In the past decades, the potential of information systems to support organizational activities and to attain competitive advantage has been widely recognised by academic literature as well as the business community. IS planning methods have been constructed in an attempt to use IS successfully...

It is almost a cliche to say that we live in a knowledge society and that knowledge is an important resource of firms in their production of goods and provision of services to their clients. However it is not so easy to find many examples showing the use of domain knowledge in financial...

It is almost a cliche to say that we live in a knowledge society and that knowledge is an important resource of firms in their production of goods and provision of services to their clients. However it is not so easy to find many examples showing the use of domain knowledge in financial...

The aim of this paper is to examine the macro-level phenomena associated with electronic commerce (EC), and it is mainly being informed by a study of the history of commerce. Commerce in its modem form first appeared in early 13th century in Italy where the political conditions were conducive...

This paper uses Revans’ theory of action learning to understand cases of collective IT development and implementation projects within a multi-national company. It means having to deal with an international project, cultural differences, diflerences in levels of knowledge and differences in the...

This paper adopts an information systems perspective to study the recent American presidential election. The election may be seen as a decision making process to choose the leader to represent the wishes and interests of the people. The system supporting the process is an information system,...

Communication plays a crucial role in influencing various aspects of our social life. However, communication has more often than not been distorted by unequal opportunities to initiate and sustain it. Such a condition has been criticized by Habermas who argues for an ideal speech situation. It...

There are some parallels between the world of law and the world of information systems practice. This paper draws on some insights from the former to discuss some issues in the formulation and implementation of information systems (IS) strategy. The crafting of laws of a country is a process...

An important question in business partnership is the issue of information - the gathering, supply and use of information and what kind of information in order to promote a successful partnership. This paper examines the problems that arise in a major form of partnership, namely integration, and...

The aim of the paper is to show that e-commerce holds the potential to transform banking and financial systems. There are three aspects in which e-commerce can affect banking and finance. First, banks and financial firms can use the technology and business practice of e-commerce to market their...