Infosys v1n052 (December 30, 1994) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/infosys/infs-v1n052 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * IIIII N N FFFFF OOO SSSSS Y Y SSSSS * * I NN N F O O S Y Y S * * I N N N FFF O O SSSSS Y SSSSS * * I N NN F O O S Y S * * IIIII N N F OOO SSSSS Y SSSSS * * * * INFOSYS: The Electronic Newsletter for Information Systems * * Volume 1, Number 52 December 30, 1994 * * * * Editor: Dennis W. Viehland, Massey University, New Zealand * * Guest Editor: Ake Gronlund, Umea University, Sweden * * Listowner: Greg Welsh, American University, Washington DC * * * * Current Subscribers = 3,457 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS * * * * * * * * * * * * * GUEST EDITOR'S NOTE - Happy New INFOSYS Year * * NEWS - From EDUPAGE * * ANNOUNCEMENT - New BPR Newsletter * * ANNOUNCEMENT - AIS update * * ANNOUNCEMENT - Correction: not all errors are Pentium ones * * ANNOUNCEMENT - Rights & Responsibilities Document * * CONFERENCE - Competitive Advantage of Networked Organizations * * CALL FOR PAPERS - Cognitive Technology Conference * * TABLE OF CONTENTS - Information Technology and People * * TABLE OF CONTENTS - MIS Quarterly December 1994 * * TABLE OF CONTENTS - Information Systems Research, Vol 5, No 4 * * POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT - Assistant/Associate Professor * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 0468* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * GUEST EDITOR'S NOTE - Happy New INFOSYS Year * * Ake Gronlund, Umea University * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This is the last number of the first volume of INFOSYS. We'll be back soon with the first number of Volume 2. If there are submissions enough, next issue will arrive in your mailbox by the end of next week. Happy New Year to all INFOSYS readers. \EOA 0469* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NEWS - From EDUPAGE * * Dennis Viehland, Massey University * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * WINDOWS 95 POSTPONED TILL AUGUST Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system software for PCs will not be ready until August, giving competitors IBM and Apple something new to be happy about, since this is the third time the product's shipping date has been postponed. The problems are mostly related to the fact that the 32-bit Windows 95 operating system will have to interface with the large number of different hardware and peripheral products with which it will have to cope. Just in case there are any more schedule slippages, a Microsoft executive points out that the name "Windows 95" can always be amended. "We certainly haven't printed boxes yet." (New York Times 12/21/94 C1) THE GLASS CEILING IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS Although women hold a third of all information systems positions, fewer than 9% occupy the top position according a survey conducted by the Society for Information Management and Open Computing magazine. A Deloitte & Touche survey shows that women hold about 8% of all CIO jobs. (Information Week 12/26/94 p.56) AT&T BUYS ZIFF ONLINE SERVICE AT&T will pay more than $50 million for Ziff Communications' Interchange Online Network, giving the telecommunications giant instant entree into the burgeoning online market. AT&T's timely acquisition will enable it to pre-empt rival Microsoft's Marvel service, which will be delayed until Windows 95 is ready for rollout in August. Earlier this year, AT&T launched PersonaLink, an online service that makes heavy use of intelligent agent software. (Wall Street Journal 12/21/94 A3) POSTAL SERVICE EXPERIMENTS WITH E-MAIL The U.S. Postal Service is experimenting with a system that would allow it to optically scan the data from business reply cards and send it electronically to mail-order and subscription houses. The service would make reply cards more competitive with 800 numbers, which are costly to maintain. The Postal Service plans to offer the new service in the second half of 1995. (Wall Street Journal 12/22/94 A1) FINALLY, A MACINTOSH CLONE Showing that it was serious about its plans to freely license Macintosh technology, Apple has awarded Power Computing Corporation, a Milpitas, California startup company, the first license to produce Macintosh clones. Power Computing, which is headed by Stephen S. Kahng, the PC clone designer who came up with the Leading Edge Model D, plans to produce Mac clones by this Spring for as little as $1000. Says Kahng: "I've been with the PC industry for 10 years but I was amazed at how good the Macintosh technology is. I plan on creating a billion-dollar company in the next five years." Hoping to make the Macintosh a serious market competitor to the Intel-Microsoft alternative, Apple is still looking for a large computer manufacturer to make Mac clones. (New York Times 12/29/94 C1) BOOST PRODUCTIVITY -- HIRE A TELECOMMUTER A Gartner Group study indicates the average productivity increase per telecommuter (as measured by employers) is between 10% and 16%, with an average