Welcome from the Program Chairs
Welcome to AMCIS 2009. We are grateful to you for making the 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems a success. Your contributions and participation as program committee members, track chairs, mini-track chairs, authors, reviewers, presenters and session chairs are laudable.
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Kenneth E. Kendall
Rutgers University
Upkar Varshney
Georgia State University
Submissions from 2009
Dealing with Task Uncertainty in Disaster Management: The Role of Knowledge Sharing for Exploration and Exploitation, Jose Rocha, Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Weidong Xia, and Arvind Gudi
Internet and Mobile Technologies for Development: Game-changing Opportunities for Latin America, Guillermo Rodriguez-Abitia, Luiz Antonio Joia, Martha Garcia Murillo, and Khaled Al-Share
Process Management Maturity Assessment, Michael Rohloff
Technology, organization and materiality: Reflections on the Problem of Agency, Howard Rosenbaum, Ronald Day, and Lai Ma
A Case of VoIP Implementation at A Financial Services Office, Russ Roysden and Shu Z. Schiller
Information and Communications Technology in Developing, Emerging and Transition Economies: An Assessment of Research, Narcyz Roztocki and Heinz Roland Weistroffer
Event Studies in Information Systems Research: An Updated Review, Narcyz Roztocki and Heinz Roland Weistroffer
On the Prospective Value of ICTs to New Service Conception, Joe Rubleske and Michelle Kaarst-Brown
Customer Specific Transaction Risk Management in eCommerce, Markus Ruch and Stefan Sackmann
Maturity Model for IT Service Catalogues An Approach to Assess the Quality of IT Service Documentation, Simone Rudolph and Helmut Krcmar
Assessing the Complexity of Dynamics in Enterprise Architecture Planning – Lessons from Chaos Theory, Jan Saat, Stephan Aier, and Bettina Gleichauf
58 Percent Secure: Why Do So Many Wireless Networks Not Use Encryption?, Glen Sagers and Bryan Hosack
Online Teaching: A Case Study, Mehdi Sagheb-Tehrani
Concept-Based Automatic Amharic Document Categorization, Meron Sahlemariam, Mulugeta Libsie, and Daniel Yacob
Organization Size, IT Capabilities, and EA Perceptions: Dark Clouds on the ERP Horizon?, Brian Salmans, Leon Kappelman, and Robert Pavur
CSF Relationships in ERP Project Implementations: A Collective Case Study, David Sammon, Frederic Adam, and Sven Carlsson
The Content of the Basic/Required MIS Course in a Latin-American MBA, Aurora D. Sanchez, David Montesinos, Enrique Mu, Janis L. Gogan, and Carlos Ferran
Mandatory ISP Filtering for a Clean Feed to Australian Internet Subscribers, Geoffrey A. Sandy
IT Spin-Offs into the European Research Framework: An Innovative Configuration, Angela Sansonetti and Alessandro D'Atri
A Goal-Driven Framework for Electronic Government Projects Management, Demetrios Sarantis, Yannis Charalabidis, and Dimitris Askounis
A Phenomenological Investigation of Information and Communications Technology at a Public Sector Enterprise in India, Satya Prakash Saraswat
DICOM Data from a Data Warehouse Design Perspective, Behrooz Sayed-Abbassi
Implementation of Green IT: Implications for a Dynamic Resource, Lutfus Sayeed and Sam Gill
Divide et Impera! The Role of Firms in Large Open Source Software Consortia, Mario Schaarschmidt and Harald F.O. von Kortzflieisch
Organizing Equity Exchanges, Torsten Schaper
Deriving a Balanced Scorecard for the European Settlement Industry, Torsten Schaper and Michael Chlistalla
An Experimental, Tool-Based Evaluation of Requirements Prioritization Techniques in Distributed Settings, Sven Scheibmayr, Tobias Hildenbrand, and Michael Geisser
Assessing Student Interest in Hybrid Course Delivery at the MBA Level, Mark Schmidt, James Weber, Nancy Van Erp, and Michele Mumm
How Much to Spend on Flexibility? Determining the Value of Information System Flexibility, Franz Schober and Judith Gebauer
Security of Open Source and Closed Source Software: An Empirical Comparison of Published Vulnerabilities, Guido Schryen
An Extended Framework for Comparing Expectations and Realized Benefits of Enterprise Systems Implementations, Petra Schubert and Susan P. William
