This last issue of volume 35 of Information Systems Management presents a diverse set of five articles that provide something of interest to our varied readership.
In the first article, “E-Government, Transparency & Reputation: An Empirical Study of Spanish Local Government,” authors Vicente López-López, Susana Iglesias-Antelo, Antonio Vázquez-Sanmartí, Regina Connolly, and Frank Bannister examine the interrelationship between e-government, transparency, and reputation in Spanish local government. The results show that the degree of transparency in a local authority influences the reputation of that authority and that transparency is influenced by the level of e-government service provided. In the next article, “Showrooming: An Empirical Investigation of Students’ Attitudes and Behavior,” authors Pola Gupta, David Burns, Hanna Bihn, and Jennifer Hutchins examine how young adult consumers with differing shopping orientations view showrooming. The results reveal that shopping perspectives affect the propensities to engage in showrooming activity and the perceived ethicality of doing so. The third article entitled “Mobile Technology and Business Process Performance: The Mediating Role of Collaborative Supply-Chain Capabilities,” by Michal Levi-Bliech, Gali Naveh, Nava Pliskin, and Lior Fink, proposes and tests a model to explain how mobile technology enables collaborative capabilities that enhance business process performance (BPP). The findings indicate that while mobile technology is positively associated with both external and internal collaborative capabilities, BPP improves the most when the development of internal capabilities precedes the development of external ones. The fourth article, “Post-Implementation ERP Usage: A Longitudinal Study of the Impact of Control and Empowerment,” by Jan-Bert Maas, Paul van Fenema, and Joseph Soeters, examines the extent to which behaviors of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) users change over time, influenced by perceived control, perceived empowerment, and work commitment at the individual level. The results reveal that users engage in different but coexisting usage behaviors, namely routinization and infusion, during the post-implementation phase of an ERP system. Finally, in the last of the five articles, entitled “The Impact of Technology Availability and Structural Guidance on Group Development in Workgroups Using Computer-Mediated Communication,” authors Russell Haines, Richard W. Scamell, and Jaymeen R. Shah, undertake two experiments to empirically evaluate how technology and structural guidance influence the development of workgroups using computer-mediated communication. The findings suggest that such workgroups develop over time in a manner similar to face-to-face groups, and that availability of technology does not have a lasting effect on group structure, and does not significantly affect the group development processes.
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