Maryam Alavi

• Georgia Institute of Technology

In this editorial, revisiting Alavi and Leidner (2001) as a conceptual lens, we consider the organizational implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) from a knowledge management (KM) perspective. We examine how GenAI impact the processes of knowledge creation, storage, transfer, and application, highlighting both the opportunities...

International studies point out that some freshwater policy objectives are not achieved. This study describes that this is in part caused by shortcomings that include: the lack of targeted monitoring schemes to measure impact; a too small range of specific technologies rather than a wider suite of integrated multiple technologies; a too tight focus...

The information age is upon us. A few clicks of a mouse button provide instant access to everything from current stock prices to video clips of current movies, with millions of bytes of information in between. Like the steam engine helped the transition into the industrial age, information technology is fueling the transition into the information a...

Information technology can serve as a significant catalyst for organizational change. Implementation of technology continues to be a challenge for all companies. In the past, organizations saw technology implementation as a discrete occasional task, only occurring during the time when the organization installed new technology or upgraded the existi...

Recent years have witnessed the rapid proliferation and widespread adoption of a new class of information technologies, commonly known as social media. Researchers often rely on social network analysis (SNA) in attempting to understand these technologies, often without considering how the novel capabilities of social media platforms might affect th...

Recent years have witnessed the rapid proliferation and widespread adoption of a new class of information technologies, commonly known as social media. Researchers often rely on social network analysis (SNA) in attempting to understand these technologies, often without considering how the novel capabilities of social media platforms might affect...

This chapter provides a perspective on organizations as knowledge systems and describes the four underlying knowledge management processes: knowledge creation, knowledge storage and retrieval, knowledge transfer, and knowledge application. An overview of various categories of Web 2.0 technologies and case examples of their applications in support o...

IT is viewed as integral to achieving substantial quality and efficiency improvements in U.S. healthcare delivery and management. A key idea behind these suggestions is the use of IT to support knowledge management to enhance and facilitate evidence-based clinical decision-making. Yet, it is not clear to what extent IT-enabled knowledge management...

Knowledge management (KM) approaches have been broadly considered to entail either a focus on organizing communities or a focus on the process of knowledge creation, sharing, and distribution. While these two approaches are not mutually exclusive and organizations may adopt aspects of both, the two approaches entail different challenges. Some organ...

Knowledge management approaches have been broadly considered to entail either a focus on organizing communities or a focus on the process of knowledge creation, sharing, and distribution. While these two approaches are not mutually exclusive and organizations may adopt aspects of both, the two approaches entail different challenges. Some organizati...

Knowledge management approaches have been broadly considered to entail either a focus on organizing communities or a focus on the process of knowledge creation, sharing, and distribution. While these two approaches are not mutually exclusive and organizations may adopt aspects of both, the two approaches entail different challenges. Some organizati...

Information systems (IS) researchers have typically examined the user-system relationship as an isolated dyad between a single, independent user and an individual, freestanding information system. We argue that this conceptualization does not adequately represent most organizations today, in which multiple users interact with multiple information s...

Knowledge management (KM) approaches have been broadly considered to entail either a focus on organizing communities or a focus on the process of knowledge creation, sharing, and distribution. While these two approaches are not mutually exclusive and organizations may adopt aspects of both, the two approaches entail different challenges. Some organ...

Knowledge management (KM) approaches have been broadly considered to entail either a focus on organizing communities or a focus on the process of knowledge creation, sharing, and distribution. While these two approaches are not mutually exclusive and organizations may adopt aspects of both, the two approaches entail different challenges. Some organ...

Knowledge management approaches have been broadly considered to entail either a focus on organizing communities or a focus on the process of knowledge creation, sharing, and distribution. While these two approaches are not mutually exclusive and organizations may adopt aspects of both, the two approaches entail different challenges. Some organizati...

