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IFIP
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Information Systems Conceptual Foundations: Looking Backward and Forward
The academic field of information systems has developed because organizations use a specialized body of knowledge about information and communications systems. Teaching and resear...
Gordon B. Davis
IFIP
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Information Technology and the Cultural Reproduction of Social Order: A Research Paradigm
This paper introduces the critical social theory of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. The objective of Bourdieu's theoretical framework is to uncover the buried organizatio...
Lynette Kvasny, Duane P. Truex
IFIP
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Process as Theory in Information Systems Research
Many researchers have searched for evidence of organizational improvements from the huge sums invested in ICT. Unfortunately, evidence for such a pay back is spotty at best (e.g.,...
Kevin Crowston
IFIP
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Implementing Open Network Technologies in Complex Work Practices: A Case from Telemedicine
New non-desktop technologies may turn out to be of a more open and generic nature than traditional information technologies. These technologies consequently pose novel challenges ...
Margunn Aanestad, Ole Hanseth
IFIP
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11 Networks in the Presence of Hidden Stations
: IEEE 802.11 is a wireless network standard that was completed in 1997. Unfortunately, the medium access protocol described in the standard meets some problems that arise from the...
Marek Natkaniec, Andrzej R. Pach
IFIP
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Minimum GPRS Bandwidth for Acceptable H
: As part of a larger research on multimedia traffic performance over GPRS, we present a QoS study focusing on one parameter: bandwidth. GPRS is an evolutionary phase and a critica...
Iyad Al Khatib, Anders Franzen, Fabio Moioli
IFIP
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Project-specific Process Configuration in Virtual Enterprises
Virtual enterprises have great difficulty in defining and adapting their business processes across the members of the virtual enterprise. We introduce an approach that allows (semi...
Christian Rupprecht, Thomas Rose, E. van Halm, Ari...
IFIP
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
For a smart coordination of distributed business processes
Ricardo J. Rabelo, Alexandra A. Pereira Klen, A. C...
IFIP
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Using Knowledge management to improve quality
T. Pfeifer, R. Freudenberg, G. Hanel