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Managing Risk And Uncertainty In Supply Chains In The Face Of The Current Global Realities
For the last two decades, there has been an increasing academic and practitioner interest in understanding uncertainty and risks, identifying their sources, and managing, reducing and mitigating them in supply chains (SCs). ... -
Matching Inventory Replenishment Heuristics To Demand Patterns: A Cost/benefit Approach
(Information Systems & Operations Management, 2014-03-10)Behavioral research indicates that bounded rationality and resource constraints support the use of "fast and frugal heuristics" that intentionally exclude some available information from decision models. Inventory ... -
MOBILE WAY OR THE HIGHWAY! THE ROLE OF DEPLOYMENT AND DESIGN IN PROBLEM SOLVING USING INFORMATION DASHBOARDS
(2016-09-12)Information dashboards are becoming very popular in the areas of decision making and problem solving. Decision makers use heuristics when facing challenging environmental situations. These could result in systematic errors ... -
MULTI-OBJECTIVE TWO-STAGE STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING FOR ADAPTIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY PAIN MANAGEMENT WITH PIECE-WISE LINEAR NETWORK TRANSITION MODELS
(2017-08-16)Pain is the most common symptom when a patient visits a physician. People experience pain throughout their lifetime at different degrees. If short term pain is not treated properly, then it can become long term pain, ... -
ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (IS) STRATEGY, IT GOVERNANCE, AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: TWO ESSAYS ON HOW IT FIRMS UTILIZE THE ROLES OF IS STRATEGY AND IT GOVERNANCE TO IMPROVE FIRM PERFORMANCE
(2023-08-14)This dissertation includes two essays. For essay one, we investigate the implications of organizational wireless and mobile strategy on firm performance in the context of publicly traded information technology firms in the ... -
Reconceptualizing Technology Use And Information System Success: Developing And Testing A Theoretically Integrated Model
(Information Systems & Operations Management, 2009-09-16)Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) research, which pertains to how an information system can be initially adopted by members of an organization, was born two decades ago and grows into one of the pivotal theoretical foundations ... -
ROLE OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES IN DIABETES SELF MANAGEMENT: TECHNOLOGY AFFORDANCE PERSEPCTIVE
(2016-09-15)Diabetes is costly and a leading cause of death and disability in the United States (CDC, 2015). There is no known cure for the disease, however, it can be managed and controlled through self-management. This process ... -
Servicescape And Customer Satisfaction: The Role Of Strategy
(Information Systems & Operations Management, 2009-09-16)The purpose of this research is to determine if the corporate strategy theory base may be useful in advancing the understanding of service characteristics; specifically, the relationship between particular service industries, ... -
Social Media Use at Work
(2017-05-05)Social media use permeates everyday life, including work lives of employees. Banning social media use at work may is not entirely possible, therefore it is pertinent to question whether all social media use is detrimental ... -
SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN, OPERATIONAL CAPABILITIES, AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: THE ROLE OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT
(2018-08-14)Supply chain agility has been the cornerstone of research in supply chain management field. Despite the benefits associated with pursuing agile supply chain strategy, little is known about how the agile supply chain strategy ... -
Task Complexity And Effectiveness Of Pair Programming: An Experimental Study
(Information Systems & Operations Management, 2007-08-23)Extreme Programming, which is recently gaining popularity as an alternate software development methodology, involves two programmers working collaboratively to develop software. This study examined the efficacy of pair ... -
The Relationship Between Sustainable Supply Chain Management Controversies, Sustainability Practices, and Firm Performance: The Role of Different Organizational Resources and Environmental Turbulence
(2023-05-10)This dissertation explores the relationship between sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) controversies and sustainability practices, and their direct and indirect effects on firm performance. SSCM controversies refer ... -
Three Essays on Adoption and Continuous Improvement of Information Security Management in Organizations
(2018-07-23)In information intensive organizations secured management of information has become an important issue. Although organizations have been actively investing on information security, crime rate in this area keep increasing. ... -
THREE ESSAYS ON INFORMATION SECURITY POLICY COMPLIANCE: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL INFLUENCE
Motivating employees to comply with information security policies (ISP) is a major challenge for organizations. Employees who do not comply with these policies can impose a serious threat to the safety of organizational ... -
Three Essays on Text Analytics & Behavioral Operations Management
(2019-08-19)My dissertation is about the use of textual analytics in the field of operations management and behavioral operations management. My first chapter analyses the growth of the area of operations management over the past 21 ... -
To Test Before Or To Test After - An Experimental Investigation Of The Impact Of Test Driven Development
(Information Systems & Operations Management, 2009-09-16)Test driven development (TDD) requires the developer to create the test suite before designing and writing the application program. Unlike traditional software development practices, in TDD test development precedes ... -
Towards A Systemic View Of Organizational Dynamic IT Capability: An Empirical Assessment
(Information Systems & Operations Management, 2007-08-23)In an increasingly complex world characterized by hyper-competition and turbulence, an organization's ability to sustain its competitive advantages depends not only on how it acquires its capabilities, but also on how it ... -
A Two-order Effect Model Of It Business Value: Theoretical Development And Empirical Test
(Information Systems & Operations Management, 2007-09-17)A new model for IT Business Value is proposed and empirically validated from longitudinal panel data. We posit that IT has a first-order effect that includes automating, and a second-order effect that is more dependent ... -
A Typology Of Cluster Concentrations Based On Factor Conditions Of Production And Evolution Of Supply Chain Infrastructures
(Information Systems & Operations Management, 2007-08-23)If the reader would imagine a 500 piece picture puzzle of which only one single piece is available for research, then it is obvious that any conclusions concerning the puzzle as a whole would at the very best be limited ... -
Why Do People Engage In Social Computing? A Need Fulfillment Perspective
(Information Systems & Operations Management, 2008-08-08)With the trend towards social interaction over the Internet and the popularity of websites such as Myspace, Facebook and Youtube among others, practitioners and researchers are motivated to explain the sudden surge in user ...