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Volume 27, 2024

Printable Table of Contents: Informing Science Journal, Volume 27, 2024

Table of Contents for Volume 27 of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 2024

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Knowledge-Oriented Leadership, Psychological Safety, Employee Voice, and Innovation

Uzoma Heman Ononye, Ikechukwu Maduemezia

Aim/Purpose: The truism is that leadership fosters or restricts innovation behaviours in organisations, but the extent to which it does depends on the leadership style in practice. This study focuses on one of the contemporary leadership styles, knowledge-oriented leadership [KOL], which has received scant attention in research. In doing so, the contextual factors of psychological safety [PS] and ...

employee voice, knowledge-oriented leadership, knowledge sharing, innovation, psychological safety

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Critical Review of Stack Ensemble Classifier for the Prediction of Young Adults’ Voting Patterns Based on Parents’ Political Affiliations

Godwin Elo, Benjamin Ghansah, Ephrem Kwaku Kwaa-Aidoo

Aim/Purpose: This review paper aims to unveil some underlying machine-learning classification algorithms used for political election predictions and how stack ensembles have been explored. Additionally, it examines the types of datasets available to researchers and presents the results they have achieved.

Background: Predicting the outcomes of presidential elections has always been a significant ...

politics, elections, prediction, machine learning, classification, ensemble algorithm

002

Couple Social Comparisons and Relationship Quality: A Path Analysis Model

Sara Petrilli, Miriam Parise, Silvio Carlo Ripamonti, Silvia Donato

Aim/Purpose: This study offers an important contribution to the literature on couple social comparisons by showing how different aspects of comparisons are related to relationship quality.

Background: Making social comparisons is a daily tendency of human beings that does not only occur on an individual level but also in the context of romantic relationships. This phenomenon is widespread among c ...

couple social comparison propensity, explicit couple social comparisons, implicit couple social comparisons, couple relationship quality, commitment, relationship satisfaction

003

Information Technology and the Complexity Cycle

Thomas R Gill, Grandon Gill

Aim/Purpose: In this paper we propose a framework identifying many of the unintended consequences of information technology and posit that the increased complexity brought about by IT is a proximate cause for these negative effects.

Background: Builds upon the three-world model that has been evolving within the informing science transdiscipline.

Methodology: We separate complexity into three ca ...

complexity, task complexity, information technology, homophily, punctuated equilibrium, systemic risks, information overload, fitness, rugged landscape, unintended consequences

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Effect of Superstition and Anxiety on Consumer Decision-Making in Triathletes

Riccardo Sartori, Andrea Ceschi, Evie Michailidis, Hilda Du Plooy, Tommaso Camplone

Aim/Purpose: The aim of the present study is to investigate how pre-game superstition and anxiety can drive the consumption and purchase of sports products and objects by triathletes.

Methodology: We tested our hypotheses via a cross-sectional study on a sample of N=124 triathletes.

Contribution: The originality of our work stands in the provision of empirical evidence on the role of superstitio ...

superstition, anxiety, sports performance, consumer behavior, dual-system theory

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Observations on Arrogance and Meaning: Finding Truth in an Era of Misinformation

Eli Cohen

Aim/Purpose: The paper discusses various factors contributing to disagreements, such as differing experiences, perspectives, and historical narratives, leading to disagreements within families and societies. It explores how beliefs, values, and biases feed into disagreements, with confirmation bias affecting decision-making and the media. Cultural values also play a role, showcasing conflicts betw ...

informing, values, disinformation, soft power, fake images

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Predictors of Digital Entrepreneurial Intention in Kuwait

Basil Alzougool

Aim/Purpose: This study aims to explore students’ digital entrepreneurial intention (DEI) in Kuwait. Speciﬁcally, the aim is twofold: (i) to identify and examine the factors influencing and predicting students’ DEI, and (ii) to validate a model of DEI.

Background: The advent of modern digital technologies has provided entrepreneurs with many opportunities to establish and expand their firms thro ...

digital entrepreneurship, intention, self-perceived confidence, creativity, Kuwait

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Leadership in Face-to-Face and Virtual Teams: A Systematic Literature Review on Hybrid Teams Management

Andrea Caputo, Ferdinando Toscano, Valentina Dolce, Marco De Angelis

Aim/Purpose: The rise of virtual communication technologies and hybrid work contexts has brought significant changes to leadership dynamics, highlighting the need for effective management of teams operating in both face-to-face and virtual settings, known as hybrid teams.

Background: This systematic review examines leadership models utilized in face-to-face and virtual teams, factors contributing ...

leadership, face-to-face teams, virtual teams, hybrid teams, systematic review

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The Three Worlds of Task Complexity

Grandon Gill, Thomas R Gill

Aim/Purpose: To provide a systematic approach to defining task complexity using a three worlds model previously introduced in informing science research.

Background: The task complexity construct presents researchers with a quandary. While it appears useful on the surface, repeated attempts to define it rigorously have failed to gain traction in the broader research community. The level of incons ...

task complexity, rugged landscape, objective complexity, familiarity, discretion

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Transdisciplinary Issues of the United States Healthcare Delivery System

Jesudhas Yogarajah, Victor R. Prybutok, Gayle Prybutok

Aim/Purpose: This paper applies informing science principles to analyze the evolution of United States (U.S.) healthcare delivery, exploring how policy shifts, technological advancements, and changing practices have transformed informing processes within this complex system. By examining healthcare delivery through a transdisciplinary lens, we aim to enhance the understanding of intricate informin ...

healthcare delivery, informing science, transdisciplinary systems, health healthcare information flow, healthcare policy, technological innovation

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Colleagues’ Support and Techno-Complexity: The Importance of a Positive Aging Climate

Teresa Galanti, Stefania Fantinelli, Veronica Giffi, Michela Cortini

Aim/Purpose: With a focus on promoting sustainable career paths, this article investigates the intricate relationship between age diversity management and techno-complexity, emphasizing the pivotal role of a supportive work environment.

Background: In the modern workplace, the dynamics of age diversity emerge as a crucial element influencing the well-being and productivity of employees, particula ...

age diversity management, techno-complexity, supportive work environment, sustainable career

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Informing Academia Through Understanding of the Technology Use, Information Gathering Behaviors, and Social Concerns of Gen Z

Nicole A. Buzzetto-Hollywood, Troy Banks, Austin J. Hill

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to examine Gen Z students located in a representative region of the United States when it comes to technology use, news and information gathering behaviors, civic engagement, and social concerns and whether differences exist based on institutional type. The purpose is to report this information so that academics can better understand the behaviors, priorities, ...

Generation Z, Gen Z, civic engagement and college students, minority learners, HBCU, information gathering of college students, information literacy, learning preferences, issues important to Gen Z, social activism, Black Lives Matter, pandemic learners, online activism

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The Cultural Mediator as a Facilitator for Collaboration: Fostering Inter-Institutional Networking Among Services for Forced Migrants

Amalia De Leo, Andrea Ceschi, Martina Mutti

Aim/Purpose: The aim of the study is to explore the experience of cultural mediators in working with operators of reception and mental health care systems for forced migrants. Specifically, the study seeks to address strengths and weaknesses and areas for improvement in the service network.

Background: Cultural mediation in Italy has developed as a response to the increasing cultural diversity wi ...

cultural mediators, forced migrants, Italian reception system, mental health services, inter-organizational networks

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Examining the Effect of Fake News Awareness on Social Media Users’ News Sharing Behavior

Pallavi Negi, Monica Bedi

Aim/Purpose: Despite the widespread presence of fake news on the internet, many individuals continue to share information without verifying its accuracy. In response, this study examined two types of news-sharing behaviors, Unverified News Sharing and Authenticating News Before Sharing, and their influence on the spread of fake news on social media. Fake news awareness was also incorporated into t ...

social media, fake news awareness, verified news, authenticating news

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4C/ID for Foreign Language Communication Teaching

Anna A Lebedinets, Haruka Kagata, Aleksandra Mazalova, Alina Samokhina, Evgenii Chugreyev

Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of a specialized instructional approach that combines empathic listening and culturally nuanced communication skills to enhance students’ preparedness for real-life cross-cultural interactions. By incorporating both psychological and specific sociocultural components within the 4C/ID model framework, this study aims to addr ...

teaching, communicative approach, communicative competence, social context

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Volume 26, 2023

Printable Table of Contents: Informing Science Journal, Volume 26, 2023

Eli Cohen

Table of Contents for Volume 26 of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 2023

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Applied Psychology and Informing Science: Introduction to the Developing Special Series

Francesco Tommasi

Aim/Purpose: This is an introductory paper for the developing special series on applied psychology and informing science. It takes into account the spirit of informing science to launch the first of three articles in the series on applied psychology. The paper concludes by raising questions for future investigations.

informing science, applied psychology, transdisciplinary

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The Relationship between Perceived Organizational Support (POS) and Turnover Intention: The Mediating Role of Job Motivation, Affective and Normative Commitment

Riccardo Sartori, Andrea Ceschi, Mattia Zene, Lorenzo Scipioni, Michele Monti

Aim/Purpose: The study aims to examine the mediating role of job motivation and affective and normative commitment on the relationship between perceived organizational support (POS) and job turnover intention.

Background: POS refers to employees’ beliefs and perceptions concerning the extent to which the organization values their contributions, cares about their well-being, and fulfils their soci ...

perceived organizational support, turnover intention, job motivation, affective commitment, normative commitment

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The Impact of Vocabulary Preteaching and Content Previewing on the Listening Comprehension of Arabic-Speaking EFL Learners

Dukhayel Aldukhayel

Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of pre-listening activities on Arabic-speaking EFL learners’ comprehension of spoken texts.

Background: This study aims to contribute to the current research and to increase our understanding about the effectiveness of pre-listening activities. Specifically, this study seeks to clarify some of the research in this area that seems t ...

Arabic-speaking EFL learners, content previewing, L2 listening, pre-listening activities, vocabulary preteaching

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Workers’ Skills: Upskilling and Reskilling in Organisations

Sofia Morandini, Federico Fraboni, Marco De Angelis, Gabriele Puzzo, Davide Giusino, Luca Pietrantoni

Aim/Purpose: This paper examines the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on professional skills in organizations and explores strategies to address the resulting challenges.

Background: The rapid integration of AI across various sectors is automating tasks and reducing cognitive workload, leading to increased productivity but also raising concerns about job displacement. Succes ...

artificial intelligence, organisational learning, transversal skills, upskilling, re-skilling

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Analysis of Machine-Based Learning Algorithm Used in Named Entity Recognition

Francis Mithanga Kamau, Kennedy Ogada, Cheruiyot Wilson Kipruto

Aim/Purpose: The amount of information published has increased dramatically due to the information explosion. The issue of managing information as it expands at this rate lies in the development of information extraction technology that can turn unstructured data into organized data that is understandable and controllable by computers

Background: The primary goal of named entity recognition (NER) ...

named entity recognition, memory-based learning algorithms, semantic web problems, K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), precision, recall, F-Score measures

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Rationalizing Fiction Cues: Psychological Effects of Disclosing Ads and the Inaccuracy of the Human Mind When Being in Parasocial Relationships

Johanna Lisa Degen

Aim/Purpose: Parasocial relationships are today established on social media between influencers and their followers. While marketing effects are well-researched, little is known about the meaning of such relationships and the psychological mechanisms behind them. This study, therefore, explores the questions: “How do followers on Instagram interpret explicit fiction cues from influencers?” and “Wh ...

parasocial relationships, social media, intimate relationships, bonding, social media advertisement, rationalization, human mind, bias, social media communication

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Addiction Potential among Iranian Governmental Employees: Predicting Role of Perceived Stress, Job Security, and Job Satisfaction

Davide Giusino, Ferdinando Toscano, Federico Fraboni, Tayebe Rahimi Pordanjani

Aim/Purpose: To explore the incidence of addiction potential within the Iranian public working population, describing how many Iranian public employees fall within the diagnostic categories of low, moderate, and high addiction potential. Also, to investigate the predicting role of occupational variables such as perceived stress, job security, and job satisfaction on addiction potential and belongi ...

substance addiction, addiction potential, public employees, stress, job security, job satisfaction, occupational health, Iranian employees

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Define and Tackle Hate Speech: The Experience of Social Workers in Italy

Amalia De Leo, Emanuele Russo

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this qualitative study is to explore social workers’ representations of hate speech (HS), the effects it has on the community, and socio-educational actions aimed at combating it.

Background: Hate speech is any form of communication that promotes discrimination, hostility, or violence towards individuals or groups based on their identity. Although its spread is facilitated ...

hate speech, online hating, community, social workers, activism, social media, educational strategies

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Embitterment in the Workplace: How Does It Associate with Burnout and What Triggers It?

