ABSTRACT:
THE SPECIAL SECTION ON Economies, Electronic Commerce, and Competitive Strategy that opens the issue brings together several analyses of competitive strategy in deploying information technology and trading information goods. The papers are notable not only for their pushing the research frontier, but also for their tackling of real and important problems within the context of the contemporary business environment. The Guest Editors of the Special Section—Eric K. Clemons, Rajiv M. Dewan, and Robert J. Kauffman—introduce the papers in appropriate detail.
The theme is continued in the two subsequent papers. Reynold E. Byers and Phillip J. Lederer analyze the effective distribution strategy for retail banking in the face of the changes brought on by e-banking. The results are important and enlightening. As it is becoming apparent across the e-commerce retailing landscape, the success of purely virtual banking is remote, if only in time. Based on their formal model, the authors offer specific guidance under what circumstances such success may be expected. Robert J. Kauffman and Bin Wang assess group-buying business models in ecommerce, where a good’s price depends on the size of the buying group, assembled through a Web site. Through modeling and empirics, the authors are able, among other results, to track down the failure sources of the several well-known implementations of the group-buying model.
Many information systems projects fail. It is disheartening that often this future outcome is known to the insiders, or at least suspected by them, quite early in the development process. Yet the same insiders choose not to bear the bad news—at a great cost to the firms on whose behalf the project is run and to which they owe allegiance. To increase the willingness to report, it is good to go beyond the obvious to establish specific causes of “keeping mum.†Here, H. Jeff Smith, Mark Keil, and Gordon Depledge furnish and test an explanatory model of the decision-making that leads to non-reporting. Beyond that, the authors translate the results into specific recommendations for managers who want to elicit truthful reporting of project status.
Decision support systems (DSS) are generally used to evaluate the alternative courses of action as envisaged by a human decision-maker. In other words, it is up to the human to generate the alternatives during an early stage of the decision-making process. Bijan Fazlollahi and Rustam Vahidov present the design of a DSS that is itself able to generate alternatives. The DSS design is based on genetic algorithms, and the authors show that it generates diverse and promising alternatives for a problem solution.
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Henri Barki
Genevieve Bassellier
Dinesh Batra
Irma Becerra-Fernandez
Salvatore Belardo
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Michael Benaroch
Francois Bergeron
Sudip Bhattacherjee
Bijoy Bordoloi
Carol V. Brown
Glenn Browne
Jeffrey Butterfield
Terry A. Byrd
Edward G. Cale, Jr.
Judith Carlisle
Sven Carlsson
Houston H. Carr
William J. Carroll
Robert P. Cerveny
Namsik Chang
Patrick Chau
Hong-Mei Chen
Hsing Kenneth Cheng
Robert T.H. Chi
Roger Chiang
William C. Chismar
Jong-min Choe
H. Michael Chung
Roger Clarke
Sue Conger
Randy Cooper
Timothy P. Cronan
David C. Croson
Paul Cule
Qizhi Dai
Ronald Dattero
Michael J. Davern
Donald L. Davis
Gordon Depledge
Sarv Devaraj
Ali Dogramaci
Peter Duchessi
Omar A. El Sawy
Hyun B. Eom
Gerald E. Evans
Bijan Fazlollahi
Steven Feiner
Kirk Fiedler
Edmond P. Fitzgerald
Jerry Fjermestad
Steven W. Floyd
Edward Fox
Dennis Galletta
Edward J. Garrity
Erol Gelenbe
Mark Ginsburg
Janis L. Gogan
Dale Goodhue
Sanjay Gosain
Martin D. Goslar
Paul Gray
Saul Greenberg
Robert K. Griffin
Michael D. Grigoriades
Mary-Liz Grise
Tor Guimaraes
Alok Gupta
Jungpil Hahn
Barbara Haley
Bill C. Hardgrave
Il-Horn Hann
Paul Hart
Stephen Hayne
Roxanne Starr Hiltz
Rudy Hirschheim
Lorin M. Hitt
Richard Hoffman
John A. Hoxmeier
Qing Hu
Wayne Huang
Cary T. Hughes
Ard Huizing
E. Gerald Hurst
Zahir Irani
Gretchen I. Irwin
Tomas Isakowitz
Bharat A. Jain
Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa
Murray E. Jennex
Per V. Jenster
Linda Ellis Johnson
Kailash Joshi
Charles Kacmar
Surinder Kahai
Timo Kakola
Ajit Kambil
P.K. Kannan
Jahangir Karimi
Michael Kattan
Timothy Kayworth
Mark Keil
Robert T. Keim
Chris Kemerer
Julie E. Kendall
William J. Kettinger
Omar E.M. Khalil
Melody Y. Kiang
Rajiv Kishore
Gary Klein
Stefan Koch
Esther Koster
Kenneth A. Kozar
Kenneth L. Kraemer
Ramayya Krishnan
Uday Kulkarni
Akhil Kumar
Ram Kumar
Mary C. Lacity
Simon S.K. Lam
Gwynne Larsen
Tor J. Larsen
Kathy S. Lassila
Heeseok Lee
Ho Geun Lee
Jungwoo Lee
Dorothy Leidner
Richard Leifer
Mary Jane Lenard
Hugo Levecq
Ting-Peng Liang
Nancy Lightner
Yihwa Irene Liou
Astrid Lipp
Paulo J.G. Lisboa
Henry C. Lucas, Jr.
