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Ph.D. Qualifier Topics & Reading List for CIS677

V3.2 - 12/22/2000
(URLs updated on 6/18/02)

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Topics

Notes:

Introduction to IS Principles & Information Structure of Organizations

Text: Zwass 1998 Ch. 1, 2, 8, 9, 12
Articles: Alter 1996; Gorry & Scott-Morton 1971; Huber 1982; (optional: Alter 1999)
Video: Lectures 1, and 2

Decision Making/Decision Support Systems

Text: Zwass 1998 Ch. 10
Articles: Ackoff 1967; Sprague 1980 ; Silver 1990
Video: Lecture 3

Human, Ethical and Societal Issues of IS

Text: Zwass 1998 Ch. 17
Articles: Shneiderman 2000; Smith & Hasnas 1999
Video: Lecture 4

Strategic IS and Business Process Support

Text: Zwass 1998 3, 13.1
Articles: Clemons & Row 1991 (full, part 1, part 2)
Video: Lecture 6

Information Theory

Text: Davis & Olsen Ch. 7 (on-line)
Articles: Daft & Lengel 1986; Bandyopadhyay 1977
Video: Lecture 7

Cognitive Aspects of Systems

Text: Davis & Olsen Ch. 8 (on-line)
Articles: Benbasat & Taylor 1983; Huber 1983; Robey 1983
Video: Lecture 8

Systems Concepts

Text: Zwass 1992 Ch. 10 (on-line)
Articles: Malone et al. 1987
Video: Lecture 9

Electronic Commerce

Text: Zwass 1998 Ch. 7 (optional: Dekleva 2000)
Articles: Kalakota & Whinston 1996; Bloth et al. 1996
Video: Lecture 10

Virtual Organizations; IT and Organizational Structure

Text: Zwass 1992 Ch. 12 (on-line)
Articles: Hitt & Brynjolfsson 1997; Mowshowitz 1994; {Walsham 1994 & Mowshowitz 1994};
Video: Lecture 11

Global IS

Text: Zwass: 1998 18
Articles: Ives et al. 1993
Video: Lecture 12

Reading List

Texts

[Ch. 7] [Ch. 8] Davis, Gordon, B. and Olson, Margrethe, H., Management Information Systems: Conceptual Foundations, Structure and Development, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1985.

Zwass, Vladimir, Foundations of Information Systems, Irwin/McGraw-Hill, Boston, 1998.

[Ch. 10] [Ch. 12] Zwass, Vladimir, Management Information Systems, W. C. Brown Publishers, 1992.

 

Articles

[Ackoff 1967] Ackoff, Russell L., "Management Misinformation Systems," Management Science, 14(4), 1967, 147-156.

[Alter 1996] Alter, Steven, Basic Ideas for Understanding Information Systems, in Information Systems: A Management Perspective, 2nd Edition, Benjamin Cummings, 1996, 1-9.

[Alter 1999] Alter, Steven, "A General, Yet Useful Theory of Information Systems," Communications of the Association for Information Systems 1, Article 13, 1999.

[Bandyopadhyay 1977] Bandyopadhyay, R., Information for Organizational Decision Making: A Literature Review, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Volume SMC-7(1), 1977.

[Benbasat & Taylor 1983] Benbasat, I., and Taylor, R. N., Behavioral Aspects of Information Processing for the Design of Management Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, July-August 1983, Volume SMC-12(4), 439-450.

[Bloth et al. 1996 - also WebBoard] Bloth, Michael, Pigneur Yves and Segev, Arie, Bloth M., Pigneur V., and Segev A. (1996), "Leveraging Electronic Commerce for Competitive Advantage: A Business Value Framework," Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on EDI-OIS, Bled, Slovenia, June 1996.
[on-line: http://inforge.unil.ch/yp/pub/road_EC/ec.htm]

[Clemons & Row 1991] Clemons, E. K. and M. C. Row. (1991) "Information Technology at Rosenbluth Travel: Competitive Advantage in A Rapidly Growing Global Service Company," Journal of MIS 8(2), 53-79.

[Daft & Lengel 1986] Daft, R. L., and Lengel, R. H., "Organizational Information Requirements, Media Richness and Structural Design," Management Science 32(5), 1986, 554-571.

[Dekleva 2000] Dekleva, Sasa, "Electronic Commerce: A Half Empty Glass?," Communications of the Association for Information Systems 3, Article 18, 2000.

[Gorry & Scott-Morton 1971] Gorry, A. and M. Scott-Morton, "A Framework for Management Information Systems," ...

[Hitt & Brynjolfsson 1997] Hitt, Lorin and Brynjolfsson, Erik, Information Technology and Internal Firm Organization: An Exploratory Analysis, Journal of Management Information Systems 14(2), Fall 1997, 81-101.

[Huber 1982] Huber, George, Organizational Information Systems: Determinants of their Performance and Behavior, Management Science 28(2), February 1982.

[Huber 1983] Huber, George, "Cognitive Style as a Basis for MIS and DSS Designs: Much Ado About Nothing?," Management Science 29(5), 1983, 567-579.

[Ives et al. 1993] Ives, Blake, Jarvenpaa, Sirrka and Mason, "Global Business Drivers: Aligning Information Technology to Global Business Strategy," IBM Systems Journal 32(1), 1993, 143-161.

[Malone et al. 1987] Malone, Thomas, Yates, Joanne and Benjamin, Robert I., "Electronic Markets and Electronic Hierarchies," Communications of the ACM 30(6), 1987, 484-497.

[Moshowitz 1994] Mowshowitz, Abbe, "Virtual Organization: A Vision of Management in the Information Age," The Information Society 10, 1994, 267-288.

[Shneiderman 2000] Shneiderman, Ben, "Universal Usability," Communications of the ACM 43(5), 2000, 84-91.

[Silver 1990] Silver, Mark, "Decision Support Systems: Directed and Non-Directed Change," Information Systems Research 1(1), March 1990, 47-70.

[Smith & Hasnas 1999] Smith, H. Jeff and Hasnas, John, "Ethics and Information Systems: The Corporate Domain," MIS Quarterly 23(1), March 1999, 109-127.

[Sprague 1980] Sprague, Ralph H. Jr., "A Framework for the Development of Decision Support Systems" MIS Quarterly 4(4), 1980, 1-26.

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