European Journal of Information Systems (2011) 20, 691–692. doi:10.1057/ejis.2011.40; published online 27 September 2011 Contrarian research studies are those that challenge, contradict, refute, or debunk previous research findings or accepted theories. These sometimes seek to expose inconsistencies in assumptions and introduce innovative approaches. We started this Special Series with an aim o...

To achieve overall business goals, GQM+Strategies® is an approach that aligns the business goals at each level of an organization to strategies and assesses the achievement of goals. Strategies derived from business goals are based on rationales (context factors and assumptions). Because extracting all rationales is an important process in the GQM+Strategies approach, we propose Context-Assumpt...

Conservation tillage (CT) systems have a number of potential benefits including lower crop production costs and the ability to reduce soil erosion that have made them common in several regions of the world. Although CT systems have been researched and successfully implemented on some farms in California's San Joaquin Valley (SJV), overall adoption is low and the reasons for the region's compara...

The purpose of this study is to make a basic Foreign Exchange Market Model. It is important to make a simple basic model at first to understand the complex emergence of exchange rate which is caused by various factors. The model is a multiagent-based model, consisting of dealer and speculator. Both agents’ action relies on market trend and their personality, either trend follower/ Contrarian. I...