Submissions from 2021
“A Proposed Theoretical Foundation for the Information Systems Discipline (version 1.1), Steven Alter
A Proposed Theoretical Foundation for the Information Systems Discipline (version 1. 1), Steven Alter
Facets of Work: Enriching the Description, Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Systems in Organizations, Steven Alter
Submissions from 2020
Applying Facets of Work as a Source of Knowledge and Insight for Requirements Determination, Steven Alter
How Facets of Work Illuminate Sociotechnical Challenges of Industry 5.0, Steven Alter
How Well Do Service Concepts Apply to Digital Services and Service Digitalization?, Steven Alter
Satisfying Four Requirements for More Flexible Modeling Methods: Theory and Test Case, Steven Alter
Ten Lightweight SA&D Tools Based on Work System Theory and Its Extensions, Steven Alter
“Systems Analysis and Design Toolkit Based on Work System Theory and Its Extensions, Steven Alter and Dominik Bork
Submissions from 2018
Service System Fundamentals: Work System, Value Chain, and Life Cycle, Steven Alter
Submissions from 2017
Using a Work System Perspective to Expand BPM Use Cases for Research, Steven Alter and Jan Recker
Submissions from 2016
A Work System Front End for Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Steven Alter and Narasimha Bolloju
Better Use Case Diagrams by Using Work System Snapshots, Narasimha Bolloju and Steven Alter
The Evolution of Sustainability in a Global Firm and Its Supply Chain, Robert Mefford and Payson Johnston
Submissions from 2015
A Workaround Design System for Anticipating, Designing, and/or Preventing Workarounds, Steven Alter
A Work System Perspective on Adoption Entities, Adoption Processes, and Post-Adoption Compliance and Noncompliance, Steven Alter
Beneficial Noncompliance and Detrimental Compliance: Expected Paths to Unintended Consequences, Steven Alter
Five Seemingly Insurmountable Challenges Related to Attaining Long-Term Value from Theorizing about Information Systems, Steven Alter
How Should Business Informatics Integrate Service, Process, Work System, and Enterprise Orientations?, Steven Alter
Overcoming Silo Thinking in the IS Discipline by Thinking Differently about IS and IT, Steven Alter
The Concept of “IT Artifact” Has Outlived Its Usefulness and Should Be Retired Now, Steven Alter
Work System Theory as a Platform: Response to a Research Perspective Article by Niederman and March, Steven Alter
Using a Work System Metamodel and USDL to Build a Bridge between Business Service Systems and Service Computing, Steven Alter and Alistair Barros
Risk Decomposition for Fund Managers, Matthew Dixon
Submissions from 2014
Engineering Enterprises for Emergent Change, Steven Alter
Knowledge-Supported Design Thinking about Systems in Organizations: An Application of Work System Theory, Steven Alter
Potentially Valuable Overlaps between Work System Theory, DEMO, and Enterprise Engineering, Steven Alter
Theory of Workarounds, Steven Alter
Work System Perspective on Service, Service Systems, IT Services, and Service Science, Steven Alter
A Bayesian Approach to Ranking Private Companies Based on Predictive Indicators, Matthew Dixon and Jike Chong
gpusvcalibration: A R Package for Fast Stochastic Volatility Model Calibration Using GPUs, Matthew Dixon, Sabbir Ahmed Khan, and Mohammad Zubair
Submissions from 2013
From Resources and Activities to Value for Customers within Systems of Service Systems, Steven Alter
Incorporating More System-Related Knowledge into Systems Analysis and Design, Steven Alter
Is Work System Theory a Practical Theory of Practice?, Steven Alter
Using Work System Theory to Link Managerial and Technical Perspectives on BPM, Steven Alter
Value Blueprint and Service Design Space for Facilitating Value Creation, Steven Alter
Work System Theory: Overview of Core Concepts, Extensions, and Challenges for the Future, Steven Alter
Detecting Mobility Patterns in Mobile Phone Data from the Ivory Coast, Matthew Dixon, Spencer P. Aiello, Funmi Fapohunda, and William Goldstein
Information Systems to Support “Door-step Banking”: Enabling Scalability of Microfinance to Serve More of the Poor at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Lakshmi Mohan, Devendra Potnis, and Steven Alter
Submissions from 2012
A Work System Front End for Object-Oriented Analysis and Des, Steven Alter
Challenges for Service Science, Steven Alter
Exploring the Temporal Nature of Sociomateriality from a Work System Perspective, Steven Alter
Genuinely Service-Oriented Enterprises: Using Work System Theory to See Beyond the Promise of Efficient Software, Steven Alter
Metamodel for Service Analysis and Design Based on an Operational View of Service and Service Systems, Steven Alter
The Knowledge Cube: Scaffolding for a Body of Knowledge about Information Systems, Steven Alter
Using the Work System Method with Freshman Information System Students, Steven Alter
