Houston, we’ve had a problem…… offshoring, IS employment and the IS discipline: perception is not realityJournal of Information Technology - Tập 25 - Trang 358-372 - 2010
Rudy Hirschheim, Mike Newman
We believe that the information system (IS) discipline has a major and urgent problem to contend with: the general public appears to believe that there are ‘no jobs in IS’ because of offshoring. They see the offshoring of IS jobs as an inevitable consequence of economic and competitive pressures to drive down labor costs, which leads them to conclude that there is no future in IS. In particular, t...... hiện toàn bộ
The responsiveness of information technology to business strategy formulation: an empirical studyJournal of Information Technology - Tập 10 - Trang 171-178 - 1995
Felix B Tan
In a study involving 88 companies, the nature of the linkages between business strategy and information technology (IT) responsiveness was explored. The results indicate that variations in IT-strategy responsiveness, measured by the extent to which IT is explicitly considered in business strategy formulation, are linked to the type of business strategy being pursued by the organization. For exampl...... hiện toàn bộ
EditorialJournal of Information Technology - Tập 11 Số 2 - Trang 99-100 - 1996
Voluntary Use of Information Technology: An Analysis and Synthesis of the LiteratureJournal of Information Technology - Tập 32 Số 2 - Trang 147-162 - 2017
Hsing‐Yi Tsai, Deborah Compeau, Darren Meister
Voluntariness is recognized as an important influence on individual and collective technology acceptance. We conducted a comprehensive review of this literature and identified a rich set of voluntariness concepts and methods of operationalization. However, while considerable empirical evidence is reported in the literature, our review also revealed inconsistent results concerning the rela...... hiện toàn bộ
Information technology as a service operationJournal of Information Technology - Tập 7 - Trang 189-201 - 1992
Tony Rands
Research into service management has revealed concepts and ideas which may be usefully applied in other management settings. In order to evaluate their potential relevance to managing information technology (IT), several aspects of service management are explored, including the nature of service products, customer-supplier contact, the design of service delivery systems, and measuring and achievin...... hiện toàn bộ
The stakeholder dimension in information systems evaluationJournal of Information Technology - Tập 17 - Trang 241-255 - 2002
Laurie McAulay, Neil Doherty, Natasha Keval
This study used an earlier critique of the cultural sciences for exploring the ideological basis for the evaluation of outsourcing. Questionnaire and interview responses are presented. These incorporate a range of evaluative criteria, which together represent an indicative list of the benefits and risks of outsourcing. The paper initially suggests that different stakeholders might be impacted on i...... hiện toàn bộ