Purpose: Drawing from literature on innovation, strategy and culture the objective of this study is toexplore the role of perceived potentials and perceived strategic importance on CIOs’ perspective on RFIDtechnology in two different cultural settings.Methodology: Based on survey responses...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore whether online communities meet their potential ofproviding environments in which social relationships can be readily established to help patients copewith their disease through social support. The paper aims to develop and test a model to...

Carve out projects have recently become an emerging issue in practice and theory given the diversityof strategic foci of companies as well as recent merger and acquisition activities of firms. This paperhighlights the relevance of IT in such carve out projects. IT depicts their characteristics...

Carve Out Projekte, bei denen die Herauslösung von Unterneh-mensteilen zu eigenständigen Einheiten im Vordergrund steht, finden in der Forschung bisher kaum Beachtung. Die Rolle der IT als Schnittstellenfunktion birgt bei solchen Reorganisationen und Desinvestitionen allerdings große...

<Para ID="Par2">“Big data” describes technologies that promise to fulfill a fundamental tenet of research in information systems, which is to provide the right information to the right receiver in the right volume and quality at the right time. For information systems research as an application-oriented...</para>

Sustainability is a measure of the capacity of a certain process or state in any system to balance the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. One of the main challenges of sustainability is translating theory into action in the form...

Facing rising energy costs and the heightened awareness of environmental issues expressed by society and encapsulated in regulations, sustainability is a major requirement for designing and operating future service systems. In addition, sustainability serves as a key driver for profitable...