This paper investigates the reuse of knowledge using real-world data gathered by a large information technology firm for internal purposes. Researchers have proposed that one reason that knowledge management system users contribute knowledge is because they are "similar" to others. This data...

Phishers appear particularly interested in accounting and tax, with accountants and auditing firms as frequent targets because of the proximity to organizational resources. Since phishing is typically done using emails, we use text analysis to explore differences between phishing emails and...

This paper investigates what are referred to as “open information transactions.” Such transactions are in contrast to traditional transactions where typically, two parties to a transaction are the only ones with information about the transaction. For example, in a sale, the seller and the...

There is a delicate balance associated with ethics and privacy in “enterprise continuous monitoring systems.” On the one hand, it can be critical to enterprises to continuously monitor the ethical behavior of different agents, and thus, facilitate enterprise risk management (with respect to...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate big data and knowledge management in the context of so-called cognitive systems, with a particular focus on IBM’s Watson as a case to illustrate both an emerging form of knowledge management and how firms are analyzing big data to generate knowledge...

This paper investigates alternative configurations of different blockchain architectures that can be used for gathering and processing transactions in a range of different settings, including accounting, auditing, supply chain and other types of transaction information. Although there has been...

Historically, most enterprise knowledge management efforts have been content-based; however, recently firms have begun to focus their knowledge management efforts into collaboration. As a result, enterprises are changing their knowledge management strategy, focusing on collaboration, using...

This paper analyzes the aggregate performance of home run derby competitors’ performance both before and after the Home Run Derby for the time period 1999-2013. Regression to the mean suggests that in general, those players with outstanding performances in the first half of the season will...

How do organizations think about information infrastructure protection? Do they see it as a costly overhead group in information systems that are always asking for more money for technology that nobody understands, constantly telling people what they can’t do, and getting in the way of doing...

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,...