Development Patterns for Decision Support Systems. - Steven Alter (MIS Q., 1978)

A Model for Automating File and Program Design in Business Application Systems. - Steven Alter (Commun. ACM, 1979)

Why Persist with DSS when the Real Issue is Improving Decision Making? - Steven Alter (Decision Support Systems: Experiences and Expectations, 1992)

Decision Support Systems: Balancing Directed and Nondirected Change. - Mark S. Silver; Steven L. Alter; Joyce J. Elam; Charles B. Stabell; Dov Te'eni (Decision Support Systems: Experiences and Expectations, 1992)

Total Quality and the IS Function. - Steven Alter (ICIS, 1993)

Systems Analysis Techniques for Business People: How Should These Techniques Differ from Techniques for IS Professionals. - Steven Alter; Sue A. Conger; Carolyn Green (ICIS, 1994)

How should business professionals analyze information systems for themselves? - Steven Alter (ISCO, 1995)

A General, Yet Useful Theory of Information Systems. - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 1999)

Shopping.com: When E-Commerce Isn't A Bargain. - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 1999)

Does the trend toward e-business call for changes in fundamental concepts of information systems? (Debate). - Steven Alter; M. Lynne Markus; Judy E. Scott; Phillip Ein-Dor; Iris Vessey (ICIS, 2000)

Same Words, Different Meanings: Are Basic IS/IT Concepts Our Self-Imposed Tower Of Babel? - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2000)

Are the Fundamental Concepts of Information Systems Mostly About Work Systems? - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2001)

Recognizing the Relevance of IS Research and Broadening the Appeal and Applicability of Future Publications. - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2001)

Which Life Cycle - Work System, Information System, or Software? - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2001)

Does the Trend Toward E-Business Call for Changes in the Fundamental Concepts of Information Systems? A Debate. - Steven Alter; M. Lynne Markus; Judy E. Scott; Iris Vessey (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2001)

The Work System Method for Understanding Information Systems and Information Systems Research. - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2002)

Selecting Research Topics: Personal Experiences and Speculations For the Future. - Steven Alter; Alan R. Dennis (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2002)

TDG Engineering: Do We Really Need Another Upgrade? - Stephen Cox; Renee Dulfer; David Han; Ubaldo Ruiz 002; Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2002)

The Perils of Ignoring "Systems 101": Recovering from Mishaps at Two Small Companies. - Miguel García; Joseph Gelbard; Brooke Huston; Rochelle Jackson; Wendy Kuefer; Gwyn Lauber; Holming Lee; Margaret Miller; Bill Xie; Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2002)

Pervasive Real-Time IT as a Disruptive Technology for the IS Field. - Steven Alter (HICSS, 2003)

Customer Service, Responsibility, and Systems in International E-Commerce: Should a Major Airline Reissue a Stolen Ticket? - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2003)

18 Reasons Why IT-Reliant Work Systems Should Replace "The IT Artifact" as the Core Subject Matter of the IS Field. - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2003)

Sidestepping the IT Artifact, Scrapping the IS Silo, and Laying Claim to "Systems in Organizations". - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2003)

The IS Core - XI: Sorting Out the Issues About the Core, Scope, and Identity of the IS Field. - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2003)

Making Work System Principles Visible and Usable in Systems Analysis and Design. - Steven Alter (AMCIS, 2004)

Partial Inheritance in Sysperanto, an Ontology of Information Systems. - Steven Alter (AMCIS, 2004)

Desperately Seeking Systems Thinking in the Information Systems Discipline. - Steven Alter (ICIS, 2004)

IT Innovation Through a Work Systems Lens. - Steven Alter (IT Innovation for Adaptability and Competitiveness, 2004)

The 2003 Annual Report on Global Terrorism: An Information System Failure? - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2004)

A General, But Readily Adaptable Model of Information System Risk. - Steven Alter; Susan A. Sherer (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2004)

Information Systems Risks and Risk Factors: Are They Mostly About Information Systems? - Susan A. Sherer; Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2004)

A work system view of DSS in its fourth decade. - Steven L. Alter (Decis. Support Syst., 2004)

Possibilities for cross-fertilization between interpretive approaches and other methods for analyzing information systems. - Steven Alter (Eur. J. Inf. Syst., 2004)

Sysperanto and the Work System Method. - Steven Alter (AMCIS, 2005)

Architecture of Sysperanto: A Model-Based Ontology of the IS Field. - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2005)

A Broad View of Systems Analysis and Design: Implications for Research. - Steven Alter; Glenn J. Browne (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2005)

