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The Relationship between Trust and Cohesion in Temporary Knowledge Work Teams

Knowledge work often involves team work. Increasingly these teams are not face to face but virtual teams. This paper explores the trust/ cohesion relationship in face-to-face and virtual teams. Lisrel modeling is used to examine the proposal that the type of group in which knowledge workers are involved influences the mutual trust of the group which in turn influences the cohesion of the group

E-Commerce Audit Judgment Expertise: Does Expertise in System Change Management and Information Technology Auditing Mediate E-Commerce Audit Judgment Expertise?

A global survey of 203 E-commerce auditors was conducted to investigate the perceptions about the potential determinants of expertise in E-commerce audits. We hypothesize and find evidence indicating that information technology and communication expertise are positively related to expertise in E-commerce audit judgment. We also find that system change management expertise and information technology audit expertise mediate this relationship.E-commerce Audit Judgment, IT Audit, Structural Equations Modeling

Isoconfigurational Elastic Constants and Liquid Fragility of a Bulk Metallic Glass Forming Alloy

Samples of Zr46.25Ti8.25Cu7.5Ni10Be27.5 were isothermally annealed and quenched near the glass transition temperature and studied by the pulse-echo overlap technique. The shear modulus G of the samples shows a strong reversible dependence on annealing temperatures and, thus, on the specific configurational potential energy of the equilibrium liquid. The low-T dependence of G of the configurationally frozen glasses shows linear temperature dependence as expected by Debye-Grüneisen theory. The T dependence of G in the liquid state is directly related to the viscosity and fragility of the liquid

Charter Schools and Special Education Enrollment Rates

There is a growing concern that public charter schools, as publicly funded entities, which are mandated to ensure FAPE and IDEA, are lagging significantly behind public non-charter schools, when it comes to special education student enrollment. This potentially creates an unbalanced special education student ratio between public non-charter schools and public charters. This dissertation examines the enrollment rates of special education students between public charters and public non-charter schools in a large, metropolitan American school district, over a five-year period. This body of work examines causality and the effect of enrollment data along with the potential implications

Communication Channel Usage: Is There a Gender Difference?

The object of this paper is to investigate the proposition that communication channel usage differs by gender. First the results of a communication channel study are reported which examined perceptions of communication channel usage in a group of office workers. These results are then explained in the light of existing information processing theory. While these findings are limited in generalizability, this study shows the lack of gender specific information processing research. Researchers may find it useful when examining information processing and communication channel usage, in particular, to control for gender differences

The Effectiveness of Electronic Work Groups for Student Cases

During the last two years in the case based, upper level undergraduate Management Information Systems Course that I teach, I have included segments in the course to provide opportunities for the students to use the Internet: (1) email for distribution of course assignments and (2) gopher and World Wide Web browers to find information to supplement case work. As a result of a call from a distribution list, I volunteered my class to participate in collaborative case work using the Internet with universities in Canada, United States, and Mexico: University of Washington, University of Nebraska -Lincoln, University of Oregon, Rowan College, University of Idaho, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, McGill University, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Stephen F. Austin State University, University of Prince Edward Island. Three cases were considered by the faculty at these universities and finally a case about Microsoft Corporation was selected and questions to be answered were agreed upon. At these universities, the students were either taking an organizational strategy course oran MIS course. In this paper, the process of establishing these collaborative, Internet case groups is discussed. Also the students rated their experience using the Internet case group versus a face-to-face case group they used for a later case assignment about Sun Microsystems

Virtual Work Groups: Does Gender Matter?

Virtual work groups (email enabled asynchronous work groups) provide the context for this research. A review of the group literature reveals that little research has been done on the gender differences in such groups. It is hypothesized that in these groups there will be significant gender differences in terms of perceptions of the work group experience. The context for this research are teams of students working on a case project that have never had face-to-face contact