The Internet as Additional Secondary Source – First empirical Results for Differentiating the Impact of Secondary Sources on the Intention to use IT

The research about adoption decisions in a household context brought the factor of secondary sources as part of a normative beliefs construct to explain an individual’s behavioral intention. The secondary sources included mass media as TV, radio and newspapers but not the largest global information medium, the internet. With billions of information provided by the internet in every minute it seems to be very likely that this factor depicts an important determinant for an individual’s IT adoption decision as well. So for this reason the aim of our paper is to propose a research model to integrate the explicit influence of the mass medium internet on an individual’s IT adoption decision and to discuss the relationship and interplay between attitude towards an information system, intention to use an information system and the secondary source “Internet”. Furthermore a research description how the influence can be validated is provided and first empirical results are presented

On Visitations

In seiner Monographie Transmitted Wounds. Media and the Mediation of Trauma entwickelt Amit Pinchevski die These, dass moderne Massenmedien Trauma sowohl übertragen als auch tilgen können und plädiert dafür, ‚Trauma‘ als moralische Kategorie zu verstehen. Die Publikation verbindet Gedächtnisstudien, medientheoretische Erkenntnisse und Technikgeschichte und streift klinische und psychologische Beiträge zum Begriff ‚Trauma‘. Damit verknüpft Pinchevski verschiedene Perspektiven auf Gewalt und Technik und leistet einen originellen und inspirierenden Beitrag zu diesen Disziplinen.In his monograph, Transmitted Wounds. Media and the Mediation of Trauma, Amit Pinchevski develops the thesis that modern mass media can transmit and obliterate trauma and pleads for using ‘trauma’ as a moral category. His work interlinks memory, communication and technology studies and touches upon clinical and psychological contributions to notions of ‘trauma.’ Combining numerous views on the echoes of violence and technology, Pinchevski contributes in an inventive and inspirational way to those disciplines.      &nbsp

This Was Fort Dade

Fort Dade was born on the twenty-third of December 1836. The announcement read: “A fort will be erected. . . on the Big Withlacoochee, at the point where the Fort King road crosses it, which will bear the name of the gallant and lamented Dade.

WHY DO PEOPLE REJECT TECHNOLOGIES – A LITERATURE-BASED DISCUSSION OF THE PHENOMENA “RESISTANCE TO CHANGE” IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND MANAGERIAL PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH

In 2008, Ford et al. (2008) pointed out for management research, that “it is time to expand our understanding of resistance to change”. Since 1947, when Kurt Lewin discuss the first time the concept of resistance to change within his field theory, managerial psychology researchers have extended, criticized, modified and re-conceptualized the understanding of employees‟ responses to change initiatives. Also information systems research has identified resistance to change as major reason for IT project failures. However, as our analysis in this paper shows, there are a lot of opportunities for IS research to research resistance to IT-induced change. Using a literature review the paper discusses different concepts of resistance to change from managerial psychology and IS research in order to provide a better understanding of resistance to IT-induced change. The paper highlights implications from managerial psychology research to update the understanding of resistance to change in information systems research

Efficient compact linear programs for network revenue management

We are concerned with computing bid prices in network revenue management using approximate linear programming. It is well-known that affine value function approximations yield bid prices which are not sensitive to remaining capacity. The analytic reduction to compact linear programs allows the efficient computation of such bid prices. On the other hand, capacity-dependent bid prices can be obtained using separable piecewise linear value function approximations. Even though compact linear programs have been derived for this case also, they are still computationally much more expensive compared to using affine functions. We propose compact linear programs requiring substantially smaller computing times while, simultaneously, significantly improving the performance of capacity-independent bid prices. This simplification is achieved by taking into account remaining capacity only if it becomes scarce. Although our proposed linear programs are relaxations of the unreduced approximate linear programs, we conjecture equivalence and provide according numerical support. We measure the quality of an approximation by the difference between the expected performance of an induced policy and the corresponding theoretical upper bound. Using this paradigm in numerical experiments, we demonstrate the competitiveness of our proposed linear programs

Encounter by the River

It was mid-winter 1835 in Florida and the United States Army was gathering its strength at Fort Drane. Until a month ago the place was called “Auld Lang Syne,” a plantation devoted to raising sugar-cane on some 3,000 acres in the center of the Territory. It had gained the status of “fort” by the expedient of erecting a twelve-foot pine-log wall in a rectangle 460 yards in circumference around the main building. For ten years the owner had tended his dual duties as planter and general, but now the hue and cry was raised again and Fort Drane was headquarters for the troops in Florida. It looked like Duncan Lamont Clinch, planter and general, might have a war to fight

INFORMATION QUALITY DIMENSIONS: TWO EXPLORATORY CASE STUDIES WITH ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USERS

Using two explorative case studies we theorize in this paper about information quality as one variable of the IS success model explaining user satisfaction. We derive four dimensions of information quality which have a diverse and unique impact on user satisfaction: information characteristics, information access and security, information format, and task-information fit. Moreover, we identify contextual factors such as the pace of information change and update, legal and compliance requirements, and employees’ skills which determine the importance of each dimensions for explaining user satisfaction. This more nuanced view of information quality as one component of the IS success model enables a better guidance of organizations in improving information quality to increase user satisfaction. There-fore, several organizational interventions are discussed that can be used to improve information quali-ty by focusing on each of the four unique information quality dimensions separately

Why do People Reject Technologies? – Towards a Unified Model of Resistance to IT-Induced Organizational Change

Based on Oreg (2006) this paper proposes a unified model of technology resistance including resistance as a behavior or behavioral intention (Kim and Kankanhalli 2009), a tri-dimensional construct of resistance to change (Piderit 2000) as an extension to Bhattacherjee and Hikmet (2007) and resistance as a personality trait (Oreg 2003) in order to enable a unified understand why people reject technologies. The evaluation of the model with a study of a new human resources information system shows that the resistance behavior of the researched 106 recruiters could be explained by their affective, behavioral and cognitive resistance to change as well as their individual personality trait resistance. Several implications for future research are discussed

Adoption of Online Appointment Schedule Platforms – An Interview-based Case Study Series with Micro-Enterprises

Based on the Technology-Organization-Environment model we propose a model for explaining the adoption of online appointment schedule platforms by micro-enterprises in order to take the specific characteristics of this organizational type into consideration of technology adoption research. Using case study interviews from seven micro-enterprises we can show that the adoption decision is mainly influenced by the attitude of the entrepreneur, support and updates, scalability, test phase, training and compatibility. In addition, we identify a fourth context of marketing factors relevant for the adoption decision and not considered by the TOE-model so far. Moreover, we discuss whether rather individual- or organizational level adoption models are appropriate to explain the adoption decision of micro-enterprises

Development and Test of a Semi-structured Explorative Survey Methodology to Analyze Appropriate Learning Methods for Technology-related Training across the Phases of Technology Use

Training is regarded as an indicator for organizations’ performance. To analyze appropriate learning methods for technology-related training across the phases of technology use we develop a semi-structured, explorative survey methodology. The methodology is tested with a sample of 53 healthcare professionals from China, France and the USA. Based on that, lessons learnt are concluded that confirm the usefulness of the methodology for research and practice. In addition, further improvements and enlargements of the methodology are illustrated in this paper as basis for further research