Summary & Comments on Benbasaat, I. "The Effects of Trust-Assuring Arguments on Consumer Trust in Internet Stores: Application of Toulmin's Model "

Trust - willingness to be vulnerable

This is an interesting idea. But do we take it like this in our daily lives as well! ... in INFOSEC it is said that 'trust but verify'. So when it comes to business do we go by the INFOSEC way or not?

Articles for Friday

Here are some articles for Friday review:

Banker, R., Bardhan, I., & Asdemir, O. (2006, December). Understanding the Impact of Collaboration Software on Product Design and Development. Information Systems Research, 17(4), 352-373. Retrieved March 17, 2009, from Business Source Premier database.

Benbasaat, I. The Effects of Trust-Assuring Arguments on Consumer Trust in Internet Stores: Application of Toulmin's Model of Argumentation. (2006, September). Information Systems Research, Retrieved March 17, 2009, from Business Source Premier database.

Studying Knowledge Management in Information Systems Research: Discourses and Theoretical Assumptions
Ulrike Schultze and Dorothy E. Leidner
MIS Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Sep., 2002), pp. 213-242 (article consists of 30 pages)
Published by: Management Information Systems Research Center, University of Minnesota
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4132331

Palvia, Prashant; Mao, En; Salam, A.F.; and Soliman, Khalid S. (2003) "Management Information Systems Research: What's There in a Methodology?," The Communications of the Association for Information Systems: Vol. 11, Article 16.
Available at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol11/iss1/16


A paradigmatic and methodological examination of information systems research from 1991 to 2001
Authors: Chen W.1; Hirschheim R.2
Source: Information Systems Journal, Volume 14, Number 3, July 2004 , pp. 197-235(39)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing


I will also try to send you pdf copies of these articles.

MIS Articles Search - My choices

Media Richness

1. An Investigation of Media Selection Among Directors and Managers: From "Self" to "Other" Orientation

MIS Quarterly; Sep98, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p335-362, 28p, 2 graphs

(http://web.ebscohost.com/bsi/detail?vid=11&hid=109&sid=f59d314f-3869-4eca-ac5a-b0b92da1ad29%40sessionmgr102&bdata=JnNpdGU9YnNpLWxpdmU%3d#db=buh&AN=1205189)

2. Communication Richness in Electronic Mail: Critical Social Theory and the Contextuality of Meaning.

MIS Quarterly; Jun97, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p145-167, 23p, 6 color

(http://web.ebscohost.com/bsi/detail?vid=27&hid=105&sid=f59d314f-3869-4eca-ac5a-b0b92da1ad29%40sessionmgr102&bdata=JnNpdGU9YnNpLWxpdmU%3d#db=buh&AN=9708156172)

Media Choices

3. COMMUNICATION MEDIA REPERTOIRES: DEALING WITH THE MULTIPLICITY OF MEDIA CHOICES

MIS Quarterly; Jun2007, Vol. 31 Issue 2, p267-293, 27p, 6 charts, 2 diagrams

(http://web.ebscohost.com/bsi/detail?vid=22&hid=113&sid=f59d314f-3869-4eca-ac5a-b0b92da1ad29%40sessionmgr102&bdata=JnNpdGU9YnNpLWxpdmU%3d#db=buh&AN=24838224)

Computer Mediated Communication

4.CYBERGATE: A DESIGN FRAMEWORK AND SYSTEM FOR TEXT ANALYSIS OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION

MIS Quarterly; Dec2008, Vol. 32 Issue 4, p811-837, 28p, 12 charts, 9 diagrams, 2 graphs

(http://web.ebscohost.com/bsi/detail?vid=27&hid=106&sid=f59d314f-3869-4eca-ac5a-b0b92da1ad29%40sessionmgr102&bdata=JnNpdGU9YnNpLWxpdmU%3d#db=buh&AN=34960474)

5. MEDIA AND GROUP COHESION: RELATIVE INFLUENCES ON SOCIAL PRETENSE, TASK PARTICIPATION, AND GROUP CONSENSUS.

MIS Quarterly; Sep2001, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p371-390, 20p, 2 diagrams

(http://web.ebscohost.com/bsi/detail?vid=27&hid=4&sid=f59d314f-3869-4eca-ac5a-b0b92da1ad29%40sessionmgr102&bdata=JnNpdGU9YnNpLWxpdmU%3d#db=buh&AN=6401419)

6. Computer-Mediated Collaborative Learning: An Empirical Evaluation

MIS Quarterly; Jun94, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p159-174, 16p, 4 charts, 1 diagram, 2 graphs

(http://web.ebscohost.com/bsi/detail?vid=27&hid=4&sid=f59d314f-3869-4eca-ac5a-b0b92da1ad29%40sessionmgr102&bdata=JnNpdGU9YnNpLWxpdmU%3d#db=buh&AN=9503310362)

Special Entry

7. HOW MUCH BANDWIDTH IS ENOUGH? A LONGITUDINAL EXAMINATION OF MEDIA CHARACTERISTICS AND GROUP OUTCOMES

MIS Quarterly; Dec99, Vol. 23 Issue 4, p557-579, 23p, 1 diagram

(http://web.ebscohost.com/bsi/detail?vid=27&hid=116&sid=f59d314f-3869-4eca-ac5a-b0b92da1ad29%40sessionmgr102&bdata=JnNpdGU9YnNpLWxpdmU%3d#db=buh&AN=3068210)

Lets get it going

I expected to see some posts here, especially related to the last session, but found none. So lets start by recalling some of the discussion that has already taken place. The 'big' question is what is IS research? What characterizes it? How do we carry out worthwhile IS research? To answer these questions we need to debate and discuss what we see in the IS arena. As a first thought let me say that IS research is not much different from other research in its objective of understanding phenomena of interest. To me, for IS these include design and use of information systems and the interaction effects of IT and society. By interaction effects I mean/assume that IT affects organization and society by transforming and extending them and in the process suffering the same fate. That is to say that the appropriation of technology in effect transforms it and in a way redesigns it. And this bidirectional influence continues upwards as a double helix of evolution - of organization as well as IT. IS researchers have tried to contribute to and track this evolution by utilizing myriad theoretical lenses and employing a host of methodological approaches. What theories have been used, what new theories have evolved and what methods belong to the IS researcher's toolkit are some of the questions that need to be looked at for answering the 'big' question. Last but not least, we need to look at some of the topics, i.e phenomena that currently hold sway on researcher's imagination.

Purpose and Intent

I am starting this blog with the intent to debate on-going and current issues in IS research community. Initialy, Dr. Zaheer and Mr. Irfan Nabi will be contributing authors along me to this forum but I expect it to evolve over time.