savings in facility costs of $3,000 to $5,000 per telecommuter. The average work-time increase for telecommuters is two hours a day. (Inc. Technology Premiere Issue p.18) E-MAIL WARNING A professor at Eastern Illinois University warns that companies may be held liable for employees' misuse of corporate e-mail systems, such as making defamatory remarks, because the network is considered corporate asset. (Wall Street Journal 12/29/94 A1) COMPAQ THINKS PC BETTER THAN SET-TOP BOX Compaq CEO Echard Pfeiffer says PCs are the solution for interactive TV of the future: "The key technology in the set-top box will ultimately be the same as in the PC. The PC is a much more attractive solution. When that really goes into high volume, most households will have PCs. We're shipping millions of PCs today, and the industry is shipping tens of millions, into the home, and that shows the home is willing to spend the money. As the PC evolves to become the interactive device in the home, it will be a long-term, better solution compared to a set-top box." (Upside Jan.'95 p.51) CLEAN SHAVE BY COMPUTER Computers are less messy than shaving soap and razor, and just as good at trimming a beard from a photograph, so computer visualization was used to produce a beardless photo of a bearded prisoner whose religion prohibited guards from shaving him. New York State requires that prisoners be photographed clean-shaven, so that if a prisoner escapes he can't just shave his beard and go into hiding. Unanswered Question: does NY require that a clean-shaven prisoner be photographed with a beard, so that if he escapes he can't just grow a beard and go into hiding? More work for the computer! (New York Times 12/29/94 A16) TURBOCHARGED INTERNET ACCESS In just a few years people will be accessing the Internet via cable modems at speeds up to 50 times faster than is currently possible using telephone lines. Cable modems are currently available (operating at speeds from 500 kilobits up to 4 megabits), but to make it all work, cable companies must upgrade their lines to handle digital transmissions and two-way communications. The cost for the overhaul is estimated at $150 per cable subscriber. Still, cable companies are starting to migrate toward the online bandwagon, with limited trials to offer Internet access planned for next year. (Investor's Business Daily 12/23/94 A4) HOME COOKING BY COMPUTER Two million bread-making machines were sold in 1993 because "people want to do home cooking but they want to take the work out of it," says inventor Ellis D. Gordon, who has received a patent for a computerized appliance that can mix ingredients together by following a CD-ROM-based recipe to produce full meals. "The patent covers the automatic kitchen. It could be a very simple device for producing desserts like ice cream or puddings or it could be much more complex." (New York Times 12/26/94 p.22) MICROSOFT/TCI DEAL Cable giant Tele-Communications Inc. will have a 20% stake in a Microsoft/TCI alliance that will offer Microsoft online services. The deal is not exclusive, so Microsoft would be able to offer its service through other cable companies, and TCI could offer other online services besides the Microsoft one. (New York Times 12/22/94 C17) Editor's Note: Edupage, a summary of news items on information technology, is a service of Educom. This is an abbreviated list of news items of interest to the IS community from the December 22, 27, and 29, 1994 issues. \EOA 0470* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ANNOUNCEMENT - New BPR Newsletter * * Jan Bennett * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Quarterly business process re-engineering newsletter of the manufacturing and business systems research group, University of Plymouth, UK This newsletter is a series of quarterly updates intended to report back to the BPR community on progress to date of UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Grant GR/J95010, "Specification of a Business Process Re-engineering Methodology for Small and Medium Size Manufacturing Enterprises". The grant is led by Dr. Roger Maull and Dr. Steve Childe of the University of Plymouth's School of Computing and by Mr. Jan Bennett of the University's Teaching Company Centre. The objective of this research programme is to specify the requirements for a Business Process Re-engineering methodology for use in SMEs. The specification will have a systematic structure and will contain a set of guidelines indicating how BPR activities should be facilitated. It will also recommend a set of appropriate supporting tools and techniques. BPR UPDATE will routinely be posted to the BPR-L, management- research, APICS, MFG-INFO, mfg-strategy, small-business-issues and teaching-company-scheme lists. Comments and suggestions would be most welcome. \EOA 0471* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ANNOUNCEMENT - AIS update * * Bill King, Katz School of Business * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Association for Information Systems Update as of 12-20-94 AIS is up and