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Prasarnphanich, P., & Wagner, C.. (2009). The role of wiki technology and altruism in

collaborative knowledge creation. The Journal of Computer Information

Systems, 49(4), 33-41. Retrieved from ABI/INFORM Global. (Document

ID: 1839204891).

The role of wiki technology and altruism in collaborative knowledge creation can be used as a

reference to show results of a small qualitative analysis about the usage of wikis in a professional

capacity. The research seeks to prove three hypotheses regarding the use of wikis in a

professional environment. The authors conclude that the users of wikis tend to rely on the tool

more as a form of collaboration versus individualistic motives.

Taimur Bakhshi, Maria Papadaki, & Steven Furnell. (2009). Social engineering: assessing

vulnerabilities in practice. Information Management & Computer Security, 17(1), 53-63.

Retrieved February 1, 2010, from ABI/INFORM Global. (Document ID: 1880591691).

The article Social engineering: assessing vulnerabilities in practice presents a quantitative study

performed by the authors in an organization of about 2,000 employees. The experiment was

crafted to determine how many users (out of 153 tested) would follow instructions in a random

email sent to them that directed the recipient to a web site to download and install an application

created by the researchers. The findings of the research can be used to represent how easy it is to

create security risks by coaxing information from users with relatively little effort.

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Vessey, I., Ramesh, V., & Glass, R. L. (2002). Research in information systems: An empirical

study of diversity in the discipline and its journals. Jou r nal o f M anag e me nt I n f o r mation

Sy s te m s , 19(2), 129-174. Retrieved from

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Research in information systems: An empirical study of diversity in the discipline and its

journals is a study performed to develop a useful coding system to aid in identifying prior

research as reference material in new research. The authors studied articles presented in

interdisciplinary journals over a 5 year period and categorized them based on discipline, level of

analysis, topic, research approach and research method. An analysis of keywords found in the

abstracts of the papers studied offer the reader points to consider when writing abstract of their

own.

Wolf, T., Schroter, A., Damian, D., Panjer, L., & Nguyen, T.. (2009). Mining task-based social

networks to explore collaboration in software teams. IEEE Software, 26(1), 58-66.

Retrieved from ABI/INFORM Global. (Document ID: 1623871511).

This article proposes a model for building social-networks to support software development

practices in organizations. The authors present several scenarios describing communication

deficiencies or breakdowns that often occur in teams. By data mining social networking

activities, the authors hypothesize that when a build fails, for example, the failure can be more

easily identified by locating the break in communications.

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