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Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

The primary role of a professional society is to facilitate communication among its members. Communications of the Association for Information Systems carries out this role for the Association for Information Systems (AIS) by publishing articles on a wide range of subjects of interest to the membership, including but not limited to regular research papers, debates, panel discussions, and other topics of interest to the global community.

Communications of the Association for Information Systems has a proud tradition of publishing novel, original and groundbreaking research, methodological essays and guidelines, important lively debates about research practices, and is also the only dedicated AIS outlet that publishes matters and studies related to IS pedagogy.

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Closed Special Section CFPs:

Leveraging India's Context for Global Information Systems Insights: Location-specific Research and Theory Building, Vol 57
~~Submissions due May 1, 2025~~ Submissions CLOSED on July 1, 2025

Digital Transformation of Higher Education: Pedagogical Innovation Toward Education 4.0?, Vol 57
~~Submissions due June 30, 2025~~ Submissions CLOSED on July 31, 2025

Recently Published Special Sections:

Special Issue: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Founding of CAIS, Vol 57

Special Issue Debate: On the Future of AI, Vol 55

Special Issue: On immersive technology - A new IT artifact?, Vol 55

Special Issue: On the future of AIS conferences, Vol 54

Special Section: On sustainability in information systems, Vol 53

Debate: Recent developments in PLS, Vol 52

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What's New @ CAIS:

CAIS seeks nominations for the 2025 Paul Gray Award for the Most Thought Provoking Paper. Download the Call for Nominations and Nomination Form here. The deadline for nomination submissions: Monday 17 March 2026

CAIS ANNOUNCES THE CLOSE OF VOLUME 57, ITS LARGEST VOLUME TO DATE, WITH OVER 1500+ PAGES OF INNOVATIVE IS RESEARCH PUBLISHED IN THE AIS E-LIBRARY AND THE 5TH VOLUME PUBLISHED DURING THE TENURE OF CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF DENIS DENNEHY AND MARY TATE

CAIS ANNOUNCES THE CONFERRAL OF THE 2025 BEST ASSOCIATE EDITOR AWARD TO STEPHEN MCCARTHY AND JACQUELINE CORBETT

CAIS is delighted to acknowledge the winners of the 2025 Senior Scholars Best IS Publication Award! See their paper published in Vol. 54(1) of CAIS here in the AIS eLibrary, along with an interview with the winning authors

CAIS Editor-in-Chief Denis Dennehy receives the AIS Impact Award! Congratulations Denis!

CAIS is excited to announce its advancement from a rank 4 journal to a rank 3 journal with the Fondation Nationale pour L'Enseignement de la Gestion des Entreprises (FNEGE)!

Special thanks to the Association Information et Management (AIM), the AIM community for its work in defending international journals in IS (Johanna Habib, Anuragini Shirish, and Jean-Loup Richet), the Editors-in-Chief of CAIS Denis Dennehy and Mary Tate, the Association for Information Systems (AIS), the CAIS associate editors for their hard work, and to all the reviewers who make this work possible.

CAIS ANNOUNCES A CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF THE COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CAIS). ACCESS THE NOMINATION FORM AND READ THE AIS INSIDER ARTICLE HERE

OVER THE COURSE OF TWO YEARS, THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF THE TENURE OF DENIS DENNEHY AND MARY TATE AS CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF OF CAIS AND THE SECOND YEAR OF THE NEWLY APPOINTED ASSOCIATE EDITOR BOARD, CAIS HAS ACCOMPLISHED THE FOLLOWING:

Increased the number of articles submitted per year by 250+

Reduced the days in review from 73.6 to 45.2

Reduced reviewer turnaround time from 17.5 days to 13.5 days

Reduced the time taken to assign reviewers to an original submission from 20 days to 15

Reduced the time taken to assign reviewers to a revision from 13.6 to 8.5

Reduced the days from submission to decision from 91 to 53

Published a debate on the future of AI

Launched the CAIS YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@The_Journal_CAIS

