NEW ADVANCES IN THE SCIENCE OF DECISION MAKING:
Practical and relevant research from DSI, the field’s leading organization
- 14 OUTSTANDING PAPERS APPLYING RIGOROUS RESEARCH METHODS TO IMPORTANT SOCIETAL AND BUSINESS DECISION ENVIRONMENTS
- NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE IN STRATEGY, TACTICS, AND OPERATIONS
- FOR ALL DECISION MAKERS, AND ALL DECISION SCIENCE RESEARCHERS AND STUDENTS
More than 1,000 papers were submitted to the Decision Science Institute’s 2015 annual conference. This book presents the 14 papers chosen as most insightful and useful.
This peer-reviewed research addresses a richly diverse set of business topics, illuminating opportunities to improve decision making at strategic, tactical, and operational levels. Spanning analytics, information systems and technology, supply chain operations management, and other disciplines, these papers identify multiple opportunities for immediate and long-term performance improvement.
The authors address challenges ranging from talent management to lean transformation, mobile app marketing to corporate ethics, driving change to predicting stock prices. Their work reflects both the intellectual vibrancy of the discipline of decision science and its immense practical value.
Decision sciences research leads to improved decision outcomes. This volume brings together peer-reviewed papers chosen as “best of the best” by the field’s leading organization, the Decision Sciences Institute.
Authored by respected researchers worldwide, these papers were presented at DSI’s 46th Annual Meeting in Seattle. They describe new methods and approaches in the decision sciences, with a special focus on translating theoretical impact into practical relevance to improve decision making within business, public policy, non-profit organizations, and beyond.
- Assess willingness to learn ERP systems based on knowledge update and other factors
- Exploit application integration to improve ERP’s value after implementation
- Discover how mobile users decide whether to search for and adopt a new app
- Quantify links between absenteeism and hostile environment/sexual harassment
- Assess correlations between employee development and worker outcomes
- Explore perceptions of change, intentions to leave, and the role of cynicism
- Promote lean transformation by evolving HR performance management systems
- Understand how links between corporate ethical values and firm performance are mediated
- Bring a global sourcing perspective to issues of ethical consumption
- Improve quality by choosing practices with the best cultural fit
- Use Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and Bayesian Networks (BN) to predict diabetes
- Apply a comprehensive empirical framework for assessing patient care quality
- Promote sharing of clinical knowledge among a practice group’s physicians
- Forecast variable impacts in S&P 500 equity prices
Table of Contents:
Foreword xiii
Acknowledgments xv
About the Author xvii
Introduction xxi
Research Related to IT Design and Use
Chapter 1: Central Role of Knowledge Update in the ERP Training 1
mehdi darban, hongyan liang, dong-heon (austin) kwak, and mark srite
Abstract 1
Introduction 1
Theoretical Background 3
Expectation-Confirmation Model 4
Perceived Knowledge Update 4
Research Model and Hypotheses 5
Method 9
Discussion and Conclusion 13
References 15
About the Authors 19
Chapter 2: An Evaluation of the Relationship Between ERP-enabled Integration and ERP Benefit 21
joseph k. nwankpa and yaman roumani
Abstract 21
Introduction 21
Theoretical Development 23
Research Model and Hypotheses Development 26
Research Methods 31
Discussion and Implications 38
References 42
Appendix A 46
About the Authors 48
Chapter 3: Adopter-based Determinants of Effort in Mobile App Information Search 49
fengkun liu, alan a. brandyberry, mary hogue, greta polites, and tuo wang
Abstract 49
Background 49
Research Question and Motivation 54
Research Model 55
Hypothesis Development 55
Method 58
Results 60
Conclusions 64
References 65
About the Authors 67
Human Resource Management Research
Chapter 4: Absenteeism Outcomes in Rapport with Hostile Environment:Sexual Harassment 69
albi alikaj, prity patel, jacqueline mayfield and milton mayfield
Abstract 69
Introduction 69
Literature Review 71
Effect of Hostile Environment:Sexual Harassment on Absenteeism 74
Methodology 77
Results 81
Discussion 83
Research and Managerial Implications 83
Limitations and Areas for Future Research 84
Conclusion 84
Appendix 1: Scale Measures 84
References 88
About the Authors 89
Chapter 5: The Rapport Between Perceived Organizational Support for Development and Worker Outcomes 91
cau ngoc nguyen, jacqueline mayfield and milton mayfield
Abstract 91
Introduction 91
Literature Review 92
Methodology 96
Results 100
Discussion and Conclusions 101
Appendix 1 103
References 105
About the Authors 109
Chapter 6: Employee Change Perceptions and Turnover Intentions: Is Cynicism the Culprit? 111
anju mehta
Abstract 111
Introduction 111
Theoretical Background and Hypotheses Development 113
Method 117
Results 119
Discussion 120
Implications for Research and Practice 121
Scope and Boundary Conditions 122
References 123
About the Author 127
Chapter 7: Exploring Human Resource Management Systems and Lean Transformation 129
david a. marshall and thomas j. goldsby
Abstract 129
Introduction 129
Theoretical Background and Hypotheses Development 130
Methodology 132
Discussion and Conclusion 139
References 140
About the Authors 144
Ethics and Culture
