This paper investigates capabilities of social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, Digg and others, for their current and potential impact on the supply chain. In particular, this paper examines the use of social media to capture the impact on supply chain events and develop a context...

This paper introduces the concept of the "Internet of Signs". In particular, this paper brings together notions from semiotics and the "Internet of Things" to provide an alternative framework, resulting in the "Internet of Signs"; that refers to signs generated across the Internet by the broad...

In protest of the bill “Protect Intellectual Property Act,” before the United States Senate, a number of Internet companies participated in a 24 hour Internet blackout. This paper summarizes some of the events and approaches used as part of that computer-based political action that...

There are millions of users of Twitter, Facebook, Linked-in and other social media. Because of that access to large number of users, marketing has made extensive use of social media to get closer to the customer. Unfortunately, the supply chain has made only limited use of social media. However,...

This paper surveys and extends the use of social media technologies as part of project development and management. In particular, this paper investigates how social media technologies, such as wikis, blogs, micro-blogs and tagging, have been and can be used to facilitate project development and...

This paper investigates the use of data warehouse and business intelligence capabilities to integrate with customers in the supply chain and improve insights into customer sales. By making that same data warehouse sales information available to customers, this paper explores how the data...

This paper analyzes how information about managers and technology, can be used to provide those managers with a system that is congruent with their needs. In particular, using McGregor’s Theory X and Y philosophies, managerial needs are elicited and then contemporary knowledge management...

This paper investigates the current number of ISI citations, and change in the number of those citations over the last two years, for four leading accounting information systems (AIS) journals. The results are surprising. A priori, I would have expected that the "Journal of Information Systems"...

How does technology maturity and adoption affect samples, research issues and use of methodologies in information systems? What is a source of some research issues in strategic and emerging technologies? This paper addresses these questions and others using some frameworks generated by a...