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The content of the latest issue of:
Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ) Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association Volume 15, # 1, January-March 2002
Editor-in-Charge: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, IRMA
EDITORIAL PREFACE "Beware the Cookie Monster" Edward Szewczak, Canisius College, USA
This editorial discusses the Internet and the continuing debate regarding Internet users' concerns about personal information privacy.
RESEARCH PAPERS
ARTICLE ONE: "The Impact of Perceived Innovation Characteristics on Intention to Use Groupware" Craig Van Slyke, University of Central Florida, USA Hao Lou, Ohio University, USA John Day, Ohio University, USA
This study uses diffusion of innovation theory to investigate factors that influence the use of specific groupware applications, Lotus Domino applications. The research findings indicate that perceptions of relative advantage, complexity, compatibility and result demonstrability are significantly related to intentions to use Domino discussion databases. To obtain a copy of this article, click on the link below.
http://www.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=AXFUXRM3EM9APEH...
ARTICLE TWO: "An Investigation of Knowledge Management within a University IT Group" Hope Koch, Texas A&M, USA David Paradice, Florida State University, USA Bonsug Chae, Texas A&M University, USA Yi Guo, Texas A&M University, USA
This research uses technical and human-centric approaches combined with Holsapple and Joshi's Kentucky Initiative to investigate knowledge management within a small information technology group. Based on the findings of the case study, proposed are some factors that seem to enable effective knowledge management and a modification to Holsapple and Joshi's architecture of a knowledge management episode. To obtain a copy of this article, click on the link below.
http://www.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=Q4UM5FKVLFDABQQ...
ARTICLE THREE: "Knowledge Management Systems: An Architecture for Active and Passive Knowledge" Stuart D. Galup, Florida Atlantic University, USA Ronald Dattero, Florida Atlantic University, USA Richard C. Hicks, Florida Atlantic University, USA
A Knowledge Management System with an embedded expert system using business rules from the organization, combined with the connectivity of a server in a client/server architecture, provides an excellent environment for automating business activities at both local and enterprise levels. As this article discusses, the segregation business rules into the Knowledge Tier should lower the cost of development and maintenance, increase accuracy, and ensure corporation-wide consistency. To obtain a copy of this article, click on the link below.
http://www.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=N5D2J813VUHU8BQ...
ARTICLE FOUR: "Organisational Mission Statements: A Postmodernist Perspective on the Management of the IS/IT Function" Ray Hackney, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK John Pillay, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
This paper examines postmodernism in this respect, which, in addition to forming a critique of modernist approaches, posits alternative views about philosophy, organization and subsequently IS/IT theory. The organizational mission statement was used as a vehicle for analyzing the contribution of postmodern approaches to the management of the IS/IT function. To obtain a copy of this article, click on the link below.
http://www.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=V49GRBNNM6CB9ME...
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Mission of IRMJ: Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for review and possible publication in the Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ). The Journal publishes original concerned with all aspects of information resources management, managerial and organizational applications, as well as implications of information technology. The primary mission of IRMJ is to be instrumental in the improvement and development of the theory and practice of information resources management, appealing to both researchers and practicing managers. Further, its aim is to educate organizations as to how they can benefit from their IT resources and all the tools utilized to gather, process, disseminate, and manage this valuable resource.
Coverage of IRMJ: IRMJ seeks topics from, but not limited to, the areas, with major emphasis on the managerial and organizational aspects of information resources and technology management: Executive Information Systems Information Technology Security and Ethics Global Information Technology Management Electronic Commerce Technologies and Issues Emerging Technologies Management IT Management in Public Organizations Strategic IT Management Telecommunications and Networking Technologies MIS Reengineering Management Database Management Technologies and Issues End User Computing Issues Decision Support and Group Decision Support Systems Systems Development & Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) IT Management Research and Practice Multimedia Computing Technologies and Issues Object Oriented Technologies and Issues Human & Societal Issues in Information Technology Management Information Technology Education and Training Issues Distance Learning Technologies and Issues Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems Technologies and Issues Information Technology Innovation and Diffusion Software Process Improvement AND OTHER MANAGERIAL ISSUES RELEVANT TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT.
Interested authors should consult the Journal's manuscript submission guidelines at http://www.idea-group.com
All inquiries and submissions should be sent electronically to: Editor-in-Charge: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour Information Resources Management Journal E-Mail: mehdi@irma-international.org URL: http://www.idea-group.com
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