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"The Electronic Work System Success: The Case of an International Audit Firm" by Sana GUETAT MABROUK   IAE de Lyon, Centre de recherche en gestion MAGELLAN (France).

This research studies the acceptance determinants and success of electronic work systems in audit firms. The conceptual model, established according to a systemic approach based on three levels of analysis, formalises the direct and indirect relations between acceptance determinants, beliefs auditor satisfaction and the perceived technology success in the audit task. The empirical validation process was implemented at three offices (Lyon, Tunis and Casablanca) of one of the Big Four international audit firms. The results of the empirical study, obtained through the participation of 113 auditors and users of electronic work systems, globally validate the proposal conceptual model structure. They attest  firstly  the predominance of experience reflecting the good practices of this technology use; secondly, the perceived usefulness reflecting the perception of the performance enhancement achieved by using the tool; and lastly the  user satisfaction as success determinants of this technology in an audit engagement.....

"Email Classification: application to conflicts detection between persons in collaborative work"  by  Chahnez ZAKARIA, Olivier CURE Université Paris Est and  Kamel SMAILI Loria Nancy (France)

In the context of automatic text classification, we present an approach to detect conflicts in email exchanged between team members belonging to a geographically distributed enterprise. The aim of this approach is to inform a team leader of such a situation in order to prevent serious disagreements between team members. Our approach proposes to build an ontology of relational conflicts and to use its set of concepts to categorize the email classification. The ontology design process is decomposed in two stages: first we conceptualize the field of negative emotions, and then we enrich concepts from text corpora using "triggers". The aim of our study is to evaluate the ontology contribution in the emails classification through the model of the TF-IDF (term frequency-inverse document frequency) and the model of SVM (Support Vector Machines).

"Factors Favoring Use of Financial Information Systems in Small and Medium Chinese Enterprises."  by Zhao Xin WU, Michel PLAISENT and Prosper BERNARD, University of  Quebec at Montreal, UQUAM (Canada).

The majority of Small and Medium Businesses in China (SMEs) cannot get rid of manual financial operations. Therefore, an important issue is the misuse of Financial Management System (FMS) in emerging economies. This research addresses the main issues: what are the organizational and individual factors that influence the use of FMS functions in the Chinese SMEs? A conceptual model and fourteen hypotheses have been developed for this purpose. We used a quantitative method that is based on a survey of
financial sector employees in 450 SMEs in the automotive industry in Guangdong province, China. The data collected are analyzed by SAS software. The results can demonstrate that the factor "training" is the organizational factor most important in influencing the use of FMS in a Chinese SMEs .......

  "Integration of documentary information processes and systems into the requirements of business processes : a strategic information management perspective" by Dominique MAUREL,  Aïda CHEBBI,  E.B.S.I., University of Montreal Quebec (Canada).

One of the competitive advantages of organizations lies in their capacity to create and exploit their informational capital, which is generated through organizational activities and constitutes their organizational memory. In order to support these efforts, information professionals must opt for a process-oriented approach to the organization, rather than a functional approach. This paper presents the conceptual framework of an ongoing research project. It aims at demonstrating the usefulness of ensuring a better integration of documentary information processes and systems to the underlying business processes and information systems. In order to do so, an organization’s information strategy must be aligned with its business processes and integrated to organizational information systems, themselves aligned with business processes. In a strategic information management approach, the goal is to enhance the ability of organizations to leverage information as a competitive advantage.