of Automated Performance Management Systems......Page 82
System-of-Systems Cost Estimation: Analysis of Lead System Integrator Engineering Activities......Page 98
Mixing Soft Systems Methodology and UML in Business Process Modeling......Page 109
Managing E-Mail Systems: An Exploration of Electronic Monitoring and Control in Practice......Page 130
Information and Knowledge Perspectives in Systems Engineering and Management for Innovation and Productivity through Enterprise Resource Planning......Page 143
The Knowledge Sharing Model: Stressing the Importance of Social Ties and Capital......Page 173
A Meta-Analysis Comparing the Sunk Cost Effect for IT and Non-IT Projects......Page 196
E-Learning Business Risk Management with Real Options......Page 214
Examining Online Purchase Intentions in B2C E-Commerce: Testing an Integrated Model......Page 240
Information Technology Industry Dynamics: Impact of Disruptive Innovation Strategy......Page 258
Modeling Customer-Related IT Diffusion......Page 278
The Impact of Computer Self-Efficacy and System Complexity on Acceptance of Information Technologies......Page 291
Determining User Satisfaction fromt he Gaps in Skill Expectations Between IS Employees and their Managers......Page 303
The Impact of Missing Skills on Learning and Project Performance......Page 315
Beyond Development: A Research Agenda for Investigating Open Source Software User Communities......Page 329
Electronic Meeting Topic Effects......Page 342
Mining Text with the Prototype-Matching Method......Page 355
A Review of IS Research Activities and Outputs Using Pro Forma Abstracts......Page 368
Index
......Page 427