Up until the mid-1990s, for a significant proportion of mainstream IS scholars, particularly
those in North America and Asia, research meant quantitative research, and studies not …

While leader–member exchange (LMX) has evolved, a richer understanding continues to
evade scholars due to the sustained focus on the leader–member dyad. We argue that LMX …

Information systems knowledge is essential for creating competitive firms, managing global
corporations, and providing useful products and services to customers. This book introduces …

Essentials of MIS takes an in-depth look at how today's businesses use information
technologies and systems to achieve corporate objectives. Current real-world business …

Open innovation crowdsourcing enables online crowds to quickly generate a plethora of
creative ideas. A key challenge is the convergence of ideas for further consideration from …

Collaborative brainstorming is often followed by a convergence activity where teams extract
the most promising ideas on a useful level of detail from the brainstorming results. Contrary …

Background Facilitation is a powerful approach to support practice change. The purpose of
this study is to better understand the facilitation roles exercised by both external facilitators …

Collaboration Engineering (CE) is an approach for the design and deployment of repeatable
collaborative work practices that can be executed by domain experts without the ongoing …

Trust has become more and more important in the context of mixed use of longitudinal face-
to-face and computer mediated group collaboration using Group Support System tools …

Knowledge Management (KM) helps organizations adapt, survive, and compete in a
discontinuous and ever-changing business environment. Essentially, this involves a set of …