Today’s Information Systems are complex systems that have to deal with a variety of different and potentially conflicting needs. Capturing their strategic requirements is a critical activity, as it must answer at the same time to software and corporate goals. In this paper, we introduce the economic foundations of strategic requirements. We propose a novel conceptual framework for requirements ...

The ability to effectively match supply and demand can result in significant revenue benefits in the airline industry, where supply and demand mismatches are common. We study the benefits of a decision postponement strategy for aircraft assignment under uncertainty. Our Demand Driven Swapping approach takes advantage of the inherent flexibilities in the system, and dynamically swaps aircraft as...

This paper provides overviews of two major concepts and methodologies --Scenario Planning (SP) from Strategic Management and Real Options Analysis (ROA) from Finance. The paper draws on the KUU (Known, Unknown, and Unknowable) framework to demonstrate the commonalities and differences among these two approaches and calls for their synergistic use.

A stock loan is a loan, secured by a stock, which gives the borrower the right to redeem the stock at any time before or on the loan maturity. The way of dividends distribution has a significant effect on the pricing of the stock loan and the optimal redeeming strategy adopted by the borrower. We present the pricing models subject to various ways of dividend distribution. Since closed-form pric...

Extended Abstract: The most familiar setting for revealed preference analysis is that of consumer demand. In that context, Afriat’s Theorem (1967) gives necessary and sufficient conditions on a collection of observations to be consistent with the maximization of a monotone utility function, where each observation consists of a price vector and a demand bundle. Afriat’s Theorem is the starting p...

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OBJECTIVE To analyze the strategic alliances that Catalan hospitals form with other health care entities and other types of institutions to foster technological and organizational innovation. METHODS Qualitative case studies were conducted at a sample of 16 public hospitals in Catalonia, Spain. The sample was limited to three (Level 1-3) of Catalonia's four levels of hospitals (classified acc...

The Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS) has been an international outlet for Information Systems research that focuses on strategic issues since 1991. This paper reports on an analysis of the research published in JSIS to date. The paper presents a preliminary classification system for research topics related to Strategic Information Systems into which all 316 JSIS research papers a...

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Preceding research attributed the lack of direct causal impact of Information Technology (IT) on firm’s sustainable competitive advantage. Numerous missing links include antecedents of the ITbusiness strategic alignment (also known as strategic alignment) and the sustainable competitive advantage. Furthermore, reviewers of recent literature have called for more research into the factors that af...