36. HICSS 2003: Big Island, Hawaii, USA

Track Introduction

• Hugh J. Watson:
  Introduction to the Organizational Systems and Technology Track. 223
  

Compettive Strategy and Information Systems (OSSCI

• Eric K. Clemons, Rajiv M. Dewan, Robert J. Kauffman:
  Competitive Strategy and Information Systems Minitrack Introduction. 224
  
• Hemant K. Bhargava, Shankar Sundaresan:
  Managing Quality Uncertainty Through Contingency Pricing. 225
  
• Eric K. Clemons, Bin Gu, Rick Spitler:
  Hyper-Differentiation Strategies: Delivering Value, Retaining Profits. 225
  
• Eric K. Clemons, Bin Gu:
  Justifying Information Technology Investments: Balancing the Need for Speed of Action with Certainty before Action. 226
  
• Rajiv M. Dewan, Marshall L. Freimer:
  Does Bundling Add-Ins Help Consumers? 226
  
• Yoris A. Au, Robert J. Kauffman:
  Information Technology Investment and Adoption: A Rational Expectations Perspective. 226
  
• Robert J. Kauffman, Bin Wang:
  Duration in the Digital Economy. 227
  

Creativity in Information Systems (OSCIS)

• Brenda Massetti, Eric L. Santanen:
  Creativity in Information Systems. 228
  
• Eric L. Santanen, Robert O. Briggs, Gert-Jan de Vreede:
  The Impact of Stimulus Diversity on Creative Solution Generation: An Evaluation of the Cognitive Network Model of Creativity. 229
  
• David Mendonça, G. E. G. Beroggi, William A. Wallace:
  Evaluating Support for Improvisation in Simulated Emergency Scenarios. 229
  

Data Warehousing (OSDWH)

• Barbara Wixom, Paul Gray, Hugh J. Watson:
  Introduction to the Minitrack on Data Warehousing. 230
  
• Robert Winter, Bernhard Strauch:
  A Method for Demand-Driven Information Requirements Analysis in Data Warehousing Projects. 231
  
• Steven R. Haynes:
  Institutional Metrics for the United States Marine Corps. 231
  
• Hans-Georg Kemper, Phil-Lip Lee:
  The Customer-Centric Data Warehouse - An Architectural Approach to Meet the Challenges of Customer Orientation. 231
  
• Svetlozar Nestorov, Nenad Jukic:
  Ad-Hoc Association-Rule Mining within the Data Warehouse. 232
  
• Leslie K. Hodge, Charles A. Milligan:
  Managing Virtual Data Marts with Metapointer Tables. 232
  

ERP/ERPII System Issues and Answers (OSERP)

• Gail Corbitt:
  ERP/ERP II Issues and Answers: Session Overview. 233
  
• Marinos Themistocleous, Zahir Irani:
  Towards a Novel Framework for the Assessment of Enterprise Application Integration Packages. 234
  
• Celeste See Pui Ng, Guy G. Gable, Taizan Chan:
  An ERP Maintenance Model. 234
  
• Jen-Her Wu, Yuh-Min Wang:
  Enterprise Resource Planning Experience in Taiwan: An Empirical Study and Comparative Analysis. 235
  
• Marie-Claude Boudreau:
  Learning to Use ERP Technology: A Causal Model. 235
  
• Paul Hawking, Andrew Stein:
  E-Skills: The Next Hurdle for ERP Implementations. 235
  
• Liang Zhang, Matthew K. O. Lee, Zhe Zhang, Probir Banerjee:
  Critical Success Factors of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems Implementation Success in China. 236
  

Information Systems in Global Business (OSGLO)

• Pieter M. A. Ribbers, Christopher P. Holland:
  Introduction to Information Systems in Global Business Minitrack. 237
  
• Dale Ganley, Kenneth L. Kraemer, Poh-Kam Wong:
  Spillover Effects of Production of IT on Use of IT. 238
  
• Benjamin B. M. Shao, Wesley S. Shu:
  Productivity Breakdown of the Information Technology Industries across Countries. 238
  
• Naureen Khan, Wendy Currie, Vishanth Weerakkody, Bhavini Desai:
  Evaluating Offshore IT Outsourcing in India: Supplier and Customer Scenarios. 239
  
• Kai Reimers:
  Developing Sustainable B2B E-Commerce Scenarios in the Chinese Context A Research Proposal. 239
  
• Alea M. Fairchild, Ryan Peterson:
  Business-to-Business Value Drivers and eBusiness Infrastructures in Financial Services: Collaborative Commerce Across Global Markets and Networks. 239
  
