AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)

IT Supported Open Innovation in a Chinese Context

Florian Allwein et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The authors examine digital innovation and how it is supported by portfolios of digital services within a digital innovation platform.

Analytical Capability and Firm Performance

Xuan Feng et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The objective of this paper is to understand the association between analytical capability and firm performance. Authors conceptualize and operationalize analytical capability as a multidimensional concept and examine how it can lead to operational and strategic outcomes.

Public Sector Shared Services Move Out of the “Back-Office”: The Role of Public Policy and Mission Criticality

Arthur Tomasino et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The authors study the extension of SSC services in public safety networks (PSNs). With growing threats from terrorism and natural disasters coupled with political pressure to reduce spending, newly created PSNs have taken on a critical role in assurance of public safety.

MIND – An IT/IS Capability assessment framework

Abayomi Baiyere — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This study leverages existing research to address the aforementioned research gap by focusing on the following specific objective and research question: How can organizational IS capability be assessed?

Cloud Computing Lens in Strategic Alignment Model: Theory and Empirics

Maksim Belitski et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This research aims to discuss and test the cloud-enabled mechanism of validated learning to achieve strategic alignment between business and IT.

Business Value of IT in Multiple-stakeholder’s Environment: the Case of Kazakhstan’s Oil and Gas Industry

Irina Heim et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The authors develop a business–IT value co-creation model at the network level for the O&G industry, which describes the process of inter-company alignment between IT and organizational strategy in the ecosystem of organizations

Additive Manufacturing in the Oil and Gas Industry

Alpana Desai et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This study explores the impact of AM (additive manufacturing) on the oil and gas supply chain in Alaska.

“Yin and Yang”: Integrating the Bright Side into Dark Side Research in IS

Roozmehr Safi et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

In this talk, a brief review of dark-side concepts in IS research is presented and future opportunities for identifying new matching positive concepts are offered.

The Unique Challenges of Seller Uncertainty in Sharing Economy-A Decision Making Perspective

David Agogo et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The goal of this paper is to answer features of sharing economies such as the types of uncertainty users face while making decisions under sharing economy, reactions to those uncertainties, and the way customers cope when making an informed decision.

Constant Connectivity Practices: Enduring Interruptions or Attending to Urgency

Yu Lei et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This research focuses on work practices and aims to explore how connectivity is appropriated within practices.

Recommender for Online Climate Change Petitions with Psycholinguistic and Social Features

Rachael Pinney et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This proposal aims to assist people to navigate online petitions to discover related concerns on climate change. It proposes to design a recommender system which incorporates a set of psycholinguistic and social network features.

Argument Quality, Peripheral Cues and the Elaboration Likelihood Model

Ahmed Elnoshokaty et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The paper discusses the concerns around Elaboration Likelihood Model, in particular regarding how to measure argument quality and peripheral cues.

Narrowing the Gap between Professionality and Popularity: An Empirical Investigation on Community Question Answering

Christopher Sibona et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This study investigates ways to alleviate the professionality-popularity paradox using various textual devices, trying to help contents to gain professonality as well as popularity, thereby popularizing professional science in a more efficient way

Implementing a Security Operations Center at a Midwest University: A Case Study

Robert Nickerson et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This study seeks to chronicle the design, implementation, and operation of a Security Operations Center (SOC) at one midwest university.

Digital Leadership

Chenghong Zhang et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

To be competitive, firms need to extend their internal system, process, and decision agility to business model agility. In this regard, the author propose a ten-step methodology that is customer-centric and agility-focused.

Barriers and Solutions for Scaled Agile Projects Adoption

Kenneth Shemroske — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

Authors highlight the lack of underlying theory or theoretical framework in the literature around research on adoption of scaled agile methods for large projects, and propose steps that lead to theory development in this area.

Internet of Things: Evolution and Literature Review

Mohan Tanniru — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This research examines the emerging topic of Internet of Things (IoT) and its applications. The focus is on providing an overview of the key concepts of IoT and its application domains that would lay the foundation to explore research opportunities provided by IoT.

An Online Community Evaluation Methodology

Dinesh Batra — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The proposed research will investigate essential factors of online communities and also examine these factors could be used as the evaluation criteria of online communities.

Quality of User-Reported Data in Health Virtual Community

Shilpa Balan et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

User-reported data are used in medical research and to support healthcare operations. However, the quality of user-reported data presents a major challenge. This paper is interested in investigating the data quality issues in HVC and possible causes and improvement.

