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
An Agent Based Model for Exploring Internet Hacking Trend, Zaiyong Tang, Kallol Bagchi, and Anurag Jain
Designing Groupware that Fosters Social Capital Creation: Can Facebook Support Global Virtual Team?, Wee-Kek Tan, Thi Thao Duyen Nguyen, Khet Khet Oo Tha, and Xiaohui Yu
Factors Contributing to an Effective Business Intelligence Product, Konstantin Taskov
Descendents of ServQual in Online Services Research: The End of the Line?, Mary Tate and Joerg Evermann
ICT, the Changing Line of Visibility, and Customer Impressions of Organisational Competencies, Mary Tate and David Johnstone
Case: Technology Adoption Gone Wrong, Albert S. Tay
Evaluating ERP Success Factors: Vendor’s Perspective, Leon Kok Yang Teo, Mohini Singh, and Vanessa Cooper
Piloting Service Oriented Architecture—A Case Study in the Oil Industry, Ashish Kumar Tewary, Parag Kosalge, and Jaideep Motwani
Understanding Continuance Intention in E-learning Community, Khet Khet Oo Tha, Chiang-Choon Danny Poo, and Xiaohui Yu
Tie Me Up!: An Empirical Investigation of Perceived Tie Characteristics on Prospective Connections, Dominic Thomas, Elliot Bendoly, and Monica Capra
From the Client-Server Architecture to the Information Service Architecture, Manoj A. Thomas and Richard T. Redmond
Understanding IT adoption and consumption within the social structure of a consumer’s economy, Sherman Ting, Linda Dawson, and Chris Dubelaar
Information and Communication Technology Assessment Benchmark, L. Troboy, Alice Batch, and Linda Bean
A Model for the Impact of Task Complexity on Deception in a Group Decision Making Task, Douglas Twitchell, Christie Fuller, David Brios, and Julia Graham
Implementing Centers of Excellence: A Case Study, Frank Ulbrich
From Service Conversation Models to WS-CDL, Karthikeyan Umapathy
A Conceptual Model for Measuring the Effectiveness of Employee Portals, Nils Urbach, Stefan Smolnik, and Gerold Riempp
An Examination of the Role of IT Governance in the ERP Post-Implementation Phase, Barbara Usher and Lorne Olfman
An eRetailer's Dilemma: The Dual Influence of Information Presentation, Francine Vachon, Suzanne Rivard, and Thomas Allard
Building Language Consensus in Information Systems Development - An Interdisciplinary Approach, Marianne Corvera Vargas
Why I Chose Computer Science? Women in India, Roli Varma
I Don't Like IT: Exploring Challenges in Accounting Information Systems Education, Savanid Vatanasakdakul and Chadi Aoun
Gender Differences in Social Networking Presence Effects on Web Based Impression Formation, Shailaja Venkatsubramanyan and Timothy R. Hill
Development of a Culturally-Oriented Website Usability Evaluation, Susana B. Vidrio-Baron, Andrew W. Luse, and Anthony M. Townsend
CIO Executive Risk Behavior Model, Marco A. Villarreal, Teofilo Ozuna, and Jesus Tanguma
An Ontology Based Approach to Data Quality Initiatives Cost-Benefit Evaluation, Gianluigi Viscusi, Andrea Maurino, and Simone Grega
WIKIS AND BEYOND: HARNESSING COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE THROUGH WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES, Christian Wagner
ERP Implementation Sucess, Innovation and Social Networks: Linking the Tertius Lungens Approach to Performance, Heinz-Theo Wagner
The Sources of Innovation: Evidence from Case Studies among IT Service Providers, Heinz-Theo Wagner
System Latency in Linked Spot and Futures Markets, Martin Wagner and Ryan Riordan
New Faculty Orientation Gets a Facelift, Christine Walczyk and Scott Warren
Building Educational Presence in Second Life: An Exploratory Study, Nitin Walia, Fatemeh "Mariam" Zahedi, and Hemant K. Jain
The Emergence of a Content Acceptance Model: New Thoughts Regarding the Trial, Adoption, Usage, and Diffusion of New Media, Ryan G. Walinski and Alex J. Barelka
Development of an Instrument to Assess Individual IT Culture, Isabelle Walsh
