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...

Finns invest in information technology (IT) to create various kinds of leverage on firm profitability and performance.However, IT researchers have concentrated their efforts on the productivity impacts of technology, at the employee, process,firm, industry, and economy levels of analysis, to the...

Current management science models fail to adequately recognize that treasury management related tocheck payments has largely become an information management activity. Check processing operationslack the flexibility to capture information which can be used by treasury managers to make the...

Data quality has been shown to be a major determinant of the value of systems that utilizeinput data feeds and transform them into valuable information under a variety of businesscontexts. For this study, we have chosen a financial risk management context to investigatethe relationship between...

The organization of automated teller machine (ATM) and electronicbanking services in the United States has undergone significantstructural changes in the past two or three years that raisequestions about the long term prospects for the retail bankingindustry, the nature of network competition,...

Under circumstances where data quality may vary, knowledge about the potentialperformance of alternate predictive models can enable a decision maker to design aninformation system whose value is optimized in two ways. The decision maker can selecta model which is least sensitive to predictive...

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...