SIGABIS Track at: Annual INFORMS Meeting, Nov. 17-20, 2002, San Jose
Cluster Topic: "E-Business Strategies, Models, and Optimization"
Session 3 Theme: "Impact of New IS Capabilities on the Structure of B2B Relationships"

Co-Chairs: C. Schlueter Langdon, USC Marshall School of Business, and R. Sikora, University of Texas at Arlington
Nov. 19, 8-9:30 AM, TA09, Convention Center, Concourse Level, Center Ballroom A3

1. "Web Services: The Next Big Thing?--An exploratory analysis of Web services capabilities"
Paul Mackinaw, Accenture Technology Labs, Palo Alto; C. Schlueter-Langdon, USC, and Alexander Hars, University of Bayreuth

Web services (WS) vendors promise that WS-based IS can more easily facilitate interaction across systems than current technology. However, many issues remain unsolved and are investigated in a qualitative study: What exactly is a WS or how to define it as a unit of analysis? How does a WS as an IT innovation affect IS capabilities? We present intermediate results of this ongoing, international study.
This presentation includes a live demonstration of a WS-based prototype, "Live Information Objects," developed by Accenture Technology Labs.

2. "Interorganizational IS and Relational Value"
Saraf, N., and C. Schlueter Langdon, both USC Marshall School of Business

Inter-organizational IS influence how valued is derived from relationship networks. We measure network relational value as benefits from exploiting interdependencies across relationships. Using knowledge sharing as a mediating variable we investigate how three types of IS capabilities affect the creation of relational value. The research model is being tested in the global communications and high-tech industry.

3. "Recognizing Interaction Effects in IS Research: Complementing IS Research Methodology"
Schlueter Langdon, C., USC, R. Sikora, UTA, and M. J. Shaw, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Many IS research problems, such as IT standardization and the alignment of IS and business strategy, exhibit interaction effects. Increased market volatility and accelerated rate of IT innovation require an understanding of the dynamics of interaction effects. In order to investigate these effects we propose to complement formal modeling methods with new analytic modeling techniques.

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Session Chair Chris S. Langdon (l) welcomes Special Guest Paul Mackinaw of Accenture Technology Labs, Palo Alto (r).	Paul Mackinaw presented a .NET-based "Live Information Objects" prototype.	Nilesh Saraf and Chris Langdon investigate how new IS capabilities enable value creation in business networks.	Saraf and Langdon break out different dimensions of IS capabilities and show that not all of them contribute equally to value creation.

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Web services advantages and business opportunities.	Features and business benefits of the "Live Information Objects" prototype.

 

 

Acknowledgments

This session has been organized through the AIS Special Interest Group on Agent-Based Information Systems.

www.agentbasedis.org

	Chris Langdon thanks Mark M. Hayes at Microsoft Research, Seattle, for his support and funding of WS-related research.
	Chris Langdon gratefully acknowledges thoughtful discussions about WS-based prototypes and case studies with Scott M. Rose, Global Managing Director of Development, Accenture Technology Labs, Chicago..