Linking Shopping and Social Networking: Approaches to Social Shopping, Chingning Wang
Personal Influence on Citizens' Utilization of Government Information: An Empirical Study, Fang Wang
People-to-People Lending: The Emerging e-Commerce Transformation of a Financial Market, Hui Wang, Martina Greiner, and Jay E. Anderson
Institutional Antecedents and Consequences of Modularity in Business Process Outsourcing, Hui Wang, Wenhua Hou, and Dahui Li
An Empirical Study on the Adoption of Instant Messages for Work Purposes, Jijie Wang and Michael Gallivan
Ontology-Based Intelligent Agents in Workplace eLearning, Minhong Wang, Haiyang Jia, Weijia Ran, Vijayan Sugumaran, and Jian Liao
Software Outsourcing Subcontracting and its Impacts: An Empirical Investigation, Yi Wang
An Empirical Investigation of the Key Factors for Refactoring Success in an Industrial Context, Yi Wang, Christian Wagner, and Rachael K.F. Ip
Decomposition of Virtual Product Experience in Consumer Online Purchasing - A Preliminary Study, Y. Ken Wang and Pratim Datta
Generation Gap and the Impact of the Web on Goods Quality Perceptions, Yuan Wan, Makoto Nakayama, and Norma Sutcliffe
An Empirical Analysis of End-User Satisfaction toward E-Banking in Indonesia (A Comparison Model of ATMs, Internet Banking and Mobile Banking), Yulia Wati, Chulmo Koo, Jason Jung, and Dahui Li
Business Intelligence: Past, Present and Future, Hugh J. Watson
Energy + Information < Energy, Richard Watson, Jay Aronson, Brian Donnellan, and Philip Desautels
Criteria for Evaluating Authentication Systems, Steven C. Way and Yufei Yuan
Forecasting U.S. Home Foreclosures with an Index of Internet Keyword Searches, G. Kent Webb
Advance Interoperability in e-Government with Standardized Core Directories, Christian Welzel, Heiko Hartenstein, and Joern von Lucke
BREAKING RISK MANAGEMENT OUT OF ITS SILOS, George Westerman
Opportunities and Challenges in Analysis of Social Netowrks, Andrew B. Whinston
Adaptability in IT Sourcing: The Impact of Switching Costs, Dwayne Whitten
Modeling Organizational Virtualness in the Airline Industry An Empirical Investigation, Michael D. Williams, Genefa Murphy, and Yogesh Dwivedi
Evaluating Task-Technology Fit and User Performance for an Electronic Health Record System, Matthew J. Willis, Omar F. El-Gayar, and Amit V. Deokar
Search Personalization: Knowledge-Based Recommendation in Digital Libraries, Todd Will, Anand Srinivasan, Il Im, and Yi-Fang Brook Wu
Demographic Trends in Consumer E-Health Adoption: Analysis of NCI HINTS 2003 and 2005 National Surveys, E. Vance Wilson, Nancy K. Lankton, and Sule Balkan
The Role of Work Pressure in IT Task Groups: Identifying Theoretical Constructs, E. Vance Wilson and Steven D. Sheetz
You Can Have Your Pudding: A Service-Oriented Approach to Process Standardization, Matt Wimble, John Tripp, Derek Hilton, and Brian Pentland
On Search Cost and the Long Tail: The Moderating Role of Search Cost, Matt Wimble, John Tripp, and Brandis Phillips
Information Security Compliances and Knowledge Management Capabilities in International Diversification, Kamphol Wipawayangkool
Managing Information Security via Transactive Memory Systems: An IT-HR Collaboration Perspective, Kamphol Wipawayangkool
A Loosely-Coupled Collaborative Integrated Environmental Modelling Framework, Isaac Wong, David C.-L. Lam, William G. Booty, and Phil Fong
Decision Support in Healthcare Supply Chain Management and Pharmaceutical Inventory Control, John M. Woosley and Sonja Wiley-Patton
Supporting Home Based Health Care in South African Rural Communities Using USSD Technology, Bart Wouters, Joseph Barjis, Goodhope Maponya, Johan Martiz, and Mac Mashiri
Runaway Information Systems Projects: A Confessional Account of an eGoverment Project, Martin Wright
Individual Factors in Virtual Teams: A TIP Theory Perspective, Ryan Wright and Saonee Sarker
An Integrated Framework of SNS Users' Motivations, Hsiu-Lan Wu