• Sherry M. B. Thatcher, William Foster:
  B2B E-Commerce Adoption Decisions in Taiwan: The Interaction of Organizational, Industrial, Governmental and Cultural Factors. 240
  
• Joe Nandhakumar, Matti Rossi, Jari M. Talvinen:
  Planning for 'Drift'?: Implementation Process of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. 240
  
• David C. L. Kuo, Martin Smits:
  Performance of Integrated Supply Chains - An International Case Study in High Tech Manufacturing. 241
  

IT Governance and Its Mechanisms (OSITG)

• Wim Van Grembergen:
  Introduction to the Minitrack IT Governance and its Mechanisms. 242
  
• Ryan Peterson, Alea M. Fairchild:
  Exploring the Impact of Electronic Business Readiness on Leadership Capabilities in Information Technology Governance. 243
  
• John C. Beachboard:
  Automating Land Management: An Interpretive Analysis of Information Technology Management within the Bureau of Land Management. 243
  
• Nandish V. Patel:
  Health Informatics Governance: Researching Deferred IS/IT Mechanisms. 244
  
• Carla Wilkin, Tanya Castleman:
  Development of an Instrument to Evaluate the Quality of Delivered Information Systems. 244
  
• Rick Hefner:
  Aligning Strategies: Organizational, Project, Individual. 244
  

Measuring IT Value (OSMIV)

• Measuring IT Value. 245
  
• H. James Nelson, Kay M. Nelson:
  IT: What's It Good For? 246
  
• Bruce Dehning, Vernon J. Richardson, Theophanis Stratopoulos:
  Reviewing Event Studies in MIS: An Application of the Firm Value Framework. 246
  
• Hy Sonya Hsu, Siva K. Balasubramanian:
  Telecommunication Infrastructure Investments and Firm Performance. 247
  
• James A. Senn:
  o Managers and IT Professionals View the Business Value of Information Technology Differently? 247
  

Project Management (OSPRM)

• Hans J. Thamhain:
  Project Management Minitrack Introduction. 248
  
• Grace M. Bochenek, James M. Ragusa:
  Virtual (3D) Collaborative Environments: An Improved Environment for Integrated Product Team Interaction? 249
  
• Roberto Zanoni, Jorge Luis Nicolas Audy:
  Projected Management Model for Physically Distributed Software Development Environment. 249
  
• Joseph W. Weiss, Don Anderson Jr.:
  CIOs and IT Professionals as Change Agents, Risk and Stakeholder Managers: A Field Study. 249
  
• Russell L. Purvis, Gordon E. McCray, Tom L. Roberts:
  The Impact of Project Management Heuristics to IS Projects. 250
  
• Maaret Pyhäjärvi, Kristian Rautiainen, Juha Itkonen:
  Increasing Understanding of the Modern Testing Perspective in Software Product Development Projects. 250
  
• Mark A. Turnquist, Linda K. Nozick:
  Allocating Time and Resources in Project Management Under Uncertainty. 250
  

Research Methods and Approaches in Organizational Systems Research (OSRMA)

• Sajda Qureshi, Douglas R. Vogel, Gert-Jan de Vreede:
  Research Methods and Applications in Organizational Systems Research Introduction to the Minitrack. 251
  
• Steven Alter:
  Pervasive Real-Time IT as a Disruptive Technology for the IS Field. 252
  
• Deepak Khazanchi, Bjørn Erik Munkvold:
  On the Rhetoric and Relevance of IS Research Paradigms: A Conceptual Framework and Some Propositions. 252
  
• Felix B. Tan, M. Gordon Hunter:
  Using Narrative Inquiry in a Study of Information Systems Professionals. 253
  
• David Yuh Foong Law, Joo Eng Lee-Partridge:
  Towards a Strategy for Sense-Making of Empirical Knowledge Management Perceptions - The TFL Methodology. 253
  
• Kai R. T. Larsen:
  Development of the Information Systems Implementation Research Method. 253
  
• Somasundaram Ramanathan, Jeremy Rose:
  Rationalizing, Probing, Understanding: the Evolution of the Inter-Organizational Systems Adoption Field. 254
  

Social Issues in Organizations (OSSIO)

• Donald L. Amoroso, Karen D. Loch, Robert M. Davison:
  Social Issues in Organizations Minitrack Introduction. 255
  
• Vladimir Kvassov:
  The Effects of Time and Personality on the Productivity of Management Information Systems. 256
  
