Browsing Scholarly Works, Department of Business Information Technology (BIT) by Issue Date
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Topic Maps For Improving Services In Disaster Operations Management
(Clute Institute, 2008)Disaster operations management is an increasingly important application area for the developing techniques of service science. This paper examines the use of topic maps, a semantic technology, within this environment, and ... -
Simulating Protein Conformations through Global Optimization
(2008-11-19)Many researches have been working on the protein folding problem from more than half century. Protein folding is indeed one of the major unsolved problems in science. In this work, we discuss a model for the simulation of ... -
Enterprise System Implementation and Employee Job Performance: Understanding the Role of Advice Networks
(Society for Information Management, 2014-03-01)The implementation of enterprise systems, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, alters business processes and associated workflows, and introduces new software applications that employees must use. Employees ... -
Understanding e-Government portal use in rural India: role of demographic and personality characteristics
(Wiley, 2014-05-01)Electronic government (e-Government) is one of the most important ways to bridge the digital divide in developing countries. We develop a model of e-Government portal use. We use various individual characteristics, namely ... -
Expectation Confirmation in Information Systems Research: A Test of Six Competing Models
(Society for Information Management, 2014-09-01)Expectation confirmation research in general, and in information systems (IS) in particular, has produced conflicting results. In this paper, we discuss six different models of expectation confirmation: assimilation, ... -
A usability evaluation of the Obamacare website
(Elsevier, 2014-10-01)The healthcare.gov website, popularly called the Obamacare website, was off to a rough start. Although infrastructure issues received a great deal of media attention, the site has had its fair share of interface design ... -
Applying Best Supply Chain Practices to Humanitarian Relief
(Penn State, 2015-05)With the growth in length and breadth of extended supply chains, more companies are employing risk management techniques and resilience planning to deal with burgeoning and costly supply chain disruptions. As companies can ... -
An espoused cultural perspective to understand continued intention to use mobile applications: a four-country study of mobile social media application usability
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-05-01)As most mobile applications are tailored for worldwide consumption, it is a significant challenge to develop applications that satisfy individuals with various cultural backgrounds. To address this issue, we drew on a ... -
Mobile Application Usability: Conceptualization and Instrument Development
(Society for Information Management, 2015-06-01)This paper presents a mobile application usability conceptualization and survey instrument following the 10- step procedure recommended by MacKenzie et al. (2011). Specifically, we adapted Apple's user experience guidelines ... -
Technology Adoption Decisions in the Household: A Seven-Model Comparison
(Wiley, 2015-09-01)We identified 7 theoretical models that have been used to explain technology adoption and use. We then examined the boundary conditions of these models of technology adoption when applied to the household context using ... -
Folding Under Pressure or Rising to the Occasion? Perceived Time Pressure and the Moderating Role of Team Temporal Leadership
(Academy of Management, 2015-10-01)"Team temporal leadership" orients teams toward managing the time-related aspects of their work. We examine how perceived time pressure affects team processes and subsequent performance under weak versus strong team temporal ... -
Adaptation to Information Technology: A Holistic Nomological Network from Implementation to Job Outcomes
(INFORMS, 2016-01-01)Information technology (IT) implementation is a major organizational change event that substantially disrupts an employee's work environment. We develop a model of technology adaptation behaviors that employees perform to ... -
Exploiting big data for customer and retailer benefits: A study of emerging mobile checkout scenarios
(Emerald, 2016-01-01)Purpose – Mobile checkout in the retail store has the promise to be a rich source of big data. It is also a means to increase the rate at which big data flows into an organization as well as the potential to integrate ... -
Leveraging Microsoft's mobile usability guidelines: Conceptualizing and developing scales for mobile application usability
(Academic Press-Elsevier, 2016-05-01)This research conceptualizes mobile application usability and develops and validates an instrument to measure the same. Mobile application usability has attracted widespread attention in the field of human-computer interaction ... -
Combating Infant Mortality in Rural India: Evidence From a Field Study of eHealth Kiosk Implementations
(Society for Information Management, 2016-06-01)The United Nations' Millennium Development Goals listed high infant mortality rates as a major problem in developing countries, especially in rural areas. Given the powerful information dissemination capabilities, information ... -
Decision support for long-range, community-based planning to mitigate against and recover from potential multiple disasters
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2016-07-01)This paper discusses a new mathematical model for community-driven disaster planning that is intended to help decision makers exploit the synergies resulting from simultaneously considering actions focusing on mitigation ... -
Guidelines for Conducting Mixed-methods Research: An Extension and Illustration
(Association for Information Systems, 2016-07-01)In this paper, we extend the guidelines of Venkatesh et al. (2013) for mixed-methods research by identifying and integrating variations in mixed-methods research. By considering 14 properties of mixed-methods research ... -
If the Worst Happens: Five Strategies for Developing and Leveraging Information Technology-Enabled Disaster Response in Healthcare
(IEEE, 2016-11-01)Natural disasters, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, wildfires, and floods, have a profound impact on healthcare by limiting healthcare providers' ability to effectively provide ... -
A Surrogate-based Generic Classifier for Chinese TV Series Reviews
(2016-11-21)With the emerging of various online video platforms like Youtube, Youku and LeTV, online TV series' reviews become more and more important both for viewers and producers. Customers rely heavily on these reviews before ... -
System and method for heterogenous spectrum sharing between commercial cellular operators and legacy incumbent users in wireless networks
(United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2016-12-06)Described herein are systems and methods for telecommunications spectrum sharing between multiple heterogeneous users, which leverage a hybrid approach that includes both distributed spectrum sharing, spectrum-sensing, and ...
