Scientific Publications in Information Systems (-2013): Recent submissions
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An Exploratory Approach for Benefits Management in e-Government : Insights from 48 Norwegian Government Funded Projects
(Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences; no. 41, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008)Efforts to improve governance and government functions through the use of information technology continue to draw considerable parts of the budgets of government agencies. To meet public and political demands for increased ... -
Managing benefits in the public pector. Surveying expectations and outcomes in Norwegian government agencies
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science;5184, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2008)Government agencies currently experience increasing pressure to document benefits from spending on eGovernment efforts. Hence, structured methods for benefits management (BM) are being developed. However, hardly any studies ... -
Genres of participation in social networking systems: A study of the 2009 Norwegian parliamentary election
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science;6229, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2010)In the Norwegian context, eParticipation in the form of online campaigning has been on the agenda since 2001. After Obama’s successful presidential campaign in 2008, expectations about the use of SNS in the Norwegian ... -
Challenges in information systems procurement in the Norwegian public sector
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science;6846, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)Public procurement of information systems (IS) and IS services provides several challenges to the stakeholders involved in the procurement processes. This paper reports initial results from a Delphi study, which involved ... -
Back-propagation artificial neural network for ERP adoption cost estimation
(Communications in Computer and Information Science;220, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) are greatly affected by cost escalations and overruns Reliable cost factors estimation and management is a key for the success of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems adoptions ... -
ERP lifecycle: When to retire your ERP system?
(Communications in Computer and Information Science;219, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)A lot of research has been undertaken focusing on ERP systems lifecycles, but very little paid attention to retirement. ERP retirement means the replacement of an ERP with another. The aim of this research paper is to ... -
The shape of eParticipation: Characterizing an emerging research area
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008)The phenomenon of eParticipation is receiving increasing attention, demonstrated by recent technology implementations, experiments, government reports, and research programs. Understanding such an emerging field is a complex ... -
Towards a cumulative tradition in e-Government Research: Going beyond the Gs and Cs
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science;4656, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2007)The emerging research area of e-Government is gradually moving towards a level of maturity on the back of increasingly rigorous empirical research. Yet, there has been little theoretical progress and a cumulative tradition ... -
Elaborating the WARE method for eParticipation requirements
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2010)eParticipation systems are often directly targeted at citizens. However, as a group of potential users, citizens form a heterogeneous and unpredictable group, which makes requirements elicitation a challenging issue. Based ... -
The support for different democracy models by the use of a web-based discussionboard
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science;3183, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2004)Different initiatives are initiated to utilize ICT to maintain and develop democracy. Democracy models are developed to explain differences between different democracies. This paper reports from a case study where a web-based ... -
The role of social networking services in eParticipation
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science;5694, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2009)A serious problem in eParticipation projects is citizen engagement – citizens do not necessarily become more willing to participate simply because net-services are provided for them. Most forms of eParticipation in democratic ... -
On the evolution of e-Government: The user imperative
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science;2739, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2003)This paper focuses the need for more research on user involvement and the investigation of stakeholders in e-Government initiatives. An investigation of existing work revealed a lack of research on those topics. As ... -
The Genre System Lens on E-Democracy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008)E-Democracy aims at enhancing citizen involvement in societal communication and decision making. However, the very ideals of democracy vary while reports of e-democracy in use have often left them undiscussed. Moreover, ... -
Democracy Squared: Designing On-Line Political Communities to Accommodate Conflicting Interests
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2005)On-line political communities, such as the Norwegian site Demokratitorget (Democracy Square), are often designed according to a set of un-reflected assumptions about the political interests of their potential members. In ... -
eParticipation: Designing and Managing Political Discussion Forums
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)eParticipation is the extension and transformation of participation in political deliberation and decision-making processes through information and communication technologies (ICTs). The most commonly found examples of ... -
Models of E-Democracy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006)Several theories of E-Democracy have been presented, and implementations of and experiments in E-Democracy emerged. However, existing literature on the subject appears rather non-comprehensive, lacking an integrated basis, ... -
Why benefits realization from ERP in SMEs doesn't seem to matter?
(Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences;44, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)It is often argued that IT investments require active management practices for benefits realization. This applies also to enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. As well, benefits realization efforts are assumed to ... -
ERP systems in SMEs: A literature review
(Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences;44, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)This review summarizes research on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). Due to the close-to-saturation of ERP adoptions in large enterprises (LEs), ERP vendors now focus ... -
The use of experts panels in ERP cost estimation research
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)This paper is an effort towards illustrating the use of expert panel (EP) as a mean of eliciting knowledge from a group of enterprise resource planning (ERP) experts as an exploratory research. The development of a cost ... -
Exploring knowledge work practices and evolution in distributed networks of practice
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)This paper derives from a longitudinal study conducted in a multinational company. Through an interpretive case study approach, we have explored the phenomenon of knowledge networking in distributed work. More specifically, ...