Goals and Tactics on the Dark Side of Knowledge Management. - Steven Alter (HICSS, 2006)

Work Systems and IT Artifacts - Does the Definition Matter? - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2006)

Pitfalls in Analyzing Systems in Organizations. - Steven Alter (J. Inf. Syst. Educ., 2006)

Service Responsibility Tables: A New Tool for Analyzing and Designing Systems. - Steven Alter (AMCIS, 2007)

Could the Work System Method Embrace Systems Concepts More Fully? - Steven Alter (Inf. Resour. Manag. J., 2007)

Seeking Synergies Between Four Views of Service in the IS Field. - Steven Alter (AMCIS, 2008)

Integrating Lightweight Systems Analysis into the United Process by Using Service Responsibility Tables. - Xin Tan 001; Steven Alter; Keng Siau (AMCIS, 2008)

Moving Toward a Service Metaphor for Describing, Evaluating, and Designing Systems. - Steven Alter (ECIS, 2008)

Service System Innovation. - Steven Alter (Information Technology in the Service Economy, 2008)

Information Systems and the Service Economy: A Multidimensional Perspective. - Steven Alter; Uri Gal; David Lipien; Kalle Lyytinen; Nancy L. Russo (Information Technology in the Service Economy, 2008)

Defining information systems as work systems: implications for the IS field. - Steven Alter (Eur. J. Inf. Syst., 2008)

Service system fundamentals: Work system, value chain, and life cycle. - Steven Alter (IBM Syst. J., 2008)

The Work System Method: Progress to Date, Extensions Related to Service Concepts and Challenges for the Future. - Steven Alter (AMCIS, 2009)

Mapping the Domain of Service Science. - Steven Alter (AMCIS, 2009)

Project Collaboration, not just User Participation. - Steven Alter (AMCIS, 2009)

Systems Analysis and Design Research: Past, Present and Future. - Andrew Gemino; Steven Alter; Dinesh Batra; Glenn Browne; Keng Siau; Vijay Khatri (AMCIS, 2009)

Panel: Why do we toil? Benefiting research at the cost of practice or vice versa? - Steven Alter; Raija Halonen; Björn Niehaves; Maung K. Sein; Cathy Urquhart; Ping Zhang 002 (ECIS, 2009)

Does Service-Dominant Logic Provide Insight about Operational IT Service Systems? - Steven Alter (AMCIS, 2010)

Including Work System Co-Existence, Alignment, and Coordination in Systems Analysis and Design. - Steven Alter (AMCIS, 2010)

Work system concepts as the core for teaching Information Systems and Operations Management. - Steven Alter (AMCIS, 2010)

Design Spaces for Sociotechnical Systems. - Steven Alter (ECIS, 2010)

Systems Analysis for Everyone Else: Empowering Business Professionals through a Systems Analysis Method that fits their needs. - Duane Truex; Steven Alter; Cherie Long (ECIS, 2010)

Bridging the Chasm between Sociotechnical and Technical Views of Systems in Organizations. - Steven Alter (ICIS, 2010)

Validating Work System Principles for Use in Systems Analysis and Design. - Steven Alter; Ryan Wright (ICIS, 2010)

Viewing Systems as Services: A Fresh Approach in the IS Field. - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2010)

Making a Science of Service Systems Practical: Seeking Usefulness and Understandability while Avoiding Unnecessary Assumptions and Restrictions. - Steven Alter (The Science of Service Systems, 2011)

Metamodel for Service Design and Service Innovation: Integrating Service Activities, Service Systems, and Value Constellations. - Steven Alter (ICIS, 2011)

Will Current Trends in Information Systems Development Lead to More Visible Usage of Socio-technical Approaches? - Steven Alter; Mikko Korpela; Doncho Petkov; Nancy L. Russo (Researching the Future in Information Systems, 2011)

Using service responsibility tables to supplement UML in analyzing e-service systems. - Xin Tan 001; Steven Alter; Keng Siau (Decis. Support Syst., 2011)

Exploring the Temporal Nature of Sociomateriality from a Work System Perspective. - Steven Alter (AMCIS, 2012)

Genuinely Service-Oriented Enterprises: Using Work System Theory to See Beyond the Promise of Efficient Software Architecture. - Steven Alter (AMCIS, 2012)

The Knowledge Cube: Scaffolding for a Body of Knowledge about Information Systems. - Steven Alter (ECIS, 2012)

