This paper introduces a framework for analyzing technology-based organizational action. It presents the concept of 'value programs', to represent the complex, pluralistic nature of organizational action around the application of IT systems. The nature of IT based organizational functioning and...

This article explores online social lending, an innovative venture that represents a reintermediation in financial services. Borrowers and lenders now have access to online financial information services such as Motley Fool, http://www.fool.com/ , and the opportunity to communicate directly with...

For businesses planning interactions online, particularly using Web services, managing risks and accommodating each other's varying business-level security requirements is a complex but critical issue during development. Literature suggests numerous reasons that prohibit the simplistic adoption,...

In this paper we study a new restriction of the PAC learning framework, in which each label class is handled by an unsupervised learner that aims to fit an appropriate probability distribution to its own data. A hypothesis is derived by choosing, for any unlabeled instance, the label whose...

When planning and designing a policy intervention and evaluation, the policy maker will have to define a strategy which will define the (conditional independence) structure of the available data. Here, Dawid's extended influence diagrams are augmented by including 'experimental design' decisions...

This paper draws on Ciborra's insightful concept of xenia (i.e., hospitality) to analyze how successful infrastructural service innovation was managed at the local operations of an international financial services firm. The xenia concept. The xenia concept problematizes the information system...

This paper proposes a new priority scheduling algorithm to maximise site revenue of session-based multi-tier Internet services in a multicluster environment. This research is part of a larger study in support of large-scale online trading systems and, as a result, this case study is chosen as a...

This paper presents a model, which allows managers to identify the influence of their decisions to the potential innovation activity of the firm by simulation. Systems Thinking methodology has been used to understand the framework of innovation systems and to design and run the simulation model....

In recent years, there has been and continues be an increasing numbers of company mergers and takeovers. However, many of them such as the AOL - Time Warner, merger destroy shareholder value instead of increasing it. Mirivis (1992) and Vansina (1992) observe that approximately half of all...

Contemporary organisations are increasingly adopting performance measurement activity to assess their level of achievement of strategic objectives and delivery of stakeholder value. This qualitative research sought to increase understanding of the challenges involved in this area. An in-depth...