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Essays on antecedents and consequences of cloud computing capabilities in organizations: an empirical analysis of field data
Get PDFCloud computing is widely recognized as a potential disruptive paradigm that changes how IT is consumed and business is conducted in various industries. Managerial and academic literature has shown that cloud computing may benefit firms in various ways such as cost savings, fast project development, and business innovation. Nevertheless, there are many different interpretations and perceptions of cloud computing about how to better prepare for and use it in the information systems (IS) literature. A systematic analysis is necessary to clarify the equivocal issues around cloud computing and guide managers to better understand and utilize cloud computing in practice. This dissertation addresses several important relationships around cloud computing using theoretical models and empirical data as a representation of how the questions about cloud computing may be investigated in the IS literature and how the findings may benefit organizations in using cloud computing. Therefore, the dissertation comprises three connected chapters that address one important antecedent of cloud computing adoption – internal IT modularity within firms and two important consequences – firm performance and strategic alliance formation. It is found that in order to better prepare for cloud computing adoption, firm users can do something themselves by modularizing their internal IT systems. Firms also need to know whether and how cloud computing, after all, can benefit their firm performance or other activities such as strategic alliance formation. The findings show that cloud computing overall and its various specific cloud services may promote firm performance directly or complementarily with internal enterprise resources. Cloud computing and its specific cloud services may also exert different effects on strategic alliance formation. This dissertation systematically addresses the issues around cloud computing in the IS literature and sheds lights on how such a study can be applied to help managers and decision makers in industries to better understand and use cloud computing to achieve their business goals.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2018-08-01The student, Rui Guo, accepted the attached license on 2016-06-16 at 15:56.The student, Rui Guo, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2016-06-16 at 16:01.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2016-06-17 at 11:39.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9676 on 2016-11-10 at 12:24:35Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-10T18:39:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Unlocking the insights: data-analytic examinations of social signals in organizational practices
Get PDFUsing analytics to understand social data is an emerging research field across different academic disciplines including Information Systems. Information Systems (IS) discipline places the social media-related research at the intersection of people, organizations, and technology. While the recent focus of design science utilizes advanced data mining methods to develop decision-aiding frameworks and extend organizational boundaries by designing novel artifacts; the behavioral focus develops and tests theories that elucidate behaviors at the individual or organizational levels. This thesis comprises three essays aiming to contribute to IS research by both leveraging from the two foundational principles of IS -behavioral science and design science- and applying advanced analytics to further understand the executive, stakeholder, and brand relations. These implementations allow us to elegantly capture several important features of the social signals that have been employed in online networking platforms. In the first two chapters, social signals are examined as internal and external associations of the executives’ career outcomes. The third chapter investigates the social signals from brands’ perspectives. While the first two chapters highlight and examine the relationships of several constructs, the main emphasis of the third chapter lies on designing a valuable information systems tool to complement the theoretical studies and enhance the practical implementations.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2019-05-01The student, Utku Pamuksuz, accepted the attached license on 2017-04-20 at 11:08.The student, Utku Pamuksuz, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-04-20 at 11:19.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-04-21 at 09:23.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10931 on 2017-08-10 at 14:32:20Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-10T19:52:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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