Evie Michailidis

Aim/Purpose: Embitterment comprises a stress-related response to unjust life experiences. Studies have found that it can have a toll on employees’ well-being. However, research on this matter is still in its infancy.

Background: Within the scope of the present study, Ι sought to investigate how embitterment relates to burnout – the prolonged consequence of stress. This study further explored whet ...

posttraumatic embitterment disorder, embitterment, burnout, psychological contract

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The Intricate Pathways From Empowering Leadership to Burnout: A Deep Dive Into Interpersonal Conflicts, Work-Home Interactions, and Supportive Colleagues

Federico Fraboni, Giulia Paganin, Greta Mazzetti, Dina Guglielmi, Luca Pietrantoni

Aim/Purpose: This study builds upon existing research by investigating the elements contributing to or buffering the onset of burnout symptoms. We examine the relationship between empowering leadership and burnout, considering the concurrent mediation effects of interpersonal workplace conflict, work-home conflict, and support from coworkers.

Background: Burnout is a phenomenon that has been wide ...

burnout, empowering leadership, coworker support, interpersonal conflicts at work, work-home conflict, structural equation modeling, artificial neural network

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Development and Validation of a Noise in Decision Inventory for Organizational Settings

Sara Bollarino, Andrea Ceschi, Michele Monti, Riccardo Sartori

Aim/Purpose: The aim of the present paper is to present a Noise Decision (ND) scale. First, it reports the development and validation of the instrument aimed at examining organizational factors that have an influence on decision-making and the level of noise. Second, it validates this rating scale by testing its discriminant and convergent validity with other measures to assess decision-making qua ...

noise, decision-making, validation, heuristics & biases

173 - 189

Real Danger or Urgent Necessity? Young Ghanaian’s Perspectives on Smartphone Use in Relation to Academic Success

Andrea Kleeberg-Niepage, EMMA SARAH ESHUN, Anton Perzy

Aim/Purpose: In this article, the subjective perspectives of young people in Ghana on the use of digital media are elaborated. The aim is to make the positions of young people visible in the often adult-dominated discourse on digital media and to overcome adult-centered considerations in academic and public debates. In addition, the focus on young people from the Global South is intended to help m ...

digital media use, global south, young people’s perspectives, generational hierarchy academic success

191 - 208

Ownership and Support: Boosting Performance and Well-Being in Safety

Teresa Di Fiore, Stefania Fantinelli, Veronica Giffi, Matteo Curcuruto, Michela Cortini, Teresa Galanti

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine the role of psychological ownership for safety in boosting employee performance and the impact of Perceived Organizational Support for Safety (POSS) on workers’ well-being, considering the psychological aspects associated with workplace safety and exploring the mediating effect of employees’ commitment.

Background: It is widely recognized that prom ...

safety climate, psychological ownership for safety, organizational support for safety, affective commitment, job performance, well-being

209 - 229

Informing Consumers: A Bibliometric and Thematic Analysis of Pack Nutrition Labelling

Rishi Dwesar, Bikramjit Rishi

Aim/Purpose: The focus on human well-being has attracted the attention of consumers, organizations, and marketers to understand the various facets of Front of Pack Nutrition Labelling (FOPNL). This study examines the overall research trends in the FPONL domain and identifies the new research areas.

Background: FOPNL is becoming increasingly popular and its influence has been widely examined. Diff ...

bibliometric analysis, network analysis, thematic analysis, front of pack nutrition labelling (FOPNL), keyword analysis, nutri score

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Mediating Effect of Burnout Dimensions on Musculoskeletal Pain: The Role of Emotional Intelligence and Organisational Identification

Giulia Paganin, Roberta Bonfiglioli, Dina Guglielmi, Francesco S. Violante, Greta Mazzetti

Aim/Purpose: The present study aims to frame the relationship between job and personal resources (namely, organizational identification and emotional intelligence), burnout, and musculoskeletal disorders (i.e., back pain, upper limb pain, lower limb discomfort), into the theoretical framework provided by the JD-R health model.

Background: Empirical research indicates a connection between burnout ...

musculoskeletal disorders, burnout, emotional intelligence, organizational identification, JD-R model, salutogenic process

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Volume 25, 2022

Printable Table of Contents: Informing Science Journal, Volume 25, 2022

Eli Cohen

Table of Contents for Volume 25 of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 2022

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Covid-19: Systems Transdisciplinary Generalization, Technical and Technological Ideas, and Solutions

Vladimir Mokiy, Tatiana Lukyanova

Aim/Purpose: The Covid-19 pandemic has created many adverse effects. It overloads the healthcare system, causes deaths, and angers some at anti-covid restrictions. This study examines the feasibility of using technical and technological ideas to overcome these effects. The solution is based on new knowledge about the virus, its nature, formation, and activation in the environment.

Background: The ...

Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2, transdisciplinarity, systems thinking, systems trans-disciplinary approach

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Organizing Information Obtained From Literature Reviews – A Framework for Information System Area Researchers

Ajit Kumar, Amrita Priyadarsini

Aim/Purpose: A literature review is often criticized for the absence of coherent construction, synthesis of topics, and well-reasoned analysis. A framework is needed for novice researchers to organize and present information obtained from the literature review.

Background: Information and communication technologies advancement have yielded overwhelming information. The massive availability of inf ...

LATCH, Five Hat Rack, information organization, LACTiC

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Trust in Google - A Textual Analysis of News Articles About Cyberbullying

Juergen Stegmair, Victor R. Prybutok

Aim/Purpose: Cyberbullying (CB) is an ongoing phenomenon that affects youth in negative ways. Using online news articles to provide information to schools can help with the development of comprehensive cyberbullying prevention campaigns, and in restoring faith in news reporting. The inclusion of online news also allows for increased awareness of cybersafety issues for youth.

Background: CB is an ...

cyberbullying, educational leadership, text analytics

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Informing Science and International Relations: Transdisciplinarity of the Concepts Civilization, Ideology, and Geopolitics

Gurakuç Kuçi

Aim/Purpose: The integration of knowledge through the transdisciplinary method with the three concepts civilization, ideology, and geopolitics (CIG) enables the analysis of international relations in a new perspective and the informing strategists of countries, organizations, analysts, clients, etc. These three concepts express the transdisciplinarity that offers a new theoretical explanation and ...

civilization, ideology, geopolitics, security zones, Cold War

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Facilitating Scientific Events Guided by Complex Thinking: A Case Study of an Online Inter/Transdisciplinary Advanced Training School

Ana Teixeira de Melo, Rita Campos

Aim/Purpose
This paper aims to illustrate, through an exploratory ideographic case study, how a Complex Thinking framework can inform the design of scientific events and the facilitation of scientific Inter and Transdisciplinary groups towards positive emergent outcomes, both at the level of the functioning of the group and the collective complexity of their thinking. Moreover, it aims to show h ...

complex thinking, interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, facilitation, emergent group processes

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The Presence of Compassion Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue, and Burn-out Among the General Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Shivika Dutt, Vivek Arya

Aim/Purpose: This paper aimed to explore the impact of compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, and burn-out among the general population during the pandemic.

Background: The paper has attempted to explore compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, and burn-out among the population at large, especially during the pandemic. This area has not been explored as yet.

Methodology: A simple rando ...

compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, burn-out, general population, pandemic (COVID-19)

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The Impact of Middle and Senior Leadership Styles on Employee Performance -- Evidence From Chinese Enterprises

MIAO QIN

Aim/Purpose: This paper examines the impact of the transformational, servant, and paternalistic leadership styles on employee performance at the middle and senior levels.

Background: Transdisciplinary research promotes the integration and development of various sciences. It provides more choices for leaders to adopt ways and practical activities to promote enterprise development. Complexity lead ...

leadership, transformational, servant, paternalistic, employee performance, trickle-down effect

123 - 142

Informing at the Crossroads of Design Science Research, Academic Entrepreneurship, and Digital Transformation: A Platform Ecosystem Roadmap

Ulrich Schmitt

Aim/Purpose: Developing Digital Platform Ecosystems (DPE) to transform conventional Knowledge Management Systems (KM/KMS) scenarios promises significant benefits for individuals, institutions, as well as emerging knowledge economies.

Background: The academic entrepreneurship project presented is aiming for such a KMS-DPE configuration. Having consolidated this author’s own and external re-sear ...

digital platform ecosystem, knowledge management system, digital academic entrepreneurship, design science research, informing science, start-up

143 - 160

Does Uncertainty Play a Vicious Role in IOS Adoption Decisions by Small Business Managers?

Sveinn V Gudmundsson

Aim/Purpose: Explores the interrelationships between uncertainty, motivation, and IT readiness when predicting IOS adoption among small businesses.

Background: Small business IOS adoption is proportionally low in most countries worldwide.

Methodology: Uses a sample of small businesses and PLS structural-equations path modelling approach.

Contribution: Uncertainty is an underexplored construct ...

uncertainty perspective, IOS, SME, small business, technology adoption, IT-enabled supply chains, electronic commerce

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The Good, the Bad, and the Neutral: Twitter Users’ Opinion on the ASUU Strike

Abubakar Sadiq Muhammad, Muesser Nat

Aim/Purpose: Nigeria’s university education goes through incessant strikes by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). This strike has led to shared emotion on micro-blogging sites like Twitter. This study analyzed selected historical tweets from the “ASUU” to understand citizens’ opinions.

Background: The researchers conducted sentiment analysis and topic modelling to understand Twitter ...

social media, ASUU, strike, opinion mining, sentiment analysis, topic modeling, Twitter

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Volume 24, 2021

Printable Table of Contents: Informing Science Journal, Volume 24, 2021

Eli Cohen

Table of Contents for Volume 24 of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 2021

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Transdisciplinarity: Marginal Direction or Global Approach of Contemporary Science?

Vladimir Mokiy, Tatiana Lukyanova

Aim/Purpose: The article is designed to contradict the existing opinion that “transdisciplinarity is a marginal direction of contemporary science.”

Background: The difficulties of implementing transdisciplinarity into science and education are connected with the fact that its generally accepted definition, identification characteristics, and methodological features are still missing. In order to ...

transdisciplinarity, transdisciplinary research, systems approach, systems transdisciplinary approach, higher education

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Informing Agility in the Context of Organizational Changes

Rimvydas Skyrius, Mindaugas Krutinis, Svetlana Nemitko, Justina Valentukevičė, Norbert Andžej Gulbinovič, Marija Sanosianaitė

Aim/Purpose. This paper, although conceived earlier than the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic, addresses the problem of informing agility as part of organizational agility that has become a rather important issue for business survival.

Background. While the general issues of business informing, and business intelligence (BI) in particular, have been widely researched, the dynamics of informing, t ...

organizational agility, business intelligence agility

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Created Realities: A Model

Eli Cohen

The purpose of this paper is to provide a model to help explain why ideas about reality differ. Misinformation is an important topic that in the past several years has gained prominence. The author developed a model of informing.

created realities, misinformation, disinformation, fake news, beliefs, informing

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The Predatory Journal: Victimizer or Victim?

Grandon Gill

Aim/Purpose: Labeling a journal as “predatory” can do great damage to the journal and the individuals that have contributed to it. This paper considers whether the predatory classification has outlived its usefulness and what might replace it.

Background: With the advent of open access publishing, the term “predatory” has increasingly been used to identify academic journals, conferences, and pu ...

predatory journals, peer review, replication, complexity, scientific research

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The Effect of Team Communication Behaviors and Processes on Interdisciplinary Teams’ Research Productivity and Team Satisfaction

Susan E Morgan, Soyeon Ahn, Alexandra Mosser, Tyler R Harrison, Jue Wang, Qian Huang, Ashley Ryan, Bingjing Mao, John L Bixby

Aim/Purpose: There is ample evidence that team processes matter more than the characteristics of individual team members; unfortunately, very few empirical studies have examined communication process variables closely or tied them to team outcomes.

Background: The University of Miami Laboratory for Integrated Knowledge (U-LINK) is a pilot funding mechanism that was developed and implemented based ...

communication, science of team science, team processes, shared leadership, shared communication, team outcomes

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Understanding of the Quality of Computer-Mediated Communication Technology in the Context of Business Planning

Junghyun Nam

Aim/Purpose: This study seeks to uncover the perceived quality factors of computer-mediated communication in business planning in which communication among teammates is crucial for collaboration.

Background: Computer-mediated communication has made communicating with teammates easier and more affordable than ever. What motivates people to use a particular CMC technology during business planning ...

computer-mediated communication, business planning, instant messaging, information product quality, information quality

111 - 127

Research on the Tourism Decision-Making Mechanism: A Case Study of American Outbound Tourism

Cong Xu

Aim/Purpose: This article takes ‘tourism decision-making behavior’ as an entry point, and deeply analyzes the factors influencing the travel decision-making of Chinese ‘American Travel’ tourists and their degree of influence, so as to provide a reference for the development of Chinese outbound tourism.

