The information systems profession: myth or reality?

Orlikowski, Wanda J.; Baroudi, Jack J.

doi:10.1108/eb022652

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“…More recently, Wynekoop and Walz [78] compared personality characteristics of IT professionals to population norms and found that IT professionals were more ambitious, logical, and conservative. Research has found that members of the IT workforce possess unique attitudes, interests, sense of identity, and work consciousness [57].…”

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Advancement, voluntary turnover and women in IT: A cognitive study of work–family conflict

Armstrong

Riemenschneider

Allen

et al. 2007

Information & Management

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Advancement, voluntary turnover and women in IT: A cognitive study of work–family conflict

Armstrong

Riemenschneider

Allen

et al. 2007

Information & Management

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“…Because the people drawn to a particular career can exhibit certain behaviour (Orlikowski, 1988(Orlikowski, , 1989Pettigrew, 1973;Schein, 1996a, b;Simpson et al, 2001;Van Maanen & Barley, 1984;Winroth, 2002), it stands to reason that in the teaching of engineers an approach particular to engineers may be valid, especially as an individual's need for identity is strong (Giddens, 1991). This need for identity may be derived through occupation (Van Maanen & Barley, 1984), ownership of skill or knowledge (Pierce, Dirks, & Kostova, 2001) in light of a perceived competitive environment (Boyce, 1999).…”

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Programming for the Internet and Experiential Learning: a New Approach Incorporating a Constructed World

Taylor

2006

Int J Technol Des Educ

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This paper reports on a novel approach taken by the author to the teaching of an Internet programming course targeted at final year diploma and second year degree students. The uniqueness of engineers and their identity is discussed, as is the self-constructed world and ways of knowing in which humankind operates. The novel approach to teaching a software-coding course, and this course's underlying philosophies of learning, the approach taken in class-contact time, and the methods of interaction with the students are presented, along with the conventional structure, quantitative measures, outline, and assessment of the course. The effects and observations of approaches employed are discussed, and the quantitative outputs achieved are presented alongside the unquantifiable impressions, comments and positive feedback.

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“…The debate in marketing research and other disciplines extends to methodological issues which reflect the dichotomy of quantitative (positivistic) vs. qualitative (relativistic) approaches (Coviello, 1999). For example, Hunt (1991, p.398) seems to promote the former orientation but is led to conclude that "no single philosophy dominates marketing", a conclusion supported by Orlikowski and Baroudi (1989) in their examination of 155 information systems research articles published from 1983 to 1988. This debate highlights two key issues.…”

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Conceptualising fun in mobile commerce environments

Davis

2010

IJMC

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Consumers use mobile commerce services to hedonically experience 'fun'. This research explores what consumer-oriented service strategies have been adopted to enhance the fun experience. This research is a case study using grounded theory to develop the conceptual model, represented by 15 propositions, suggesting that attention be focused in three areas; content, social and self orientations. The first, relates to the way in which the service is constructed or the service content orientation. Secondly, the personal nature of the medium focuses attention on the consumer's social orientation. Finally, the consumers' self orientation. Managerial and research implications are discussed.Keywords: fun; hedonic; mobile commerce; conceptual; case study; mobile communication. IntroductionThe purpose of this research is to explore the consumer's experience of fun in mobile commerce (mcommerce) service environments (Laukkanen and Lauronen, 2005;Park, 2006). This is because such services have rapidly become an important aspect of consumers' daily consumption behaviour (Pantzar, 2003; Davis and Sajtos, 2008). Many researchers, such as Kumar (2004), have projected exponential growth in mobile phone users (Barnes, 2002b) and the m-commerce market (Siau et al., 2001; Ghosh and Swaminatha, 2001;Ingram, 2001;Sliwa, 2001; Siemens Mobile Marketing Intelligence Department, 2002; Barnes, 2002a). While this growth has been attributed to the utilitarian versatility of such services and technological advancements that give consumers the ability to conduct complex transactions ubiquitously, little attention has been given to other factors, such as those that are related to the consumer's hedonistic desire to use m-commerce services (AlShaali and Varshney, 2005) and experience fun intrinsically. For example, customers who routinely engage in mobile banking (Zarifopoulos and Economides, 2009) may also be interactive with the banking brand by using their mobile messaging service to respond to a campaign. In essence, while engaging in telic-serious goal-directed behaviours (e.g., checking an account balance) they can also experience the paratelic-fun of the brand. Experiencing fun is important for consumers as it creates a state of enjoyment that can be described as the subjective feeling that is the physiological response to the cognitive evaluation of the service experience (Stratton and Hayes, 1999, p.90).Some researchers have begun to explore the consumers' hedonistic desire to experience the fun associated with using m-commerce services and its implications for existing practice (Agarwal and Karahanna, 2000; Barwise and Strong, 2002). They conclude that consumers' need to experience fun to alleviate the boredom associated with repetitive tasks, to enhance entertainment needs (Pantzar, 2003) and support peer-to-peer communications, interactivity or personalisation (Barnes and Scornavacca, 2004). Corporations such as Xbox and 20th Century Fox have begun to couple m-commerce services with other channels of communication (e.g....

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The information systems profession: myth or reality?

Cited by 65 publications

References 28 publications

Advancement, voluntary turnover and women in IT: A cognitive study of work–family conflict

Advancement, voluntary turnover and women in IT: A cognitive study of work–family conflict

Programming for the Internet and Experiential Learning: a New Approach Incorporating a Constructed World

Conceptualising fun in mobile commerce environments

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