Comparing Consumer-Produced Product Reviews across Multiple Websites

Kyoung Wan Kang — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

Authors show that the sentiment of the online consumer reviews could vary substantially so relying on a single data source to make purchase decision is not a wise idea.

Scale for Measuring Effectiveness of Online Review Websites

Hui Wang et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This work aims to develop a standard scale for measuring the effectiveness of the websites hosting reviews and in the process develop an understanding of the attributes that contribute significantly.

Exploring Participants’ Behavior on Online Weight Loss Community：A Data Mining Perspective

Wu He et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This study aimed to classify community user according the characteristics of their participation behavior and understand the issues discussed in OWLCs (online weight loss communities).

Most Influential Users in Social Network Services: The Contingent Value of Connecting User Status and Brokerage

Vikram Sadhya — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This study investigates the role of influential Twitter users, focusing on their positions in social networks, in redistributing contents generated by other users.

Understanding Knowledge Sharing Among Researchers by Social Network Analysis

Yun-hong Xu et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This work mainly concerns with the differential analysis of the knowledge sharing pattern among the research scholars with the aid of Pajek software and R programming; whereby a holistic knowledge sharing network for the entire set of research scholars in the institution is established and the centrality features of the network is analyzed.

Legal and Privacy Issues of Cloud Computing in Small and Medium Size Enterprises

Young-Kyu Kim et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

In this paper we will analyze the legal and privacy challenges faced by small and medium sized enterprises with the adoption of cloud. This paper will address the security challenges cloud computing presents to the local storage computing.

Online Community Health Simulation

Abraham Cyril Issac et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This study explores the use of multi-agent simulations to identify how to maximize the lively, vibrant period and maintain the health of the online communities (OC).

Change the Metrics to Liberate the IS Field

Hirotoshi Takeda et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

Authors draw attention to the issues around evaluating scholarly output and argue that the Scholarly Capital Model or similar methods will eliminate the deleterious effects on the field of the current methodology.

From Cost to Strategic Focused Offshore Information Systems Investment: The Impact Of Specialized Trainings In The Context Of National Culture

Michael Cuellar et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This study identifies national culture, as an important and neglected factor that moderates this relationship and establishes that the trainings provided needs to accommodate local culture to become more successful and have the desired impact on rate of innovation of the offshore location.

E-voting and Election Validity Discourse: Examining the Impact of E-voting on Kenyan Elections

Anjee Gorkhali — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This study attempts to develop a deeper understanding of the interplay between technology and the conflicting social values that shape Kenya’s electoral process.

Service Quality Improvement through Waiting Time Reduction in a Multi-Facility Healthcare Center Without an Appointment System

Xin Tian et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This study aims to improve the service after making the optimization of current workflow by reducing waiting time. In addition to that, this paper also provides means to identify how resources can be better utilized by hospitals in emerging economies to gain higher performances.

Impact of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Automation on Higher Education

Keng Siau — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The objective of this paper is to discuss the future of higher education in the AI age.

A Research Stream on Sentiment Analysis

Bo Yuan et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The authors study the effect of coupling a specialized lexicon to a general lexicon and its effect on the SA results.

University Analytics

Gülin Ülker et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

Our purpose is to contribute to the role of information systems and analytics in addressing university management.

Of Taxonomies and Taxonomic Theories

David Murungi — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This presentation explores the relationship between taxonomies and taxonomic theories and explores various concerns such as the difference between taxonomy to be a taxonomic theory, the need for a taxonomy to be extended in some way for it to be a theory, and etc.

Smart City, Citizen Engagement, and Information System Research

Long Pham et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The paper highlights the importance of involvement of citizens in all the steps of smart city initiatives.Therefore, authors try to identify key factors and enablers for effective engagement and involvement of citizens and residents in any smart city project.

A System Archetype Analysis of Digital Music Piracy

Marton Gergely — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

In this paper, through a systems dynamics approach, an archetype is built to model the behavior of both legal and illegal music users

The Relationship Between Transactive Memory Systems and Software Development Agility

Bryan McKinley — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This study intends to relate three first-order dimensions of TMS, specialization, coordination, and credibility, directly to response extensiveness and response efficiency.

