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Linux Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) is one of the most commonly deployed hyper visor drivers in the IaaS layer of cloud computing ecosystems. The hyper visor provides a full-virtualization environment that intends to virtualize as much hardware and systems as possible, including CPUs, network interfaces and chipsets. With KVM, heterogeneous operating systems can be installed in Virtual Machines (VMs)...
Cloud Computing technologies are gaining increased attention both in academia and practice. Despite of its relevance and potential for more IT flexibility and its beneficial effects on costs, legal uncertainties regarding the data processing especially between large economies still exist on the customer and provider side. Against this background, this contribution aims at providing an overview of...
Despite the progress that has been made in understanding acceptance and resistance, there remains a need to further investigate the nature of these core IS constructs. Our review and analysis of the literature on acceptance and resistance leads us to suggest that these are multidimensional constructs that are associated with a complex mix of behavioral manifestations. We argue that acceptance and...
Process-driven data quality management, which allows sustaining data quality improvements within and beyond the IS domain, is increasingly important. The emphasis on and the integration of data quality into process models allows for a detailed, context-specific definition as well as understanding of data quality (dimensions) and, thus, supports communication across stakeholders. Extant process modeling...
It still remains unclear whether the decision to outsource IT is governed by rule of efficiency or from institutional constraints imposed by the state and the professions in order to gain legitimacy through institutional isomorphism. Our analysis is based on a unique data set that contains all first-time decisions of publicly listed German firms to engage in large-scale IT outsourcing between 1990...
The objective of this study is to identify factors that help firms develop an IT capability reputation, and to evaluate whether markets value a firm's ability to develop and sustain IT reputation. Building on the IT strategic leadership and corporate reputation literature, we argue that congruity in the background or hierarchical proximity between CEO and senior IT executive increases the likelihood...
Principles of agile information systems development (ISD) have attracted the interest of practice as well as research. The goal of this literature review is to validate, update and extend previous reviews in terms of the general state of research on agile ISD. Besides including categories such as the employed research methods and data collection techniques, the importance of theory is highlighted...
Positivism, in defining what it means by "explanation," leads to certain requirements for theory to satisfy. We refer to explanation as defined in the positivist philosopher Carl G. Hempel's deductive-nomological model of explanation. The requirements pertain to the operationalization of a theory, the precision with which a theory needs to be stated, and the composition of a theory. Researchers...
Theory identity is a fundamental problem for researchers seeking to determine theory quality, create theory ontologies and taxonomies, or perform focused theory-specific reviews and meta-analyses. We demonstrate a novel machine-learning approach to theory identification based on citation data and article features. The multi-disciplinary ecosystem of articles which cite a theory's originating paper...
Open Source Software (OSS) development is distributed across actors and artifacts and involves translating diffuse representations into distinct sets of contiguous code artifacts. Despite the highly distributed and dynamic nature of OSS development, it is often described in unitary, monolithic terms - an unfortunate situation which masks considerable variance across OSS development processes. Therefore...
Agile software development is known by focusing on interaction among team members to share knowledge. However, little guidance is provided to encourage interaction across agile teams. Based on a preliminary conceptual model, this paper examines influencing factors, such as organizational strategy, and communication flow and channels, regarding inter-team knowledge sharing (KS) effectiveness in agile...
Advocates of agile information systems development methods originally called for implementation of the method in full - either perform all of the method's practices, or don't call it "agile". Over time this quest for orthodoxy was replaced by the pragmatic tailoring of agile methods to the organization's environment. However, little empirical research has investigated the forces that impact...
Information systems projects nowadays often affect more stakeholders than before and the range of users is also more versatile. Thus, a need for a fine-grained conceptualization of involved actors, including users and developers as well as various other affected stakeholder groups, has been identified in the literature. Some studies have already discussed participatory processes for information infrastructure...
Contemporary organizations frequently seek external and specialized partners to outsource some of their non-core, though highly complex tasks, including their information systems. In literature, a variety of outsourcing risk factors which lead to unsuccessful project outcomes have been identified. Despite many remedies suggested by practitioners and scholars to mitigate these risk factors, empirical...
Disagreements between television networks or channels like AMC or Viacom, and media distributors like Comcast or DISH are endemic. In this research, we study the nature of contractual relationship between the television networks and media distributors in a multilayered two-sided framework to explain why carriage disputes (which are obviously non-equilibrium outcomes) have become so common in the current...
This article examines how different social media platforms affect opinion composition and evolution. We differentiate between product and non-product oriented outlets as they differ in the salience of social cues, thus resulting in distinct user behaviours. We extend prior research in several ways. First, comparing between comments from different types of social media platforms, we show that the product...
Digital platforms are re-shaping organizations and markets. In particular, telecommunication companies are challenged to control digital platforms and to engage generative ecosystems. In order to provide a point of departure for future research, we conduct an explorative case study analysis to determine the state of the art of business models of telecommunication operators' developer platforms. The...
Business model innovation comprises many theoretical models, frameworks and methodologies, however, there is still little in the way of digital support for them using Computer Aided Design software. In this paper, we present an analysis of real-world usage data from the first generation of such tools that were designed to support the business model canvas. We first present how two artifacts implement...
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