Knowledge management (KM) approaches have been broadly considered to entail either a focus on organizing communities or a focus on the process of knowledge creation, sharing, and distribution. While these two approaches are not mutually exclusive and organizations may adopt aspects of both, the two approaches entail different challenges. Some organ...

Knowledge management approaches have been broadly considered to entail either a focus on organizing communities or a focus on the process of knowledge creation, sharing, and distribution. While these two approaches are not mutually exclusive and organizations may adopt aspects of both, the two approaches entail different challenges. Some organizati...

Knowledge management approaches have been broadly considered to entail either a focus on organizing communities or a focus on the process of knowledge creation, sharing, and distribution. While these two approaches are not mutually exclusive and organizations may adopt aspects of both, the two approaches entail different challenges. Some organizati...

Knowledge management to facilitate the creation, storage, transfer, and application of knowledge in organizations has received wide attention in practice and research in the past several years. Often cited as a significant challenge in knowledge management practices is the issue of organizational culture. Although many studies raise the issue of or...

This study investigates the effects of information technology (IT) on exploration and exploitation in organizational learning (OL). We use qualitative evidence from previously published case studies of a single organization to extend an earlier computational model of organizational learning (March 1991) by introducing IT-enabled learning mechanisms...

Virtual organizations and networked organizations consist of individuals collaborating and working from physically dispersed locations and thus rely on virtual teams for obtaining member participation and coordinating individual effort in productive work. Virtual teams are teams that rarely meet in person but interact over an extended period of tim...

Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALNs), a form of elearning, use computer-mediated communication to sup-port the delivery of courses in which anytime, anywhere access to interactions among the students and between the instructor/facilitator and the students are key ele-ments. What constitutes an ALN software platform that supports and enhances colla...

We conducted an exploratory study to examine the behaviors and roles that are enacted by emergent leaders in virtual team settings. Specifically, we analyzed quantitative and qualitative data to identify differences between team members who emerged as leaders and as non-leaders in terms of their behavior as manifested in their electronic mail messa...

Distributed learning is an instructional model that gives students access to a wide range of resources-teachers, peers, and content such as readings and exercises - independently of place and time. The popularity of distributed learning environments (DLEs) in both professional and academic settings has steadily increased due to 1) the rising demand...

The use of information technology to support learning (or technology-mediated learning [TML]) is now a major trend in postsecondary management education in North America and elsewhere. Yet, educational institutions are reinventing the wheel each time they implement technology-mediated education programs. Relatively little sharing of knowledge and e...

Advances in information and communication technologies have fueled rapid growth in the popularity of technology-supported distributed learning (DL). Many educational institutions, both academic and corporate, have undertaken initiatives that leverage the myriad of available DL technologies. Despite their rapid growth in popularity, however, alterna...

Virtual teams are becoming a preferred mechanism for harnessing, integrating, and applying knowledge that is distributed across organizations and in pockets of collaborative networks. In this article we recognize that knowledge application, among the three phases of knowledge management, has received little research attention. Paradoxically, this p...

We conducted an exploratory study to examine the unique electronic mail usage patterns exhibited by the emergent leaders in seven teams of senior executives of a federal government agency. The team members worked together over ten weeks via electronic mail in the context of an executive development program. The goal of the analysis was to identify...

Organizations deploy advanced communication media such as audio and videoconferencing to enhance and extend group communication interactions. However, established groups (i.e., groups with a history of working together) can view and use the same technology differently from groups without any past experiences of working together. This study examines...

Novel patterns of teaching/learning have emerged from faculty and students who use our three Teaching/Learning Theaters at the University of Maryland, College Park. These fullyequipped electronic classrooms have been used by 74 faculty in 264 semester-long courses since the Fall of 1991 with largely enthusiastic reception by both faculty and studen...

Knowledge is a broad and abstract notion that has defined epistemological debate in western philosophy since the classical Greek era. In the past few years, however, there has been a growing interest in treating knowledge as a significant organizational resource. Consistent with the interest in organizational knowledge and knowledge management (KM)...