Analyzing Social Media Presence of Local Government Open Data

Eric Afful-Dadzie — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

Given the much touted potential of social media in governance and recent OGD developments at local government levels, this paper seeks to track social media presence of early adopters of local government open data around the world

When the Door Shuts: Loss of Open Data

Jordana George — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

While there has been considerable study on the benefits of open data and its role in open government, few scholars have examined the deliberate removal of open data, how it is achieved and its consequences. This study examines open data removal and demonstrate how data removal exists along a continuum with differing levels of eradication.

Effect of Software Features and Tasks on Software Use: The Role of Training as a Moderator

Hyo-Jeong Kim et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This research examines the moderating effect of software features and tasks on the relationship between training and software use.

Technology-Enabled Control: Effectiveness, Socio-Emotional Consequences, and Ethical Dilemmas

Martin Wiener et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This research study explores the use of technology in managerial control processes, referred to as technology-enabled control (TEC).

Information Technology Project Collaboration and Its Emerging Outcomes

Mingyu Zhang et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This stuyd examines the key dimensions of IT project collaboration and their impacts on project outcomes

Information Systems Development (ISD) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Risk Management Framework

Roberto Sandoval — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This study will investigate the knowledge sharing of information and group interactions that will be required of the ISD teams in order to ensure proper implementation of the NIST's RMF SP (National Institute of Standards and Technology Risk Management Framework Special Publication) 800-53 in large U.S. government and federal organizations.

Architecture Board Practices in Enterprise Architecture towards the Era of Digital IT: A Case of Global Healthcare Enterprise

Yoshimasa Masuda et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This research will aim to investigate solutions incorporated by Architecture Board in the global healthcare enterprise (GHE) for mitigating architecture risks

Do Enterprise Social Networks increase productivity or lead to information overload?

Lisa Giermindl et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The objective of this study is to understand whether enterprise social networks (ESNs) increase employees’ productivity or create additional information overload.

How Economic Situation Effect on Career Anchors of IT Personnel?

Christina Ling-hsing Chang et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The paper examines how ITP (IT personnel) turnover intention is influenced by career satisfaction, and perceived job alternatives. What considerations lead an IT professional to switch jobs when they are currently satisfied; i.e. when their career anchors are satisfied?

Why Analytics Governance? A Healthcare Application

Atiya Avery et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

Using the healthcare industry as a backdrop, this talk presents preliminary results from a research in progress that examines the emerging risks from analytics projects implemented within healthcare organizations.

Towards a Theory and Operational Definition of Business Analytics

Kelley Donalds — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The purpose of this talk is to sketch a theory and operational definition of business analytics (BA). The intent is to facilitate advances in survey-based research examining the relationship between the use of BA and organizational impacts

Digital Divide in Online Health Utilization in China: A Case Study of Geographical Difference in Online Health Analytics

Haibo Hao et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The present study intends to explore this online health’s digital divide in China by using a geographic health analytics approach.

Bringing Inclusivity to Big Data – Technologically

Nitin Varma et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This research takes into cognizance the current state of BDA and demonstrates conclusively, using a context-aware NLP approach via tools developed specifically for the purpose, how BDA may alternatively be carried out in an interactive and real-time manner.

Data Analytics for Digital Entrepreneurship: A Case Study on Airbnb

Hamed Zolbanin et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This project focuses on Airbnb, a peer-to-peer businesss, and analyzes how a micro-entrepreneur can use the features and affordances of these online platforms to improve their image and potential profit.

Should An Organization’s Strategic and Social Media Orientations Align? A Text Mining Approach

Amir Hassan Zadeh et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This paper intends to show that social media, as a big data resource for organizations, can augment organizational competitiveness if it is strategically aligned with their goals, objectives and vision.

Exploring Critical Factors for User's Ownership on Privacy Concerns toward Social Network Site

Sheng-Pao Shih et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The paper invetsigates user's sense of ownership after using the social network site, and analyzes the effect of ownership of online SNS user, namely, control, usage experience and knowledge on user's sense of ownership on the information they provide in social network sites, and thier privacy concerns.

Business Use of Social Media and Systemic Impact Green IT

Karen Druffel — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This research paper examines how businesses communicate their Green IT objectives and achievements through social media, and how these messages compare with information provided in their CSR reports.

Scholar-Friend Recommendation in Online Academic Community

Yunhong Xu et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The research project proposes a scholar-friend recommendation approach to help researchers find their scholar-friends by integrating multi-dimensional social networks.

