7 This paper critiques the notion of responsible management of information systems by pointing out the intrinsic contradiction inherent in the idea of managing morality and ethics in information systems. The paper, being part of the tradition of critical research in IS, uses the example of managing digital divides to argue that a traditional view of management (here called heroic management) le...

most organizations need to information systems to survive and thrive. therefore, they should seriously protect their information assets. creating structured and justifiable exchanges between cost, security and mission control systems security risks is essential. this is important in the planning and development of such systems. initial appropriate decisions can reduce costs and increase ease of...

the aim of this study was to investigate the impact of management information system on employees’ performance of tehran province water and wastewater company in district 5. the present study was an applied research in terms of purpose and a descriptive correlational survey in terms of method. cochran's formula was used to determine sample size which was 219 employees. the statistical samp...

Die Untersuchung der Akzeptanz von Technologien im Allgemeinen und Software im Besonderen ist ein fruchtbares Feld in der angloamerikanischen Forschung der Disziplinen (Management) Information Systems und der deutschen Wirtschaftsinformatik. Trotz zahlreicher Untersuchungen, die ihren Ursprung in dem Technologie-Akzeptanzmodell und verwandten Theorien haben, mehren sich Beiträge, welche die Def...

An effective information security culture is vital to the success of information systems governance, risk management and compliance. Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) face special challenges developing an information security culture as they may lack the information security knowledge, skills and behaviours of large organisations. This paper reports the main findings from an interpretive...

This paper describes a pilot study designed to examine the effect of “Writing Across the Curriculum” on students’ writing in the Information Systems discipline. Students enrolled in an introductory Computer Information Systems course in a large urban university in the southeastern United States were provided with a set of materials (Grading Rubric, Paper Format, Writer Review, Writing Rules, an...

The connection of coalition systems has many challenges, one of the most important and the one being address by this paper is the lack of understanding of information assurance (IA) in a coalition environment. This paper presents an approach to managing this coalition IA risk using a taxonomy to organize readily available observations and measurements that are potential indicators of a system's...

Architectural views play an important role in software architecture analysis (SAA). For SAA of flexibility, architectural views are used to determine the effect of change scenarios. These scenarios represent possible changes to which the system has to be adapted, and determining the effect of these changes provides insight into the system’s flexibility. Most approaches to SAA use a single archi...

during the past two decades business and manufacturing have observed significant and radical changes. companies have used automation in the manufacturing, in order to improve quality and competency. it was expected that along with these changes, management accounting systems, which focus on monitoring and analyzing management decisions, should adapt with and encourage the changes. many authors ...

The existence of a series of problems in transportation management of public and personal vehicles causes to consider intelligent transportation systems. Hence, here we investigate to introduce and the performance of intelligent transportation system ITS which is among new technologies in information technology and at last the importance and necessity of lack of delay in data and informat...