Management information systems: conceptual foundations, structure, and development (2nd ed.)
Management information systems: conceptual foundations, structure, and development (2nd ed.)
The impact of information systems on organizations and markets
Communications of the ACM
Examining the computing and centralization debate
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Information filtering and information retrieval: two sides of the same coin?
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on information filtering
Personalized information delivery: an analysis of information filtering methods
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on information filtering
Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies
Communications of the ACM
Computer information systems and organization structure
Communications of the ACM
Designing Complex Organizations
Designing Complex Organizations
Human Problem Solving
Delegation technologies: environmental scanning with intelligent agents
Journal of Management Information Systems
The emerging it group and rapid IT change
SIGCPR '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
Environmental scanning on the Internet
ICIS '98 Proceedings of the international conference on Information systems
The effect of rapid IT change on the demand for training
SIGCPR '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
An Information Scanning Approach for Learning to Work on the Internet
Education and Information Technologies
Strategizing for distributed knowledge management
Seeking sucess in E-business
Generalized Vector Quasi-Variational Inequality Problems Over Product Sets
Journal of Global Optimization
An exploratory study of Israeli start-up entrepreneur usage of the internet
Journal of Information Science
Philosophical foundations for a learning-oriented knowledge management system for decision support
Decision Support Systems
An investigation of factors that influence the duration of IT outsourcing relationships
Decision Support Systems
Examination of online channel preference: using the structure-conduct-outcome framework
Decision Support Systems
Coordinating for Flexibility in e-Business Supply Chains
Journal of Management Information Systems
Rapid Information Technology Change, Coping Mechanisms, and the Emerging Technologies Group
Journal of Management Information Systems
Organizational Knowledge Management: A Contingency Perspective
Journal of Management Information Systems
Decision support systems unfrastructure: The root problems of the management of changing IT
Decision Support Systems
Dynamics of Trust Revision: Using Health Infomediaries
Journal of Management Information Systems
Understanding participant loyalty intentions in virtual communities
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
Information intermediaries for emergency preparedness and response: A case study from public health
Information Systems Frontiers
Senior Executive Information Behaviors and Decision Support: A Research Agenda
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Bridging the Socio-technical Gap in Decision Support Systems: Challenges for the Next Decade
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Profiting from Knowledge Management: The Impact of Time and Experience
Information Systems Research
Managing the future: six guidelines for designing environmental scanning systems
DESRIST'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Service-oriented perspectives in design science research
Firm-level benefits of IT-enabled resources: A conceptual extension and an empirical assessment
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Managing the Impact of Rapid IT Change
Information Resources Management Journal
More applicable environmental scanning systems leveraging "modern" information systems
Information Systems and e-Business Management
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This paper addresses two questions. First, how does an organization allocate its environmental scanning resources among all the potential sources of information in the environment? Second, how does an organization allocate responsibility for acquiring environmental information? Specifically, when does an organization choose to monitor an environmental source within its hierarchy, and when does it outsource the task? In the former case, when does the responsibility for acquiring information rest with the ultimate user, and when is it delegated, either to a subordinate or to a central environmental scanning unit?The paper proposes a set of economic arguments to answer these questions. Borrowing from transaction cost theory, the paper develops the concept of information specificity to parallel the idea of asset specificity. Information specificity has two dimensions -- knowledge specificity and time specificity. The paper uses transaction cost theory and agency theory to propose that the information acquisition choices made by managers and organizations are based on the specificity of the desired information. In making its arguments, the paper introduces the notion of cognitive transaction and agency costs to complement the behavioral costs that are the focus of traditional transaction cost and agency theory logic.