running and approaching 900 members! The level of support has been much greater than our fondest hopes and we will endeavor to provide benefits to the IS field and to individual members that will justify this support. The Organizing Committee and Nominees met at ICIS in Vancouver. AIS representatives also met with the ICIS Executive Committee and further defined and operationalized the cooperative relationship between AIS and ICIS. One of the cooperative activities between AIS and ICIS will be a joint placement system that will operate from July to December in 1995. Jobs providers and candidates will be able to register in July. Interviews will be facilitated for the AIS Americas meeting in Pittsburgh on August 25-27, 1995 as well as at ICIS in Amsterdam December 10-13. The list of jobs and candidates will be updated through the July-December recruiting season so that the most current data are always available. Only one placement registration and fee will be required for the joint AIS-ICIS placement system. Because of some delays in international air mail, the opportunity for Charter Membership in AIS will be extended through January 16, 1995. Applications can now be provided and accepted by fax (412-648-1693) if a credit card is used. E-mail requests for postal mailing of applications will still be accepted but time is short. (billking@vms.cis.pitt.edu) Charter members will receive a certificate suitable for framing in February or March. The closing of the election of officers and council has been extended until February 15, 1995. Anyone who joined prior to December 18, 1995 and who has not received a numerically-coded ballot by January 15, 1995 should e-mail AIS to obtain one by fax. (It is necessary that a code number be placed on the ballot to ensure anonymity of voters and fairness in the election.) Ballots may be returned either by post or fax. In order to ensure security and anonymity, ballots cannot be obtained or submitted by e-mail. The inaugural Americas Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 25-27, 1995. A draft call for papers is available on the WWW at http://www.pitt.edu/~ais /meeting. A final call will be issued in January. Deadline for submission of information on proposed papers, panels, workshops, tutorials, etc. is April 1, 1995. AIS members from outside the Americas are, of course, welcome. A variety of innovative delivery mechanisms are planned for the conference. Although every submission will be reviewed and evaluated, the overall objective is to give members a wide range of opportunities to express and discuss research and teaching issues and ideas. Conferences in the Europe-Middle East-Africa region and the Asia Pacific region are being planned under the guidance of Henk Sol. Anyone interested in developing conferences in these world regions should contact him (sol@sepa.tudelft.nl) Henk G. Sol Systems Engineering Technische Bestuurskunde Jaffalaan 5 - PO Box 5015 2600 GA Delft The Netherlands AIS is interested in helping national, region and special interest groups to form or to further develop. A variety of relationships are possible ranging from formation as a subdivision of AIS that operates with a high level of autonomy to a strategic alliance between AIS and existing organization. The AIS Constitution provides for council seats for affiliated organizations. Anyone who wishes to organize a subdivision or propose an affiliation should contact Bill King. Our member solicitation coverage thus far has been weak in much of Africa, South America and those parts of Asia not well covered by the Singapore mailing list. Anyone who can provide the names and postal addresses of IS faculty and other interested parties in those areas, or anywhere that you believe is not well covered by the union of the Minnesota (North America), Singapore (Asia) and Copenhagen (Europe) mail lists should e-mail postal addresses to . Journals selected by members enrolled prior to December 18, 1995 will be mailed starting with the 1995 volume. Please note that the first 1995 issue of some journals may not be mailed until March. Those who indicated that they already were subscribers will have a one year extension of their existing subscription. We will endeavor to provide those who become members after December 18 with the entire 1995 volume as well. No action is necessary by members to receive their journals. Journals will be mailed by the publishers as a part of their normal service. AIS is operating on a bare bones budget that does not include funds to subsidize student reduced-rate memberships. Anyone who has any ideas on potential sources of grants for this purpose - totalling $15K(US) for the first year - should contact Bill King as many members believe that this is a crucial need. Comments and suggestions on any relevant topic are welcome. Send to: AIS Katz Graduate School of Business University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Fax: 412 648 1693 E-mail: billking@vms.cis.pitt.edu \EOA 0472* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ANNOUNCEMENT - Correction: