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Table 8.1

Studies Cited as Being in Title and/or Abstracts/Keywords of ISI Web of Science and EBSCO

Source Disposition

Studies Examined from ISI Web of Science and EBSCO
Beckman (2002)

Web of Science Analyzed

Chan (2001) Web of Science Analyzed

Dennis and Carte (1998) Web of Science Analyzed

Dunn and Grabski (2001) Web of Science Analyzed

Hubona, Everett, Marsh, and Wauchope (1998) Web of Science Analyzed

Mahoney, Roush, and Bandy (2003) Web of Science Analyzed

Tuttle and Kershaw (1998) Web of Science Analyzed

Umanath and Vessey (1994) Web of Science Analyzed

Vessey and Galletta (1991) EBSCO Analyzed

Additional Studies Examined
Borthick, Bowen, Jones, and Tse (2001) Web of Science Analyzed

Khatri, Vessey, Ram, and Ramesh (2006) Author Analyzed

Smelcer and Carmel (1997) Web of Science Analyzed

Speier and Morris (2003) Web of Science Analyzed

Speier, Vessey, and Valacich (2003) Author Analyzed

Wheeler and Jones (2003) Web of Science Analyzed

Wilson and Addo (1994) Web of Science Analyzed

Studies Not Further Examined
Agarwal and Sinha (1996)

Web of Science System development domain

Agarwal, De, and Sinha (1999) EBSCO System development domain

Agarwal, Sinha, and Tanniru (1996) Web of Science System development domain

Chandra and Krovi (1999) Web of Science Conceptual

Giordano (2002) Web of Science System development domain

Heliades and Edmonds (2000) Web of Science System development domain

Hung (2003) Web of Science Does not test core CF

Jahng, Jain, and Ramamurthy (2000) Web of Science Conceptual; not CF

Mennecke, Crossland, and Killingsworth (2000) Web of Science Does not test core CF

Meyer, Shamo, and Gopher (1999) Web of Science Conceptual

Ramarapu, Frolick, Wilkes, and Wetherbe (1997) Web of Science Conceptual

Sinha and Vessey (1992) Web of Science System development domain

Song and Salvendy (2003) Web of Science Conceptual; not CF

Swink and Robinson (1997) Web of Science Does not test core CF

Vessey (1994) Web of Science Conceptual foundation

Wright (1995) Web of Science Mixed representations

problem representation/task match, problem representation/problem-solving skill match, or problem-
solving task/problem-solving tool match, and, indeed, three-way matches. Additionally, studies
could have been classified by the domain in which they are applied.
From the viewpoint of classifying cognitive fit studies based on the theoretical distinction of task
complexity, we found that the majority of the studies used more complex decision-making or problem-
solving tasks, with very few studies addressing simple information acquisition and information eval-
uation tasks. Hence, this approach did not allow a sufficiently rich characterization of studies that
addressed more complex tasks. From the viewpoint of classifying the studies based on which problem-
solving elements were matched, we found that by far the majority of studies addressed matches
between task type and problem representation, that is, the original formulation of the model (Vessey,
1991, 1994). Again, this basis for classification did not prove to be appropriate. Finally, classifying