Universities and corporate training facilities have been investing in information technologies to improve education and training at an increasing rate during the past decade. Many new companies are emerging to provide tools and services to enable the effective design of IT-based learning solutions. Although research on technology-mediated learning...

A working paper in the INSEAD Working Paper Series is intended as a means whereby a faculty researcher's thoughts and findings may be communicated to interested readers. The paper should be considered preliminary in nature and may require revision.

A working paper in the INSEAD Working Paper Series is intended as a means whereby a faculty researcher's thoughts and findings may be communicated to interested readers. The paper should be considered preliminary in nature and may require revision.

The knowledge-based theory of the firm suggests that knowlege is the organizational asset that enables sustainable competitive advantage in hypercompetit ive environments. The emphasis on knowledge in today's organizations is based on the assumption that barriers to the transfer and replication of knowledge endow it with strategic importance. Many...

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Novel patterns of teaching/learning have emerged from faculty and students who use our three teaching/learning theaters at the University of Maryland, College Park. These fully-equipped electronic classrooms have been used by 74 faculty in 264 semester-long courses since the fall of 1991 with largely enthusiastic reception by both faculty and stude...

This article describes the design and delivery of a graduate-level course in management at two universities via advanced information technology, which was used to enable collaborative learning, teaching with transcontinental student teams and multiple instructors, and integration of external expertise. This partnership enriched student learning and...

This article describes the design and delivery of a graduate-level course in management at two universities via advanced information technology, which was used to enable collaborative learning, teaching with transcontinental student teams and multiple instructors, and integration of external expertise. This partnership enriched student learning and...

The paper focusses on effective leadership within virtual teams. The research topics include the following: Investigation of the process of leadership emergence in a virtual team environment Investigation of the impacts of different leadership styles exhibited by the emergent leader on effectivenesss of virtual teams

In our seven year effort to build electronic classrooms we tried to balance the pursuit of new technologies with the exploration of new teaching/learning styles while providing the necessary infrastructure for faculty training and support, and collecting ample evaluation data to guide our transformation. This experience has led to a growing communi...

IT-induced business process reengineering (BPR) offers promise of dramatic performance improvements in productivity and quality and can form a vital component of an ongoing total quality management (TQM) program. IS managers can take the lead in informing the reengineering process of technology's possibilities and facilitating process innovation th...

This longitudinal field study (three work sessions plus an initial training session), investigates the efficacy of a new technology -- desktop videoconferencing (DVC) -- in support of collaborative telelearning (i.e., collaborative learning among non-proximate team members). Two types of collaborative telelearning environments are considered. One i...

This essay presents a framework for developing technology-mediated inter-institutional relationships for collaborative telelearning. This framework highlights the issues and implications of developing and maintaining partnering relationships among universities. The development of this framework is an outgrowth of two inter-institutional relationshi...

Desktop videoconferencing (DVC) represents a convergence of video, audio, and real-time collaboration support software into a familiar personal computer. A longitudinal field quasi-experiment evaluated the efficacy of desktop videoconferencing systems to amplify informational influence relative to baseline face-to-face treatment. The DVC systems we...

National commissions and scholarly reports on the status of contemporary higher education have frequently been critical of the college experience; the emphasis on transmitting fixed bodies of information and a failure to develop problem solving and critical thinking skills have been cited as serious weaknesses in higher education systems. Colleges...

This article reports on the effectiveness of electronic meeting systems (EMS) in organizations. The findings of this field study were consistent with laboratory experiments and indicated that electronic meetings were highly rated in terms of both meeting task and process outcomes. The participants felt that, compared to traditional meetings, EMS le...

Commercial CASE tools have limited capability in team settings that impairs their usefulness and applicability in many organizations. Organizational change issues associated with assimilating CASE tools are also not adequately addressed in most corporations. This article makes recommendations for the resolution of these issues so that organizations...