Background: With the development of China’s economy and the improvement in people’s level, the ...

tourism decision; influencing factors; structural equation

129 - 147

The Translational Learning EcoSystem

Gaetano R Lotrecchiano, Marie K Norman

Aim/Purpose: In this paper we propose an ecosystem for translational learning that combines core learning principles with a multilevel construct that embraces the tenets of translational research, namely, teaming, translating, and implementing. The goal of the paper is to argue that knowledge of learning sciences is essential at the individual, team, and organizational levels in the translational ...

ecosystem, pedagogy, team science, implementation, translation, learning sci-ence

149 - 161

Volume 23, 2020

Printable Table of Contents: Informing Science Journal, Volume 23, 2020

Eli Cohen

Table of Contents for Volume 23 of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 2020.

informing science, InfoSci, table of contents

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Design Science Research in Practice: What Can We Learn from a Longitudinal Analysis of the Development of Published Artifacts?

José Osvaldo De Sordi, Marcia Azevedo, Manuel Meireles, Luis Hernan Contreras Pinochet, Carlos Francisco Bitencourt Jorge

Aim/Purpose: To discuss the Design Science Research approach by comparing some of its canons with observed practices in projects in which it is applied, in order to understand and structure it better.

Background: Recent criticisms of the application of the Design Science Research (DSR) approach have pointed out the need to make it more approachable and less confusing to overcome deficiencies such ...

design science, evaluation process, artifact type, entry point, artifact

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Mediating Realities: A Case of the Boeing 737 MAX

Bob Travica

Aim/Purpose: The research problem of this study refers to the manner in which old and new mass media represented the significant social development surrounding two crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX airplane.

Methodology: The study follows a qualitative case study methodology based on a sample of newspaper articles, TV programming, specialized technical publications, Twitter posts, and Facebook conten ...

informing distortion, fake news, fact, truth, Boeing 737 MAX, mainstream media, social media, explanatory journalism, media relations, informing power

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What is Research Rigor? Lessons for a Transdiscipline

Grandon Gill, Tommy R Gill

Aim/Purpose: Use of the term “rigor” is ubiquitous in the research community. But do we actually know what it means, and how it applies to transdisciplinary research?

Background: Too often, rigor is presumed to mean following an established research protocol scrupulously. Unfortunately, that frequently leads to research with little or no impact.

Methodology: We identify a sample of 62 artic ...

rigor, relevance, resonance, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, research

47 - 76

Effective Selection of Quality Literature During a Systematic Literature Review

Holger Schumann, Axel Berres, Tilman Stehr, Dominik Engelhardt

Aim/Purpose: Although a literature review is the fundamental base for any research, it is often considered tedious and conducted with a lack of methodology and rigor. The paper presents a method for systematically searching and screening literature using modern search technologies. The method focuses on minimizing the amount of manual screening by employing the references among papers.

Background ...

literature review, systematic literature review, review guide, research review, education research, information systems literature

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Why People Perceive Messages Differently: The Theory of Cognitive Mapping

Eli Cohen

Aim/Purpose: The paper introduces new concepts including cognitive mapping, cognitive message processing, and message resonance.

Background: This paper draws upon philosophy, psychology, physiology, communications, and introspection to develop the theory of cognitive mapping.

Methodology: Theory development

Contribution: The theory offers new ways to conceptualize the informing process.

Findin ...

cognitive mapping, cognitive message processing, informing science, message resonance, constructed reality

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Informed Change: Exploring the Use of Persuasive Communication of Indigenous Cultures Through Film Narratives

Sonja H Bickford, Michelle Warren

Aim/Purpose: There is a need to find a way to utilize narrative storytelling in film to make students more aware of the impacts of global problems and how they are perceived.

Background: Two films from the year 2015 from two very different places in the world explore the encroachment and secondary effects of urban civilization upon indigenous cultures.

Methodology: An interpretive, qualitative, ...

indigenous, communication, reflection, education, film, urban development

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Gifts, Contexts, Means, and Ends Differing: Informing Task Scenarios to Serve Knowledge Workers’ Needs in Dynamic Complex Settings

Ulrich Schmitt, Grandon Gill

Aim/Purpose: As traditional Knowledge Management (KM) struggles to support the personal needs of knowledge workers in a new era of accelerating information abundance, we examine the shortcomings and put forward alternative scenarios and architectures for developing a novel Personal KM System (PKMS).

Background: While prior publications focused on the complementing features compared to conventiona ...

knowledge management, personal knowledge management, design science research, social digital curation, informing system, digital platform ecosystem, generativity, entropy

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University-Industry Collaboration in Higher Education: Exploring the Informing Flows Framework in Industrial PhD Education

Irene Bernhard, Anna Karin Olsson

Aim/Purpose: The aim is to explore the informing flows framework as interactions within a PhD education practicing a work-integrated learning approach in order to reveal both the perspectives of industrial PhD students and of industry.

Background: An under-researched field of university-industry collaboration is explored revealing both the perspectives of industrial PhD students and of industry. ...

university-industry collaboration, industrial PhD education, work-integrated learning, third-cycle education, informing flows framework

147 - 163

The Informing Science Institute: The Informing Science of a Transdiscipline

William F Murphy

Aim/Purpose: The Informing Science Institute (ISI) is an informing system, designed using informing science principles, for the express purpose of informing researchers who study problems related to informing. This paper describes the ISI as an applied instance of an informing system and analyzes the channels, informers, and clients of the ISI.

Background: This paper begins with a brief overview ...

Informing Science Institute, open access, information systems, transdiscipline, informing systems

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Volume 22, 2019

Printable Table of Contents: Informing Science Journal, Volume 22, 2019

Eli Cohen

Table of Contents for Volume 22 of Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 2019

informing science, InfoSci, table of contents

. i - iii

Synthesizing Design and Informing Science Rationales for Driving a Decentralized Generative Knowledge Management Agenda

Ulrich Schmitt, Grandon Gill

Aim/Purpose: In a world of rapidly expanding complexity and exponentially increasing data availability, IT-based knowledge management tools will be needed to manage and curate available information. This paper looks at a particular tool architecture that has been previously proposed: The Personal Knowledge Management System (PKMS). The specific focus is on how the proposed architecture conforms to ...

knowledge management, personal knowledge management system, design sci-ence research, design evolution, informing system, digital platform ecosystem, fitness-utility-model, generativity

1 - 18

Challenges in Designing Curriculum for Trans-Disciplinary Education: On Cases of Designing Concentration on Informing Science and Master Program on Data Science

Dimitar Grozdanov Christozov, Katia Rasheva-Yordanova, Stefka Toleva-Stoimenova

Aim/Purpose: The growing complexity of the business environment and business processes as well as the Big Data phenomenon has an impact on every area of human activity nowadays. This new reality challenges the effectiveness of traditional narrowly oriented professional education. New areas of competences emerged as a synergy of multiple knowledge areas – transdisciplines. Informing Science and Dat ...

informing science, data science, transdiscipline, education

19 - 30

Ensemble Learning Approach for Clickbait Detection Using Article Headline Features

Dilip Singh Sisodia

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to propose an ensemble learners based classification model for classification clickbaits from genuine article headlines.

Background: Clickbaits are online articles with deliberately designed misleading titles for luring more and more readers to open the intended web page. Clickbaits are used to tempted visitors to click on a particular link either to moneti ...

authentic news; clickbaits; ensemble learning; natural language processing; performance measures

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The Impact on Public Trust of Image Manipulation in Science

Francisco López-Cantos

Aim/Purpose: In this paper, we address the theoretical challenges today’s scientific community faces to precisely draw lines between true and false pictures. In particular, we focus on problems related to the hidden wonders of science and the shiny images produced for scientific papers or to appeal to wider audiences.

Background: As rumors (hoaxes) and false news (fake news) explode across socie ...

fake pictures, scientific fraud, scientific pictures, public understanding of sci-ence, science communication, science journalism

45 - 53

Training Generalists in Higher Education: Its Theoretical Basis and Prospects

Vladimir V.S. Mokiy

Aim/Purpose: Absence of new scientific approaches and specialists (generalists), who professionally obtain such approaches, is one of the main reasons for an ineffective solution of complex multifactor problems of the modern society.

Background: The article briefly describes the concept of systems transdisciplinary integration of knowledge of different scientific disciplines. Also, it shows an op ...

transdisciplinarity, synthesis of knowledge, generalists, systems transdisciplinary approach

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International Standard of Transdisciplinary Education and Transdisciplinary Competence

Vladimir S. Mokiy

Aim/Purpose: The year 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the first official definition of the term “transdisciplinarity.” This paper focuses on a critical analysis of the development of modern transdisciplinarity since its inception.

Background: The article presents two main directions for the development of transdisciplinarity. It also shows its identification features, strengths, and weaknesses ...

transdisciplinarity, transdisciplinary research, systems transdisciplinary ap-proach, higher education, unicentrism, Russian school of transdisciplinarity

73 - 90

Introduction to Series: Informing Science Perspectives on Fake News

Eli Cohen

Aim/Purpose: This series of papers on Fake News: Bias, Misinformation, and Disinformation examines fake news from an Informing Science perspective. As such, the papers in this special series make novel con-tributions to the field by viewing the issues through the transdisciplinary lens of informing science. This series makes no claim to summarize or review all that has been written on this topic. ...

informing science, bias, misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, fake news

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Building an Informing Science Model in Light of Fake News

Eli Cohen

Aim/Purpose: Many disciplines have addressed the issue of “fake news.” This topic is of central concern to the transdiscipline of Informing Science, which endeavors to understand all issues related to informing. This paper endeavors to build a model to address not only fake news but all informing and misin-forming. To do this, it explores how errors get into informing systems, the issue of bias, a ...

informing science, bias, misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, fake news

95 - 114

Fake News and Informing Science

Grandon Gill

The present paper identifies a variety of conceptual schemes that have emerged within informing science and consider how they might be applied to fake news. The paper begins with a brief overview of fake news. This is followed presentations of various models identified in a two-volume survey of informing science. The models presented include those dealing with extrinsic (i.e., environmental) compl ...

fake news, informing science, extrinsic complexity, conceptual scheme

115 - 136

Deception: Types, Principles, and Tactics

Eli Cohen

Aim/Purpose: The paper provides general background on the who, what, when, and why of deception.

Methodology: It uses a naturalistic observational methodology. Whenever possible, the paper provides examples.

Contribution: The research cited in this paper comes from a large variety of disparate fields of study. As such, it is one of the few multidisciplinary attempts to understand de-ception

...

deception, principles, tactics, fake news

137 - 156

The KGB and Anti-Israel Propaganda Operations

Eli Cohen, Elizabeth (Betty) Boyd

Aim/Purpose: The paper explores the success of KGB Operation SIG to incite hatred and create chaos against a democracy

Background: About 50 years ago, the KGB created the means to create upheaval in the Mid-dle East. This paper explores one such campaign and its successor campaign, revealing some disinformation techniques in use today.

Methodology: The paper brings together literature from man ...

informing science, bias, misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, fake news, deception, Russia, Operation SIG, PLO, Nazi, Israel, KGB

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Volume 21, 2018

Printable Table of Contents: InformingSciJ, Volume 21, 2018

Eli Cohen

Table of contents for Volume 21 of Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 2018.

Informing Science, table of contents

. i - iii

Informing on a Rugged Landscape: How Complexity Drives Our Preferred Information Sources

Grandon Gill, Matthew Mullarkey, Ronald K. Satterfield

Aim/Purpose: Provides a theoretical model as to where we should source our information as the environment becomes more complex.

Background: Develops a theoretical model built on extrinsic complexity and offers a conceptual scheme relating to the relative value of different sources.

Methodology: The paper is purely conceptual in nature.

Contribution: Develops a model that could be tested relati ...

Extrinsic complexity, environment, informing sources, client, informer

1 - 18

When Less Is More: Empirical Study of the Relation Between Consumer Behavior and Information Provision on Commercial Landing Pages

Nim Dvir, Ruti Gafni

Aim/Purpose: This paper describes an empirical examination of how users’ willingness to disclose personal data is influenced by the amount of information provided on landing pages – standalone web pages created explicitly for marketing or advertising campaigns.

