Empirical survey research has been extremely popular in the information systemsfield. However, survey researchers encounter a number of methodologicalproblems in conducting their studies. This paper presents a model of the researchprocess and uses it to organize a discussion of the difficulties...

The goal of this research is to provide hypermediafunctionality to all information systems. In this paper Ipresent the architecture of a system-level hypermediaengine, designed both to manage fill hypermedia functionalityfor an information system and to bind interface-orientedacirc;...

This commentary is on Shirley Gregor's (2006) article titled "The Nature of Theory in Information Systems", published in MIS Quarterly. In terms of theories, five types have been prominent in Gregor's classification: (a) Theory of Analyzing (b) Theory of Explaining (c) Theory of Prediction (d)...

In today's business scenario, strategic decisions rely to a very large extent upon critical and precise information needs. However, this information itself is plagued in its divergence and often overlapping. As such, this study attempts to sort out relevant information in formulating technology...

Purpose: Production planning and control has crucial impact on the production and business activities of enterprise. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is the most popular resources planning and management system, however there are some shortcomings and deficiencies in the production planning...

Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) systems have gained renewed interest from academics and practitioners. However, literature on APS adoption is scant. This study explores the impact of organizational and innovation related factors on the adoption of APS systems from a factors approach. The...

Purpose: Demand-Driven Distribution Resource Planning (DDDRP) has recently been proposed in the literature to deal with higher supply networks complexity, shorter customer tolerance times, and inaccurate forecasts. The DDDRP requires to position inventory buffers in critical network nodes, where...