The contents of the latest issue of:

Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC)

Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association

Volume 25 Issue 2, April - June 2013

Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically

ISSN: 1546-2234 EISSN: 1546-5012

Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA

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Editor-in-Chief: Tanya McGill (Murdoch University, Australia)

 

PAPER ONE

 

Virtual Team Effectiveness: Investigating the Moderating Role of Experience with Computer-Mediated Communication on the Impact of Team Cohesion and Openness

 

John R. Carlson (Department of Information Systems, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA), Dawn S. Carlson (Department of Management, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA), Emily M. Hunter (Department of Management, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA), Randal L. Vaughn (Department of Information Systems, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA) and Joey F. George (SCIS Department, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA)

 

The work of virtual teams is increasingly important to today’s organizations, work that is accomplished predominantly via computer-mediated communication. The authors investigate the moderating role of experience with instant messaging on the team interpersonal processes (cohesion and openness) to team effectiveness relationship in virtual teams. Data were obtained from 365 virtual team members using survey methodology and analyzed using hierarchical moderated regression and multilevel analyses. They found that team cohesion has a main effect on team effectiveness. Team openness has a main effect and is moderated by experience with instant messaging, i.e., strengthens the relationship. Understanding the role of team interpersonal processes and the role of the communication media will allow managers to more effectively build virtual teams and provide effective training and support. Using the theoretical lens of channel expansion theory the authors expand theoretical, empirical and practical knowledge of this area.

 

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PAPER TWO

 

An Artifact Switching Model for User Acceptance of eBooks

 

Clive Sanford (Department of Information Systems, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea)

 

This study theorizes and validates a model of user switching from non-IT artifacts to IT artifacts by integrating and extending prior findings from IT acceptance and adoption streams of research and using migration theory as the theoretical bridge. The proposed model examines different types of switching predictors such as push and pull factors, intervening obstacles, and individual differences, as well as interdependencies between these factors as moderating effects. Empirical data from a longitudinal field survey of users’ switching from traditional hard copy books to eBooks validates most of the hypothesized associations. This study alerts publishers, academics, and educational institutions to the challenges and opportunities of artifact switching in general and suggests strategies that can help these stakeholders enable artifact switching within their target populations.

 

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PAPER THREE

 

Goal Abstraction, Goal Linkage Dependency, and Perceived Utilitarian Value of Information Systems: A Mixed-Method Study

 

Sabine Matook (UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia) and Hans van der Heijden (School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)

 

Prior research has shown that the utilitarian value of an information system influences user acceptance because of the way the system helps to achieve certain user goals. It is less recognized in the literature that users have multiple goals that influence a user’s perception regarding the information system’s utilitarian value. This paper extends this body of knowledge by incorporating different types of goals into a theoretical framework. Building on means-end chain theory, two goal characteristics are identified, goal abstraction and goal linkage dependency, that both exert an influence on the utilitarian value of an information system. Findings from a qualitative and a quantitative study indicate that perceived utilitarian value changes as goal abstraction increases, and that goal linkage dependency influences the similarity of perceived utilitarian values across goals. Implications are important because they provide insight into potentially contradicting user evaluations of information systems.

 

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PAPER FOUR

 

Assessing ERP Learning (Management, Business Process, and Skills) and Attitudes

 

Timothy Paul Cronan (Department of Information Systems, Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA) and David E. Douglas (Department of Information Systems, Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA)

 

Critical to successful implementation and maximizing the potential benefits of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are knowledgeable and skilled users. Effective training for the required knowledge and skills is both difficult and challenging. Focusing on the assessment of ERP learning, this research develops learning constructs based on Kang and Santhanam’s (2003-4) collaborative application learning model. A valid and reliable ERP learning instrument that can be used to measure ERP learning and attitudes toward ERP is presented. The ERP learning instrument consists of three constructs (16 items) to measure ERP learning (business process knowledge, enterprise systems management knowledge, and transaction skills) as well as measures of attitudes toward ERP (instrument available from the authors at no cost) . The results of the study indicate that an ERP simulation game enhanced student learning and influenced student attitudes toward an ERP system.

 

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Coverage

Topics should be drawn from, but not limited to, the following areas, with major emphasis on how to increase organizational and end user productivity and performance, and how to achieve organizational strategic and competitive advantage: 

-  OEUC controls for security and privacy

-  OEUC affects of organizational strategic and competitive advantage

-  OEUC hardware and software

-  OEUC in various management functions

-  OEUC management

-  OEUC privacy, security, and copyright issues

-  OEUC productivity and performance

-  OEUC relation to information resources management

-  OEUC risk factors

-  OEUC satisfaction

-  OEUC success factors

-  OEUC support and training

-  OEUC usage

-  Using and managing emerging OEUC technologies

 

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Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. Interested authors must consult the journal’s guidelines for manuscript submissions at http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guide.asp prior to submission. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. All submissions must be forwarded electronically.

 

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Associate Professor Tanya McGill
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Organizational and End User Computing

School of Engineering and Information Technology
Murdoch University
Murdoch WA 6150 AUSTRALIA

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t.mcgill@murdoch.edu.au

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