Background: Provision of information is a central construct in the IS discipline. Content is a term commonly used to describe the inform ...

consumer behavior, information systems, content strategy, human computer interaction, informing science, user engagement, ‎e-commerce, ‎marketing, decision making

19 - 39

Transdisciplinary Communication: Introduction to the Special Issue

Shalini Misra, Gaetano R Lotrecchiano

Aim/Purpose: This is an introductory paper for the Special Series on transdisciplinary communication. It summarizes the various articles in the special series and raises questions for future investigation.

transdisciplinary communication

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FEATURED

Transdisciplinary Knowledge Producing Teams: Toward a Complex Systems Perspective

Gaetano R Lotrecchiano, Shalini Misra

Aim/Purpose: Transdisciplinarity is considered as a framework for understanding knowledge producing teams (KPTs). Features of transdisciplinary knowledge producing teams (TDKPTs) are provided using a complex adaptive systems (CAS) lens. TDKPT features are defined and linked to complexity theory to show how team participants might develop skills that more truly express complex adaptive conditions.
...

transdisciplinarity, knowledge producing teams, complexity, systems

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What is Collaborative, Interdisciplinary Reasoning? The Heart of Interdisciplinary Team Research

Bethany K Laursen

Aim/Purpose: Collaborative, interdisciplinary research is growing rapidly, but we still have limited and fragmented understanding of what is arguably the heart of such research—collaborative, interdisciplinary reasoning (CIR).

Background: This article integrates neo-Pragmatist theories of reasoning with insights from literature on interdisciplinary research to develop a working definition of col ...

argumentation, discourse, interdisciplinary, integration, intersubjectivity, transdisciplinary, Toolbox

75 - 106

Dialogue and the Creation of Transformative Social Change: The Case of Social Enterprises

Chitvan Trivedi, Shalini Misra

Aim/Purpose: To understand the process of social change creation in social entrepreneurial ventures (SEVs), specifically emphasizing the role and nature of the communicative process in social change creation.

Background: Drawing on data from seven SEVs from India and the US and employing a grounded theory methodology, this research scrutinizes the social change process and uncovers the role and c ...

social entrepreneurship, social change, transdisciplinary collaboration, communication, dialogue, complex problem solving

107 - 132

Complexity Leadership Theory and the Leaders of Transdisciplinary Science

Elina I Mäkinen

Aim/Purpose: Given that leadership has been shown to play a key role in knowledge-producing organizations, leaders of transdisciplinary science have received surprisingly little empirical attention. This study addresses the research gap by examining leadership in the context of a new transdisciplinary research organization.

Background: Drawing on complexity leadership theory—a framework developed ...

transdisciplinary science, medicine, collaboration, research center, complexity leadership theory, knowledge integration

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Facilitating Innovation in Interdisciplinary Teams: The Role of Leaders and Integrative Communication

Maritza Salazar, Theresa Lant

Aim/Purpose: The complexity of scientific problems has spurred the development of transdisciplinary science, in which experts are brought together to collaborate across disciplinary and practice boundaries. These knowledge diverse teams can produce novel solutions, but they often fail to achieve their potential.

Background: Leaders have a crucial role to play in enabling effective collaboration ...

interdisciplinary teams, multidisciplinary breadth of experience, team innovation

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Shifting Paradigms in Information Flow: An Open Science Framework (OSF) for Knowledge Sharing Teams

Megan Potterbusch, Gaetano R Lotrecchiano

Aim/Purpose: This paper explores the implications of machine-mediated communication on human interaction in cross-disciplinary teams. The authors explore the relationships between Open Science Theory, its contributions to team science, and the opportunities and challenges associated with adopting open science principles.

Background: Open Science Theory impacts many aspects of human interaction t ...

open science theory, research transparency technology, teams, open science framework

179 - 199

A Social Machine for Transdisciplinary Research

David G Lebow

Aim/Purpose: This paper introduces a Social Machine for collaborative sensemaking that the developers have configured to the requirements and challenges of transdisciplinary literature reviews.

Background: Social Machines represent a promising model for unifying machines and social processes for a wide range of purposes. A development team led by the author is creating a Social Machine for activi ...

cognitive bias, epistemological beliefs, multiple texts, sensemaking, Social Ma-chines, transdisciplinarity, transdisciplinary research

201 - 217

Communicating Transdisciplinary Characteristics In Global Regulatory Affairs: An Example From Health Professions Education

Daniela Drago, Paige McDonald, Gaetano R Lotrecchiano

Aim/Purpose: This paper describes the regulatory affairs discipline as a useful case in the study of both inter- and transdisciplinary science and dynamics related to communication across multiple boundaries. We will 1) outline the process that led to the development of transnational competencies for regulatory affairs graduate education, 2) discuss how the process highlights the transdisciplinary ...

transdisciplinary, competencies, regulatory affairs, higher education

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Collaborative Transdisciplinary Research In A Small Institution: Challenges And Opportunities

Nilda G Medina, Loggina S. Báez Ávila, Loyda B Mendez

Aim/Purpose: In this paper, we discuss how a Transdisciplinary (TD) and a Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) initiative was conceptualized, developed, implemented, and sustained at a small academic institution with limited research infrastructure, emphasizing the role of capacity building.

Background: Most examples of the implementation of TD research come from large-scale initiatives ...

transdisciplinary research, community based participatory research, capacity building, Hispanic Serving Institution

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Defining the Dialogue between Sciences: A View on Transdisciplinary Perspective in the Human Sciences

Giorgia Rimondi, Marco Veronese

Aim/Purpose: The authors argue that interdisciplinarity, together with the more recent concept of transdisciplinarity, can be seen as a coherent attempt not so much to reassemble the fragmented structure into a whole, as to create a fruitful collaboration and integration among different disciplines that takes into account their specificity.

Background: At the threshold of the Modern Age, a seri ...

transdisciplinarity, critical epistemology, philosophy of boundaries, status of humanities, Michel Foucault, Russian school of transdisciplinarity

255 - 268

Digital Means for Reducing Digital Inequality: Literature Review

Elena Maceviciute, Thomas D. Wilson

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to identify the possibilities for reducing the second and third levels of the digital divide (or inequality) through conscious application of digital technologies, especially through the promotion of digital means for information, enlightenment, and entertainment.

Background: This article reviews studies carried out between 2000 and 2017, which investigate th ...

digital divide, digital technology, literature review, reducing digital inequali-ties

269 - 287

Ladies First: The Influence of Mobile Dating Applications on the Psychological Empowerment of Female Users

Maureen Tanner, Pabie Q Tabo

Aim/Purpose: This study was undertaken to shed light on how the use of a heteronormative mobile dating application creates an environment to promote psychological empowerment among female users within the online dating scene. The study focused on a mobile dating application which specifically challenges traditional gender roles, namely Bumble.

Background: Mobile dating applications have become an ...

mobile dating applications, online dating, women empowerment

289 - 317

Volume 20, 2017

Printable Table of Contents: InformingSciJ, Volume 20, 2017

Raafat George Saadé

Table of contents for Volume 20 of Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 2017.

Informing Science, table of contents

. i - iii

Cognition to Collaboration: User-Centric Approach and Information Behaviour Theories/Models

Alperen M Aydin

Aim/Purpose: The objective of this paper is to review the vast literature of user-centric in-formation science and inform about the emerging themes in information behaviour science.

Background: The paradigmatic shift from system-centric to user-centric approach facilitates research on the cognitive and individual information processing. Various information behaviour theories/models emerged.
...

user-centric information processing, information behaviour, collaborative information behaviour

1 - 20

Flow-Based Provenance

Sabah Al-Fedaghi

Aim/Purpose: With information almost effortlessly created and spontaneously available, current progress in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has led to the complication that information must be scrutinized for trustworthiness and provenance. Information systems must become provenance-aware to be satisfactory in accountability, reproducibility, and trustworthiness of data.

Backgroun ...

conceptual representation, provenance, diagrammatic representation, workflow, data provenance

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Fitness, Extrinsic Complexity and Informing Science

Grandon Gill, Matthew Mullarkey

Aim/Purpose
We establish a conceptually rigorous definition for the widely used but loosely defined term “fitness”. We then tie this definition to complexity, highlighting a number of important implications for the informing science transdiscipline.

Background
As informing science increasingly incorporates concepts of fitness and complexity in its research stream, rigorous discussion and de ...

fitness, complexity, rugged landscapes, punctuated equilibrium, informing

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Devising Enabling Spaces and Affordances for Personal Knowledge Management System Design

Ulrich Schmitt

Aim/Purpose: Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) has been envisaged as a crucial tool for the growing creative class of knowledge workers, but adequate technological solutions have not been forthcoming.

Background: Based on former affordance-related publications (primarily concerned with communication, community-building, collaboration, and social knowledge sharing), the common and differing n ...

Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), Design Science Research (DSR), Informing Science (IS), Knowledge Worker, Affordances, Path Dependency, Fixations, Digital Ecosystems, Memes, Memex, Knowcations

63 - 82

An Analysis of the Effectiveness of the Constructivist Approach in Teaching Business Statistics

Greeni Maheshwari, Susan Thomas

Aim/Purpose: The main aim of the research is to examine the performance of second language English speaking students enrolled in the Business Statistics course and to investigate the academic performance of students when taught under the constructivist and non-constructivist approaches in a classroom environment.

Background: There are different learning theories that are established based on ho ...

business statistics, constructivist approach, second language English speakers, student motivation, academic performance

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The Effect of IT Integration on Supply Chain Agility Towards Market Performance (A Proposed Study)

Shaghayegh Maleki Far, Mohammadreza Akbari, Steven J Clarke

Aim/Purpose : An important objective of any firm is escalation of its performance and the achievement of competitive advantages. Supply chain agility plays a prominent role to enhance the level of firm’s performance. Moreover, information technology (IT) plays a foundational role in supply chain management practices. Hence, this study proposes the relationship between IT integration as the compete ...

IT integration, supply chain agility, market performance

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Improving Information Technology Curriculum Learning Outcomes

Derrick L Anderson

Aim/Purpose
Information Technology students’ learning outcomes improve when teaching methodology moves away from didactic behaviorist-based pedagogy toward a more heuristic constructivist-based version of andragogy.

Background
There is a distinctive difference, a notable gap, between the academic community and the business community in their views of the level of preparedness of recent info ...

learning outcomes, pedagogy, andragogy, behaviorism, constructivism, learning theory, instructional strategy

119 - 131

The Utilisation of Smartphones Apps as a Service Tool at Kuwaiti Academic Libraries

Husain F. Ghuloum, Zuwainah R Allamki

Aim/Purpose: This paper aims to investigate how Kuwaiti Academic Libraries (KALs) have responded to the rapidly evolving Smartphone-Apps (SP-Apps) environment, as well as exploring the level of electronic services provided in these libraries.

Background: This study can illustrate whether the governmental, academic libraries in the State of Kuwait have already benefited from the mobile services ...

academic library, smartphone, information communication technology, Kuwait

133 - 148

The Informing Needs of Procurement Officers in Israel

Dan Bouhnik, Yahel Giat, Issachar Zarruk

Aim/Purpose: To develop and introduce a questionnaire that investigates the informing needs, information-seeking behavior, and supplier selection of procurement officers in Israel. The questionnaire’s internal consistency reliability is given. Additionally, we describe the demographic description of the procurement officers in Israel.

Background: Procurement science is an important field that aff ...

procurement, informing needs, e-procurement, Israel

149 - 165

Business Analytics as a Tool to Transforming Information into an Informing System: The Case of the On-Line Course Registration System

Dimitar Grozdanov Christozov

Aim/Purpose: Sharing ideas generated in a Business Intelligence (BI) Applications class to upgrade an Information System in to an Informing System.

Background: Course Registration is the essential university’s business process in a university that follows a liberal-arts education model. Almost all categories of users are involved, including students, individual faculties and departments, and a ...

information systems, informing systems, business intelligence, analytics, course registration

167 - 178

Technology Addiction: How Social Network Sites Impact our Lives

Natalie Gerhart

Aim/Purpose: The media and research have made significant noise about young people’s addictions to technology, however the American Psychological Association (APA) has reserved judgment on the clinical diagnosis of technology addiction. Research to understand technology addiction is important to the future of information systems development and behavioral usage understanding.

Background: Addictio ...

addiction, satisfaction with life, social network sites, dependence

179 - 194

Small Business Conformity with Quality Website Design Criteria in a Marketing Communication Context

Martine Robinson Beachboard

Aim/Purpose: Professional companies selling persuasive-communication services via the World Wide Web need to be exemplars of effective informing practices. Their credibility is at risk if their websites do not excel in marketing message and use of medium. Their unique brands need to be expressed through website technology and content, or they cannot compete successfully.

