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Digital Integration: Understanding The Concept And Its Environmental Predictors, Ricardo M. Checchi Aug 2008

Digital Integration: Understanding The Concept And Its Environmental Predictors, Ricardo M. Checchi

Computer Information Systems Dissertations

This study investigates the impact of environmental factors on the decision to electronically integrate operations with international customers and/or suppliers. The following research question motivates the study: How does the environmental context affect the level of electronic integration of an organization with its international partners? This study elaborates on the concept of electronic integration. Studies on integration in general and electronic integration in particular adopt a loose definition of integration: they all agree in that integration is the opposite of markets, but they define this opposite in different terms: relationship contracting, long-term contracting, coordination, etc. Finally, the study also responds …


Managing The Tension Between Standardization And Customization In It-Enabled Service Provisioning: A Sensemaking Perspective, Mark O. Lewis Aug 2008

Managing The Tension Between Standardization And Customization In It-Enabled Service Provisioning: A Sensemaking Perspective, Mark O. Lewis

Computer Information Systems Dissertations

The outsourcing literature has offered a plethora of perspectives and models for understanding decision determinants and outcomes of outsourcing of business processes. While past studies have contributed significantly to scholarly research in this area, there are an insufficient number of studies that are provider centric. Consequently, there is a need to understand how service providers address a core challenge: to achieve scalable growth by developing standardized offerings that can be sufficiently customized to meet the unique demands of individual customers. This study explores how patterns of collective action within and between a provider and two of their largest customers relate …


Patient Monitoring Via Mobile Ad Hoc Network: Power Management, Reliability, And Delays, Sweta Sneha Jun 2008

Patient Monitoring Via Mobile Ad Hoc Network: Power Management, Reliability, And Delays, Sweta Sneha

Computer Information Systems Dissertations

ABSTRACT PATIENT MONITORING VIA MOBILE AD HOC NETWORK - MAXIMIZING RELIABILITY WHILE MINIMIZING POWER USAGE AND DELAYS BY SWETA SNEHA May 22nd, 2008 Committee Chair: Dr. Upkar Varshney Major Department: Computer Information Systems Comprehensive monitoring of patients based on wireless and mobile technologies has been proposed for early detection of anomalies, provision of prompt medical attention, and corresponding reduction in healthcare expenses associated with unnecessary hospitalizations and treatment. However the quality and reliability of patient monitoring applications have not been satisfactory, primarily due to their sole dependence on infrastructure-oriented wireless networks such as wide-area cellular networks and wireless LANs with …