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Subject: JITTA: 10 new articles Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 13:02:24 +0800 From: Ken Peffers k@PEFFERS.COM To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

JITTA--Ten new articles

Editors Khalil Drira, Mike Metcalfe, and Rajiv Kishore have produced 2 ½ new issues for JITTA, with ten new articles that are well worth browsing. They can be accessed free-of-charge at http://jitta.org.

In Volume 3:2, edited by Drira, Lori Leonard and Timothy Cronan add to the discussion about the next direction for electronic commerce with a model for supply chain success. The model is distinct in its definition of product, service, and infrastructure “levels” and creates a platform that is worthy of consideration for future EC research efforts.

Volume 3:3 is a special issue on the role of dialogue in IS development edited by Metcalfe. This issue, which was introduced earlier with a lead article by Ian Mitroff, is now complete with six new papers. Neil Ramiller plays off Mitroff with a discussion of the relationship between technological development and human needs. The issue includes a very substantial two-part article by Werner Ulrich in which he makes a very impressive effort to lay down a philosophical foundation to information systems design, based on dialogue. Heath Colebatch, Sam Horrocks, and Jeff Smith help to bring a little realism to the IS table with an investigation about how managers inform themselves. The results are a bit deflating to proponents of a new era where systems replace human contact. The issue is rounded out with articles by Philip Marriott about the use of written versus oral dialogue and Dianne Watts about managers’ perspectives on the role of information systems.

Volume 3:5, edited by Kishore, contains an exploratory article by Jaemin Han and Dooheum Han that proposes a new framework for customer value in the context of Internet enabled business. It contains two empirical articles, one by Claire Simmers and Murugan Anandarajan, which studies Internet-induced job satisfaction among 3000 subjects, and the other by Simha Magal, Ming Feng, and Patricia Essex, which develops a framework for classifying applications in electronic commerce and tests the framework with a study of Fortune 500 companies.

JITTA

A new kind of IS research journal http://www.jitta.org/

Ken Peffers, ISMT Department HK University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong Tel: +852 2358-7639 Mobile: +852 9525 1041 Email: k@peffers.com URL: http://www.peffers.com

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