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. - Allen S. Lee; Mike W. Chiasson; Steven Alter; Helmut Krcmar (ICIS, 2012)

Using the Work System Method with Freshman Information Systems Students. - Jan Recker; Steven Alter (J. Inf. Technol. Educ. Innov. Pract., 2012)

Value Blueprint and Service Design Space for Facilitating Value Creation. - Steven Alter (AMCIS, 2013)

Incorporating More System-Related Knowledge into Systems Analysis and Design. - Steven Alter (AMCIS, 2013)

Using Work System Theory to Link Managerial and Technical Perspectives on BPM. - Steven Alter (CBI, 2013)

An "Interpretary" for the IS Discipline, a Compendium of Interpretations of Basic IS Concepts and Methods from Different Theoretical Perspectives. - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2013)

Information Systems to Support "Door-step Banking": Enabling Scalability of Microfinance to Serve More of the Poor at the Bottom of the Pyramid. - Lakshmi Mohan; Devendra Potnis; Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2013)

On the Suitability of Soft Systems Methodology and the Work System Method in Some Software Project Contexts. - Doncho Petkov; Steven Alter; Olga Petkova; Theo N. Andrew (Int. J. Inf. Technol. Syst. Approach, 2013)

Work System Theory: Overview of Core Concepts, Extensions, and Challenges for the Future. - Steven Alter (J. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2013)

Potentially Valuable Overlaps between Work System Theory, DEMO, and Enterprise Engineering. - Steven Alter (CBI (2), 2014)

Engineering Enterprises for Emergent Change. - Steven Alter (CBI (2), 2014)

Theory of Workarounds. - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2014)

Digital services for consumers. - Jan Marco Leimeister; Hubert Österle; Steven Alter (Electron. Mark., 2014)

Beneficial Noncompliance and Detrimental Compliance: Expected Paths to Unintended Consequences. - Steven Alter (AMCIS, 2015)

Overcoming Silo Thinking in the IS Discipline by Thinking Differently about IS and IT. - Steven Alter (AMCIS, 2015)

A Workaround Design System for Anticipating, Designing, and/or Preventing Workarounds. - Steven Alter (BMMDS/EMMSAD, 2015)

Sociotechnical Systems Through a Work System Lens: A Possible Path for Reconciling System Conceptualizations, Business Realities, and Humanist Values in IS Development. - Steven Alter (STPIS@CAiSE, 2015)

Nothing Is More Practical than a Good Theory ... except possibly a Good Paradigm or Framework or Model or Metaphor. - Steven Alter (ICIS, 2015)

How Should Business Informatics Integrate Service, Process, Work System, and Enterprise Orientations? - Steven Alter (CBI (1), 2015)

The concept of 'IT artifact' has outlived its usefulness and should be retired now. - Steven Alter (Inf. Syst. J., 2015)

Work System Theory as a Platform: Response to a Research Perspective Article by Niederman and March. - Steven Alter (J. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2015)

Encapsulation as a Key Concern in Analysis and Design for Service Systems. - Steven Alter (AMCIS, 2016)

Factors Leading to Business Process Noncompliance and its Positive and Negative Effects: Empirical Insights from a Case Study. - Ermeson C. Andrade; Han van der Aa; Henrik Leopold; Steven Alter; Hajo A. Reijers (AMCIS, 2016)

Principles for "Purposefully Constructed Activity Systems" - A Step toward a Body of Knowledge for Information Systems. - Steven Alter (ICIS, 2016)

System Interaction Patterns. - Steven Alter (CBI (1), 2016)

Using Enterprise Architecture to Attain Full Benefits from Corporate Big Data while Refurbishing Legacy Work Systems. - Thomas Köhler; Steven Alter (CBI (Industrial Track), 2016)

A Work System Front End for Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. - Steven Alter; Narasimha Bolloju (Int. J. Inf. Technol. Syst. Approach, 2016)

Better Use Case Diagrams by Using Work System Snapshots. - Narasimha Bolloju; Steven Alter (Int. J. Inf. Technol. Syst. Approach, 2016)

Improving Scrum User Stories and Product Backlog Using Work System Snapshots. - Narasimha Bolloju; Steven Alter; Anupriya Gupta; Simran Gupta; Sanyam Jain (AMCIS, 2017)

Answering Key Questions for Service Science. - Steven Alter (ECIS, 2017)

Service System Axioms that Accept Positive and Negative Outcomes and Impacts of Service Systems. - Steven Alter (ICIS, 2017)

