The methods and thinking of economics permeate a large part of the IS discipline. Reciprocally, newly emerging research methods relying on the IT-enabled treatment of massive data aggregates feed economic research. As new and radical forms of IT innovation continue to energize electronic...

pt. 1. Strategies for empirical advances in information systems and e-commerce research -- pt. 2. Understanding the dynamics and outcomes associated with information technology investments -- pt. 3. New approaches for studying mechanism design in online auctions -- pt. 4. New empirical...

In an effort to reveal the fine-grained relationships between IT use, patterns of information flows, and individual information-worker productivity, we study task level practices at a midsize executive recruiting firm. We analyze both project-level and individual-level performance using: (1)...