Idle ramblings of a wandering mind...

My papers have been accepted at both the AMCIS (Americas Conference on Information Systems) 2007 conference as well as AMCIS 2007 Doctoral Consortium. Its great news - a good start to the conference and job hunting season. The papers accepted and their abstracts are below:

Service Oriented Architecture (“SOA”) has been viewed as a strategic approach to IT that provides increased flexibility. However, there is scant research evidence of SOA adoption leading to tangible performance benefits across a cross section of firms. We fill this research gap by empirically analyzing the impact of SOA adoption on the performance of electronic supply chains for a cross section of large US firms. We estimates the moderating impact of SOA adoption on relationships between supply chain performance and complexity and transparency of information sharing relationship between firms and their suppliers. Our results show that while SOA adoption mitigates the negative effects of information sharing complexity, it also reduces the positive benefits of information sharing transparency. Thus while SOA adoption can lead to potential improvements in performance, the extent of the benefit depends on characteristics of the information sharing relationship.

Peer to peer financial marketplaces provide a platform for individual lenders and borrowers to interact and transact. These marketplaces dis-intermediate the traditional financial services business models. In this exploratory paper we study the operation and effectiveness of one such marketplace: Prosper.com. We analyze six months of lender, borrower and loan repayment data to answer preliminary research questions about lender behavior, market effectiveness and antecedents of loan default. We show that lenders mostly behave rationally and charge appropriate risk premiums for antecedents of loan default. We also show that there are mismatches between risk premiums charged and relative importance of factors that drive loan default. We then explore the dynamic process of lenders adjusting their lending strategies to reduce these mismatches. Interestingly, our results indicate that the group reputation used in marketplace is not effective and needs to be enhanced. Our analysis provides a base for future research in this exciting and evolving context. Our results provide directions for practice applications as well as future research in design of financial marketplaces, investing and risk mitigation strategies and improving effectiveness of financial marketplaces.

AMCIS 2007 is in Keystone, Colarado from August 9-12, 2007.

Labels: Conference Presentations, Research