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Overview

Steven Alter is a researcher affiliated with the University of San Francisco in the United States. Their scholarly contributions span across fields such as Business, Management and Accounting, Computer Science, and Social Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Management Information Systems, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems, and Marketing.

Their research portfolio includes exploration into topics like Business Process Modeling and Analysis, Digital Transformation in Industry, Information Systems Theories and Implementation, Service and Product Innovation, Information Technology Governance and Strategy, Big Data and Business Intelligence, and Ethics and Social Impacts of AI.

Frequent collaborators in their work include Robert M. Davison, Louie H.M. Wong, Moufida Sadok, Peter Bednár, and Carol Xiaojuan Ou.

Steven Alter has published chiefly in venues such as:

  • Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • Communications of the Association for Information Systems
  • International Journal of Information Management
  • Information and Computer Security
  • Information & Management

Key recent papers authored by Steven Alter include:

  • Understanding artificial intelligence in the context of usage: Contributions and smartness of algorithmic capabilities in work systems, 2021, International Journal of Information Management
  • Systems Analysis and Design Toolkit Based on Work System Theory and Its Extensions, 2020, Journal of Database Management
  • The Philosopher's Corner, 2020, ACM SIGMIS Database the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems

Other notable works connected to their research circle include papers such as "It is not my job: exploring the disconnect between corporate security policies and actual security practices in SMEs" published in 2020 in Information and Computer Security and "The coordination of workarounds: Insights from responses to misfits between local realities and a mandated global enterprise system" from 2021 in Information & Management.

Best Publications

  • Decision support systems : current practice and continuing challenges

    Steven Alter

  • Information Systems: A Management Perspective

    Steven L. Alter

  • Defining information systems as work systems: implications for the IS field

    Steven Alter

  • Work System Theory: Overview of Core Concepts, Extensions, and Challenges for the Future

    Steven Alter

  • The Work System Method: Connecting People, Processes, and IT for Business Results

    Steven Alter

  • Service system fundamentals: work system, value chain, and life cycle

    S. Alter

  • Theory of Workarounds

    Steven Alter

  • 18 Reasons Why IT-Reliant Work Systems Should Replace "The IT Artifact" as the Core Subject Matter of the IS Field

    Steven Alter

  • A general, yet useful theory of information systems

    Steven Alter

  • The Work System Method for Understanding Information Systems and Information Systems Research

    Steven Alter

  • A work system view of DSS in its fourth decade

    Steven Alter

  • Information Systems Risks and Risk Factors: Are They Mostly About Information Systems?

    Susan A. Sherer;Steven Alter

  • How Effective Managers Use Information Systems.

    Steven L. Alter

  • Architecture of Sysperanto: A Model-Based Ontology of the IS Field

    Steven Alter

  • A GENERAL, BUT READILY ADAPTABLE MODEL OF INFORMATION SYSTEM RISK

    Steven Alter;Susan A. Sherer

  • Viewing Systems as Services: A Fresh Approach in the IS Field

    Steven Alter

  • Development patterns for decision support systems

    Steven Alter

  • Making Sense of Smartness in the Context of Smart Devices and Smart Systems

    Steven Alter

  • The IS Core - XI: Sorting Out the Issues About the Core, Scope, and Identity of the IS Field

    Steven Alter

  • Systems Analysis for Everyone Else: Empowering Business Professionals through a Systems Analysis Method that fits their needs

    Duane Truex;Steven Alter;Cherie Long

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Marco Leimeister
Jan Marco Leimeister University of Kassel
Keng Siau
Keng Siau City University of Hong Kong
Ping Zhang
Ping Zhang Syracuse University
Robert M. Davison
Robert M. Davison City University of Hong Kong
Iris Vessey
Iris Vessey University of Queensland
Jan C. Recker
Jan C. Recker Universität Hamburg
Alan R. Dennis
Alan R. Dennis Indiana University
Haluk Demirkan
Haluk Demirkan University of Washington
James C. Spohrer
James C. Spohrer IBM (United States)
Kalle Lyytinen
Kalle Lyytinen Case Western Reserve University

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