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Supply Chain Design, Operational Capabilities, And Firm Performance: The Role Of Internal And External Environment, Kuldeep Singh Aug 2018

Supply Chain Design, Operational Capabilities, And Firm Performance: The Role Of Internal And External Environment, Kuldeep Singh

Information Systems & Operations Management Dissertations

Supply chain agility has been the cornerstone of research in supply chain management field. Despite the benefits associated with pursuing agile supply chain strategy, little is known about how the agile supply chain strategy stimulate better performance for the firms. Also, there is a lack of understanding of the conditions under which agile supply chain strategy impacts the performance. Through the theoretical lens of strategy, structure, performance paradigm, knowledge-based view, and contingency theory, this research examines the linkages from agile supply chain strategy to mass customization capability (MCC), and operational ambidexterity (OA). This study also examines the association between MCC, …


Intellectual Structure Of Business Analytics And Data Driven Insights For Information Security Breaches, Rahul Dwivedi Aug 2018

Intellectual Structure Of Business Analytics And Data Driven Insights For Information Security Breaches, Rahul Dwivedi

Information Systems & Operations Management Dissertations

Recent decades have exhibited phenomenal surges in not only in the amount of data generated globally but also in the methods used for analyzing data. Cybersecurity breaches have also increased in recent years. This dissertation explores these two important trends and topics in the information systems discipline: analytics and information security. In the first essay, I use a data science approach—analyzing research articles published in eight journals—to study the intellectual structure of business analytics (BA) within the information systems research community by analyzing research articles published in IS senior scholar’s basket of eight journals. I employ citation count to identify …


Three Essays On Adoption And Continuous Improvement Of Information Security Management In Organizations, Fereshteh Ghahramani Jul 2018

Three Essays On Adoption And Continuous Improvement Of Information Security Management In Organizations, Fereshteh Ghahramani

Information Systems & Operations Management Dissertations

In information intensive organizations secured management of information has become an important issue. Although organizations have been actively investing on information security, crime rate in this area keep increasing. Practitioners and academics have started to realize that information security cannot be achieved through only technological tools. Effective organizational information security depends on how to manage such activities in organizations. Empirical research on the management side of information security behaviors and factors influencing them is still in its infancy. The aim of this three essay dissertation is to focus on adoption and continuous improvement of information security management practices in organizations …


Task-Representation Fit’S Impact On Cognitive Effort In The Context Of Decision Timeliness And Accuracy: A Cognitive Fit Perspective, Dinko Bacic, Raymond M. Henry Jan 2018

Task-Representation Fit’S Impact On Cognitive Effort In The Context Of Decision Timeliness And Accuracy: A Cognitive Fit Perspective, Dinko Bacic, Raymond M. Henry

Business Faculty Publications

Cognitive fit theory (CFT) has emerged as a dominant theoretical lens to explain decision performance when using data representations to solve decision making tasks. Despite the apparent consensus regarding cognitive effort's theoretical criticality in CFT-based research, researchers have made limited attempts to evaluate and empirically measure cognitive effort and its impact. Unlike prior CFT-based literature that has theorized only the role of cognitive effort, in our empirical study, we presented information and tasks to 68 participants and directly measured cognitive effort to understand how cognitive fit impacts it and how it impacts decision performance. We found that 1) cognitive fit …