Increased the number of followers on LinkedIn from 0 to 3000+

Added two new departments: IS for Practitioners and Transactions on Replication Research

AIS, AIS-TRR, AND CAIS ANNOUNCE THE CREATION AND INTEGRATION OF AIS TRANSACTIONS ON REPLICATION RESEARCH (AIS-TRR) AS A NEW DEPARTMENT WITHIN COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CAIS)

CAIS ADVANCES TO A WEB OF SCIENCE IMPACT FACTOR OF 2.3

CAIS ANNOUNCES AN OPEN REVIEW INITIATIVE. READ MORE ABOUT THE OPEN REVIEW PROCESS IN THE OPEN REVIEW DEPOSITORY HERE

CAIS ANNOUNCES A NEW SPECIAL SECTION DEBATE — CALL FOR PAPERS: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION: PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION TOWARD EDUCATION 4.0? READ THE FULL CALL FOR PAPERS HERE

Current Volume: Volume 58 (2026)

Forthcoming Papers

“Becoming Dr. Seuss”: Design Principles for AI-Augmented Parent-Child Co-Creation Systems
Yaojie Li and Ruochen Liao

Digital Divide Among Marginalized Rural Communities in Developing Countries: Strategies and Practices to Reduce the ‘Proxy Use of ICTs’ for Rural e-Governance
Pramod K. Patnaik, Gaurav Dixit, Ajay Kumar, and Thanos Papadopoulos

What are the Rules, and How do I Play? How Charity Organisations Navigate e-Commerce Platforms to Digitalise Fundraising
Jade W. Brooks and Michelle Richey

A Theory-Based Link Prediction Model for Online Social Networks
Gelareh Towhidi, Atish P. Sinha, and Huimin Zhao

When Big Data Dehumanizes: Situational Boundaries of Data-Driven Ethical Risk
Maryam Ghasemaghaei and Ofir Turel

Cyber Notes Educational Content Delivery Tool: Addressing the Needs of Gen Z and Gen Alpha Students
Kevin Parker

The Impact of App Updates on Usage Frequency and Duration
Pengcheng Wang, Zefeng Bai, Kambiz Saffarizadeh, and Chuang Wang

Unveiling Enablers to the Use of Generative AI Artefacts in Rural Educational Settings: A Socio-Technical Perspective
Pramod K. Patnaik, Kunal Rao, and Gaurav Dixit

The Trustworthy, Governable Platform: An Infrastructure to Support Accountability and Governability in Complex, Multi-party Enterprise
Mike Martin

TAPAT Principles for Reliable Research Data Management Enabled by Decentralized Technologies
Arthur Carvalho, Chad Anderson, Mala Kaul, and Jeffrey W. Merhout

Modeling Personality and Resistance to Change to Explain Online Social Network Continuance: Insights from Thailand
Igor A. Ambalov

The Diverse Histories of Computing and Information in Australasia
Barbara Ainsworth, Sebastian Boell, Petera Hudson, Lalita Kasanji, Sunit Prakash, and Janet Toland

Digital Upskilling and Industry 4.0: Examining Affordances for Sustainable Workforce Upskilling in SMEs
Noor UL-Ain and Mehwish Waheed

Where Does AI Go from Here?
James Lee and Benjamin Yeo

Ethical Information Disclosure: Exploring the Presence-Privacy Tradeoff in GeoMatching Applications for Sustainable Development
Zhenzhen Zhao, Damien Renard, Catherine Lejealle, and Thierry Delecolle

Reinventing French Agriculture: The Era of Farmers 4.0, Technological Innovation and Sustainability
Claude Chammaa, Fatma Fourati-Jamoussi, Lucian Ceapraz, and Valérie Leroux

Shaping Document Accessibility Remediation with Artificial Intelligence: A Multilevel Understanding Study
Maximiliano J. Medina, Cédric Baudet, Maud Njitchouang, and Denis Lalanne

