-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] all EJIS/JIT FREE(!) all May Datum: Wed, 13 May 2009 20:20:38 -0400 Von: Richard Baskerville baskerville@acm.org Antwort an: Richard Baskerville baskerville@acm.org An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org
Dear Colleagues,
I understand that the publishers of EJIS and JIT, Palgrave Macmillan, have placed all their journal content on a free trial for the month of May. This is a great time to grab the recent content (often institutional subscriptions won't include the most recent year's articles).
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/archive/index.html
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jit/archive/index.html
EJIS published its special issue on Design Science Research in October (17:5), and I hope our special issue on security will just hit the web site before the free month is out (no guarantees). Its a genuine free lunch, so go for it.
Among the recent general articles, I particularly recommend two:
Rethinking Organizational Size (Goode & Gregor) EJIS 18:1, Feb 2009 Information capability and value creation strategy: advancing revenue management through mobile ticketing technologies (Li et al) EJIS 18:1 Feb 2009
My summaries of these two follow
What exactly do we mean by organisational size? In "Rethinking Organisational Size in IS Research: Meaning, Measurement and Redevelopment", Sigi Goode and Shirley Gregor of The Australian National University examine one of the most common constructs in information systems research (or indeed in management research in general). The article reports a comprehensive research program consisting of three studies. The first study is an extensive literature review that surveys and analyses the construct as it appears in the information systems scholarly press. The second study builds on the first by using a concept mapping exercise to refine and validate the analysis from the first study. In the third part of the program, the authors survey a sample of business firms as a pilot test of the refined construct. The research program reported by this paper offers a rigorous exploration of what "organisational size" can mean in information systems research. It reminds me strongly of Delone and McLean's (1992) quest for the elusive dependent variable (success) that has been recently updated in EJIS (Petter et al., 2008). Only in this case, Goode and Gregor's quest is for the elusive independent variable (size). As is the case with Petter, Delone and McLean, the quest by Goode and Gregor leads to a deep and welcome understanding of one of our most important research constructs.
Ting Li, Eric van Heck, and Peter Vervest of Erasmus University explain exactly why the transit smart card in my pocket (it is an Atlanta Breeze Card) is even smarter than I realised. The detailed passenger data has enabled equally-smart transportation providers to strategise price differentiation and service expansion in ways that improved organisational financial performance and add more payback to the technology investment. The data from these devices, which many of us saw as process control technologies, offer the basis for a classic study of IT-driven strategy-setting with high payback potential. In "Information Capability and Value Creation Strategy: Advancing Revenue Management Through Mobile Ticketing Technologies", the authors study 17 cases of smart card adoption in large-scale public transit systems (three in Europe, four in the US, and ten in Asia). By large-scale, they mean the Atlanta Breeze Card, the Boston Charlie Card, the Chicago Card, the Hong Kong Octopus, the London Oyster Card, the Moscow Transport Card, Seoul T-money, the Washington SmarTrip, and the Netherlands-wide OV-chipkaart (among others). Learn how the data from these cards in your pockets is changing the organisational strategies of your transit systems.
Enjoy!
// Richard Baskerville, CIS Dept., Georgia State University // 35 Broad Street NW, PO Box 4015, Atlanta, Ga 30302 // Tel. +1 404.413.7362 Fax 413.7394 // Web http://cis.gsu.edu/~rbaskerv
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