This study is concerned with how the protagonists of case studies —carried out by researchers of business schools with commitment to the case method— experience the informing process occurring during case production and discussion. The focus is both on how protagonists personally experience this informing process as well as on how protagonists interpret its impact on their relation with the lar...

This research leverages both education and informing science research to develop a conceptual model that will assist university professors and students in identifying and overcoming barriers to informing. Since a full study of all barriers, those on the part of the informer, the channel, and the client, would be too extensive for a single paper, we focus here on client-side barriers, i.e., thos...

The purpose of this article is to contribute to theorizing the process dimension of informing systems. The conceptualization draws on a framework called the Informing View of Organization and, particularly, on its segment of informing process. The article discusses the concept of informing process and its background in the process view of organization and explores the relationship between infor...

The essential elements of an informing system are a sender, a communications pathway, and a client. Academic informing systems, however, are best viewed as two interacting informing systems, one that informs clients of a discipline, one that informs clients of the institution. The paper proposes that the greater the degree of overlap between the clients of these two systems, the stronger the po...

Efficient delivery of relevant product information is increasingly becoming the central basis of competition between firms. The interface design represents the central component for successful information delivery to consumers. However, interface design for web-based information systems is probably more an art than a science at this point in time. Much research is needed to understand propertie...