This paper presents a field study of the Technology Acceptance Model. We extended thismodel to predict the acceptance of a multifinctional, broker workstation with a windowedinterface. Brokers and sales assistants in the private client group of a major investmentbank use this workstation as an...

Virtual organizations are new organizational forms comprising a set ofnetwork transactions that differ from those found in markets andhierarchies. This paper explores the nature of these network transactionsthrough an in-depth study of a virtual firm. The virtual organization ischaracterized by...

The Internet presents great opportunities for research about information technology, allowing IS researchers to collect very large and rich datasets. It is common to see research papers with tens or even hundreds of thousands of data points, especially when reading about electronic commerce....

Using detailed social broadcasting data from an online charitable giving campaign on Twitter, we evaluate two competing models of economic incentives on online pro-social behavior. Specifically, we focus on the effectiveness of gratitude-embedded messages on online charitable giving behavior,...

This study seeks to examine how different types of information – product-related and price-related information provided by retailers – impact purchase-related outcomes for consumers belonging to different states of shopping. Using mixture-modeling techniques on clickstream data obtained from...

Internet banking represents an important innovation in the banking industry, yet empirical analyses of how it affects bank performance remain rare. Using a comprehensive dataset of U.S. banks between 2003 and 2008, we combine propensity-score matching and difference-in-differences methods to...

Advanced information technologies have enabled Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which have the potential to transform higher education around the world. Why are some institutions eager to embrace this technology-enabled model of teaching, while others remain reluctant to jump aboard?...