Kalle Lyytinen
William McCarthy
Jane M. Mackay
Roy McKelvey
Ephraim R. McLean
Poppy L. McLeod
Gregory Madey
Simha R. Magal
Mo A. Mahmood
David Maier
Ji-Ye Mao
Salvatore T. March
Anne P. Massey
Charles H. Mawhinney
Jerrold H. May
Karon Meehan
Roberto J. Mejias
Thomas Miller
Shaila Miranda
Rajesh Mirani
William H. Money
Ali R. Montazemi
Ramiro Montealegre
Janette Moody
Ajay S. Mookerjee
Scott Moore
Jolene Morrison
Michael D. Myers
Kathleen Mykytyn
Peter P. Mykytyn, Jr.
Barin N. Nag
Murli Nagasundaram
R. Ryan Nelson
Boon Siong Neo
Fred Niederman
Mark Nissen
Rosalie Ocker
Lorne Olfman
James Oliver
Levent Orman
Richard Orwig
Jonathan W. Palmer
Raymond R. Panko
Michael Parent
Diane Parente
Kenneth Peffers
Norman Pendegraft
Mark Pendergast
Roger A. Pick
Leo L. Pipino
Steven Poltrock
Gerald Post
John H. Prager
Jayesh Prasad
G. Premkumar
Sandeep Purao
S. Raghunathan
Arik Ragowsky
T.S. Ragu-Nathan
Arun Rai
Rex Kelly Rainer, Jr.
K.S. Raman
B. Ramesh
Richard G. Ramirez
H.R. Rao
R. Ravichandran
T. Ravichandran
Sury Ravindran
Amy W. Ray
Louis Raymond
Paul Resnick
William B. Richmond
Frederick Riggins
Daniel Robey
Michael B. Rogich
Young U. Ryu
Timo Saarinen
Rajiv Sabherwal
Sharon Salveter
G. Lawrence Sanders
Tuomas Sandholm
Radhika Santhanam
John Satzinger
Carol Saunders
Naveed Saleem
George Schell
K.D. Schenk
Judy Scott
Irmtraud S. Seeborg
Kishore Sengupta
Vikram Sethi
Kenneth C. Sevcik
Dennis G. Severance
Theresa M. Shaft
Steven Sheetz
Jim Sheffield
Olivia Sheng
Michael Shields
J.P. Shim
Siew Kien Sia
Mark S. Silver
Atish P. Sinha
Sumit Sircar
H. Jeff Smith
Eli M. Snir
Charles A. Snyder
William E. Spangler
Rajendra P. Srivastava
Thomas F. Stafford
Sandy Staples
Eric W. Stein
Dick Stenmark
John M. Stevens
Veda Storey
Girish Subramanian
Ramesh Subramanian
Ephraim Sudit
Robert T. Sumichrast
Shankar Sunarajan
Arun Sundararajan
Tae Kyung Sung
Edward J. Szewczak
Paul P. Tallon
Kar Yan Tam
Bernard C.Y. Tan
Mohan R. Tanniru
Alfred Taudes
David P. Tegarden
James T.C. Teng
Hock-Hai Teo
Thompson Teo
Matthew Thatcher
Ron Thompson
James Y.L. Thong
John Tillquist
Peter Tingling
Leon van der Torre
Jonathan K. Trower
Duane Truex
Gregory E. Truman
Ilkka Tuomi
Jon A. Turner
Brad Tuttle
Craig K. Tyran
N.S. Umanath
Rustam Vahidov
Yaniv Vakrat
Alfredo Vellido
Boris S. Verkhovsky
Ajay Vinze
Michael Wade
Steven Walczak
Michael S. Wang
Shouhong Wang
Y. Richard Wang
Carol Watson
Richard Watson
Mary Beth Watson-Manheim
Chih-Ping Wei
Peter Weill
Charles E. Wells
Larry West
J. Christopher Westland
Seungjin Whang
Michael E. Whitman
George Widmeyer
Fons Wijnhoven
Kristoff K. Wolyniec
Hans Wortmann
Evangelos Yfantis
J. Leon Zhao
Lina Zhou
Ilze Zigurs
Moshe Zviran
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VLADIMIR ZWASS
Editor-in-Chief