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The development of ABET/CAC accreditation standards for IS programs presents an excellent opportunity for IS programs in AACSB-accredited business schools to improve their perceived quality and credibility. We argue that neglect by AACSB of IS/IT content has prompted this preemptive move on the part of ABET/CAC. A comparison of AACSB and ABET/CAC accreditation standards finds them to be generally quite compatible. Ironically, our survey of IS program leaders in AACSBaccredited business schools found familiarity with and interest in ABET/CAC standards to be just emerging. Although compliance with the ABET/CAC standards is evidently relatively high among most programs, understanding of potential benefits of accreditation is quite low. Also quite low is understanding of how colleagues might react to accreditation efforts.
Software industry pundits predict that soon the object paradigm will emerge as the dominant approach to analyzing, designing, and constructing complex information systems (Orfali, Harkey, & Edwards, 1996). Instead of crafting applications from the traditional building blocks of data and procedures, the new unit of system construction will become the "object"-an integrated package of data and procedures (Cox & Novobilski, 1991; Taylor, 1992).The object-oriented approach to systems development hinges on correctly partitioning the problem domain into the essential classes and objects (Booch, 1994;Graham, 1994). Methodologists and educators alike recognize that such partitioning is not easy (Booch, 1994;Jean & Strohmeier, 1990). Notable design experts, Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides (1995), assert: "The hard part about object-oriented design is decomposing a system into objects" (p. 11). Leading object-oriented methodologist, Grady Booch (1994), contends that "identification of classes and objects is the fundamental issue in object-oriented design" (p. 167). 4 4 4 4 4 Vol. 9 No. 3
This chapter explores similarities and differences between two cultures, the USA and the Arab World, in BIS ethics, through a survey of American and Arab students on personal use of organizational computers, use of organizational IS resources for non-organization gain, and monitoring of organizational IS resource use. While interesting statistical differences were found in the average strength of several responses, there was no disagreement as to the ethicality or non-ethicality of any survey item. The authors view this consistency as encouraging evidence of a common foundation for IS-related commerce between the two cultures. The findings of this study can be a basis for future cooperation, as legislators, educators, and employers in the Arab World and the USA develop acceptable BIS practices.
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