Effect of Ambient Awareness on Behavior of Social Media Users

Zahra Yarmohammadi et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This study is an attempt to add to the literature by understanding the process of emerging ambient awareness and its’ propagation among users in generating impact on users’ behaviors.

Mining Social Media for Competitive Intelligence: A Case Study of IBM

Xue, Yuan et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The authors conduct a CI (competitive intelligence) case study on IBM using social media data and text mining. They combine consumer sentiments with syntactic features such as negation, comparative and superlative tense in identifying competitors from social media data.

Driving Forces behind Snapchat Success

Reza Vaezi — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This paper tries to explain the driving forces behind Snapchat despite the difficulty in it usability.

Influence of Trolls on Social Media Participation: Investigating a Social Movement

Pratyush Bharati et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This paper examines the impact of trolling behavior on individuals’ participation online during social movements

Forwarding Behavior among Youth Using Traditional and New Media in the Middle East and the West

Shobha Das et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This paper invetsigates the social and psychological characteristics of social media users, and how these characteristics influence their forwarding behavior.

Decomposing Poison Pill Reviews: A Dual Process Model Approach

Randa Salamoun et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

To understand how OCRs become poisonous in the minds of consumers, this research uses the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM), a dual process theory that offers insight into consumers’ information processing and decision-making.

Voice Activated Personal Assistants – Consumer Use Contexts and Usage Behavior

Niina Mallat et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The authros examine the importance of understanding the user perceptions of smart (voice activated) technologies, the characteristics that inhibit or increase consumers’ adoption resistance, and the preferred user interfaces for consuming the services in different contexts

Affordances of Mobile Communal Referral Service

Haoran Zheng — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This study uses the lens of affordance to examine consumers’ attitudes toward the use of CRS (Communal referral service) and behavioral intention derived from CRS use.

Multimedia Steganography, using RSA and Huffman code algorithms with LSB Insertion

James Boit et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The aim of this study is to develop an android application to transmit secret messages embedded on multimedia files (images, audio, and video).

Mobile Banking Apps as an Indicator of the Industry’s Strategy

Radwan Ali et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The purpose of this study is to investigate the presence and credibility of a mobile strategy within the banking industry.

Work-Life Balance and the Perceptions of Digital Natives

Iaroslava Dutchak — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This paper seeks to explain why digital natives perceive work intrusions caused by modern electronic communication technologies into their personal life less negative than do digital immigrants.

A Study of Employees’ Information Security Policy Violation and Rational Choice Theory: Developing economy context

Tilahun Arage et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This research investigates the moderating impact of culture on the influence of ISS countermeasures and other important variables on employees’ intention to violate ISSP (information systems security policy).

GARCH-based Risk Assessment and Mean-Variance-based Risk Mitigation Framework for Software Vulnerabilities

Baidyanath Biswas et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The objective of this paper is invetigate the following questions: How do vulnerability exposures in software change with time? Are we capable of accurately predicting software risk for the future in terms of volatility growth? How do user firms diversify their software investments to optimize the risk exposure? Based on the threshold risk profile and IT budget, what diversification strategies can firms possibly adopt?

Information Seeking Behavior in the Domain of Security Incident Detection: An Experimental Investigation

Mungwe Regina Ekoa Mbella et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This paper investigates security-related information seeking behavior of users related to detecting threats, and also studies the role of investment in security as a circumstantial factor that can adversely affect the quality of users’ threat-related information seeking behaviors

Data Security in Higher Education Institutions: Security Vulnerabilities from Social Media Sites

Chi-Lun Wu et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This study aims to explore vulnerabilities of student or institution’s information linked SM users’ behaviour behind their SM use with the role of the Internet and social media use policy in organizations.

Event-Based Assessment of Cyber Security and Digital Forensic Readiness

Andrés Diaz López — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The objective of this paper is to understand how organizations can assess their level of digital forensic readiness (DFR) in absence of a widely accepted standard of its application.

Effects of Different Evidence-based Cybersecurity Training Methods on Employees

Wu He et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This research investigates the effect of different evidence-based cybersecurity training methods on employees’ cybersecurity perception and behavior

Update from the ACM/IEEE/AIS/IFIP Joint Task Force on Cybersecurity Education

Yair Levy et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The purpose of the JTF on Cybersecurity Education is to develop comprehensive model curricular recommendations for undergraduate program in cybersecurity education that will support future program development, and associated educational efforts

Electronic Health Records: Investigating Physicians’ Knowledge Activation

Hassan Alyami et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

By means of in-depth interview methods, and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as a theoretical lens, this study aims to explore the physician's perspectives on their use of EHR technologies, and how the physicians' adaptation to EHR impact further implementation of EHR technology in Saudi-Arabia.

