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Health Information Systems Affordances: How The Materiality Of Information Technology Enables And Constrains The Work Practices Of Clinicians, Chad Anderson
Computer Information Systems Dissertations
The IT artifact is at the core of the information systems (IS) discipline and yet most IS research does not directly theorize the IT artifact or its nomological network (Benbasat and Zmud 2003; Orlikowski and Iacono 2001). This research seeks to answer a repeated call for more direct engagement with the IT artifact and its nomological net with affordance theory adopted as the basis for this theoretical work. An exploratory case study was conducted to answer the research question, how do the material properties of health information systems enable and constrain the work practices of clinicians? The study was …
Examining Scholarly Influence: A Study In Hirsch Metrics And Social Network Analysis, Hirotoshi Takeda
Examining Scholarly Influence: A Study In Hirsch Metrics And Social Network Analysis, Hirotoshi Takeda
Computer Information Systems Dissertations
This dissertation research is focused on how we, as researchers, ‘influence’ others researchers. In particular, I am concerned with the notion of what constitutes the ‘influence’ of a scholar and how ‘influence’ is conferred upon scholars. This research is concerned with the construct called ‘scholarly influence’. Scholarly influence is of interest because a clear “theory of scholarly influence” does not yet exist. Rather a number of surrogate measures or concepts that are variable are used to evaluate the value of one’s academic work. ‘Scholarly influence’ is broken down into ‘ideational influence’ or the influence that one has through publication and …