Utilitarian and Hedonic Values of Social Network Services, Hsiu-Lan Wu
eHealth Readiness and Its Influences on eHealth Transformation Success: A Change Perspective, Jen-Her Wu, Hao-Yun Kao, and Vallabh Sambamurthy
Why Do Players Stick to a Specific Online Game? The Users and Gratifications Perspective, Jen-Her Wu, Shu-Ching Wang, and Ho-Huang Tsai
Specifying Enabling Services in Telecommunications Service Systems, Jochen Wulf, Thorsten Hau, Ruediger Zarnekow, and Walter Brenner
How Consistent is Web Information - A Case Study on Online Real Estate Databases, Ningning Wu, Irit Askira Gelman, and Isaac O. Osesina
Human Resources Systems Outsourcing as a Source of Sustained Competitive Advantage: Proposal for an Empirical Investigation, Shalini Wunnava and Selwyn Ellis
IT Capability: A Moderator Model of Competitive Advantage, Shalini Wunnava and Selwyn Ellis
Dynamic IT Capability: An Instrument Development Study, Li Xiao and Subhasish Dasgupta
A Simulation Based Study in a Hospital Emergency Department: Capacity and Workflow Issues, Nan Xiao, Sumnat Dutta, Raj Sharman, and H. R. Rao
Sustaining Quality Assessment Processes in User-Centred Health Information Portals, Jue Xie
Trust in the Social Computing: The Case of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) File Sharing Networks, Heng Xu, Tamara Dinev, Hao Wang, and Rachida Parks
Tradable Reputation and Online Economic Efficiency: A Field Experiment in Second Life, Hong Xu, Jianqing Chen, and ANDREW B. WHINSTON
Building Comparative Product Relation Maps by Mining Consumer Opinions on the Web, Kaiquan Xu, Stephen Shaoyi Liao, Raymond Y.K. Lau, Heng Tang, and Shanshan Wang
Leadership in Software Development: Comparing Perceptions of Agile and Traditional Project Managers, Haibo Yang, Sid Huff, and Diane Strode
Adoption Factors of Online Knowledge Sharing Service in the Era of Web 2.0, Jeongwon Yang and J.P. Shim
TESTQUAL: Conceptualizing Software Testing as a Service, Yang Yang, Colin Onita, Jasbir Dhaliwal, and Xihui Zhang
Spatial Movement Pattern Discovery with LCS Based Path Similarity Measure, Ping Yan and Daniel D. Zeng
Consumer's Online Shopping Influence Factors and Decision-Making Model, Xiangbin Yan and Shiliang Dai
Decision Support Markets: An Innovative Business Intelligence Tools, Areej M. Yassin
The Impact of IT-Business Strategic Alignment on Firm Performance: The Role of Environmental Uncertainty and Business Strategy, Ali Alper Yayla and Qing Hu
Surfacing Automation Criteria: A Process Architecture Approach, Fuyu Yi, Sandeep Purao, Shawn Clark, and Sumita Raghuram
The Influence of Virtual Representatives on Recommender System Evaluation, Kyung-Hyan Yoo and Ulrike Gretzel
Toward a Community-oriented Development of Internet Platforms: a Qualitative Case Study, Chia-Ping Yu and Ji-Tsung Ben Wu
How can we manipulate a communication network to create collaboration?, Hiroyasu Yuhashi and Junichi Ijima
Adoption of RFID for Enhanced Food Safety Management: A Qualitative and Explorative Approach, Jongtae Yu, Chengqgi Guo, and J. P. Shim
Testing the Task-Media Fit: The Effects of Task Equivocality on Social Presence of Mobile Video-Mediated Communication, Haejung Yun, Chris SeoYun Choi, and Choong C. Lee
The Economic Ramifications of Strategic IT Security Information Sharing in the Financial Services Industry, Humayun Zafar and Yoris A. Au
Intra-Industry Effects of Information Security Breaches on Firm Performance, Humayun Zafar, Myung Ko, and Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson
An Exploratory Study of the Impact of a Virtual World Learning Environment on Student Interaction and Learning Satisfaction, Chi Zhang and Ilze Zigurs
Optimal Diffusion Strategy of Advertising Using a Facebook Application, Guoying Zhang
Modeling Online Passwords Protection Intention, Lixuan Zhang and William McDowell
Investigating IS Student Retention Factors, Xiaoni Zhang, Vijay Raghavan, and Ben Martz