Steven Alter

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1978-2024
Publications (10 Years): 67

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AMCIS

ECIS

HICSS

Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst.

Publications

Andrei Chis, Ana-Maria Ghiran, Steven Alter
Informing Enterprise Knowledge Graphs with a Work System Perspective. Enterp. Model. Inf. Syst. Archit. Int. J. Concept. Model. 19 (2024)
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Validating Generalizations about AI and Its Uses. HICSS (2024)
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Produce a Useful and Teachable Theoretical Foundation for IS Engineering. CAiSE Research Projects Exhibition (2024)
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Re-Conceptualizing Information System Usage as Usage by (Increasingly Automated) Work Systems. Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst. 54 (2024)
Steven Alter
Could a Large Language Model Contribute Significantly to Requirements Analysis? BPMDS/EMMSAD@CAiSE (2024)
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Can Information System Engineering Make Cyber-Human Systems Smarter? CAiSE (2023)
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How Can You Verify that I Am Using AI? Complementary Frameworks for Describing and Evaluating AI-Based Digital Agents in their Usage Contexts. HICSS (2023)
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Responsibility Modeling for Operational Contributions of Algorithmic Agents. AMCIS (2022)
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Extending a Work System Metamodel Using a Knowledge Graph to Support IS Visualization and Development. ER Forum/PhD Symposium (2022)
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A Framework for Describing Theoretical Perspectives: Overview and Application to the Work System Perspective. HICSS (2022)
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Digital Transformation Progress Model for Supporting Co-creation During a Digital Transformation Initiative. TDIT (2022)
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Understanding artificial intelligence in the context of usage: Contributions and smartness of algorithmic capabilities in work systems. Int. J. Inf. Manag. 67 (2022)
Steven Alter
Agent Responsibility Framework for Digital Agents: Roles and Responsibilities Related to Facets of Work. BPMDS/EMMSAD@CAiSE (2022)
Robert M. Davison, Louie H. M. Wong, Carol X. J. Ou, Steven Alter
The coordination of workarounds: Insights from responses to misfits between local realities and a mandated global enterprise system. Inf. Manag. 58 (8) (2021)
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Facets of Work: Enriching the Description, Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Systems in Organizations. Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst. 49 (2021)
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An Open-Ended Work System Knowledge Model for Visualizing, Organizing, and Accessing Knowledge about Information Systems in Organizational Settings. HICSS (2021)
Steven Alter
Requirements engineering for sociotechnical systems that may include mixed initiative interactions between humans and machines. RESOSY@APSEC (2021)
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Framework for Describing a Theoretical Perspective: Application to the Bunge-Wand-Weber Ontology and General Systems Theory. ACIS (2021)
Steven Alter, Dominik Bork
Systems Analysis and Design Toolkit Based on Work System Theory and Its Extensions. J. Database Manag. 31 (3) (2020)
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Ten Lightweight Systems Analysis and Design Tools Based on Work System Theory and Its Extensions. AMCIS (2020)
Moufida Sadok, Steven Alter, Peter M. Bednar
It is not my job: exploring the disconnect between corporate security policies and actual security practices in SMEs. Inf. Comput. Secur. 28 (3) (2020)
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Using a Work System Perspective to Explore Operational Aspects of Digitalization. CBI (2) (2020)
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Dimensions of Integration in Sociotechnical Systems. STPIS (2020)
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How Facets of Work Illuminate Sociotechnical Challenges of Industry 5.0. ECIS (2020)
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The Philosopher's Corner: Taking Different Types of Knowledge Objects Seriously: A Step toward Generating Greater Value from IS Research. Data Base 51 (4) (2020)
Steven Alter
Making Sense of Smartness in the Context of Smart Devices and Smart Systems. Inf. Syst. Frontiers 22 (2) (2020)
Dominik Bork, Steven Alter
Satisfying Four Requirements for More Flexible Modeling Methods: Theory and Test Case. Enterp. Model. Inf. Syst. Archit. Int. J. Concept. Model. 15 (2020)
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Using Work System Theory, Facets of Work, and Dimensions of Smartness to Characterize Applications and Impacts of Artificial Intelligence. TDIT (1) (2020)
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How Well Do Service Concepts Apply to Digital Services and Service Digitalization? HICSS (2020)
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Using a Framework for Describing Theoretical Perspectives to Identify High-Level Design Choices about the Scope and Content of Enterprise Models. PrOse@PoEM (2019)