Information systems are becoming increasingly critical to the daily operations and success of many firms. This, combined with the rising investments in design and development of these systems, make implementation a high priority research topic. Although information systems implementation has been a topic of interest to researchers over the past two...

An experiment to determine whether integrating two techniques available to designers, but normally used separately, would help in development of the right system is reported. The experiment used management-information-systems graduate students as designers and users. Measures of designers' reactions to design strategies were included in the experim...

During the 1980s, microcomputers provided capabilities for such personal computing and information-handling tasks as financial analysis, word processing, and data base management. The 1990s signal the beginning of a major development period for information technology that supports people working in small groups. As collaborative work groups and bus...

A critical success factor for businesses in the twenty‐first century will be their ability to meet the environmental demands for complex coordination of action and rapid adjustments to volatile markets and global competition. Business teams are effective mechanisms for addressing the need for dynamic, flexible organizations that can effectively cop...

The debate concerning the legitimacy of MIS as a field of research has endured over the last decade. The absence of theories and lack of a cumulative research tradition have been areas of particular concern. The research reported in this article provides evidence on these important issues. The study systematically analyzed MIS articles in seven cor...

This paper develops a framework consisting of five core strategies or organizational postures vis-à-vis end-user computing (euc). Following a description of each of the strategies, the authors employed a two-step process to represent (1) how to effectively implement a particular euc strategy, and (2) when to adopt a particular euc strategy. The fir...

Because end-user computing (EUC) is playing a more significant role in the overall performance of organizations, EUC and its associated technologies should be viewed as a set of distinct value activities — that is, activities that contribute to an organizations competitive advantage. Management should emphasize those EUC attributes that have a posi...

End-User Computing (euc) is a rapidly growing phenomenon in organizations. Euc will soon be a major segment of information systems in most large organizations. There is a growing concern about the potential organizational risks of euc activities. This article identifies the risks of euc associated with different stages of the end-user applications...

As a result of the escalating demand for new applications and the ever-increasing cost of developing them, many MIS departments are besieged by backlogs as well as time and cost overruns. Before evaluating some productivity-enhancing tools and techniques, this article examines the problems associated with conventional software development practices...

Despite the enthusiasm and its rapid growth, End-User Computing (EUC) is not well-managed. This article investigates EUC and its current practices. EUC experience at 31 organizations representing 12 industries was surveyed. Areas of study include: MIS/DP managers' perceptions and attitudes toward EUC, perceived benefits and difficulties of EUC appl...

A growing number of end-users are developing their own application systems. The potential benefits of application development by end-users include: enhanced productivity of professionals and white-collar workers, creating user-friendly applications and overcoming the implementation problems by transferring the process to the end-users. In the enthu...

A two-phased research project comparing the prototyping approach with the more traditional life cycle approach finds that prototyping facilitates communication between users and designers during the design process. However, the findings also indicate that designers who used prototyping experienced difficulties in managing and controlling the design...

The approach to information systems development is changing. A new approach, prototyping, is gaining popularity among practitioners in the field. Twelve information systems development projects using the prototyping approach were studied. For each project, the project manager and at least one systems analyst were interviewed. The underlying premise...

This article describes a study performed to (1) investigate senior executives' perceptions of decision support systems concepts, and (2) identify executives' needs and desired benefits related to decision support systems. A serious of indepth interviews were conducted with senior-level industrial executives. The findings suggest three guidelines fo...

This paper investigates two alternative strategies for implementing Decision Support Systems (DSS): evolutionary and traditional. The evolutionary approach utilizes judgement modeling (boot strapping) as a means to create felt need, to provide insight into the decision process and the implied weighting of decision variables, and to establish a lear...

Recent information systems research has challenged the tendency of researchers to focus upon single information systems (Vertegaal 2003) and upon individuals simply as users of those systems (Lamb and Kling 2003). Responding to these critiques, this paper forwards a new paradigm through which to study knowledge management - the multimodal knowledge...

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