Work System Theory and Work System Method: A Bridge between Business and IT Views of IT-Reliant Systems in Organizations. - Steven Alter (ISEC, 2017)

Nothing is more practical than a good conceptual artifact... which may be a theory, framework, model, metaphor, paradigm or perhaps some other abstraction. - Steven Alter (Inf. Syst. J., 2017)

Using a Work System Perspective to Expand BPM Research Use Cases. - Steven Alter; Jan Recker (J. Inf. Technol. Theory Appl., 2017)

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. - Steven Alter (STPIS@CAiSE, 2018)

In Pursuit of Systems Theories for Describing and Analyzing Systems in Organizations. - Steven Alter (ECIS, 2018)

A Systems Theory of IT Innovation, Adoption, and Adaptation. - Steven Alter (ECIS, 2018)

A Work System Perspective on Enterprise Modelling: A Thought Experiment. - Steven Alter (ECIS, 2018)

Enterprise Modeling at the Work System Level: Evidence from Four Cases at DHL Express Europe. - Thomas Köhler; Steven Alter; Brian H. Cameron (PoEM, 2018)

Making Sense of Smart Living, Working, and Organizing Enhanced by Supposedly Smart Objects and Systems. - Steven Alter (TDIT, 2018)

System Interaction Theory: Describing Interactions between Work Systems. - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2018)

Applying Seven Images of Science in Exploring whether Information Systems Is a Science. - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2018)

Rethinking the Prevailing Security Paradigm: Can User Empowerment with Traceability Reduce the Rate of Security Policy Circumvention? - Soohyun Jeon; Anat Hovav; Jinyoung Han; Steven Alter (Data Base, 2018)

Relaxing Modeling Criteria to Produce Genuinely Flexible, Controllable, and Usable Enterprise Modeling Methods. - Dominik Bork; Steven Alter (EMISA Forum, 2018)

How Could Systems Analysis Use the Idea of "Responsible Information System"? - Steven Alter (CAiSE Forum, 2019)

Adopted Globally but unusable Locally: What Workarounds Reveal about Adoption, Resistance, Compliance and non-Compliance. - Robert M. Davison; Louie H. M. Wong; Steven Alter; Carol Ou (ECIS, 2019)

Using a Framework for Describing Theoretical Perspectives to Identify High-Level Design Choices about the Scope and Content of Enterprise Models. - Steven Alter (PrOse@PoEM, 2019)

Work System Modeling Method with Different Levels of Specificity and Rigor for Different Stakeholder Purposes. - Steven Alter; Dominik Bork (Wirtschaftsinformatik, 2019)

Applying Socio-technical Thinking in the Competitive, Agile, Lean, Data-Driven World of Knowledge Work and Smart, Service-Oriented, Customer-Centric Value Creation Ecosystems. - Steven Alter (Complex Syst. Informatics Model. Q., 2019)

Design principles for establishing a multi-sided open innovation platform: lessons learned from an action research study in the medical technology industry. - Christofer F. Daiberl; Sascha Julian Oks; Angela Roth; Kathrin M. Möslein; Steven Alter (Electron. Mark., 2019)

Ten Lightweight Systems Analysis and Design Tools Based on Work System Theory and Its Extensions. - Steven Alter (AMCIS, 2020)

How Facets of Work Illuminate Sociotechnical Challenges of Industry 5.0. - Steven Alter (ECIS, 2020)

How Well Do Service Concepts Apply to Digital Services and Service Digitalization? - Steven Alter (HICSS, 2020)

Using Work System Theory, Facets of Work, and Dimensions of Smartness to Characterize Applications and Impacts of Artificial Intelligence. - Steven Alter (TDIT (1), 2020)

Dimensions of Integration in Sociotechnical Systems. - Steven Alter (STPIS, 2020)

Using a Work System Perspective to Explore Operational Aspects of Digitalization. - Steven Alter (CBI (2), 2020)

The Philosopher's Corner: Taking Different Types of Knowledge Objects Seriously: A Step toward Generating Greater Value from IS Research. - Steven Alter (Data Base, 2020)

Satisfying Four Requirements for More Flexible Modeling Methods: Theory and Test Case. - Dominik Bork; Steven Alter (Enterp. Model. Inf. Syst. Archit. Int. J. Concept. Model., 2020)

It is not my job: exploring the disconnect between corporate security policies and actual security practices in SMEs. - Moufida Sadok; Steven Alter; Peter M. Bednar (Inf. Comput. Secur., 2020)