Background: Compares mark ...

brand reputation, identity differentiation, message clarity, expertise and credibility

195 - 214

Information Re-Sharing on Social Network Sites in the Age of Fake News

Mehrdad Koohikamali, Anna Sidorova

Aim/Purpose: In the light of the recent attention to the role of social media in the dissemination of fake news, it is important to understand the relationship between the characteristics of the social media content and re-sharing behavior. This study seeks to examine individual level antecedents of information re-sharing behavior including individual beliefs about the quality of information avail ...

social network, fake news, information quality, risk taking propensity, re-sharing

215 - 235

Co-development of a Wiki for Tracking the Environmental Footprint of Small Business Activities

Helen Hasan, Corina Ionescu

Aim/Purpose: Climate change mitigation is a global challenge, in which academia and business have a role to play. This research explores ways to develop a freely-available information system that would enable small businesses to identify and reduce their environmental footprint.

Background: While large organizations have the resources to track emissions and other pertinent data, small businesses ...

climate change, small business, wiki, activity theory, design science, green in-formation systems

237 - 258

Acceptance of ERP Systems: The Uses and Gratifications Theory Perspective

Bassam Hasan

Aim/Purpose: This study aims to provide a better understanding of individual acceptance of enterprise resource (ERP) systems. Based on the uses and gratifications theory (UGT) and informing science theory, the study developed and empirically tested a research model to explain the effects of ERP characteristics (specifically, informativeness and enjoyment) on ERP acceptance and use.

Background: I ...

enterprise resource system (ERP), uses and gratification theory (UGT), in-formativeness, enjoyment, attitude, satisfaction, intention to use ERP systems

259 - 275

Volume 19, 2016

Printable Table of Contents: InformingScienceJ, Volume 19, 2016

Raafat George Saadé

InformingScienceJ, Volume 19, 2016 Table of Contents

table of contents, Informing Science

i - iii

Building an Informing Business School: A Case Study of USF’s Muma College of Business

Grandon Gill, Matthew Mullarkey, Joseph E Mohr, Moez Limayem

As the complexity of a system grows, the challenge of informing the stakeholders of that system grows correspondingly. Nowhere is that challenge more daunting than in business education, where globalization, technological innovation, and increasingly complicated regulations continuously transform the business environment facing graduates and practitioners. Informing science theory proposes that di ...

informing science, informing system, internships, externships, business education, case studies, research, channel, complexity, rugged landscape, business school, impact

1 - 73

Warranty of Misinforming as an Option in Product Utilization Process

Dimitar Grozdanov Christozov, Stefanka Chukova, Plamen S. Mateev

The following definition of “option” is given in Wikipedia - “In finance, an option is a contract, which gives the buyer (the owner or holder) the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an underlying asset or instrument at a specified strike price on or before a specified date, depending on the form of the option” (“Option,” n.d.). Option as a risk management (mitigation) tool is broadly us ...

warranty of malfunctioning, warranty of misinforming, options, asymmetry, utility, risk of misinforming

75 - 87

Alternatives for Pragmatic Responses to Group Work Problems

Bill Davey, Karoly Bozan, Robert Houghton, Kevin R. Parker

Group work can provide a valuable learning experience, one that is especially relevant for those preparing to enter the information system workforce. While much has been discussed about effective means of delivering the benefits of collaborative learning in groups, there are some problems that arise due to pragmatic environmental factors such as the part time work commitments of students. This stu ...

action research, group work problems

89 - 102

Organizational Creativity and IT-based Support

Celina M. Olszak, Jerzy Andrzej Kisielnicki

The main aim of this paper is to provide a theoretically and empirically grounded discussion on IT-based organizational creativity support. This study attempts to answer the following questions: (1) what is the issue of organizational creativity and its IT-based support, (2) what is the demand for IT –based organizational creativity support; (3) what are the main determinants and barriers to IT-ba ...

Organizational creativity, IT-based organizational creativity support, success factors

103 - 123

KnoWare: A System for Citizen-based Environmental Monitoring

Jeremy J Storer, Joseph T. Chao, Andrew T Torelli, Alexis D Ostrowski

Non-expert scientists are frequently involved in research requiring data acquisition over large geographic areas. Despite mutual benefits for such “citizen science”, barriers also exist, including 1) difficulty maintaining user engagement with timely feedback, and 2) the challenge of providing non-experts with the means to generate reliable data. We have developed a system that addresses these bar ...

Citizen Science, Cell-phone Spectrometer, Water Contaminant Analysis, Web and Mobile Development, Visualization

125 - 139

Entry Level Systems Analysts: What Does the Industry Want?

Erastus Karanja, Donna M. Grant, Shinetta Freeman, David Anyiwo

This study investigates the skill sets necessary for entry level systems analysts. Towards this end, the study combines two sources of data, namely, a content analysis of 200 systems analysts’ online job advertisements and a survey of 20 senior Information Systems (IS) professionals. Based on Chi-square tests, the results reveal that most employers prefer entry level systems analysts with an under ...

System Analysts, Information Systems, Education, Skills, Content Analysis, Empirical Study

141 - 160

Effectiveness of Agile Implementation Methods in Business Intelligence Projects from an End-user Perspective

Jerzy Andrzej Kisielnicki, Anna Maria Misiak

The global Business Intelligence (BI) market grew by 10% in 2013 according to the Gartner Report. Today organizations require better use of data and analytics to support their business decisions. Internet power and business trend changes have provided a broad term for data analytics – Big Data. To be able to handle it and leverage a value of having access to Big Data, organizations have no other c ...

Agile methods, Business Intelligence, efficiency, end-users needs, advanced analytics, sprint, iteration

161 - 172

Genetic-linked Inattentiveness Protects Individuals from Internet Overuse: A Genetic Study of Internet Overuse Evaluating Hypotheses Based on Addiction, Inattention, Novelty-seeking and Harm-avoidance

Cheng Sun, Rita Spathis, Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan, Chim W. Chan, J. Koji Lum

The all-pervasive Internet has created serious problems, such as Internet overuse, which has triggered considerable debate over its relationship with addiction. To further explore its genetic susceptibilities and alternative explanations for Internet overuse, we proposed and evaluated four hypotheses, each based on existing knowledge of the biological bases of addiction, inattention, novelty-seeki ...

Internet overuse; inattentiveness; dopamine receptor D4 gene (DRD4); serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR); Internet Addiction Test

173 - 200

Assessment of Project Website Sustainability: Case of the Arctic EIA Project

Sonja H Bickford, Angela K Hollman, Marina Nenasheva, Pamela Lesser, Timo Koivurova

In many cases, temporary websites may be simple, accessible solutions for knowledge management and dissemination of information. However, such sites may become outdated as the funding ends, but yet in many cases, still publicly available through the Internet. The issue of website sustainability is a relevant topic for all organizations that have websites. Website lifecycle, knowledge management, a ...

websites, lifecycle, knowledge management, sustainability, case study

201 - 213

Predicting the Use of Twitter in Developing Countries: Integrating Innovation Attributes, Uses and Gratifications, and Trust Approaches

Mohammad A. Alajmi, Awadh H. Alharbi, Husain F. Ghuloum

Based on the diffusion of innovation (DOI) theory (Rogers, 2003), the uses and gratifications (U&G) theory, and trust theory, this study investigated the factors that influence the use of Twitter among the Kuwaiti community. The study surveyed Twitter users in Kuwait. A structured online questionnaire was used to collect data, and 463 respondents who provided complete answers participated. Multipl ...

social media, microblogging, Kuwait, diffusion of innovation, motivations, trust objects, communication technology

215 - 237

FEATURED

Montage: Expanding the Concept of Informing through Cinematic Concepts

Emad Moaddab

In his “Theses on the Philosophy of History”, Walter Benjamin suggests that all cultural treasures “owe their existence not only to the efforts of the great minds and talents who have created them, but also to the anonymous toil of their contemporaries. There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism”. The most obvious and prominent examples of cultural ...

cinematic thinking, monumental architectural works, cultural documents, montage, cultural imaginary geography

239 - 251

Key Design Characteristics for Developing Usable E-Commerce Websites in the Arab World

Layla Hasan

This research aims to suggest key design characteristics that are necessary for developing usable e-commerce websites in the Arab world. A comprehensive usability evaluation of four leading Arab e-commerce websites was conducted using the heuristic evaluation method. The results identified major and minor usability problems and major and minor good design characteristics on the selected websites. ...

key design characteristics, usability, e-commerce websites, Arab world, heuristic evaluation, informing

253 - 275

A Review of Information Privacy and Its Importance to Consumers and Organizations

Marc Pelteret, Jacques Ophoff

The privacy of personal information is an important area of focus in today’s electronic world, where information can so easily be captured, stored, and shared. In recent years it has regularly featured as a topic in news media and has become the target of legislation around the world. Multidisciplinary privacy research has been conducted for decades, yet privacy remains a complex subject that stil ...

privacy, information privacy, personal information, privacy management, consumers, clients, transdisciplinary, organizations, literature review

277 - 301

The X-Factor of Cultivating Successful Entrepreneurial Technology-Enabled Start-Ups

Elsje Scott , Terrina Govender, Nata van der Merwe

In the fast changing global economic landscape, the cultivation of sustainable entrepreneurial ventures is seen as a vital mechanism that will enable businesses to introduce new innovative products to the market faster and more effectively than their competitors.
This research paper investigated phenomena that may play a significant role when entrepreneurs implement creative ideas resulting in s ...

entrepreneurial start-ups, partnerships, education, idea generation, innovation, design thinking, common features for the foundation of a successful company

303 - 324

Citizen Science and Biomedical Research: Implications for Bioethics Theory and Practice

Chris W Callaghan

Certain trends in scientific research have important relevance to bioethics theory and practice. A growing stream of literature relates to increasing transparency and inclusivity of populations (stakeholders) in scientific research, from high volume data collection, synthesis, and analysis to verification and ethical scrutiny. The emergence of this stream of literature has implications for bioethi ...

biomedical ethics, citizen science, informing science, probabilistic innovation, crowdsourcing, transparency, scientific inclusiveness

325 - 343

Design Science Research For Personal Knowledge Management System Development - Revisited

Ulrich Schmitt

The article presents Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) as an overdue individualized as well as a collaborative approach for knowledge workers. Designing a PKM-supporting system, however, resembles a so-called “wicked” problem (ill-defined; incomplete, contradictory, changing requirements, complex interdependencies) where the information needed to understand the challenges depends on upon one’s i ...

Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), Design Science Research (DSR), Informing Science (IS), Popper’s Three Worlds, Knowledge Worker, Organizational Knowledge Man-agement (OKM), Human Capital, Capacity Development, Lifelong learning, Digital Ecosystems, Complexity, Memes, Memex, Knowcations

345 - 379

Influence of Information Product Quality on Informing Users: A Web Portal Context

Junghyun Nam

Web portals have been used as information products to deliver personalized, feature-rich, and flexible information needs to Internet users. However, all portals are not equal. Most of them have relatively a small number of visitors, while a few capture the majority of surfers. This study seeks to uncover the factors that contribute the perceived quality of a general portal. Based on 21 factors der ...

web portal, web portal quality, information quality, information product quality, perceived quality; intention to use

381 - 409

Volume 18, 2015

Printable Table of Contents: InformingScienceJ, Volume 18, 2015

Grandon Gill

Table of Contents

i - iii

The Impact Facebook and Twitter has on the Cognitive Social Capital of University Students

Chad Petersen, Kevin A. Johnston

The impact that Facebook and Twitter usage has on the creation and maintenance of university student’s cognitive social capital was investigated on students in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Facebook and Twitter were selected as part of the research context because both are popular online social network systems (SNSs), and few studies were found that investigated the impact that both F ...

Facebook, Twitter, Cognitive Social Capital, Bridging Social Capital, Bonding Social Capital, Maintained Social Capital, Usage, University Students

1 - 30

Designing to Inform: Toward Conceptualizing Practitioner Audiences for Socio-technical Artifacts in Design Science Research in the Information Systems Discipline

Andreas Drechsler

This paper identifies areas in the design science research (DSR) subfield of the information systems (IS) discipline where a more detailed consideration of practitioner audiences of socio-technical design artifacts could improve current IS DSR research practice and proposes an initial conceptualization of these audiences. The consequences of not considering artifact audiences are identified throug ...

design science, informing science, artifacts, artifact audiences, relevance, fitness, utility

31 - 47

FEATURED

Risk of Misinforming and Message Customization in Customer Related Management

Dimitar Grozdanov Christozov, Stefanka Chukova, Plamen Mateev

This paper discusses applications of the measures of the risk of misinforming and the role of the warranty of misinforming in the context of the informing component of Customer Related Management (CRM) issues. This study consists of two parts. Firstly, we propose an approach for customers’ grouping based on their attitude toward assessing product's properties and their expertise on the terminology ...

measures of the risk of misinforming, warranty of misinforming, customer related management, customer’s purchase attitude, customers expertize

47 - 61

Case Study of a Complex Informing System: Joint Interagency Field Experimentation (JIFX)

William F Murphy, Sandra Sanchez Murphy, Raymond R Buettner, Grandon Gill

The Joint Interagency Field Experimentation (JIFX) event, organized by the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), is conducted 3-4 times a year at various locations. The four day event can be characterized as an informing system specifically designed to facilitate structured and unstructured communications between a variety of parties—e.g., software developers, inventors, military and civilian users of ...