Social Interaction with Collaborative Robots in the Hotel Industry: Analysing the Employees’ Perception
Maria Menshikova, Isabella Bonacci, Danila Scarozza, Alena Fedorova, and Khaled Ghazy

Supply Chain Resilience and Sustainable Digital Transformation with Next-Generation Connectivity in a Smart Port
Shantanu Dey, Rajhans Mishra, and Sayantan Mukherjee

Designing Sustainable Business Models with Emerging Technologies: Navigating the Ontological Reversal and Network Effects to Balance Externalities
Rubén Mancha and Ainara Novales

Demonstration of Generative AI Assisted Inductive Coding: Exploring Sociotechnical Imaginaries for Qualitative Research
Jinglu Jiang, Tanya Giannelia, and Ann-Frances Cameron

Narratives of the Future - Exploring Human-AI Collaboration
Shahper Richter, Alexander Richter, and Matthias Trier

Phygitar: Envisioning the Rhythmic Phygital Ecosystem in 2050
Omar A. El Sawy and Pernille Rydén

The Development of the Perceived Distinctiveness Antecedent of Information Systems Professional Identity: A Conceptual Replication of Study 2 Focusing on Technical Information Systems Professionals
Sam Zaza, Diana K. Young, and Deborah Armstrong

Gaze Behavior, Motivational Factors, and Organizational Knowledge Sharing
Martin Weisner and Dennis Fehrenbacher

From Gaming to Cybercrime: The Case of Stolen Cryptocurrency
Janice Sipior

Causality Is a Lost Cause: IS Research Is Better Off Without It
Fred Niederman

The Impact of Digital Technology Intensity on Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Natural Resources Consumption
Mohammad I. Merhi, Manjul Gupta, Alex Meisami, Arun Upadhyay, and Maria Triana

Backcasting the Future of the Automotive Industry: Leveraging Digital Technologies for the Circular Economy
Linda Sagnier Eckert, Ann-Sophie Finner, Daniel Heinz, and Gerhard Satzger

Generative Artificial Intelligence in Information Systems Education: Benefits, Challenges and Recommendations
Akanksha Singh, Joseph Mansour, Jignya Patel, and Craig Van Slyke

Generative Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge-Driven Industries: Leveraging Collective Intelligence to Address Discourse Patterns and Sectoral Diffusion
Santosh Shrivastava, Surajit Bag, and Susmi Routray

Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability in Organizations: Untangling Organizational, Technical, and Sustainable Characteristics through a Taxonomy
Tobias Plank, Daniel Leuthe, Tim Meyer-Hollatz, and Anna M. Oberländer

Structured Uncertainty as a Framework for Developing Analytical Capabilities: Evidence from Systems Analysis and Design Education
Shawn Ogunseye

Digital Platforms and Workplace Interactions: Shaping Social Identity in the Contemporary Office
Michele Minetola, Saurabh Gupta, and Khawaja Saeed

Use of Generative AI in Scholarly Research: Challenges and Opportunities
Marco Marabelli, Robert M. Davison, Giovanni Gatti, Ankita Srivastava, and Monideepa Tarafdar

Bridging Systems Theory and Information Systems: A Framework for Designing Complex Information Systems
Ulvi Ibrahimli, Simon Hemmrich, and Axel Winkelmann

Pathways to Empowerment: Cultivating Black Women’s Leadership in Information Systems Through Education, Access, and Inclusive Policy
Curtis C. Cain, Carlos D. Buskey, Angela L. Jones, and Karthik Balasubramanian

Understanding Data Infrastructure Providers: Value Creation and Adoption Barriers in the Case of Data Spaces
Anna Gieß, Jenny Neumann, Julia Schweihoff, Inan Gür, and Frederik Möller