not all errors are Pentium ones * * Dwight Haworth * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * In No 51, you carried a piece that prescribed using the Windows calculator function to detect Pentium calculation errors. The problem given was to subtract 2.00 from 2.01. This error will occur on 386 and 486 machines as well as the Pentium and has nothing to do with the much publicized Pentium error. Another, similar error that occurs with the Windows calculator is when 4.010 is subtracted from 4.011; the result is .009999999 out to whatever degree of accuracy the calculator is supposed to deliver These problems with the Windows calculator have long existed, but no one has pressed Microsoft to correct them. I know of no addition errors, but I would not use the Windows calculator to do my income taxes. Guest Editor's Note: Thank you for the correction. And thanks God I use a Mac. \EOA 0473* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ANNOUNCEMENT - Rights & Responsibilities Document * * Susan Kinney * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) is pleased to announce the availability of a new report entitled 'Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked Communities'. Given increasing public interest and concern over the behavior of people on electronic networks, the report seeks to illuminate, to question, and to articulate difficult issues that arise in this context, and thus to help to lay a foundation for a more informed public debate and discussion of the rights and responsibilities of those who operate in this domain. The report is based on a workshop and a public forum involving technologists, lawyers, policy analysts, network service providers, and network operators in the exploration of several hypothetical but plausible scenarios in four areas (free speech, electronic vandalism, intellectual property interests, and privacy). The report illustrates how disagreements in these areas are rooted in value judgements; for example, the extent to which continuity with past precedents is desirable. The report notes that these four areas have always been inherently contentious, but over time certain compromises and understandings have evolved that guide what people do when communicating via traditional media such as print, telephone, radio, and television. Today the proliferation of networking technology threatens this state of understanding because it changes the environment in which previous compromises were achieved, leading to a re-examination of the same fundamental issues. The report is available from the National Academy Press tel. (202) 334-3313 or 1-800-624-6242. It will also be available soon on the World Wide Web at http://www.nas.edu; via Gopher at gopher.nas.edu;and via FTP at ftp.nas.edu. The National Research Council is the principal operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. It is a private, non-profit institution that provides independent advice on science and technology issues under a congressional charter. CSTB addresses national scientific and policy issues in computing science, telecommunications, and computer technology and their applications. \EOA 0474* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CONFERENCE - Competitive Advantage of Networked Organizations * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Symposium: The Competitive Advantage of Networked Organizations January 22-24, 1995 Los Angeles, CA The symposium content is case-based, presented through an integration of theory and practice. The business cases will cover the emergence of social and work networks within and between organizations. The focus of the cases will be on improving the human side of reengineering, organizational learning, knowledge exchange, and cross-cultural communication. Attendees will learn how to 'see' what was formerly invisible in their organizations - the work relationships, information flows, personal networks, knowledge exchanges and decision-making processes that have emerged through the course of business. For more information contact: Grace Siao phone: (310) 825-2001 fax: (310) 206-7233 \EOA 0475* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS - Cognitive Technology Conference * * Kevin Cox, City University of Hong Kong * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * First International Cognitive Technology Conference 24-27 August 1995 City University of Hong Kong Cognitive Technology (CT) is the study of the interaction between people and the objects they manipulate. It is concerned with how technologically constructed tools/aids --bear on dynamic changes in human perception, --affect natural human communication, and --act to control human adaptation. Cognitive systems must be understood not only in terms of their goals and computational constraints but also in terms of the external physical and social environments that shape cognition. This can yield --technological solutions to real world problems, and --tools designed to be sensitive to the cognitive capabilities and affective characteristics of