JIFX, informing system, complexity, disaster management, ad hoc experimentation, collaboration, military

63 - 109

Informing and Performing: A Study Comparing Adaptive Learning to Traditional Learning

Meg Coffin Murray, Jorge Pérez

Technology has transformed education, perhaps most evidently in course delivery options. However, compelling questions remain about how technology impacts learning. Adaptive learning tools are technology-based artifacts that interact with learners and vary presentation based upon that interaction. This paper compares adaptive learning with a conventional teaching approach implemented in a digital ...

Adaptive learning, adaptive learning system, personalized learning systems, iron triangle, informing science

111 - 125

Information Gatekeepers – Aren't We All?

Dan Bouhnik , Yahel Giat

In today’s knowledge environment, individuals and groups who gather relevant information about the organization’s external environment and distribute that information for use by their colleagues receive increasing attention and are viewed with great importance. These individuals have been named Information Gatekeepers. Thus far, researchers have not established a unanimous and interdisciplinary de ...

Information environment, gatekeeper, organizational knowledge, organizational learning

127 - 144

Putting Personal Knowledge Management under the Macroscope of Informing Science

Ulrich Schmitt

The paper introduces a novel Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) concept and prototype system. The system’s objective is to aid life-long-learning, resourcefulness, creativity, and teamwork of individuals throughout their academic and professional life and as contributors and beneficiaries of organizational and societal performance. Such a scope offers appealing and viable opportunities for stakeh ...

Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), Organizational Knowledge Management (OKM), PKM for Development (PKM4D), Informing Science Framework, Human Capital, Capacity Development, Lifelong learning, Memes, Memex, Knowcations, Disruptive Innovations, Kuhn’s Scientific Revolutions

145 - 175

Informing Systems as the Transformers of Information Wave into Virtual Civilization and Their Ethics Question

Andrew S Targowski

The purpose of this investigation is to define the central contents and issues of the impact of informing systems on the rise and development of Virtual Civilization. The methodology is based on an interdisciplinary big-picture view of the Virtual Civilization’s elements of development and their interdependency. Among the findings are: Virtual Civilization has infrastructural characteristics, a wo ...

Informing systems, Informing science, Information Wave, Virtual Wave, Civilization, Global Civilization, Virtual Civilization, Virtuality, Cyberspace, Cognitive space, e-Nation

177 - 204

Social Networks in which Users are not Small Circles

Sabah Al-Fedaghi, Heba AlMeshari

Understanding of social network structure and user behavior has important implications for site design, applications (e.g., ad placement policies), accurate modeling for social studies, and design of next-generation infrastructure and content distribution systems. Currently, characterizations of social networks have been dominated by topological studies in which graph representations are analyzed ...

Social network, network structure, user behaviors, node interior, conceptual representation

205 - 224

The Seven Deadly Tensions of Health-Related Human Information Behavior

J. David Johnson

Tensions are a ubiquitous feature of social life and are manifested in a number of particular forms: contradictory logics, competing demands, clashes of ideas, contradictions, dialectics, irony, paradoxes, and/or dilemmas. This essay aims to explore in detail tensions surrounding seven common findings of the information seeking literature relating to: interpersonal communication, accessibility, le ...

Human information behavior; health information seeking; tensions; paradoxes, dilemmas

225 - 234

The Dynamics and Architecture of an Informing System

Andrew S Targowski

The purpose of this investigation is to define the architecture of computer informing systems. The methodology is based on an interdisciplinary, big-picture view of the cognition units which provide the foundation for informing systems. Among the findings are the following: informing systems should be designed for rigor and relevance with respect to the cognitive units (information), integrating ...

cognition units, informing systems, information systems, information rigor, information relevance, informing resonance, resonant change, informing purpose, reasoning richness, informing quality, informing security, informing space, wise civilization, cognitive space, real space, cyberspace, data, information, concept, knowledge, wisdom, information perspective, information image

235 - 266

Volume 17, 2014

Printable Table of Contents: InformingSciJ, Volume 17, 2014

Grandon Gill

i - iii

Decision Confidence, Information Usefulness, and Information Seeking Intention in the Presence of Disconfirming Information

Brandon Phillips, Victor R. Prybutok, Daniel A. Peak

1 - 24

User Perceptions of Aesthetic Visual Design Variables within the Informing Environment: A Web-Based Experiment

Daniel A. Peak, Victor R. Prybutok, Michael Gibson, Yu "Andy" Wu, Chenyan Xu

25 - 57

Methodological Approaches for Researching Complex Organizational Phenomena

Irena Malgorzata Ali

59 - 73

Information and Knowledge: Combining Justification, Truth, and Belief

Robert Losee

75 - 93

Library as a Verb: Technological Change and the Obsolescence of Place in Research

Stewart C. Baker

95 - 101

A NeuroDesign Model for IS Research

Alan R. Hevner, Christopher Davis, Rosann Webb Collins, Grandon Gill

103 - 132

Think Process, Think in Time: Advancing Study of Informing Systems

Bob Travica

133 - 148

The Ambiguity that Surrounds Information Strategy

Karl T. Knox

149 - 173

Global Agile Team Design: An Informing Science Perspective

Jason H. Sharp, Sherry D. Ryan, Victor R. Prybutok

175 - 187

Disciplinary Evolution and the Rise of the Transdiscipline

Eli Cohen, Scott J. Lloyd

189 - 215

The Knowledge Innovation Matrix (KIM): A Clarifying Lens for Innovation

Shirley Gregor, Alan R. Hevner

217 - 239

Disciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity in the Study of Knowledge

Jay Bernstein

241 - 273

Identifying the Knowledge Requirements of a New Project Entrant: An Informing Science Approach

Grafton Whyte, Desire Minnaar

275 - 294

Conceptualization of Various and Conflicting Notions of Information

Sabah Al-Fedaghi

295 - 308

Volume 16, 2013

Printable Table of Contents: InformingSciJ, Volume 16, 2013

i - iii

Testing a Model of Users’ Web Risk Information Seeking Intention

Lixuan Zhang, Robert Pavur, Paul York, Clinton Amos

1 - 18

YouTube: An Effective Web 2.0 Informing Channel for Health Education to Prevent STDs

Gayle Prybutok

19 - 36

The Social Network Application Post-Adoptive Use Model (SNAPUM): A Model Examining Social Capital and Other Critical Factors Affecting the Post-Adoptive Use of Facebook

Michael J. Magro, Sherry D. Ryan, Victor R. Prybutok

37 - 69

Culture, Complexity, and Informing: How Shared Beliefs Can Enhance Our Search for Fitness

Grandon Gill

71 - 98

Student Interaction with Content in Online and Hybrid Courses: Leading Horses to the Proverbial Water

Meg Coffin Murray, Jorge Pérez, Debra Geist, Alison Hedrick

99 - 115

A Bibliometric Study of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdis-cipline

Amanda Regolini, Emmanuelle Jannès-Ober

117 - 130

FEATURED

Exploring the Role of Communication Media in the Informing Science Model: An Information Technology Project Management Perspective

April H. Reed, Linda V. Knight

131 - 145

Openness of Information-Communications Systems: The Rescue Tool for Preserving Information Age Heritage

Fjodor Ruzic

147 - 164

Evidence for Addressing the Unsolved through EdGe-ucating or Can Informing Science Promote Democratic Knowledge Production?

G. Thomas Fox

165 - 185

The Role of Case Studies in Informing Systems: Introduction to the Special Series

John C. Ickis

187 - 195

Case Method Management

Harry W. Strachan

197 - 201

Case Studies in Agribusiness: An Interview with Ray Goldberg

Grandon Gill

203 - 212

Decision Processes in Introducing Hybrid Agricultural Plants: ECOM Coffee Group Case Study

Bernard Kilian

213 - 228

Meanings for Case Protagonists of the Informing Process Occurring During Case Production and Discussion: A Phenomenological Analysis

Josefina Bruni-Celli, Rosa Amelia González

229 - 246

Informing Patterns of Student Case Writing

John C. Ickis, Mislav Ante Omazić

247 - 260

Online Learning and Case Teaching: Implications in an Informing Systems Framework

Eduardo Luis Montiel

261 - 272

Are We Really Having an Impact? A Comprehensive Approach to Assessing Improvements in Critical Thinking in an MBA Program

Luis Noel Alfaro Gramajo, Felipe Pérez Pineda, Carlos Quintanilla, Luis Sanz

273 - 295

Volume 15, 2012

Printable Table of Contents: InformingSciJ, Volume 15, 2012

i - iii

Focus and Perspectivism in Viewing Information, Data, and Informing: Fundamental Distinctions

Zbigniew J. Gackowski

1 - 34

Paradigm Lost

J. E. Everett

35 - 48

Informing on a Rugged Landscape: Homophily versus Expertise

Grandon Gill

49 - 91

The Helix of Human Cognition: Knowledge Management According to DIKW, E2E, and the Proposed View

Zbigniew J. Gackowski

93 - 119

Informing Science and Andragogy: A Conceptual Scheme of Client-Side Barriers to Informing University Students

Linda V. Knight, Theresa A. Steinbach, Jean Hop

121 - 145

Teaching IS to the Information Society using an “Informing Science” Perspective

Ramesh Subramanian, Bruce White

147 - 182

Understanding the Antecedents of Knowledge Sharing: An Organizational Justice Perspective

Bashorat Ibragimova, Sherry D. Ryan, John C. Windsor, Victor R. Prybutok

183 - 205

Social Networking Site Continuance: The Paradox of Negative Consequences and Positive Growth

Gina Harden, Sherry D. Ryan, Victor R. Prybutok

207 - 227

The Paradox of Tethering: Key to Unleashing Creative Excellence in the Research-Education Space

David J. Waters

229 - 245

The Dual Micro/Macro Informing Role of Social Network Sites: Can Twitter Macro Messages Help Predict Stock Prices?

Nicholas Evangelopoulos, Michael J. Magro, Anna Sidorova

247 - 268

Volume 14, 2011

Printable Table of Contents: InformingScienceJ, Volume 14, 2011

When What is Useful is Not Necessarily True: The Underappreciated Conceptual Scheme

T. Grandon Gill

1 - 32

Informing: A Cognitive Load Perspective

Slava Kalyuga

33 - 45

The Information Age Measurement Paradox: Collecting Too Much Data

Nitza Geri, Yariv Geri

47 - 59

Towards an Information Sharing Pedagogy: A Case of Using Facebook in a Large First Year Class

Patient Rambe, Dick Ng'ambi

61 - 89

The Informing Science Institute: The Informing System of a Transdiscipline

William F. Murphy, Jr.

