Balancing the needs of information distributors and their audiences has grown harder in the age of the Internet. While the demand for attention continues to increase rapidly with the volume of information and communication, the supply of human attention is relatively fixed. Markets are a social...

Junk e-mail or spam is rapidly choking off e-mail as a reliable and efficient means of communication over the Internet. Although the demand for human attention increases rapidly with the volume of information and communication, the supply of attention hardly changes. Markets are a social...

Balancing the needs of information distributors and their audiences has grown harder in the age of the Internet. While the demand for attention continues to increase rapidly with the volume of information and communication, the supply of human attention is relatively fixed. Markets are a social...

Junk email or spam is rapidly choking off email as a reliable and efficient means of communication over the Internet. While the demand for human attention increases rapidly with the volume of information and communication, the supply of attention hardly changes. Markets are a social institution...

Work life is filled with interruptions, most of which benefit the interrupter more than the one being interrupted. This problem is greatest with remote collaboration, because team members interrupt blindly, without contextual cues about partners' availability. Awareness displays are designed to...

This study focuses on trust formation and development in global buyer-supplier relationships. Trust affects all business relationships, especially global business-to-business (B2B) transactions due to the distances between buyers and suppliers. We use information signaling theory to examine how...

Re-engineering or business process redesign has becomevery popular. This paper presents a clear description ofre-engineering and contrasts it with incremental change insystems. The paper also develops a framework for comparingtwo related systems. The framework is applied to a casestudy of the...

In spite of the increasing sophistication and power of commercial spreadsheetpackages, we still lack a formal theory or a methodology to support the constructionand maintenance of spreadsheet models. Using a dual logical/physicalperspective, we identify four principal components that...

Information Technology is changing the nature of organizations and the way all ofus work. IT design variables make it possible to create new organization structures andnew modes of operation. The second order impact of these new types of organizationsand working arrangements is on physical...