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ICIS
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Improving the procurement process: humanizing accountants with a human factors education
The purposes of this paper are to show how the development and procurement processes are affected by accountants and to consider what human factors knowledge accountants should ha...
Philip J. A. Scown
ICIS
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Supporting cooperation in a virtual organization
This paper describes the design of groupware for virtual organizations that share certain characteristics. First the concept of virtual organizations is introduced. Then our appli...
Markus Rittenbruch, Helge Kahler, Armin B. Cremers
ICIS
1998
13 years 5 months ago
An activity based costing approach to systems development and implementation
Many organizations are in the process of replacing legacy systems with large, integrated systems using new technological platforms. Accurate estimation of project resources requir...
Ginny Ooi, Christina Soh, Pui Mun Lee
ICIS
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Adopting SAP at Siemens Power Corporation
This case describes how Siemens Power Corporation, a Richland, Washington (USA), based manufacturer of nuclear fuel assemblies, came to adopt and implement SAP's R/3 applicat...
Sabine Gabriele Hirt, E. Burton Swanson
ICIS
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Technology as traitor: emergent SAP infrastructure in a global organization
This paper discusses IT infrastructure development and use in the European fertilizer division of Norsk Hydro. The main element of the infrastructure discussed is a new SAP-based ...
Ole Hanseth, Kristin Braa
ICIS
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Competing dichotomies in IS research and possible strategies for resolution
The debate between "hard" positivist and "soft" interpretivist research approaches has been the subject of much discussion in the IS field. Typically, the deba...
Brian Fitzgerald, Debra Howcroft
ICIS
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Toward a contingency view of infrastructure and knowledge: an exploratory study
IT infrastructures coupled with BPR initiatives have the potential of supporting and enabling new organizational forms and helping firms face the challenges of globalization. The ...
Claudio U. Ciborra, Ole Hanseth