Chapter 8: Corporate Ethical Values and Firm Performance 145
kuo-ting hung, chanchai tangpong and jin li
Abstract 145
Introduction 145
Theoretical Arguments and Hypotheses 146
Research Methods 148
Data Analyses and Results 149
Discussion and Conclusion 150
References 151
About the Authors 153
Chapter 9: A Global Sourcing Perspective of Ethical Consumption in the United States 155
robert l. bregman and xiaosong (david) peng
Abstract 155
Introduction 155
Research Foundations 156
Research Proposition and Hypotheses 157
Research Design 160
Discussion of Results 162
Conclusions and Directions for Future Research 166
References 167
About the Authors 170
Chapter 10: Quality Management Practices Must Culturally Fit 171
canchu lin and anand s. kunnathur
Abstract 171
Introduction 171
Literature Review 172
Propositions 176
Conclusion 179
References 180
About the Authors 185
Healthcare Management
Chapter 11: Predicting the Occurrence of Diabetes using Analytics 187
ravi s. behara, ankur agarwal, vinaya rao, and christopher baechle
Abstract 187
Introduction 187
Literature Review 188
Model Development 190
Results and Discussion 190
Conclusions 192
References 192
About the Authors 193
Chapter 12: Dimensions of Patient Care Quality: An Empirical Framework 195
subhajit chakraborty and hale kaynak
Abstract 195
Introduction 195
Literature Review 196
Methods 197
Results 200
Discussion and Conclusions 205
References 207
About the Authors 210
Chapter 13: Sharing Clinical Knowledge Among Physicians in the Same Specialty Practice Group 213
yulong li and john lowe
Abstract 213
Introduction 213
Theoretical Development and Research Model 216
Planned Research Method 220
Conclusion 220
References 220
About the Authors 221
Forecasting
Chapter 14: Variable Impact in S&P 500 Forecasts: 2004 to 2015 223
mary malliaris
Abstract 223
Introduction 223
Data 224
Models and Results 226
Discussion and Conclusions 234
References 236
About the Author 236
Index 237
About the Author :
Merrill Warkentin, Volume Editor
Merrill Warkentin is Professor of MIS and the Drew Allen Endowed Fellow in the College of Business at Mississippi State University, where he is also a member of the research staff of the Center for Computer Security Research (CCSR) and the Distributed Analytics and Security Institute (DASI). He has published over 250 manuscripts, including 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, plus 10 research volumes or books. His work has been cited almost 9,000 times and his H-index is 25, according to Google Scholar in 2015. He has been ranked among the top 100 IS scholars in the world based on rankings of authors publishing in the AIS Senior Scholar’s basket of leading MIS journals. His research, on the impacts of organizational, contextual, situational, and dispositional factors on individual user behaviors in the context of information security and privacy, addresses security policy compliance and violation and social media use, and has appeared in such journals as MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Journal of the AIS, European Journal of Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Information & Management, Information Systems Journal, Communications of the ACM, Communications of the AIS, The DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, Computers & Security, Information Resources Management Journal, Journal of Organizational and End User Computing, Journal of Global Information Management, and others.
Dr. Warkentin is currently an Associate Editor (AE) of MIS Quarterly, Information & Management, Information Resources Management Journal, and the Journal of Information Systems Security, and has previously served as an AE of Decision Sciences, Information Systems Research, European Journal of Information Systems, and other journals. He is the Eminent Area Editor for MIS for Decision Sciences and Senior Editor of AIS Transactions on Replication Research. He is Program Co-Chair for AMCIS2016 and has held leadership positions for numerous international IS conferences, including Track Chair for Security and Privacy at AMCIS2015 (Puerto Rico), ICIS2013 (Milan), ECIS2012 (Barcelona), and DSI2008; Program Chair for WISE2007 and WISP2009; Program Chair for the 2009 IFIP Workshop on IS Security Research; AE at ICIS four times (Security Track); Track Chair at DSI three times (Security Track in 2008); and Program Committee member of over twenty international conferences (IFIP, WISP, WEB, WITS, ICEIS, etc.). Dr. Warkentin is the Chair of the UN-sponsored IFIP Working Group on Information Systems Security Research (WG8.11/11.13) and the AIS Security Coordinator. He has guest-edited several journal special issues, including two issues of EJIS. He has served as Special SE for manuscripts at MISQ. He also currently serves on several additional journal editorial boards.
Dr. Warkentin has served as a consultant to numerous companies and organizations, and has been a featured speaker at almost two hundred industry association meetings, executive development seminars, and academic conferences. He has been a Lecturer at the Army Logistics Management College and was named a “National Distinguished Lecturer” by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He has been a visiting professor or an invited speaker at over 25 universities around the world, including Georgia State, Indiana, LSU, Florida State, Clemson, USF, Copenhagen Business School, McMaster, Fudan, Oulu, Jyväskylä, Zhejiang, Cape Town, and others. He has earned various recognitions for his teaching at every level from introductory