91 - 123

Promoting Relevance in IS Research: An Informing System for Design Science Research

William Kuechler, Vijay Vaishnavi

125 - 138

Backbone or Helping Hand? On the Role of Information Systems and Non-systematic Information in Managers’ Work

Cecilia Gullberg, Alf Westelius

139 - 160

Integrating the Visual Design Discipline with Information Systems Research and Practice

Daniel A. Peak, Victor R. Prybutok, Yu "Andy" Wu, Chenyan Xu

161 - 181

Volume 13, 2010

Printable Table of Contents: ISJ Volume 13, 2010

Preface to Volume 13

T. Grandon Gill

v - vii

A Study on Complex Information Needs in Business Activities

Rimvydas Skyrius, Vytautas Bujauskas

1 - 13

Informing in the Flat, Rough World: Balancing Globalization Gone Awry

Bob Travica

15 - 34

Subjectivity Dispelled: Physical Views of Information and Informing

Zbigniew J. Gackowski

35 - 52

Critical-Thinking Pedagogy and Student Perceptions of University Contributions to Their Academic Development

Martine Robinson Beachboard , John C. Beachboard

53 - 71

From Group-based Learning to Cooperative Learning: A Metacognitive Approach to Project-based Group Supervision

Christopher Cheong

73 - 86

An Informing Service Based on Models Defined by Its Clients

Juan R. Bauer Mengelberg

87 - 119

Social Network Position and Its Relationship to Performance of IT Professionals

Paul Burton, Yu "Andy" Wu, Victor R. Prybutok

121 - 137

Organizational Practices That Foster Knowledge Sharing: Validation across Distinct National Cultures

Sherry D. Ryan, John C. Windsor, Bashorat Igragimova, Victor R. Prybutok

139 - 164

Informing as a Discipline: An Initial Proposal

Zbigniew J. Gackowski

165 - 175

A Model for Mandatory Use of Software Technologies: An Integrative Approach by Applying Multiple Levels of Abstraction of Informing Science

Chang E. Koh, Victor R. Prybutok, Sherry D. Ryan, Yu "Andy" Wu

177 - 203

Volume 12, 2009

Printable Table of Contents: InformingScienceJ, Volume 12, 2009

An Open Letter to the Informing Science Community from the Editor-in-Chief

T. Grandon Gill

v - x

A Philosophy of Informing Science

Eli Boyd Cohen

1 - 15

FEATURED

Measuring IS System Service Quality with SERVQUAL: Users' Perceptions of Relative Importance of the Five SERVPERF Dimensions

Hollis Landrum, Victor R. Prybutok, Xiaoni Zhang, Daniel A. Peak

17 - 35

Attitudes and the Digital Divide: Attitude Measurement as Instrument to Predict Internet Usage

Elisabeth Donat, Roman Brandtweiner, Johann Kerschbaum

37 - 56

Exhibiting the Effects of the Episodic Buffer on Learning with Serial and Parallel Presentations of Materials

Eshaa M. Alkhalifa

57 - 71

A Deliberation Theory-Based Approach to the Management of Usability Guidelines

Fahri Yetim

73 - 104

The Impact of Inaccurate Color on Customer Retention and CRM

Kevin R. Parker, Philip S. Nitse, Siong Meng Albert Tay

105 - 122

Overcoming the Challenge of Cooperating with Competitors: Critical Success Factors of Interorganizational Systems Implementation

Nitza Geri

123 - 146

The Role of the Client in Informing Science:

William Forest Birdsall

147 - 157

Perceptions of E-commerce Web Sites across Two Generations

Terry J. Smith, Richard Spiers

159 - 179

The Effect of Engagement and Perceived Course Value on Deep and Surface Learning Strategies

Kevin S. Floyd, Susan Harrington, Julie Santiago

181 - 190

Stakeholder Perceptions Regarding eCRM: A Franchise Case Study

Kelley O’Reilly, David Paper

191 - 215

A Comment on ‘A Psychologically Plausible Goal-Based Utility Function’

Robert Bordley

217 - 221

Volume 11, 2008

Printable Table of Contents: InformingScienceJ, Volume 11, 2008

An Attention Economy Perspective on the Effectiveness of Incomplete Information

Nitza Geri, Seev Neumann, Rebecca Schocken, Yishai Tobin

1 - 15

Framework of Problem-Based Research: A Guide for Novice Researchers on the Development of a Research-Worthy Problem

Timothy J. Ellis , Yair Levy

17 - 33

The Impact of Paradigm Development and Course Level on Performance in Technology-Mediated Learning Environments

Steven Hornik, Carol Stoak Saunders, Yuzhu Li, Patsy D. Moskal, Charles D. Dzuiban

35 - 58

Senior Citizens and E-commerce Websites: The Role of Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and Web Site Usability

Terry J. Smith

59 - 83

Bias, Misinformation and the Paradox of Neutrality

Peter M. Bednar, Christine Welch

85 - 106

The Changing Face of Information Systems Research:A Longitudinal Study of Author Influence

Hazel Taylor, Stuart Dillon, Melinda Van Wingen

107 - 123

Critical Examination of Information: A Discursive Approach and its Implementations

Fahri Yetim

125 - 146

Research Themes in Complex Informing

Grandon Gill, Eli Cohen

147 - 164

Reflections on Researching the Rugged Fitness Landscape

T. Grandon Gill

165 - 196

Illusions of Significance in a Rugged Landscape

T. Grandon Gill, Terry L. Sincich

197 - 226

A Psychologically Plausible Goal-Based Utility Function

T. Grandon Gill

227 - 252

Structural Complexity and Effective Informing

T. Grandon Gill

253 - 279

The Single Client Resonance Model: Beyond Rigor and Relevance

T. Grandon Gill

281 - 310

Resonance within the Client-to-Client System: Criticality, Cascades, and Tipping Points

T. Grandon Gill

311 - 348

Improving Student Learning about a Threshold Conceptin the IS Discipline

Chris Cope, Lorraine Staehr

349 - 364

Picture of the Bibliographical Information of the Planet to the XXI Century by A.V. Kumanova: Book Review

Stoyan Denchev

365 - 366

Volume 10, 2007

Printable Table of Contents: InformingScienceJ, Volume 10, 2007

Cyberdating: Misinformation and (Dis)trust in Online Interactions

Hong Wang , Xin-An (Lucian) Lu

1 - 15

The Informing Sciences at a Crossroads: The Role of the Client

T. Grandon Gill, Anol Bhattacherjee

17 - 39

Sharing Tacit Knowledge:

Irit Alony, Greg Whymark, Michael Jones

41 - 59

Informing Students Using Virtual Microscopes and Their Impact on Students’ Approach to Learning

Diana Jonas-Dwyer, Fay Sudweeks

61 - 70

Condition of Web Accessibility in Practice and Suggestions for Its Improvement

Tanja Krunic, Ljiljana Ruzic-Dimitrijevic

71 - 89

Young Women’s Misinformation Concerning IT Careers: Exchanging One Negative Image for Another

Donna M. Grant, Linda V. Knight, Theresa A. Steinbach

91 - 106

Using the ASSIST Short Form for Evaluating an Information Technology Application: Validity and Reliability Issues

Carol A. Speth, Deana M. Namuth, Donald J. Lee

107 - 119

Double Helix Relationships in Use and Design of Informing Systems: Lessons to Learn from Phenomenology and Hermeneutics

Hans-Erik Nissen, Peter M. Bednar, Christine Welch

D 001 - 19

Using Double Helix Relationships to Understand and Change Informing Systems

Hans-Erik Nissen

D 021 - 62

Applying Phenomenology and Hermeneutics in IS Design: A Report on Field Experiences

Randall Whitaker

D 063 - 96

Pedagogy and Process in 'Organisational Problem-Solving'

John Paul Kawalek

D 097 - 125

Co-evolution and Contradiction: A Diamond Model of Designer-User Interaction

Anja-Karina Pahl , Linda B. Newnes

D 127 - 202

The Culture of Information Systems in Knowledge-Creating Contexts: The Role of User-Centred Design

Natalie Pang, Don Schauder

D 203 - 235

On Categorizing the IS Research Literature: User Oriented Perspective

Bandula Jayatilaka, Heinz K. Klein, Jinyoul Lee

D 237 - 271

A Double Helix Metaphor for Use and Usefulness in Informing Systems

Peter M. Bednar, Christine Welch

D 273 - 295

Glossary for the Monograph

Hans-Erik Nissen

D 297 - 317

Index to the Monograph

D 319 - 324

Volume 9, 2006

Printable Table of Contents: InformingScienceJ, Volume 9, 2006

Task Complexity and Informing Science: A Synthesis

T. Grandon Gill, Richard C. Hicks

1 - 30

Reclassification of Electronic Product Catalogs: The “Apricot” Approach and Its Evaluation Results

Sven Abels, Axel Hahn

31 - 47

Good Intuition or Fear and Uncertainty: The Effects of Bias on Information Systems Selection Decisions

Kieren Jamieson , Paul Hyland

49 - 69

The Academic Open Access E-Journal: Platform and Portal

Alex Koohang, Keith Harman

71 - 81

On the Difference or Equality of Information, Misinformation, and Disinformation: A Critical Research Perspective

Bernd Carsten Stahl

83 - 96

Towards the Automatic Generation of Virtual Presenter Agents

Anton Nijholt

97 - 110

The Factors that Influence Adoption of ICTs by Recent Refugee Immigrants to New Zealand

Eltahir F. Kabbar , Barbara J. Crump

111 - 121

Would Regulation of Web Site Privacy Policy Statements Increase Consumer Trust?

David B. Meinert, Dane K. Peterson, John R. Criswell II, Martin D. Crossland

123 - 142

Implications of Foreign Ownership on Journalistic Quality in a Post-Communist Society:The Case of Finance

Martine Robinson Beachboard , John C. Beachboard

143 - 162

Using IT to Inform and Rehabilitate Aphasic Patients

Cecilia Lanyi Sik, Zoltan Geiszt, Viktor Magyar

163 - 179

A Systems Approach to Conduct an Effective Literature Review in Support of Information Systems Research

Yair Levy, Timothy J. Ellis

181 - 212

Information Warfare and Deception

William Hutchinson

213 - 223

Diagnostic and Functional Dependencies of Credibility

Zbigniew J. Gackowski

225 - 241

New Approaches to Studying Information Technology: Escaping the Organizational Straightjacket

Nik R. Hassan

243 - 258

Volume 8, 2005

Printable Table of Contents: InformingScienceJ, Volume 8, 2005

Issues in Informing Clients using Multimedia Communications

Nalin Sharda

1 - 1

MECCA: Hypermedia Capturing of Collaborative Scientific Discourses about Movies

Ralf Klamma, Marc Spaniol, Matthias Jarke

3 - 38

Informing Clients through Multimedia Communications:

Marco Furini , Marco Roccetti

39 - 54

Exploring the Myths about Online Education in Information Systems

Suprateek Sarker , Jennifer Nicholson

55 - 73

Open Source: A Metaphor for E-Learning

Alex Koohang, Keith Harman

75 - 86

An Empirical Evaluation of Visual Metaphors in the Animation of Roles of Variables

Tuija Stützle , Jorma Sajaniemi

87 - 100

Informing Systems in Business Environments: A Purpose-Focused View

Zbigniew J. Gackowski

101 - 122

A Reflexive Model of ICT Practices in Organizations

Jan-Oddvar Sørnes, Keri Keilberg Stephens, Larry Davis Browning, Alf Steinar Sætre

123 - 142

The Impact of National Culture on Worldwide eGovernment Readiness

Zlatko J. Kovacic

143 - 158

Developing a Framework for Assessing Information Quality on the World Wide Web

Shirlee-ann Knight , Janice Burn

159 - 172

Modular Inference Trees for Expository Reports

Jens Mende

173 - 187

The Poverty of Empiricism

Jens Mende

189 - 210

Information Politics and Information Culture: A Case Study

Bob Travica

211 - 244

Informing Citizens in a Highly Restrictive Environment Using Low-Budget Multimedia Communications: A Serbian Case Study

Aleksandar Spasic , Miloje Nesic

245 - 262

A Cognitive Approach to Instructional Design for Multimedia Learning

Stephen D. Sorden

263 - 279

Informing the HR Hiring Decision of IT Personnel:

John E. Anderson, Kevin S. Barrett, Paul H. Schwager

281 - 302

Volume 7, 2004

Printable Table of Contents: InformingScienceJ, Volume 7, 2004

The Reflexivity between ICTs and Business Culture: Applying

Jan-Oddvar Sørnes, Keri Keilberg Stephens, Alf Steinar Sætre , Larry Davis Browning

1 - 30

The Value of User Participation in E-Commerce Systems Development

Julian Terry , Craig Standing

31 - 45

Email and Misinformation: A South African Case Study

Laurette Pretorius , Andries Barnard

47 - 66

Evaluation of the Human Impact of Password Authentication

Deborah Sater Carstens, Pamela R. McCauley-Bell, Linda C. Malone , Ronald F. DeMara

67 - 85

Improving the Chances of Getting your IT Curriculum Innovation Successfully

Arthur Tatnall , Bill Davies

87 - 103

Use-Cases and Personas: A Case Study in Light-Weight User Interaction Design for Small Development Projects

Gary Randolph

105 - 116

Pathways to Enhance Environmental Assessment Information Systems

David J. LePoire, John J. Arnish, Timothy R. Klett, Robert L. Johnson, Shih-Yew Chen

117 - 128

Expanding the Concept of Usability

Alex Koohang

129 - 141

Volume 6, 2003

HTML Tags as Extraction Cues for Web Page Description Construction

Timothy C. Craven

1 - 12

Introduction to the Special Series of Papers on Informing Each Other: Bridging the Gap between Researcher and Practitioners

Brian Fitzgerald

13 - 19

Communicating Academic Research Findings to IS Professionals: An Analysis of Problems

Michael Lang

21 - 29

Using the World Wide Web to Connect Research and Professional Practice: Towards Evidence-Based Practice

Daniel L. Moody

31 - 48

Regional IS Knowledge Networks: Elaborating the Theme of Relevance of IS Research

Mikael Soderstrom , Torbjörn Nordstrom

49 - 59

Integrating Theory and Practice in Education with Business Games

Karen Neville, Frederic Adam

61 - 73

Value Creation through IT-supported Knowledge Management? The Utilisation of a Knowledge Management System in a Global Consulting Company

Karlheinz Kautz, Volker Mahnke

75 - 88

Applications of Geographical Information Systems in Understanding Spatial Distribution of Asthma

Mohammad A. Rob

89 - 99

Introduction to the Special Series on Community Informatics

Eugene J. Rathswohl

101 - 102

Foot and Mouth Disease: Informing the Community?