their users. CT takes a broader view of human capability than the current Human Computer Interface research and talks of putting more of the 'human' into the interface without attempting to simulate 'humanness' on machines. It is primarily concerned with how cognitive awareness in people may be amplified by technological means and considers the implications of such amplification on what it means to be human. The issues to be explored in this conference can be classified into three areas: 1) Research problems, --Establishing an integrated human/machine relationship in which the machine externalizes, extends, and amplifies human cognitive processes. --Examining the ways in which affective states relate to the effect of technological development on human thinking. --Studying sources of dissonance between technological process/production and human thought/emotion. 2) Process/product specification, --Safeguarding technological growth and development by identifying and eliminating dehumanizing hazards and potentially destructive implications early in the developmental process. --Empowering technology users to become more critical and proactive in considering the tools at their disposal. --Providing guidelines for responsibly presenting information so as to help the user "ask the right questions". 3) Joint research and process/product specification, --Focusing technological growth away from technology-driven and towards human-driven development. --Humanizing technological development from the inside out by placing our cognitive achievements and abilities into the technologies we develop. --Providing technology-based opportunities for the modelling, training, correction, and enhancement of various aspects of human behaviour. --Providing technological means to overcome handicaps, drudgery, fatigue, and any other barriers to human creativity and growth. Important dates: Deadline for abstracts: 15 Feb 1995 Notification of acceptance: 31 Mar 1995 Full paper: 31 May 1995 Discussion points deadline: 30 June 1995 Submissions and inquiries to: Kevin Cox, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong e-mail: cscoxk@cityu.edu.hk, fax: (852) 788 8614, tel: (852) 788 8604. \EOA 0476* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS - Information Technology and People * * Eleanor Wynn * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Information Technology & People is an interdisciplinary international journal. Volume 7 is now printing and will be shipped soon. It contains the following: Brian Bloomfield and Theo Vurdubakis of Manchester University put together an issue titled The Social and the Technical. Roger Clarke of Australian National University has assembled two issues, one dealing mainly with IT and surveillance, ant the other on various subjects by authors working in Australasia. The regular issue has a paper on the administrative and technical problems in running a CSCW network by John Bowers, Graham Dean and colleagues at Lancaster and Manchester; a paper on confounding effects of construct overlap in IS survey research by Zmud, Byrd et al, and "Dataveillance by Governments" by Roger Clarke. The journal's focus has been organizational issues in the design and implementation of IT with emphasis on innovative theory, case materials, methodological critique and carefully framed empirical studies. The main constituencies are IS academics/professionals and system developers working on alternative forms of practice. My editorial agenda has been that the complex issues of information technology don't fall easily into a single discipline, domain or paradigm. I feel strongly that computer scientists and IS academics need a common ground for reflection on overlapping concerns. As well, the constraints of varying national policies and political contexts affect the educational and development process, producing different priorities that affect large bodies of research. Correspondingly the journal has regularly published Scandinavian, British and other European material. My current effort is to draw from worldwide sources to make the journal truly international rather than only Transatlantic. This policy is reflected in the issues of Volume 7. Subscriptions and requests for sample copies or instructions to authors may be sent to MCB University Press 60/62 Toller Lane Bradford West Yorkshire England BD8 9BY Eleanor Wynn editor Information Technology & People 19363 Williamette Drive #500 West Linn OR 97068 email: wynn@applelink.apple.com \EOA 0477* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS - MIS Quarterly December 1994 * * Blake Ives * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Listed below are the articles included in the December, 1994 issue of MISQ. Abstracts for all of these articles our available on MISQ Central, the MIS Quarterly's WWW presence. The articles themselves will only be available from our offices via subscription to the journal. Our address on the WWW is http://www.cox.smu.edu/mis/misq/central.html . The new editor-in-chief of MISQ as of January 1, 1995 will