Making Sense of Smartness in the Context of Smart Devices and Smart Systems. - Steven Alter (Inf. Syst. Frontiers, 2020)

Systems Analysis and Design Toolkit Based on Work System Theory and Its Extensions. - Steven Alter; Dominik Bork (J. Database Manag., 2020)

Framework for Describing a Theoretical Perspective: Application to the Bunge-Wand-Weber Ontology and General Systems Theory. - Steven Alter (ACIS, 2021)

Requirements engineering for sociotechnical systems that may include mixed initiative interactions between humans and machines. - Steven Alter (RESOSY@APSEC, 2021)

An Open-Ended Work System Knowledge Model for Visualizing, Organizing, and Accessing Knowledge about Information Systems in Organizational Settings. - Steven Alter (HICSS, 2021)

Facets of Work: Enriching the Description, Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Systems in Organizations. - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2021)

The coordination of workarounds: Insights from responses to misfits between local realities and a mandated global enterprise system. - Robert M. Davison; Louie H. M. Wong; Carol X. J. Ou; Steven Alter (Inf. Manag., 2021)

Responsibility Modeling for Operational Contributions of Algorithmic Agents. - Steven Alter (AMCIS, 2022)

Agent Responsibility Framework for Digital Agents: Roles and Responsibilities Related to Facets of Work. - Steven Alter (BPMDS/EMMSAD@CAiSE, 2022)

Extending a Work System Metamodel Using a Knowledge Graph to Support IS Visualization and Development. - Steven Alter (ER Forum/PhD Symposium, 2022)

A Framework for Describing Theoretical Perspectives: Overview and Application to the Work System Perspective. - Steven Alter (HICSS, 2022)

Digital Transformation Progress Model for Supporting Co-creation During a Digital Transformation Initiative. - Steven Alter (TDIT, 2022)

Understanding artificial intelligence in the context of usage: Contributions and smartness of algorithmic capabilities in work systems. - Steven Alter (Int. J. Inf. Manag., 2022)

Can Information System Engineering Make Cyber-Human Systems Smarter? - Steven Alter (CAiSE, 2023)

How Can You Verify that I Am Using AI? Complementary Frameworks for Describing and Evaluating AI-Based Digital Agents in their Usage Contexts. - Steven Alter (HICSS, 2023)

Could a Large Language Model Contribute Significantly to Requirements Analysis? - Steven Alter (BPMDS/EMMSAD@CAiSE, 2024)

Produce a Useful and Teachable Theoretical Foundation for IS Engineering. - Steven Alter (CAiSE Research Projects Exhibition, 2024)

Vanquishing "Theory As King" By Focusing Instead On Rigorous Generalizations. - Steven Alter (ECIS, 2024)

Validating Generalizations about AI and Its Uses. - Steven Alter (HICSS, 2024)

Extending BPM by Treating Processes as Components of Work Systems that Produce Product/Services Valued by Their Customers. - Steven Alter (ICIS, 2024)

Applications of AI in sociotechnical work systems: Fundamental change or just a type of partial automation? - Steven Alter (STPIS, 2024)

Re-Conceptualizing Information System Usage as Usage by (Increasingly Automated) Work Systems. - Steven Alter (Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2024)

Informing Enterprise Knowledge Graphs with a Work System Perspective. - Andrei Chis; Ana-Maria Ghiran; Steven Alter (Enterp. Model. Inf. Syst. Archit. Int. J. Concept. Model., 2024)

Principles for analyzing, designing and evaluating the situated use of intelligent machines. - Steven Alter (Inf. Technol. People, 2024)

Combining Low-Code/No-Code with Noncompliant Workarounds to Overcome a Corporate System's Limitations. - Robert M. Davison; Louie H. M. Wong; Steven Alter (MIS Q. Executive, 2024)

Can an LLM Use Work System Axioms When Describing Work Systems for Requirements Analysis? - Steven Alter (BPMDS/EMMSAD@CAiSE, 2025)

The Work System Perspective as a Nexus Between Silos in IS Modeling and Between Rigor and Broad Usability. - Steven Alter (CAiSE Forum, 2025)

Using an LLM to Create Situation-Specific Knowledge Graphs Based on a Domain Knowledge Graph: Practical Possibilities and Semantic Challenges. - Steven Alter (CAiSE Workshops, 2025)

AI-Based Requirements Analysis Assistant that Applies Explicit Knowledge and Includes Humans in the Loop. - Steven Alter (CAiSE (1), 2025)

Making cyber-human systems smarter. - Steven Alter (Inf. Syst., 2025)