Briony J. Oates

103 - 114

Navigation Assistance in Virtual Worlds

Betsy van Dijk, Rieks op den Akker, Anton Nijholt , Job Zwiers

115 - 125

The Development of Consumer-Driven Human Services Information Technology Initiatives: The Lake County Indiana Experience

Thomas W. Pavkov , Charles R. Winer

127 - 134

Human Services Information Technology: A Shared System

Charles R. Winer, Thomas W. Pavkov

135 - 141

Information and Communication Technology: Gender Issues in Developing Nations

Kimberly Betz Leahy , Ira Yermish

143 - 155

Can E- Commerce Enable Marketing in an African Rural Women's Community Based Development Organization?

Jo Rhodes

157 - 172

The Importance of Addressing Accepted Training Needs When Designing Electronic Information Literacy Training

Nicole Fahey

173 - 185

Information Literacy: A Community Service-Learning Approach

Eugene J. Rathswohl

187 - 192

A Case Study of Physicians at Work at the University Hospital of Northern Norway

Gunnar Ellingsen

193 - 207

Five Roles of an Information System: A Social Constructionist Approach to Analysing the Use of ERP Systems

Linda Askenas, Alf Westelius

209 - 220

The Archaeologist Undeceived: Selecting Quality Archaeological Information from the Internet

Paul Sturges , Anne Griffin

221 - 232

Socio-Economic Factors Affecting Home Internet Usage Patterns in Central Queensland

Wallace J Taylor, Grant X. Zhu, John Dekkers, Stewart Marshall

233 - 246

Role of Information Professionals in Knowledge Management Programs: Empirical Evidence from Canada

Isola Ajiferuke

247 - 257

Internal Data Market Services: An Ontology-Based Architecture and Its Evaluation

Fons Wijnhoven, Edwin van den Belt, Eddy Verbruggen, Paul van der Vet

259 - 271

Volume 5, 2002

Toward a Systemic Notion of Information: Practical Consequences

Nagib Callaos, Belkis Callaos

1 - 11

Web-enabled Information and Referral Services: A Framework for Analysis

Mary Helen Fagan

13 - 36

Data Security Management in Distributed Computer Systems

Adi Armoni

19 - 27

Electronic Commerce: A Taxing Dilemma

Steven John Simon

29 - 41

Operationalizing Context in Context-Aware Artifacts: Benefits and Pitfalls

Christopher Lueg

43 - 47

Web-Based Interactions Support for Information Systems

Youcef Baghdadi

49 - 65

Educationally Critical Aspects of the Concept of an Information System

Chris Cope

67 - 78

Toward a Model of Growth Stages for Knowledge Management Technology in Law Firms

Petter Gottschalk

79 - 93

To Speak or Not to Speak: Developing Legal Standards for Anonymous Speech on the Internet

Tomas A. Lipinski

95 - 111

Introduction to the Special Series on the Digital Divide

Elizabeth Cohen Boyd

113 - 114

Policy Options to Combat the Digital Divide in Western Europe

Rod Carveth , Susan B. Kretchmer

115 - 123

Comprendiendo Nuestras Politicas: The Need for an Effective C&IT Policy for a Nation’s Development, The Venezuelan Case

Carmen Joham

125 - 131

Bridging the Digital Divide through Educational Initiatives: Problems and Solutions

Tom Butler

133 - 144

Informing South African Students about Information Systems

Mike Hart

145 - 153

Collaboration: the Key to Establishing Community Networks in Regional Australia

Wallace J Taylor, Stewart Marshall

155 - 162

Colored-sketch of Text Information

Beomjin Kim, Philip Johnson, Adam S. Huarng

163 - 173

WebSpy: An Architecture for Monitoring Web Server Availability in a Multi-Platform Environment

Madhan Mohan Thirukonda , Shirley Ann Becker

175 - 187

Empirical Validation Procedure for the Knowledge Management Technology Stage Model

Petter Gottschalk

189 - 218

The Prediction of Perceived Level of Computer Knowledge: The Role of Participant Characteristics and Aversion toward Computers

David M. Compton, William H. Burkett, Gail G. Burkett

219 - 224

Volume 4, 2001

Differences in Stage of Integration between Business Planning and Information Systems Planning according to Value Configurations

Petter Gottschalk, Hans Solli-Sæther

1 - 10

Quantum Computers: A New Paradigm in Information Technology

Mahesh S. Raisinghani

11 - 106

An I-Based Taxonomy of Virtual Organisations and the Implications for Effective Management

Nick Lethbridge

17 - 24

Role of Librarian in Internet and World Wide Web Environment

K. Nageswara Rao, KH Babu

25 - 34

Salvaging Information Engineering Techniques in the Data Warehouse Environment

Anthony L. Politano

35 - 43

Introduction to the Special Series on Widening the Focus

Elizabeth Cohen Boyd

45 - 46

An Introduction to Computer Forensics: Gathering Evidence in a Computing Environment

Henry B. Wolfe

47 - 52

Communicating Culture: An Exploratory Study of the Key Concepts in Maori Culture on Maori Web Sites

Zlatko J. Kovacic

53 - 59

New Technologies and New Paradigms in Historical Research

Antonio Cartelli, Luisa Miglio, Marco Palma

61 - 66

A Framework for Effective User Interface Design for Web-Based Electronic Commerce Applications

Justyna Burns , Gregory R. Madey

67 - 75

An Examination of Computer Attitudes, Anxieties, and Aversions Among Diverse College Populations: Issues Central to Understanding Information Sciences in the New Millennium

William H. Burkett, David M. Compton, Gail G. Burkett

77 - 85

Informing Science (IS) and Science and Technology Studies (STS): The University as Decision Center (DC) for Teaching Interdisciplinary Research

Teresa Castelao-Lawless , William F. Lawless

87 - 93

Internet 2 – WWW: Where, When and Why?

Adi Armoni

95 - 104

An Action-Oriented Perspective of Information Systems in Organizations

Rex Eugene Pereira

105 - 113

Introduction to Special Series on Information Exchange in Electronic Markets: New Business Models

Dag H. H. Olsen , Sandeep Purao

115 - 116

Models of Information Markets: Analysis of Markets, Identification of Services, and Design Models

Fons Wijnhoven

117 - 128

The Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Interorganizational Coordination: Guidelines from Theory

Marielle den Hengst , Henk G. Sol

129 - 138

Self-Service Banking: Value Creation Models and Information Exchange

Ragnvald Sannes

139 - 148

Volume 3, 2000

An Introduction to Face Recognition Technology

Shang-Hung Lin

1 - 7

Applications of Scalable Multipoint Video and Audio Using the Public Internet

Robert D. Gaglianello, Marah F. Rosenberg

9 - 14

Using a Virtual Room Platform To Build a Multimedia Distance Learning Environment For The Internet

Allen Ginsberg, Dennis Shiau, Bryan Sampieri

15 - 22

Advanced Signal Processing for Wireless Multimedia Communications

Xiaodong Wang

23 - 30

Information Systems Executives: The Changing Role of New IS/IT Leaders

Petter Gottschalk

31 - 39

Teaching Information Management to Honors Degree Students: The Information Challenges Approach

Kevin Grant, Mark Stansfield, Ray Land

41 - 46

Informing Science Special Issue on Information Science Research

Amanda Spink

47 - 48

Human Information Behavior

T. D. Wilson

49 - 56

Interactive Information Retrieval: Context and Basic Notions

David Robins

57 - 62

Image Information Retrieval: An Overview of Current Research

Abby A. Goodrum

63 - 66

Relevance: An Interdisciplinary and Information Science Perspective

Howard Greisdorf

67 - 72

Toward a Theoretical Framework for Information Science

Amanda Spink

73 - 76

Applications Of Informetrics To Information Retrieval Research

Dietmar Wolfram

77 - 82

Representation and Organization of Information in the Web Space: From MARC to XML

Jian Qin

83 - 88

Social Informatics in the Information Sciences: Current Activities and Emerging Directions

Steve Sawyer, Howard Rosenbaum

89 - 96

Detecting Data Errors in Organizational Settings: Examining the Generalizability of Experimental Findings

Barbara D. Klein

97 - 108

Do We Need to Impose More Regulation Upon the World Wide Web? -A Metasystem Analysis

John P. van Gigch

109 - 116

Knowledge Management Systems: A Comparison of Law Firms and Consulting Firms

Petter Gottschalk

117 - 124

Special Series on Tools, Techniques, and Technologies for Promoting Organizational Learning

Shirley Ann Becker

125 - 126

Organizational Learning Through the Collection of “Lessons Learned”

Joseph V. Vandeville

127 - 133

Learning from the World Wide Web: Using Organizational Profiles in Information Searches

Anthony Scime

135 - 143

A Contextual Integration of Individual and Organizational Learning Perspectives as Part of IS Analysis

Peter M. Bednar

145 - 156

Using the Web to Enable Industry-University Collaboration: An Action Research Study of a Course Partnership

Ned Kock, Camille Auspitz, Brad King

157 - 166

The Value of Information Systems Teaching and Research in the Knowledge Society

Christopher Hemingway , Tom Gough

167 - 184

Development of the Internet Watershed Educational Tool (InterWET)

Shane Parson, James Hamlett, Paul Robillard

185 - 193

Toward A Methodology For Managing Information Systems Implementation: A Social Constructivist Perspective

Suprateek Sarker

195 - 205

Bringing the Farming Community Into the Internet Age: A Case Study

A. B. Deraman , A. K. Shamsul Bahar

207 - 214

Volume 2, 1999

Development of a Video Network for Efficient Dissemination of the Graphical Images in a Collaborative Environment

Anatoliy Gordonov , Michael Kress

1 - 9

A Groupware-based Peer Review Process: An Exploratory Case Study

Bridget N. O'Connor

11 - 18

Expectations and Influencing Factors of IS Graduates and Education in Thailand: A Perspective of the Students, Academics and Business Community

Teay Shawyun

19 - 32

Data Quality in Linear Regression Models: Effect of Errors in Test Data and Errors in Training Data on Predictive Accuracy

Barbara D. Klein , Donald Rossin

33 - 43

Building an Internet-Based Learning Environment in Higher Education: Learner Informing Systems and the Life Cycle Approach

Zeynep Onay

45 - 52

Teaching Information Quality in Information Systems Undergraduate Education

Omar E. M. Khalil, Diane M. Strong, Beverly K. Kahn, Leo L. Pipino

53 - 59

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Roadmaster Roading Contractors Case Study

Hazel Taylor

61 - 68

On the Nature of Models: Let us Now Praise Famous Men and Women, from Warren McCulloch to Candace Pert

Stafford Beer

69 - 82

Informing Clientele through Networked Multimedia Information Systems: Introduction to the Special Issues

Wenjun (Kevin) Zeng , Heather Yu

83 - 86

Multimedia Content Analysis and Indexing for Filtering and Retrieval Applications

N. Dimitrova

87 - 100

New Trends in Multimedia Standards: MPEG4 and JPEG2000

Jie Liang

101 - 106

Digital Watermarking Technology with Practical Applications

Norishige Morimoto

107 - 111

Volume 1, 1998

Managing Self-instructed Learning within the IS Curriculum: Teaching Learners to Learn

Felix Tan , Hazel Chan

1 - 7

Conceptions of an Information System and Their Use in Teaching about IS

Chris Cope, Pat Horan, Mark Garner

9 - 22

How Good Are Students at Assessing the Quality of Their Applications?

V. J. Hobbs, Tanya J. McGill, H. E. Rowe

23 - 29

Training Facilitators for Face-to-Face Electronic Meetings: An Experiential Learning Approach

Pak Yoong

31 - 36

Matching Office Information Systems (OIS) Curriculum To Relevant Standards: Students, School Mission, Regional Business Needs, and National Curriculum

Arlene August , Judy Caouette

37 - 42

Practical Liability Issues of Information Technology Education: Internship and Consulting Engagements

Daniel A. Peak, Michael J. O'Hara

43 - 51

Fourier Analysis: Creating A “Virtual Laboratory” Using Computer Simulation

Jeff Butterfield , Norman Pendegraft

53 - 60

Computer Self-Efficacy: A Practical Indicator of Student Computer Competency in Introductory IS Courses

Rex Karsten , Roberta M. Roth

61 - 68

Updating the CS Curriculum: Traditional vs. Market-Driven Approaches

Nedzad Mehic , Ali Al-Soufi

69 - 73

RESQ for FLASHMEM, Inc.: An IS Teaching Case

Laurie Schatzberg

75 - 84

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