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Applying Socio-technical Thinking in the Competitive, Agile, Lean, Data-Driven World of Knowledge Work and Smart, Service-Oriented, Customer-Centric Value Creation Ecosystems. Complex Syst. Informatics Model. Q. 18 (2019)
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How Could Systems Analysis Use the Idea of "Responsible Information System"? CAiSE Forum (2019)
Robert M. Davison, Louie H. M. Wong, Steven Alter, Carol Ou
Adopted Globally but unusable Locally: What Workarounds Reveal about Adoption, Resistance, Compliance and non-Compliance. ECIS (2019)
Steven Alter, Dominik Bork
Work System Modeling Method with Different Levels of Specificity and Rigor for Different Stakeholder Purposes. Wirtschaftsinformatik (2019)
Christofer F. Daiberl, Sascha Julian Oks, Angela Roth, Kathrin M. Möslein, Steven Alter
Design principles for establishing a multi-sided open innovation platform: lessons learned from an action research study in the medical technology industry. Electron. Mark. 29 (4) (2019)
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A Work System Perspective on Enterprise Modelling: A Thought Experiment. ECIS (2018)
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Applying Seven Images of Science in Exploring whether Information Systems Is a Science. Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst. 43 (2018)
Steven Alter
System Interaction Theory: Describing Interactions between Work Systems. Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst. 42 (2018)
Dominik Bork, Steven Alter
Relaxing Modeling Criteria to Produce Genuinely Flexible, Controllable, and Usable Enterprise Modeling Methods. EMISA (2018)
Dominik Bork, Steven Alter
Relaxing Modeling Criteria to Produce Genuinely Flexible, Controllable, and Usable Enterprise Modeling Methods. EMISA Forum 38 (1) (2018)
Steven Alter
In Pursuit of Systems Theories for Describing and Analyzing Systems in Organizations. ECIS (2018)
Steven Alter
Making Sense of Smart Living, Working, and Organizing Enhanced by Supposedly Smart Objects and Systems. TDIT (2018)
Soohyun Jeon, Anat Hovav, Jinyoung Han, Steven Alter
Rethinking the Prevailing Security Paradigm: Can User Empowerment with Traceability Reduce the Rate of Security Policy Circumvention? Data Base 49 (3) (2018)
Steven Alter
A Systems Theory of IT Innovation, Adoption, and Adaptation. ECIS (2018)
Thomas Köhler, Steven Alter, Brian H. Cameron
Enterprise Modeling at the Work System Level: Evidence from Four Cases at DHL Express Europe. PoEM (2018)
Steven Alter
Applying Sociotechnical Thinking in the Competitive, Agile, Lean, Data-Driven World of Routine Work, Knowledge Work, and Smart, Service-Oriented, Customer-Centric Value Creation Ecosystems. STPIS@CAiSE (2018)
Steven Alter, Jan Recker
Using a Work System Perspective to Expand BPM Research Use Cases. J. Inf. Technol. Theory Appl. 18 (1) (2017)
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Work System Theory and Work System Method: A Bridge between Business and IT Views of IT-Reliant Systems in Organizations. ISEC (2017)
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Answering Key Questions for Service Science. ECIS (2017)
Steven Alter
Nothing is more practical than a good conceptual artifact... which may be a theory, framework, model, metaphor, paradigm or perhaps some other abstraction. Inf. Syst. J. 27 (5) (2017)
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Service System Axioms that Accept Positive and Negative Outcomes and Impacts of Service Systems. ICIS (2017)
Narasimha Bolloju, Steven Alter, Anupriya Gupta, Simran Gupta, Sanyam Jain
Improving Scrum User Stories and Product Backlog Using Work System Snapshots. AMCIS (2017)
Steven Alter
System Interaction Patterns. CBI (1) (2016)
Thomas Köhler, Steven Alter
Using Enterprise Architecture to Attain Full Benefits from Corporate Big Data while Refurbishing Legacy Work Systems. CBI (Industrial Track) (2016)
Steven Alter
Encapsulation as a Key Concern in Analysis and Design for Service Systems. AMCIS (2016)
Steven Alter, Narasimha Bolloju
A Work System Front End for Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. Int. J. Inf. Technol. Syst. Approach 9 (1) (2016)
Ermeson C. Andrade, Han van der Aa, Henrik Leopold, Steven Alter, Hajo A. Reijers
Factors Leading to Business Process Noncompliance and its Positive and Negative Effects: Empirical Insights from a Case Study. AMCIS (2016)
Narasimha Bolloju, Steven Alter
Better Use Case Diagrams by Using Work System Snapshots. Int. J. Inf. Technol. Syst. Approach 9 (2) (2016)
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Principles for "Purposefully Constructed Activity Systems" - A Step toward a Body of Knowledge for Information Systems. ICIS (2016)
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Overcoming Silo Thinking in the IS Discipline by Thinking Differently about IS and IT. AMCIS (2015)
Steven Alter
A Workaround Design System for Anticipating, Designing, and/or Preventing Workarounds. BMMDS/EMMSAD (2015)
Steven Alter
Sociotechnical Systems Through a Work System Lens: A Possible Path for Reconciling System Conceptualizations, Business Realities, and Humanist Values in IS Development. STPIS@CAiSE (2015)
Steven Alter
How Should Business Informatics Integrate Service, Process, Work System, and Enterprise Orientations? CBI (1) (2015)
Steven Alter
Work System Theory as a Platform: Response to a Research Perspective Article by Niederman and March. J. Assoc. Inf. Syst. 16 (6) (2015)
