Working Papers

Value Networks
    How is the Networked Economy changing supply chain economics

Economies of Style in the Digital Age
    Introducing the concept of Economies of Style

Institutional Interventions
    A framework for describing and evaluating institutional interventions in the service of e-commerce introduction in developing countries

Commitment to E-Commerce
    How do small business owners become committed to the use of E-Commerce?

Application Stewardship
    The role played by managers and other departmental leaderships in promoting productive use of information systems applications post implementation.

Stewardship and IT Governance
    Agency Theory is a useful predictor of the effectiveness and form of CEO relationships with firms' owners, but is it enough to explain the problems in IT governance?  This series of papers explores extensions to agency theory involving stewardship, the idea that IT managers feel ownership of the IT entities they manage.

IT Adoption in the Developing World
    Most models of IT adoption are based on western ideas involving the newest technologies.  These models are meant to be transparent to culture, but might not be.  This series of papers tests existing models, and most specifically TAM (Technology Adoption Model) and DoI (Diffusion of Innovation).

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