Role of Executive Leadership in Healthcare Transformation

Elizabeth Regan et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The paper investigates the value of executive leadership in a transformational environment and examines if it requires a different skill set than managing in a more stable operational environment. The authors also look at the critical CEO skill set for leading successful health IT transformational change.

Making Mobile Health about the User: Understanding Primary Healthcare Workers’ Attitudes towards mHealth adoption

Grace Kenny et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This study aims to understand end users’, namely Primary Healthcare (PHC) workers, initial attitudes towards an mHealth project called IMPACT (usIng Mobile Phones for Assessing, Classifying and Treating sick children).

Impact of Technology on Health and Wellness

Kimberly Deranek et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The objective of this project is to improve our understanding of the effects of technology on health and wellness and enable us to develop and propose a Technological Facilitation Theory.

Using a FVM Perspective to Enable Deeper Understanding of Point of Care Solutions in Healthcare

Imran Muhammad et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The goal of this paper is to proffer a unique application of the fit viability model (FVM) to facilitate a better understanding of key issues pertaining to the implementation and adoption of a Point of Care (PoC) System at a private not-for-profit tertiary hospital in Australia.

Patients’ Characteristics and Utilization of MyChart

Tareq Nasralah et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The objective of this study is to describe patient portal utilization and explore the relation between patient’s characteristics and MyChart to understand the distributions of patients using MyChart

Digital Brand Strategy- Project for an ITM Course

Genasan Shankaranarayanan et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The authors present an innovative capstone project in an Information Technology and Management course which heavily leverages technology and relies on the latest advances in data management and analysis, social media, mobile applications, localization, and online presence.

Principles and Practices for Teamwork in the IS Program

James Nowotarski — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The objective of this project is to share principles and practices from an ongoing inquiry team composed of faculty teaching undergraduate and graduate business and IS students.

Learning with the Library Community, Virtually – A Mixed Methods Research

Su Schiller — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The objctive of this research to discover insights and understand: How do patrons learn through virtual services provided by the library community? What roles do libraries play in patrons’ learning in such virtual community?

Application of IT Service Management Principles

Jack Becker — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The purpose of this project is to revisit the standards-based framework (ITIL) for IT Service Management in order show the robustness it can provide IS/IT classes, and also discuss its implications for academics and practitioners.

Implications of Blockchain Data Architecture: Research and Teaching an Emergent Innovation

Kirk Dean Fiedler et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The paper will frame teaching and research strategies based on experience of teaching and researching emergent technologies and particularly focus on Blockchain distributed data architecture.

The Future of Social Learning: A Connectivist Approach to Using Social Technologies for Inclusive and Socially Responsible Education

Kaveh Abhari et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The goal of this paper is to propose an integrated strategies for improving inclusive and socially responsible education. The strategies draw from connectivism approach and set a foundation for transforming social learning using social technologies

Teaching Social Media Literacy with Storytelling and Social Media Curation

Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The objective of this paper is to teach students SM literacy, a teaching concept was developed that combines storytelling with SM curation.

The Snake and Ladder Game: Generating Metaphor and Meaning in the Information Systems Classroom

Divarakan Liginlal — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The proposed research aims to understand the practice of metaphoric thinking in the IS classroom through interviewing IS faculty, developing and analyzing a corpus of usage of metaphors in IS textbooks, and documenting related best practices

Using Debates in Online Courses for Greater Engagement: When Arguing Improves Trust

Anna McNab — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The goal of this project is to bridge the gap between online and face-to-face learning and to create opportunities for greater active learning engagement

An E-Learning System for Instructional Innovation in Online Courses

Shuguang Hong — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The objective of this project is to proposes an e-learning system to address some of the problems that online courses face.

Examining Open Distance Learning Environments for Massive Open Online Courses

James Boogere et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This paper investigates MOOS (Massive Online Online Courses) and analyzes how ODL environments are best identified by analyzing their impact on opportunities and challenges MOOCs scholars face and we suggest that MOOCs could thrive in an environment.