Applied Service Engineering for Single Services and Corresponding Service Landscapes, Stefan Schulte, Kay Kadner, Nicolas Repp, and Ralf Steinmetz
Definition and Classification of IT-Shared-Service-Center, Veit Schulz, Axel Hochstein, Falk Ubernickel, and Walter Brenner
Incorporating Choice into Models of Technology Adoption, Andrew Schwarz and Colleen Schwarz
Revitalizing a Struggling MIS Program on a Shrinking Budget, Dana Schwieger
Order of Magnitude Reductions in the Size of Enterprise Search Result Sets Through the Use of Subject Indexes, Gregory Schymik, Robert St. Louis, and Karen Corral
The Virtuous and the Vicious: The Effects of Professionalism and Machiavellianism on Ethical IT Decision Making, Richard A.M. Scilhavy and Ruth C. King
Emergent Groups for Emergency Response – Theoretical Foundations and Information Design Implications, Ina M. Sebastian and Tung X. Bui
Do Project Managers Compensate for Risk Controls? An Exploratory Study on Risk Behavior in IT Projects, Christian Segin, Michael Schermann, and Helmut Krcmar
Toward an Integrated View of Management Control of Foreign Sourcing Relationships, Frank Selto, Ramiro Montealegre, and Thomas Groot
The Development of an AI Journal Ranking List Based on the Revealed Preference Approach, Alexander Serenko
Integrating Technology Addiction and Adoption: An Empirical Investigation of Online Auction Websites, Alexander Serenko, Ofir Turel, and Paul Giles
Analyzing National Differences in IT Adoption Between Culturally Close Countries - A Conceptual Model, Alexander von Setten and Daniel Beimborn
Exploring the Relationship Between Personality Traits, eMail Overload and Productivity in the Workplace, Gokturk Sevinc and John D'Ambra
Normative Value of Information for Decision-Making in the Healthcare Environment, Itamar Shabati, Moshe Leshno, and Orna Blondheim
Innovating with Open Sourcing: Governance Concerns for Managers, Maha Shaikh and Tony Cornford
An Analysis of the Delurking Process on the Web 2.0 Platform - The Moderating Effevts of Web 2.0 Options, Shari S.C. Shang and Ya-Ling Wu
Can the Exploitation of Information Technology Enable Service Orientation in the Organization?, Shari Shang and Yu-Hsing Wu
Visualizing Data Quality Metadata for Decision Support: A Prototype and Evaluation, G. Shankaranarayanan, Bin Zhu, and Yu Cai
Information Extraction from Interviews to Obtain Tacit Knowledge: A Text Mining Application, Ramesh Sharda and Michael Henry
Mechanisms of Management Support and its Effect on Successful IS Implementation: The Case of Ethiopian Customs Authority, Yehenew Sheferaw, Solomon Negash, and Donald L. Amoroso
A Proposed Social Mechanism for Community Membership: The Case of Online File Sharing Using Bittorrent, Kenneth Shemroske and Leiser Silva
Determining Factors in the Acceptance of Social Shopping Websites, Jia Shen and Lauren Eder
Impact of Cultural Differences on CPFR Implementation, Susan A. Sherer, Rajiv Kohli, and Yuliang Yao
Lesson from WiFi Municipal Wireless Network, Seungjae Shin and Jack E. Tucci
Examining Validity Claims for Internet Filtering in Islamic Middle Eastern Countries: A Critical Discourse Analysis, Farid Shirazi and Kathleen Greenaway
Cross Lingual Information Retrieval Using Data Mining Methods, R. Shriram and Vijayan Sugumaran
Governance of Collaborative Open Source Software: Inference from Transaction Cost Economics Model, Mohamed Sidahmed and James Gerlach
Business Analysis in Information Systems Curriculum: Implications of Business Analysis Professionalization, Anna Sidorova
Exploring the Relationship Between Alignment and Strategy, A.J. Gilbert Silvius
A Prediction Model for Initial Trust Formation in B2C eCommerce, Jollean K. Sinclaire, Ronald B. Wilkes, and Judith C. Simon
The Influence of Industry Growth and Firm Market Share on Firm-Level IT Value, Harminder Singh, Matt Wimble, and V. Sabamurthy
Improving the Company's IQ: How to Use Intelligence as a Paradigm for Designing Business Processes, Artur Siurdyban
An Analytic Framework for Design-Oriented Research Concepts, Jonas Sjostrom and Par J. Agerfalk
Blended is Still Best: Review of Literature and Commentary on Optimal Learning Environments, David Skelton
