This study reviews 57 MIS articles employing statistical inference testingpublished in leading MIS journals over the last five years. The statistical powerof the articles was evaluated and found on average to fall substantially below theaccepted norms. The consequence of low power is that it can...

Research on expert-novice differences falls into two complementary classes. The firstassumes that novice skills are a subset of those of the expert, represented by the samevocabulary of concepts. The second approach emphasizes novices' misconceptions andthe different meanings they tend to...

This study examines the psychometric properties ofthe short form measure of user information satisfaction(UIS) proposed by Ives, Olson and Baroudi [1983]. Basedon extensive testing the questionnaire appears to be areasonably valid and reliable measure. A framework forhow this measure can be used...

Methodologies for information systems development bound the vocabulary of design (what arethe quot;things that matter?), as well as control the design discourse (how should we go aboutdiscussing them?). Computer Aided System Engineering tools - collectively referred to as...

Drawing on a specific scenario from a contemporary workplace, I review some of the dominant ways that management scholars have addressed technology over the past five decades. I will demonstrate that while materiality is an integral aspect of organisational activity, it has either been ignored...

Much of the prior research into information systems (IS) workers hasassumed that they are professionals. In this paper we examine thecharacteristics of IS workers, IS work and the IS workplace, and suggest thatthis perspective is mistaken. Drawing on the sociological theory of professionsas a...