AI in Ethiopia: Progress Analysis Technique and Recommendations for Implementing Sustainable Development
Dereje M. Ferede, Soo II Shin, Dominic Thomas, Getachew Hailemariam, and Solomon Negash

Better (Cyber) Insured than Sorry? Unraveling Cognitive Factors in the (Non)Adoption of Personal Cyber Insurance using fsQCA
Florian Schütz, Ana Ortiz de Guinea, Tobias Wolf, Kristin Masuch, and Simon Trang

Platform Choice and Resource Configuration: From the Perspective of Resource Dependence
Yicen Qu, Zuge Yu, Sai Lan, Yacine Rekik, and Ajay Kumar

Grocery Retailers’ Mobile Salesforce Automation Acceptance and Usage
Ewe Leong Khoo, Blooma John, Rosetta Romano, and Jennifer Loh

Digital Platform Ecosystems: Taxonomy and Archetypes
André Hanelt, Fabian Nischak, Robert C. Nickerson, Lutz M. Kolbe, and Ulrich Bretschneider

Legitimacy and Illegitimacy of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Perceptions from the French Management Context
Régis Meissonier, Cécile Godé, Alain Goudey, Bernard Quinio, and Philippine Loupiac

Evolution of Digital Teaching Practices in Higher Education: A Longitudinal Multiple Case Study
Nicole Draxler-Weber, Fynn-Hendrik Paul, Alicia Wittwer, and Uwe Hoppe

Toward Circular Consumption Patterns: AI-Enabled Decision Support in End-of-Life Scenarios for Defective Products
Hannah Tamara Maurer

Advancing Sustainable Development: The Interplay between Artificial Intelligence, Digitalization, Green Finance and Regulatory Quality
Amal Dabbous, Karine A. Barakat, Abbas Tarhini, and Georges Aoun

Transforming or Undermining Learning using GenAI: A Systematic Literature Review and Design Science Study
William Tam, Khushbu Tilvawala, and David Sundaram

Causal Moderated Mediation Analysis of Health Technology Nonuse: Exploring Inertia and Normative Influence
Surma Mukhopadhyay, Ramsankar Basak, and John Bentley

Gender in IS Research: Who's on Top?
Aaron French, Amy B. Woszczynski, Yuanxia Li, Carole L. Hollingsworth, and John D. Rusk

Teaching Case: How to Grow the Salesforce Platform Business?
Martin Mocker and Ina M. Sebastian

Communicating Big Data: Announcement Styles Impact Employee Stress and Adaptation
Kimia Ansari and Maryam Ghasemaghaei

Drivers of Open Banking Adoption: A Dual Perspective from Taiwan
Wei-Lun Chang and Pham Thi Lap Thu

Managing Service Experiences in Immersive Digital Environments: Social Presence and Support in the Metaverse
Aparnita Saha, Daniel I. Jublee, and Ramkumar M

LitBaskets: Supporting Exploratory Literature Searches for the Information Systems Research Community
Blair Wang, Sebastian K. Boell, and Raffaele F. Ciriello

Reverse Grounded Theory: A Practice Oriented Methodology
Fred Niederman

We Are All Users Now: People and Organizations Too
E B. Swanson

Augmented Reality in E-Tailing: Unveiling the Determinants of Consumers’ Urge to Impulse Purchase
Voon-Hsien Lee, Xiu-Ming Loh, Lai-Ying Leong, Garry Wei-Han Tan, and Keng-Boon Ooi

Am I a Nobody? A Phenomenological Investigation of Disembodied Assistive Technology Use
K. R. Subisha, Saji K. Mathew, and Hemachandran Karah

En Pointe: Elevating Sense and Movement in Information Systems Research
Leona Chandra Kruse, Sofie Wass, Jan vom Brocke, Katharina Drechsler, Johanna Lorenz, Patrick Mikalef, Dag H. Olsen, Christoph Hubatschke, Lise A. Hansen, Matteo Vignoli, Araz Jabbari, Ben Neal, and Joel G. Lewis