American Research Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology

Improving Decision Quality: The Role of Business Intelligence

Findings provide insight into little investigated avenues such as the role of problem space complexity in perceived decision quality as well as indicate a more complex interplay among the antecedents of decision quality than heretofore examined. For example, results suggest that there may be a tipping point for which information quality and use of the system support higher perceived decision quality. In addition, these findings provide a direction for future research to generate deeper, more meaningful contributions in our collective understanding of how BI serves to improve the quality of decision making.

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Healthy Divide or Detrimental Division? Subgroups in Virtual Teams

When subgroups are based on identity characteristics like race and gender they are likely to have negative effects, but when they are not, subgroups can have positive effects on teamwork. This paper empirically examines this proposition. Results of our study generally support the proposed assertion. When subgroups are not based on race or gender they are positively associated with perceptions of social integration and open communication. However, when they are based on race and gender they are negatively associated with perceptions of social integration and open communication.

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Understanding Technology Adoption Trade-offs: A Conjoint Analysis

From a survey of working professionals, we extract the hierarchy of relative importance of each critical factor influencing the adoption decision. We found that moderate usefulness is the threshold that vendors should try to achieve and simple design does not differ significantly from the design with moderate complexity. The applicability of CBC analysis in IS research is established; guidelines and implications for IT designers, managers, and researchers are presented. Our findings enable practitioners to pursue practical questions such as: 1) which factors are consumers most concerned with when electing to adopt MO technology for professional communications? and 2) what is the tradeoff that consumers might make for accepting and adopting MO technology?

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Information Privacy Situation Awareness: Construct and Validation

To correctly capture people’s personal information disclosure behavior in online settings, it is necessary to incorporate situation awareness (SA), i.e. individuals’ ability to deal with a situation-specific environment with only limited cognitive resources at their disposal. In this paper, we propose a new construct, Information Privacy Situation Awareness (IPSA), as a specialization of SA with emphasis on information privacy. Based on a comprehensive literature review, focus group interviews, and a questionnaire administered to Facebook users, we developed a measure and items for IPSA. The major contribution of this study is a conceptualization of IPSA that demonstrates the importance of accounting for situation awareness in privacy models and serves as a catalyst for further research related to the dynamics of information privacy.

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Do business students practice smartphone security

A survey of security-related practices was administered to students in business classes at a regional public university. The results of the survey show students to be lax in their smartphone security with men more willing to engage in risky behaviors than women. There were no differences in behaviors based upon maturity level or use of smartphones for financial transactions.

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Learning to Thread the Needle: Information Technology Strategy

We also found evidence of a direct relationship between IT-enabled communications and marketing productivity and performance. These findings suggest that two IT-enabled roles are perceived within the marketing function. First, IT-enabled communications are guided by the strategic percepts of organizational learning and market orientation to provide superior customer value. Second, IT-enabled communications, unguided by organizational learning and market orientation, are used tactically to provide information and control in support of managerial efforts to lower costs and increase factor utilization.

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Factors affecting the adoption level of c-commerce: an empirical study

Information sharing culture factor was found to have the strongest influ- ence on the adoption of c-commerce, followed by organiza- tion readiness and external environment. Contrary to other tech- nology adoption studies, this research found that innovation attributes have no significant influence on the adoption of c-commerce. In terms of theoretical contributions, this study has ex- tended previous researches conducted in western countries and provides great potential by advancing the understanding be- tween the association of adoption factors and c-commerce adoption level. This research show that adoption studies could move beyond studying the factors based on traditional adoption models. Organizations planning to adopt c-commerce would also be able to applied strategies based on the findings from this research.