The Maker Experience or How to shape the hybridization of skills for Students of Engineering, Management and Architecture

Jean-Marc Charlot et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The objective of the paper is to report on the workshops whose goal was to materialize the hybridization of skills with regard to students’ different backgrounds.

Meaningful Framing of IS Education Gamification

Temidayo Osatuyi et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This study seeks to explore what short term goals are relevant to the IS field from the learners’ perspective.

Innovation and Engagement in a 100% Online Program

Amy Lavin — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This paper discusses a four part model that incorporates traditional face to face learning and an online components to effectively deliver and engage students in an online classroom.

Grounded Theory Methodology Clinic

Suranjan Chakraborty et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

AIS SIG on Grounded Theory Methodology (SIG GTM) was formed in 2007 in response to the growing interest in the IS research community on the grounded theory methodology (GTM) and endeavors to address many of the issues GTM researchers face today in conducting, crafting, and publishing their work, and to promote the informed use of this approach in the IS research community. This professional development symposia proposal is being submitted on behalf of AIS SIGGTM. As a part of this proposal, the SIGGTM would like to offer a GTM clinic workshop. The aim of this workshop is to provide a curated forum that would attempt to resolve difficulties and explore opportunities faced by researchers conducting or considering GTM research.

Trends & Themes that will dominate in ITPM Education through 2020

Vijay Kanabar et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

Project management will continue to be the most important skill that employers will be seeking across industries through 2020 after application development. Our panel will discuss the following trends in IT Project Management education that educators need to be aware of a) Agile SW development and agile PM continuing to trend upwards, b) mobile and smart device usage gaining ground, c) information security and cyberattacks dominating the conversation and the impact on project managers leading software development, and finally, d) formal PM education of technical and behavioral competencies. We will invite discussions on the above issues and provide insights on how to address the issues and adapt them in our curriculum.

Auditing and Security of ERP Systems

Marianne Bradford et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

Professors teaching ERP systems may consider including content about the auditing and security of these systems, which is very important for reliability and integrity of data and the IT infrastructure and provides assurance of IT controls that support the financial statement audit. This workshop includes materials that focus on teaching both general controls (i.e. logical access, program change and computer operations) and application controls (controls either configured or programmed into the ERP system), which are two categories of controls that must be in place for an IT audit. In particular, this workshop focuses on logical access in PeopleSoft, specifically, role based access controls. Then, we will learn about how program change control is accomplished in an SAP environment through the SAP transport, followed by discussing necessary controls in a data center, using a Big-4 provided template. Finally, we will discuss the ERP-specific content in the CISA, Certified Information Systems Auditor exam. This session includes a series of exercises that are relevant to instructors and practitioners alike.

When Rigor and Relevance Meet: Experience from a Fruitful Researcher-Practitioner Partnership

Gerald Grant et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The perennial debate in the Information Systems (IS) field about rigor and relevance of IS research to practicing managers often ends with the admonition for IS researchers to more actively engage with practice to bridge the gap between the two (Robey and Markus, 1998; Rosemann and Vessey, 2008). The expected outcome is that research will become both more rigorous as well as more relevant. While this goal is easy to articulate enacting it in practice is more difficult and time-consuming. Successful achievement of rigorous research that is practically relevant occurs at the confluence of a multiplicity of institutional and relational factors (Rosemann and Vessey, 2008). It requires incentive structures (both academic and practice-based) that foster organizational and individual collaboration, networks of personal and institutional connections that are mutually trusting and beneficial, and experiences of successful collaboration that have produced measurable benefits for both academics and practitioners.

Incorporating Social Inclusion into Information Systems Pedagogy

Eileen Trauth et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This 90-minute professional development symposium is organized and presented by SIG Social Inclusion. The purpose is to facilitate interactive engagement with an audience of IS educators about ways to incorporate social inclusion content and sensibilities into the information systems curricula. Audience members are not expected to have any particular background in social inclusion research or pedagogy. In advance of the symposium, interested participants will be able to submit abstracts for courses (currently taught or proposed to be taught) that would incorporate social inclusion. The session will begin with a short introduction to the workshop, a rationale for the value of incorporating social inclusion into IS pedagogy, and ways of doing so. The participants will then engage in roundtable discussion groups, with a facilitator assigned to each group. Groups will be organized around themes such as: social inclusion as an entire course, social inclusion as a topic in an IS course, teaching IS subject matter with a social inclusion sensibility, curriculum focusing on a specific type of social inclusion such as gender or disability, etc. The last portion of the PDS will be devoted to summaries from each roundtable group, followed by closing comments from the PDS presenters.

