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The Evolution of Research on IS -Banker & Kauffman
Presented by Saurabh Nyalkalkar
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Introduction
` Retrospective look at the contributions to thefoundations of IS and IT Literature
` Five research streams that deal with different
definitions of Managerial problems related to IT are
identified.
1. Decision Support and Design Science
2. Value of Information
3. Human Computer Interaction
4. IS Organization and Strategy
5. Economics of Information Systems & Technology
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Decision Support & Design Science
OVERVIEW` Level of Analysis
` System Level
` Theories
` Decision Theory, Network Optimization Theory, ControlTheory
` Methodologies Used
` Mathematical Programming, Forecasting, Simulation, ExpertSystems
` Related Disciplines
` Computer Sciences, Operations Research, Economics, StrategicManagement
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Decision Support & Design Science
PERIOD KEY IDEAS
Early Period
1956 - 1958 Employing IS provided a basis for more effective market
evaluation, long range planning, and production control
1969 (Kriebel) Team Theory to illustrate the mutual dependency between costs
of acquired information and the decision it supports1974
(MacCrimmon)
Validated descriptive aspects of Team Theory
1975 (Moskowitz) Information and decision systems for production planning
1972 - IS use for scheduling in organizational contexts. E.g., multicriteria
optimization for workforce scheduling, regional bloodmanagement
1988 (Sharda et al.) Whether success of the system could be effectively documented?
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Decision Support & Design Science
PERIOD KEY IDEAS
Recent Years Empirical analysis of new artifacts and theory development
encouraged by technological changes and methodological
advances
2000 (Kelly &
Steinberg),2003(Bapna et.al)
Design of auction systems
2001 (Ba et al.) Market mechanism to design optimal strategies for investment in
knowledge
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Value of Information
OVERVIEW` Level of Analysis
` Individual decision makers, technologies in business context,firm action in market contexts
`
Theories` Information economics, real options theory, information
sharing theory
` Methodologies Used
` Decision trees, analytical models, statistical analysis,
mathematical programming, simulation
` Related Disciplines
` Economics, decision sciences, risk management
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Value of Information
PERIOD KEY IDEAS
Information, Managerial Flexibility, Decision Making
1975 (Miller) Value of information under conditions of primary dependency
on sequence of presentation
1975 (Ponssard) Dominance criteria for optimal strategic actions
1976 (Ponssard) Information value in competition
1971 (Hoos) Use of information systems in public planning
1975 (King &
Cleland)
MIS Design
1981 (Hilton) Managerial flexibility has no general monotonic relationship
with information value. Accuracy & aggregation level - criticaldeterminants of value of information
1982 (Harris et al.) Analysis of settings in which divisional manager possess
asymmetric information and different goals. - An incentive
based transfer pricing scheme
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Value of Information
PERIOD KEY IDEAS
1985 (McCardle),
1987 (Mamer &
McCardle)
Value of information based thinking to optimize information
acquisition for technology adoption under uncertainity
1996 (Parsons) Modeling of information using information theory
1997 (Mehrofer) Why value of perfect information is increasing in managerialflexibility
2003 ( Schwarz,
Zozaya-Gorostiza)
Real options to study commitment escalation and project
investment
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Human Computer Systems Design
OVERVIEW
` Level of Analysis
` User focused, both individual and groups.
` Theories
` Cognitive style, behavioral decision theory
` Methodologies Used
` Experiments, argumentation, simulation, system test beds
` Related Disciplines
` Cognitive psychology, decision science, design science
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Human Computer Systems Design
PERIOD KEY IDEAS
1971 (Ackoff) Management misinformation, over abundance of irrelevant
information
Heuristic cognitive styles vs Systematic cognitive styles
1978 (Chervany &
Dickson)
The Minnesota experiments to study information overload.
They found that decision making was affected by IS structureand attributes of individual decision makers
Zmudd Counterpoints to Minnesota experiments
Group Decision Support
1984 (Remus) Tabulted information vs Graphical information
1987 (DeSanctis,Gallup)
Framework for applying & design of GDSS and EMS
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IS Organization & Strategy
OVERVIEW` Level of Analysis
` Individuals, groups, business units, organizations, market places
` Theories
` Diffusion theory, media richness theory, resource based view ofthe firm, transaction cost economics, task technology fit,technology acceptance model
` Methodologies Used
` Models, case studies, field studies, experiments, surveys, cross-
sectional and longitudinal designs, argumentation..` Related Disciplines
` Organizational theory, strategic management, social psychology,cognitive psychology, economics
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Key Ideas
` IS use and user satisfaction
` User development communication patterns
` Theory of reasoned actions
` Technology acceptance model
` Diffusion of innovations model
` Task-technology fit model
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Key Ideas
` IS, Strategic planning` Determinants of electronic integration
` Structure of IT & Organizational Change
` Effective global disaggregation
` Impact of IT on stock evaluation
` Potential value of e-commerce evaluation
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Economics of IS & IT
OVERVIEW` Level of Analysis
` Individuals, groups, business units, firm, organizations, marketplaces
`
Theories` Theory of firm, production economics, game theory, contract &
incomplete contracts theory, network externalities
` Methodologies Used
` Analytical modeling, empirical analysis and econometrics, cross-
sectional and longitudinal designs, experiments, simulation` Related Disciplines
` Economics, Operations research, Management.
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Key Ideas
` IT investements, Firm Size, Productivity & Value
` The productivity paradox
` IT Substitution and International productivity estimates
` Process performance, Customer satisfaction and Systems
use effects
` Software Engineering Economics
` Software Development Productivity
` Software Quality, Capability maturity, Software Contracts
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Key Ideas
` IT Planning, Knowledge Workers and IS Human Capital` Economics of Technology Diffusion
` Network externalities
` Punctuated technology diffusion model
` Coordination mechanisms and ownership of IT Assets` IT, Financial markets & Internet based mercantile exchange
` IT impacts in the financial markets
` Internet based market mechanisms for mercantile exchange
` Economics, IS and Electronic commerce
` Towards IPR, KM, Infrastructure outsourcing, design of IT
based market mechanisms
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Way Ahead
` Continued study of problems in IS management
` It is expected that the extent of inter-disciplinary
research will increase
` Development in other disciplines will continue to play a
key role in development in managerial knowledge of IT.