This work explores a novel approach to the analysis and ported cooperative work. For instance, this challenge is modeling of computer supported collaborative writing. highlighted by the situated actions paradigm, which emThe aim of this dynamic modeling approach is to capture phasizes the contingent nature of the organization and the structure of user behavior as they interact with a evolution ...

The likelihood of a newly completed software system bringing desired advantages to organizational work depends, in part, upon the ability of users to recognize the functions and capabilities contained in the software. A preliminary evaluation attempts to assess the degree of match between designer and user perspectives of the software. Such an evaluation takes place after standard debugging and...

The importance of improving the quality of decisions in organizations has been a subject for several years in computer, management and decision sciences. Some results were reached, but still a lot of questions remain open. From the perspective of computer science, systems like DSS, GDSS and ODSS are examples of those results. This research proposes another approach, which is based on the concep...

Global virtual teams are internationally distributed groups of people with an organizational mandate to make or implement decisions with international components and implications. They are typically assigned tasks that are strategically important and highly complex. They rarely meet in person, conducting almost all of their interaction and decision making using communications technology. Althou...

The study of computer graphics as decision aids has become popular among MIS researchers in the last several years. However, this area of research, like many others in management information systems, has been plagued with methodological problems and contradictory findings. In light of these difficulties, the current study examined the "tables versus graphs" controversy within a learning environ...

ion (Shaft and Vessey 2006). The task of evaluating ideas is represented by the mechanism that is provided to the user. Thus, mechanism accuracy is, all else being equal, a function of how well a mechanism supports decision-making of its users. The performance of such decision processes is generally referred to as decision quality, defined as the “correctness” or “goodness” of decisions (Dennis...

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Busch et al. (1991) report Lhal the Chief Executive Officer's (CEO) perception of Information Technology (IT) importance had the strongest effect on the progressive use of IT in the firm. They advocate additional research on the perceptions of the CEO and other top management of the value of IT. The perceptions of top management on the strategic value of infonnation systems (PSVIS) are classifi...

This research investigates the effects of a decision support system in the context of real-time, small group decision making. Following the March 1989 Ercon Valdez oil spill, development of a real-time expert system (called the Shipboard Piloting Expert System, or SPES) was begun. The SPES is a prototype decision aid designed to add knowledge-based decision support functionality to the integrat...

Most so-called virtual teams are virtual by degree only. The dichotomy of face-to-face versus virtual teams is a research-led phenomenon. Many teams are using combinations of face-to-face communication and ICT, and can be considered transitional or semivirtual teams. Many of these teams cross multiple boundaries, including those of time, distance, organization and culture. This paper takes an i...