IFIP Program Schedule

Conference Hotel - Radisson Hotels & Suites

200 N. Fourth Street, St. Louis, MO 63102

August 20, 21, 22, 1999

General Chair:

Rudy Hirschheim

Organizing Chair:

Marius Janson

Program Chairs:

Ojelanki Ngwenyama
Lucas Introna
Michael Myers

Thursday, August 19, 1999

6.00 - 9.00 p.m Registration
8.00 - 9.30 p.m Reception in Hotel Foyer

 

Friday, August 20, 1999

7.30 - 9.00 Continental Breakfast Room
8.00 - 3.00 Registration Room

 

9.00 - 9.15
Main Room		 Opening Session: Welcome and Announcements
9.15 - 10.00
Main Room		 Keynote Address "Nations, Identities, and Global Technologies"
Mark Poster, The University of California, Irvine
10:00 - 10:30 Refreshments Break - Coffee & Tea
10:30 - 12:00
Main Room		 Morning Session Session Chair - Ivan Aaen, Aalborg University,Denmark
Distinction among different types of generalizing in information systems research, Richard Baskerville, Georgia State University; Allen Lee, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Discussant - Duane Truex, Georgia State University
Research and Ethical Issues Arising from Ethnographic Interviews of Patients' Reactions to Intelligent Interactive Telephone Health Behavior Advisor System

Bonnie Kaplan, Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of medicine
Medical Informations Systems Unit, Boston University   
Ramesh Farzanfar, Medical Informations Systems Unit, Boston University   
Robert H. Friedman, Medical Informations Systems Unit, Boston University

Discussant - Carole Chauncey, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Canada
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Banquet Hall

13:30 - 14:30
Main Room

 Panel: Reevaluating Power in Information Rich Organizations

Ole Hanseth,  University of Olso; 
Susan Scott, Edgar Withley, London School of Economics; 
Leiser Silva, University of Alberta

14:30 - 15:45
Main Room

 Session Chair - Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University

Organizational Disposition and its Influence on The Adoption and Diffusion of Information Systems, Brian O'Donovan, University of Witwatersrand


Key Role Players in the Initiation and Implementation of Intranet Technology, Rens Scheepers, Aalborg University

Discussant - Steve Sawyer, Penn State University
15:45 -16:00 Refreshments Break - Coffee & Tea
16:00 - 17:30
Main Room		 Paper Presentations Session Chair - Eleanor Wynn, Oregon Graduate Institute
The Role of Information Technology in the Learning of Knowledge Work, Valerie Spitler, New York University; Michael Gallivan, Georgia State University

Discussant - Lori Blackmon Humm, Virginia Commonwealth University
Reengineering the Supply Chain Using Collaborative Technology: Opportunities and Barriers to Change in the Building Construction Industry, C. Sauer, K. Johnston
K. Karim, M. Marosszeky and P. Yetton, University of New South Wales

Discussant - Cushman

19.00 - 21.30

 Dinner Banquet Hall

 


Saturday, August 21, 1999

7.30 - 9.00 Continental Breakfast
9:00- 9:15
Main Room		 Opening Session: Announcements
9:15 -10:00
Main Room		 Keynote Address Knowledge and Methods in IS Research: From Beginnings to the Future Heinz Klein, State University of New York, Binghamton
10:00 - 10:30 Refreshments Break - Coffee & Tea
10:30 - 12:00
Main Room		 Paper Presentations Session Chair - Peter Axel Nielsen, Aalborg University
A Hermeneutic Interpretation of the Effect of Computerized BPR Tools on Redesign Effectiveness in Two Organizations, Suprateek Sarker, Washington State University, Allen S. Lee Virginia Commonwealth University.

Discussant - Ann Brown, City School of London, U.K
Understanding E- Commerce Through Genre Theory: The Case of the Car-Buying Process, Sue Conger and Ulrike Schultz, Southern Methodist University

Discussant - Leiser Silva, University of Alberta, Canada
The Potential for Language Action Analysis is Ethnographic Analysis Heinz K. Klein and Minh Huyn, State University of New York Binghamton
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Banquet Hall

13:30 - 14:30
Main Room

 Panel: 

The Uses and Abuses of Evaluative Criteria for Qualitative Research Methods 

Panel Chair: Richard Baskerville, Georgia State University
Panelists: Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University
Eileen Trauth, Northeastern University
Duane Truex, Georgia State University
Cathy Urquhart, University of the Sunshine Coast
14:30 - 15:45
Main Room		 Paper Presentations Session Chair - DeWald Roode, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Balancing Flexibility and Coherence: Information Exchange in a Paper Machinery Project, Helena Karsten and Kalle Lyytinen, University of Jyvaskyla; Markku Hurskainen, Solution Garden Inc.; Timo Koskelainen, Valmet Paper Machines

Discussant - Susan Scott, London School of Economics, U.K
Hunting for Treasure at the end of the rainbow: Standardizing Corporate IT Infrastructure, Ole Hanseth and Kristin Braa, University of Oslo 

Discussant - Kailsh Joshi, University of Missouri-St. Louis
15:45 -16:00 Refreshments Break - Coffee & Tea
16:00 - 17:30
Main Room		 Paper Presentations Session Chair - Robert Klepper, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Identification of Necessary factors for Successful Implementation of ERP Systems, A. N. Parr, Monash University; G. Shanks, University of Melbourne, P. Darke, Monash University 

Discussant - Ashok Subramanian, University of Missouri - St. Louis
Incorporating Social Transformation into the Information Systems and Software Development Lifecycles, Christopher J. Hemingway and Tom G. Gough, University of Leeds

Discussant - Susan Gasson, State University of New York, Binghamton

Sunday, August 22, 1999

7.30 - 9.00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00
Main Room 		 Tyranny of Space in Organizational Analysis, Richard Boland Jr. Case Western Reserve University
10.00 - 10.15
Main Room		 Closing remarks

 

10:15 - 10:30 Refreshments Break - Coffee & Tea

10.30 - 12.00
Main Room

 Business Meeting - All are encouraged to attend