The Moderating Effect of Information Technology on the Relationship between Comprehensive Planning Processes and Flexible Responsiveness, Joseph Skipper, Dianne Hall, W. Heath Landrum, and Joe Hanna
A Theory of Software Reuse Strategies in Ideal Type Stable and Turbulent Market Environments, Oliver Skroch and Klaus Turowski
Cooperation Issues in Developing the BOP Market, Jakobus Smit, Anand Sheombar, and A.J. Gilbert Silvius
Citizens' Acceptance of eGovernment Services: An Empirical Study of Medina City, Faris Al Sobhi and Shafi Al Shafi
Does Culture Matter? A Study of Cultural Influences on the Success of Women in IT, Louise L. Soe, Ruth A. Guthrie, and Elaine Yakura
Motivations for Enterprise System Adoption: Insights from Practitioners in Poland, Pitor Soja
Evaluating the Implementation Process: An Exploratory eGovernment Case Study, Maddalena Sorrentino and Katia Passerini
Evaluación del nivel de desarrollo de la e-Salud en Espana: Propuesta de Marco Teorico, Jose Esteves Souza and Victor Bohorquez Lopez
Systems Developers Define their Own Information Needs, Vasanth Ram Srivatsan, Sandeep Purao, James Jansen, and Jingwen He
Individual Adopter Differences Among Jordanian Technology Users, Thomas F. Stafford and Ahmad M. Khasawneh
Supporting Healthcare Knowledge Transfer through a Web 2.0 Portal - Insights from Austria, Katharina Steininger, David Rueckel, Edwald Dannerer, and Friedrich Roithmayr
A dialectic view on Open Innovation, Gunnar Stevens, Tobias Schwartz, and Johanna Meurer
The Role of Gender in the Hedonic and Utilitarian Value of Digital Games, Jan Henrik Storgards and Bertta Sokura
An Evaluation of Multiple Perceptions of Digital Rights Management, Allyn D. Stott and Aakash Taneja
An International Model for IS PhD Program in Low-Income Countries, Detmar Straub and Solomon Negash
Electronic Health Records and the Changing Roles of Health Care Professionals: A Social Informatics Perspective, Diane M. Strong, Olga Volkoff, Sharon A. Johnson, Isa Bar-On, and Lori Pelletier
Design of Causal Coupling Patterns Supporting Causal Modeling and Flow Modeling in the System Dynamics Methodology, Christian Suchan
Overcoming Communication Barriers for CMC in Enterprises, Eldar Sultanow, Gergana Vladova, and Edzard Weber
CSF's for Implementing ERP within SME's, Mary R. Sumner and Joseph Bradley
Knowledge Creation with Parallel Teams: Design of Incentives and the Role of Collaboration, Shankar Sundaresan and Zuopeng Zhang
Reexamining the Impact of System Use on Job Performance from the Perspective of Adaptive System Use, Heshan Sun and Martin Fricke
The True Cost of Pair Programming: Development of a Comprehensive Model and Test, Wenying "Nan" Sun and George M. Marakas
Characteristics of IS Security Approaches with Respect to Healthcare, Ali Sunyaev, Mariana Atherton, Christian Mauro, Jan Marco Leimeister, and Helmut Krcmar
Security Analysis of the German Healthcare Telematics, Ali Sunyaev, Martin Reeber, Jan Marco Leimeister, and Helmut Krcmar
A Reclassification of IS Security Analysis Approaches, Ali Sunyaev, Florian Tremmel, Christian Mauro, Jan Marco Leimeister, and Helmut Krcmar
Web 2.0, Jim Sutter
Enterprise System Adaptation: a Combination of Institutional Structures and Sensemaking Processes, Per Svejvig and Tina Blegind Jensen
Determinants of Relationship Quality for IS/IT Outsourcing Success in Public Sector: A Bilateral Perspective, Bobby Swar, Junghoon Moon, Young Chan Choe, and Junyoung Oh
Exploring the Role of Frameworks & Methodologies in Information Security Management & Governance - Research in Progress, Sharon W. Tabor
The Influence of Offshore Development on Strategies for Developing China's Software Industry, Mita Takahashi and Nobuhiro Takahashi
CoDoSA: A Lightweight, XML-Based Framework for Integrating Unstructured Textual Information, John R. Talburt and Eric D. Nelson
Differences in ERP Implementations in India & Western Europe, Manish C. Talwar and Andrea Back
Trust Building in Electronic Markets: Relative Importance and Interaction Effects of Trust Building Mechanisms, Stefan Tams
A Mathematical Foundation of Diagramming Methods, Motonari Tanabu
Evaluation of a Learning System to Teach GIS for Civil Engineering, Basanta Tandon, Richard Hall, Hong Sheng, Mike Hilgers, and Michelle Boese