Submissions from 2011
Extending a Systems Analysis Method for Business Professionals, Steven Alter
Reconciling the Social/Human and Technical/Material in IS Research without Trying too Hard, Steven Alter
The Work System Method: Systems Thinking for Business Professionals, Steven Alter
Using Work System Theory to Achieve Greater Business Value from ERP by Exploring Alternative Design Spaces, Steven Alter
Error Control of Iterative Linear Solvers for Integrated Groundwater Models, Matthew Dixon, Z Bai, C F. Brush, F I. Chung, E C. Dogrul, and T M. Kadir
Towards Evaluating the Quality of a Spreadsheet: The Case of the Analytical Spreadsheet Model, Thomas A. Grossman Jr., Vijay Mehrotra, and J Sander
Comparing Team Performance of the English Premier League, Serie A, and La Liga for the 2008-2009 Season, Joel Oberstone
Submissions from 2010
Spreadsheets Grow Up: Three Spreadsheet Engineering Methodologies for Large Financial Planning Models, Thomas A. Grossman Jr. and O Ozluk
AutOMathic Blocks: Supporting Learning Games for Young Blind Students, Arthur Karshmer
Employees in Performing Nonprofits: Workers Adrift in the Ephemeral Arts, Paul Lorton Jr
Mission Conceived versus Mission Achieved, Paul Lorton Jr
Public Comprehension of Published Data - Technology to the Rescue?, Paul Lorton Jr
Intelligent Procedures for Intra-Day Updating of Call Center Agent Schedules, Vijay Mehrotra, O. Ozluk, and R. Saltzman
Comparing English Premier League Goalkeepers: Identifying the Pitch Actions that Differentiate the Best from the Rest, Joel Oberstone
Spreadsheet Simulation of Airline Reservation Policy Using Multimedia Software, Joel Oberstone
Submissions from 2009
The Lookup Technique to Replace Nested-IF Formulas in Spreadsheet Programming, Thomas A. Grossman Jr., O Ozluk, and J Gustavson
Leveraging Evaluation to Carry the Message – How the Arts Can Demonstrate Indispensability, Paul Lorton Jr
Differentiating the Top English Premier League Football Clubs from the Rest of the Pack: Identifying the Keys to Success, Joel Oberstone
Submissions from 2008
Defining Information Systems as Work Systems: Implications for the IS Field, Steven Alter
Service System Fundamentals: Work System, Value Chain, and Life Cycle, Steven Alter
A Primer on Spreadsheet Analytics, Thomas A. Grossman Jr.
AutOMathic Blocks: The Next Step, Arthur Karshmer
Manipulatives in the History of Teaching: Fast Forward to AutOMathic Blocks for the Blind, Arthur Karshmer
Submissions from 2007
Could the Work System Method Embrace Systems Concepts More Fully, Steven Alter
Source Code Protection for Applications Written in Microsoft Excel and Google Spreadsheet, Thomas A. Grossman Jr.
Access to Mathematics by Blind Students: A Global Problem, Arthur Karshmer
Assisted and Independent Living: The User Perspective, Arthur Karshmer
MathOMatic Blocks: An Automated, Tactile, Interactive Method of Teaching Mathematics to Blind Students in the K-12 Environment, Arthur Karshmer
Evaluation of the Computer’s Efficacy in Education, Paul Lorton Jr
What Makes Opera Thrive – Learning from Evaluation in the Performing Arts, Paul Lorton Jr
Managing Trade-Offs in Call Center Agent Scheduling: Methodology and Case Study, Vijay Mehrotra
Improving Call Center Operations Using Performance-Based Routing Strategies, J. Stanley, R. Saltzman, and Vijay Mehrotra
Submissions from 2006
Pitfalls in Analyzing Systems in Organizations, Steven Alter
Work Systems and IT Artifacts: Does the Definition Matter?, Steven Alter
Improving the Effectiveness of Reporting through the School Accountability Report Card, Paul Lorton Jr
Submissions from 2005
Architecture of Sysperanto - A Model-Based Ontology of the IS Field, Steven Alter
A Broad View of Systems Analysis and Design, Steven Alter and Glenn J. Browne
Performance Measures for Service Systems with a Random Arrival Rate, Vijay Mehrotra
Submissions from 2004
The 2003 Annual Report on Global Terrorism: An Information System Failure?, Steven Alter
A General, but Readily Adaptable Model of Information System Risk, Steven Alter and Susan A. Sherer
A Paradigm for Spreadsheet Engineering Methodologies, Thomas A. Grossman Jr. and O Ozluk
Information System Risks and Risk Factors: Are They Mostly about Information Systems?, Susan A. Sherer and Steven Alter
Submissions from 2003
Customer Service, Responsibility, and Systems in International E-Commerce: Should a Major Airline Reissue a Stolen Ticket?, Steven Alter
Sidestepping the IT Artifact, Scrapping the IS Silo, and Laying Claim to 'Systems in Organizations, Steven Alter
The IS Core - XI: Sorting out Issues about the Core, Scope, and Identity of the IS Field, Steven Alter
Accuracy in Spreadsheet Modelling Systems, Thomas A. Grossman Jr.
Research Strategy and Scoping Survey on Spreadsheet Practices, Thomas A. Grossman Jr. and O Ozluk
Submissions from 2002
The Work System Method for Understanding Information Systems and Information System Research, Steven Alter