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Nothing Is More Practical than a Good Theory ... except possibly a Good Paradigm or Framework or Model or Metaphor. ICIS (2015)
Steven Alter
Beneficial Noncompliance and Detrimental Compliance: Expected Paths to Unintended Consequences. AMCIS (2015)
Steven Alter
The concept of 'IT artifact' has outlived its usefulness and should be retired now. Inf. Syst. J. 25 (1) (2015)
Steven Alter
Potentially Valuable Overlaps between Work System Theory, DEMO, and Enterprise Engineering. CBI (2) (2014)
Steven Alter
Theory of Workarounds. CAIS 34 (2014)
Jan Marco Leimeister, Hubert Österle, Steven Alter
Digital services for consumers. Electron. Mark. 24 (4) (2014)
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Engineering Enterprises for Emergent Change. CBI (2) (2014)
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Using Work System Theory to Link Managerial and Technical Perspectives on BPM. CBI (2013)
Doncho Petkov, Steven Alter, Olga Petkova, Theo N. Andrew
On the Suitability of Soft Systems Methodology and the Work System Method in Some Software Project Contexts. Int. J. Inf. Technol. Syst. Approach 6 (2) (2013)
Steven Alter
An "Interpretary" for the IS Discipline, a Compendium of Interpretations of Basic IS Concepts and Methods from Different Theoretical Perspectives. Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst. 33 (2013)
Lakshmi Mohan, Devendra Potnis, Steven Alter
Information Systems to Support "Door-step Banking": Enabling Scalability of Microfinance to Serve More of the Poor at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst. 33 (2013)
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Work System Theory: Overview of Core Concepts, Extensions, and Challenges for the Future. J. Assoc. Inf. Syst. 14 (2) (2013)
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Incorporating More System-Related Knowledge into Systems Analysis and Design. AMCIS (2013)
Steven Alter
Value Blueprint and Service Design Space for Facilitating Value Creation. AMCIS (2013)
Jan Recker, Steven Alter
Using the Work System Method with Freshman Information Systems Students. J. Inf. Technol. Educ. Innov. Pract. 11 (2012)
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Exploring the Temporal Nature of Sociomateriality from a Work System Perspective. AMCIS (2012)
Allen S. Lee, Mike W. Chiasson, Steven Alter, Helmut Krcmar
Long Live Design Science Research! .... and Remind Me Again About Whether It Is a New Research Paradigm or a Rationale of Last Resort for Worthwhile Research That Doesn't Fit Under Any Other Umbrella. ICIS (2012)
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Genuinely Service-Oriented Enterprises: Using Work System Theory to See Beyond the Promise of Efficient Software Architecture. AMCIS (2012)
Steven Alter
The Knowledge Cube: Scaffolding for a Body of Knowledge about Information Systems. ECIS (2012)
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Metamodel for Service Design and Service Innovation: Integrating Service Activities, Service Systems, and Value Constellations. ICIS (2011)
Steven Alter, Mikko Korpela, Doncho Petkov, Nancy L. Russo
Will Current Trends in Information Systems Development Lead to More Visible Usage of Socio-technical Approaches? Researching the Future in Information Systems (2011)
Xin Tan, Steven Alter, Keng Siau
Using service responsibility tables to supplement UML in analyzing e-service systems. Decis. Support Syst. 51 (3) (2011)
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Including Work System Co-Existence, Alignment, and Coordination in Systems Analysis and Design. AMCIS (2010)
Steven Alter
Design Spaces for Sociotechnical Systems. ECIS (2010)
Duane Truex, Steven Alter, Cherie Long
Systems Analysis for Everyone Else: Empowering Business Professionals through a Systems Analysis Method that fits their needs. ECIS (2010)
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Viewing Systems as Services: A Fresh Approach in the IS Field. Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst. 26 (2010)
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Work system concepts as the core for teaching Information Systems and Operations Management. AMCIS (2010)
Steven Alter
Does Service-Dominant Logic Provide Insight about Operational IT Service Systems? AMCIS (2010)
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Bridging the Chasm between Sociotechnical and Technical Views of Systems in Organizations. ICIS (2010)
Steven Alter, Ryan Wright
Validating Work System Principles for Use in Systems Analysis and Design. ICIS (2010)
Steven Alter, Raija Halonen, Björn Niehaves, Maung K. Sein, Cathy Urquhart, Ping Zhang
Panel: Why do we toil? Benefiting research at the cost of practice or vice versa? ECIS (2009)
Steven Alter
Mapping the Domain of Service Science. AMCIS (2009)
Steven Alter
Project Collaboration, not just User Participation. AMCIS (2009)
Andrew Gemino, Steven Alter, Dinesh Batra, Glenn Browne, Keng Siau, Vijay Khatri
Systems Analysis and Design Research: Past, Present and Future. AMCIS (2009)
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The Work System Method: Progress to Date, Extensions Related to Service Concepts and Challenges for the Future. AMCIS (2009)
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Defining information systems as work systems: implications for the IS field. Eur. J. Inf. Syst. 17 (5) (2008)

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