• Tom L. Roberts Jr., Marek Wermus, Michael L. Gibson, Wayne Gober:
  The Career of the Technical Professional: A Look at the Career Path and Reward System in Technical Polish Companies. 256
  
• Magnus Holmqvist, Håkan Enquist:
  Enterprise Wide Development - A Survey of Critical Factors for Co-Ordinated Development in Complex Organizations: What Development Managers Consider. 257
  
• Donald L. Amoroso:
  Successful Penetration into the e-Business Environment: An Empirical Study. 257
  
• Jeremy Rose, Ray Hackney:
  Towards a Structurational Theory of Information Systems: A Substantive Case Analysis. 258
  

Technology Management in the Knowledge Based Economy (OSKBE)

• G. John van der Pijl, Pieter M. A. Ribbers, Martin Smits:
  Technology Management in the Knowledge Based Economy. 259
  
• Koen Milis, Michel Meulders, R. Mercken:
  A Quasi-Experimental Approach to Determining Success Criteria for ICT Projects. 260
  
• Effy Oz:
  The 'Vanishing' IT Productivity: A Simple Theory. 260
  
• Shih-Wei Chou, Su-Ju Wang, Hsing-Pang Chen:
  Facilitating Knowledge Management with Information Management and Organizational Mechanisms. 260
  

Topics in Organizational Systems and Technology (OSOST)

• R. M. Richards:
  Topics in Organizational Systems and Technology Minitrack Introduction. 261
  
• Narcyz Roztocki, Nawal Ait Lahri:
  Is the Applicability of Web-Based Surveys for Academic Research Limited to the Field of Information Technology? 262
  
• George M. Scott:
  Internet/Web Systems Development: What Can Be Learned from Hi-Tech New Product Strategic Planning. 262
  
• Harald F. O. von Kortzfleisch:
  Organizational Impact of Information Technology (IT) in the Context of E-Business: Development of a General Framework for Balancing the Tensions between Opportunities and Risks. 263
  
• Jen-Her Wu, Tse-Chih Hsia, I-Chia Chang, Sun-Jen Tsai:
  Application Generator: A Framework and Methodology for IS Construction. 263
  
• Michael C. L. Lai, Susanna S. Y. Ho, Wendy W. Y. Hui:
  Adoption Process of Upgrading Software: An Empirical Study of Windows XP. 264
  
• Ye-Sho Chen, Chitu Okoli, P. Pete Chong:
  IT Businesses and Franchising: A Research Proposal. 264
  
• Jintae Lee, Emilio Collar Jr.:
  Information Technology Fashions: Lifecycle Phase Analysis. 265
  
• Jesper Holck:
  4 Perspectives on Web Information Systems. 265
  
• Fred A. B. Lohman, Henk G. Sol, Gert-Jan de Vreede:
  The Illusion of Effective Management Information: A Critical Perspective. 266
  

Trends in Outsourcing of Information Systems (OSISO)

• Benoit Aubert, Wendy Currie, Suzanne Rivard:
  Introduction to the Trends in Outsourcing of Information Systems Minitrack. 267
  
• Erik Beulen, Pieter M. A. Ribbers:
  IT Outsourcing Contracts: Practical Implications of the Incomplete Contract Theory. 268-
  
• Jae-Nam Lee, Young-Gul Kim:
  Exploring a Causal Model for the Understanding of Outsourcing Partnership. 268
  
• Wendy Currie, Bhavini Desai, Naureen Khan, Xinkun Wang, Vishanth Weerakkody:
  Vendor Strategies for Business Process and Applications Outsourcing: Recent Findings from Field Research. 268
  
• Bouchaib Bahli, Suzanne Rivard:
  A Validation of Measures Associated with the Risk Factors in Information Technology Outsourcing. 269
  
• Benoit Aubert, Jean-Francois Houde, Michel Patry, Suzanne Rivard:
  Characteristics of IT Outsourcing Contracts. 269
  

Virtuality in Organizations and Communities (OSVOC)

• Virtuality in Organizations and Communities. 270
  
• Erin Bradner, Gloria Mark, Tammie D. Hertel:
  Effects of Team Size on Participation, Awareness, and Technology Choice in Geographically Distributed Teams. 271
  
• JoAnne Yates, Wanda J. Orlikowski, Stephanie L. Woerner:
  Virtual Organizing: Using Threads to Coordinate Distributed Work. 271
  
• Roland Bauer, Sabine T. Köszegi, Michaela Wolkerstorfer:
  Measuring the Degree of Virtualization - An Empirical Analysis in two Austrian Industries. 271