EDMS Use in Local E-Government: Extent of Use and Overall Performance Mediated by Routinization and Infusion

This study analyzes the effects of several post-adoption behaviors (extent of use, routinization and infusion) on overall performance in using an Electronic Document Management System (EDMS). Furthermore, we test whether the routinization and infusion variables mediate the influence of the extent of use on overall performance. This research collects data from a survey answered by 2,175 employees (EDMS users) of Portuguese municipalities. The Partial Least Squares technique is applied to test the model. The results showed that routinization is directly predicted by the extent of use, whereas infusion is directly affected by the extent of use and also by routinization. Consequently, such post-adoptive behaviors are interrelated not only in a sequential process, but also in parallel. In addition, overall performance is directly influenced by routinization and infusion. Finally, an indirect effects analysis shows that routinization and infusion mediate the relationship between extent of use and overall performance

Towards a reconceptualization of data in organizations: a literature review

Information Systems researchers have sought to demonstrate the strategic value of data in organizations through robust evidence. Over time, the ways data benefit organizations have evolved and become more diverse, yet definitions of data and their value propositions have not kept up and remain disconnected. The field still lacks clear understanding of various roles data play in organizations and how to define them. This paper presents a comprehensive review of related literature in the Information Systems and Management fields from the past two decades. We first conduct a systematic literature search and organize them into key research themes by the purpose of data use. We then propose a reconceptualization of data that takes into account their distinct features. Our aim is to provide an explanation for the unique nature of data and the diverse sources of their value in organizations

Girls and the Media: Girlhood Studies Agenda and Prospects in Italy

Within the Italian context, girlhood studies can hardly be considered a specific field: adolescence and gender construction in Italy have historically been investigated by sociology and psychology, although, in recent years, media studies have also focused on youth media consumption as a cultural process in the broader sense, investigating the relevance of the media in the identity-building process. Actually, the lack of a definition of girlhood studies as such did not prevent Italian research from providing theoretical contributions and significant research on girlhood, mostly in the fields of reception studies, audience studies and textual analysis. On these premises, the article aims at discussing the relationships between girlhood and the media nowadays, keeping in mind firstly the recent transformations in media consumption within the networked society; secondly the coexistence of contradictory representations of girlhood in both the local and the global and the way it is assembled in the young audience discourse; and thirdly the phenomenon of identity co-creation in creative fandom practices.Within the Italian context, girlhood studies can hardly be considered a specific field: adolescence and gender construction in Italy have historically been investigated by sociology and psychology, although, in recent years, media studies have also focused on youth media consumption as a cultural process in the broader sense, investigating the relevance of the media in the identity-building process. Actually, the lack of a definition of girlhood studies as such did not prevent Italian research from providing theoretical contributions and significant research on girlhood, mostly in the fields of reception studies, audience studies and textual analysis. On these premises, the article aims at discussing the relationships between girlhood and the media nowadays, keeping in mind firstly the recent transformations in media consumption within the networked society; secondly the coexistence of contradictory representations of girlhood in both the local and the global and the way it is assembled in the young audience discourse; and thirdly the phenomenon of identity co-creation in creative fandom practices

Proceedings of the 18th Australasian conference on information systems doctoral consortium (ACIS 2007)

Proceedings of the ACIS 2007 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems Doctoral Consortium, Toowoomba, Australia, 4 December 2007

On the evolution of hyperlinking

Across time, the hyperlink object has supported different applications and studies. This is one perspective on the evolution of the hyperlinking concept, its context and related behaviors. Through a spectrum of hyperlinking applications and practices, the article contrasts the status quo with its related, broader, conceptual roots; it also bridges to some theorized and prototyped hyperlink variations, namely "stigmergic hyperlinks", to make the case that the ubiquitousness of some objects and certain usage patterns can obfuscate opportunities to (re)think them. In trying to contribute an answer to "what has the common hyperlink (such an apparently simple object) done to society, and what has society done to it?", the article identifies situations that have become so embedded in the daily routine, that it is now hard to think of hyperlinking alternatives.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

ICT ADOPTION - A NECESSITY FOR ROMANIAN SMES

In today's global economy the use of ICTs technologies is key for achieving growth and competitiveness. Business can use ICT in their relationship with suppliers or customers, to process accounts, to manage the internal processes or to file taxes. Our paper is concerned with studying the use of ICT in Romanian companies in general and especially in Transylvanian SMEs. We conducted a survey among the Transylvanian SMEs with regard to their level of endowment with computers, the number of staff working full-time in IT, the activities that imply computers, the ability to process information, to plan and solve problems using computers.ICT, SMEs, Romania, Transylvania

The Effect of Perceived IS Support for Creativity on Job Satisfaction: The Role of effective IS use in virtual workplaces

Organizations have been increasingly utilizing various IT technologies to reduce boundaries, secure individuals’ explicit and tacit knowledge, facilitate information sharing and connect human capitals regardless of their geographically dispersed locations and cross-level unit structures. The core competency of information technology/systems (IT/IS) use is essential to maintain the effective functioning of virtual workplaces. While IS research has examined creativity on virtual teams, it has given little attention to how the relationship among creativity and job satisfaction may be altered as a consequence of effective use in virtual organizations. The roles of effective IS use in virtual team contexts have not been explicitly modeled to understand how and why effective IS use and creativity influence job satisfaction. This study examines the effect of creativity concepts by using perceived IS support for creativity as a proxy via effective IS use and compares such effect in two different work settings