Recent work in the information systems literature has argued that networkexternalities, the value of a network created as a by-product of an existing installed base, area determinant of interorganizational systems (IOSs) adoption. However, almost noempirical studies have reported the impact of...

What are the determinants of early interorganizational system (IOS) adoption?This paper focuses on a specific kind of IOS -- shared electronic banking networks -- andemploys an economic approach that views adoption and diffusion in terms of cost andbenefit. We attempt to identify firm...

A unique data set is used to examine the determinants of membership in theYankee 24 shared Automated Teller Machine (ATM) network. Recent work suggeststhat the presence of demand side network externalities influences the decisionto join a network. A model is constructed in which characteristics...

Software reuse in the presence of a repository and object-based CASE tool is likely to be biased. Prior research has shown that a developer will be: (1) most likely to reuse her own objects; (2) somewhat less likely to reuse objects developed by her project team members; and, (3) even less...

This chapter presents an edited transcript of an interview held inAugust 1993 with Brian Slater, a vice-president in the Global Bank atChemical Bank. Slater is responsible for the firm's U.S.-based tradingand global risk management systems. The interview was conducted inthe context of Project...

Maximizing business value of investments in hardware, software and telecommunications technologies that occur in the trading and treasury operations of an international bank requires senior management to evaluate the extent to which the technology infrastructure enables the bank to perform a...

Under circumstances where data quality may vary (due to inaccuracies or lack of timeliness,for example), knowledge about the potential performance of alternate predictive models can help adecision maker to design a business value-maximizing information system. This paper examines a...

Methods for sound risk management are of increasinginterest among Wall Street investment banking and brokeragefirms in the aftermath of the October 1987 crash of the stockmarket. As the knowledge of advanced technology applicationsin risk management increases, financial firms are...

The traditional unit of analysis and control forsoftware managers is the software project, and subsequentlythe resulting application system. Today, with the emerging capabilitiesof computer-aided software engineering (CASE) andcorresponding changes in the development process, productivitygains...

Customer access information technologies (CAITs) provide a link between afirm and its customers. Firms invest in CAITs to reduce costs, increase revenuesand market share, lock in existing customers and capture new ones. These benefits,however, are notoriously difficult to measure. This paper...