be Robert Zmud of Florida State University (bzmud@postoffice.cob.fsu.edu). Bob is an accomplished scholar who has been a long time contributor to the MIS Quarterly and to the field of information systems. He also serves both as the research director for the Society for Information Management's (SIM) Advance Practices Council and as SIM's Vice President for Academic Relations. (SIM, along with the University of Minnesota, is the co-sponsor of the MIS Quarterly.) As you will see from our shared editor's statement in the December issue (at http://www.cox.smu.edu/mis/misq/archivist/vol/no18/issue4/edstat.html ), Bob shares my enthusiasm and that of our publisher, Jim Wetherbe, for pushing the MIS Quarterly cautiously but firmly towards electronic publishing and electronic submission and review. Table of Contents from the December, 1994 issue of MIS Quarterly: Perceptions of the Benefits from the Introduction of CASE: An Empirical Study Paul N. Finlay and Andrew C. Mitchell Competing Through EDI at Brun Passot: Achievements in France and Ambitions for the Single European Market Tawfik Jelassi and Olivier Figon. The Relationship Between User Participation and User Satisfaction: An Investigation of Four Contingency Factors James D. McKeen, Tor Guimaraes, and James C. Wetherbe Alignment of the IS Functions with the Enterprise: Towards a Model of Antecedents Carol V. Brown and Sharon L. Magill Conceptual Versus Procedural: Software Training for Graphical User Interfaces (GUI): A Longitudinal Field Experiment Lorne Olfman and Munir Mandviwalla Research Note: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the End-User Computing Satisfaction Instrument Doll, Xia, Torkzadea. Editor's Statement: ISWorld Net: Scholarly Infrastructure for Information Systems (full- text). For subscriptions, contact Susan Scanlan or visit our online subscription form at: http://www.mgmt.uga.edu/misq/misqsub.html Blake Ives 410C Fincher Building Phone: 214-768-4108 Fax: 214-768-4099 Edwin L. Cox School Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas 75275, USA WWW: http://www.cox.smu.edu/mis/blake.html ISWorld Net: http://www.cox.smu.edu/mis/iswnet/home.html \EOA 0478* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS - Information Systems Research, Vol 5, No 4 * * John L. King * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Contents of Information Systems Research, Volume 5, Number 4: Editorial Notes. Short Biographies of Associate Editor and Advisory Board Members. The Contradictory Structure of Systems Development Methodologies: Deconstructing the IS-User Relationship in Information Engineering Cynthia Mathis Beath and Wanda J. Orlikowski. Improving End-User Proficiency: Effects of Conceptual Training and Nature of Interaction. Radhika Santhanam and Maung K. Sein. What's Mine is Ours, or Is It? A Study of Attitudes about Information Sharing. David Constant, Sara Kiesler, and Lee Sproull User Participation, Conflict, and Conflict Resolution: The Mediating Roles of Influence. Henri Barki and Jon Hartwick. RESEARCH REPORT: Modeling Interpersonal Processes During System Development: Further Thoughts and Suggestions. Daniel Robey RESEARCH REPORT: Hypothesis Testing and Hypothesis Generating Research: An Example from User Participation Literature. Jon Hartwick and Henri Barki. \EOA 0479* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT - Assistant/Associate Professor * * Izak Benbasat * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The MIS Division at the faculty of Commerce, the University of British Columbia, is looking for a candidate to fill a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. The position is available July 1995. Candidates should have completed all PhD requirements by July 1995. Strong preference will be given to individuals with demonstrated research and teaching ability. Qualified candidates should send the following: --C.V. --Samples of research papers (at most three), of which one should be a short description of thesis (if currently working towards Ph.D. degree). --A list of at least three references. Please send materials to: Professor Yair Wand Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration The University of British Columbia Vancouver B.C. V6T 1Z2 Canada Phone: (604) 822 8395 Fax: (604) 822 9574 email: yair.wand@commerce.ubc.ca \EOA * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ABOUT INFOSYS * * INFOSYS is an electronic newsletter for faculty, students, and * * practitioners in the field of Information Systems. INFOSYS * * publishes news items, requests for assistance, calls for papers * * announcements of professional meetings and conferences, position * * announcements, journal table of contents, and other items of * * interest to the Information Systems community. * * * * INFOSYS is published biweekly, more frequently if volume requires * * it. INFOSYS operates as an electronic mailing list on listserv * * software at American University in Washington, DC. The editor is * * Dennis W. Viehland . 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