Social Inclusion in Practice: Supporting Diversity, Inclusion, and Engagement in the AIS

Michelle Carter et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

The Special Interest Group on Social Inclusion (SIGSI) is committed to promoting diversity, inclusive practices, and engagement. Thus, SIGSI recently created a task force to assist the AIS in developing services and policies that enable all IS scholars to fully participate in the AIS scholarly community. In support of that aim, this symposium will: (1) facilitate discussion of social inclusion and exclusion in the AIS and scholarly engagement in public and political discourse; (2) inform the SIGSI community about the task force’s agenda and progress to date; and (3) solicit feedback on its efforts to identify barriers to inclusion and to develop recommendations for the AIS.

Getting Information Systems Programs Classified as STEM

Mark Srite et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and math. This is a designation that we’ve heard about in higher education, particularly in North America and the United States, for several years now, and programs that fall under STEM can receive benefits beyond what others receive. So, you may be thinking, “I teach technology, and my school’s degree program is information systems, information technology, business intelligence, or some technology related major. So, it must be STEM, right?” Not necessarily. To be classified as STEM a program must fit a special set of pre-defined criteria. This panel is designed to help schools determine if their programs are a good fit for STEM designation and if so, how to navigate the steps toward gaining that designation.

Online Education: A Topic at the Heart of MIS

Carlos Ferran et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

Online education is often disregarded by MIS faculty as yet one another way of consuming time teaching; however, online education (i.e. Technology-Mediated Knowledge Transfer) is at the core of our discipline and we should be leading it. It is like most of our topics, an interdisciplinary one bringing together pedagogy, technology, information science, and MIS. This panel will discuss how five MIS researchers have approached eLearning from the undergraduate to the doctoral levels and provide ideas on how to engage in it. Dr. Gómez-Reynoso will discuss his experience teaching students who live in a very spread-out areas Dr. Alanís-González will discuss how to leverage it for an international experience, Dr. Guzman will discuss how to use it in doctoral programs, Dr. Esteves to provide a worldwide elite experience in a hybrid mode, and Dr. Ferran will examine how to use it to leverage limited financial resources without lowering quality.

Perspiration + Inspiration = Publication

Janis Gogan et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

Inventor Thomas Edison famously stated that “genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration” (quoted in Harper’s Monthly, September 1932). There is much to be learned from the experiences of “geniuses” who produce highly influential publications. While many conferences offer Meet the Editors sessions for participants to learn about journals’ vision, priorities, norms and practices, we believe AMCIS participants can also greatly benefit from hearing from award-winning authors. In order to establish the context of their work, each author will talk a little about the research that led to an award-winning paper, but devote more time to reflecting on the triggers, processes and practices that led to that publication. Edison also was quoted as saying that “many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” We hope this panel will inspire attendees to persist, perspire, and publish.

The Internet of Things (IoT): Platforms, Analytics, Security, Business Model, and Human Interaction

J. P. Shim et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

According to Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2017 and a number of recent research reports in 2016 and 2017 from Gartner, Deloitte, McKinsey, and Info-Tech Research Group, the Internet of Things (IoT) is projected to be a multi-trillion dollar opportunity. However, there are numerous issues and requirements in IoT, such as platforms, analytics, gateways and devices (including sensors) management; communication services (i.e., M2M and networking protocols); security and privacy; and user interactions. In addition, various perspectives for monetizing IoT, as a business model, will be considered. The IoT panel proposal will cover IoT platform, gateway and devices; communications services; IoT analytics; security and privacy; business model and business value of IoT; and human interaction with IoT. Each panelist will present the assigned IoT topics.

The Role of Accounting and Professional Associations in IT Security Auditing

Sharif Islam et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

Information Systems Security is a critical area of inquiry and scholarship in our field, yet relatively little is known about the process by which scholars and professionals become certified as security experts for purposes of assessing the quality of information security implementations. The Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA.org) is the professional association that serves as a bridge between the expertise area from which auditing skills are delivered and assessed and the areas in which information systems security is developed and delivered, effectively bridging the practices of accounting and IT Security. Individuals skilled in accounting, such as graduates from combined Accounting/Information Systems departments in business schools are naturally oriented to such industry groups and certifications, but the mainstream IT practice and literature is not. This panel will serve to brief IT Security researchers interested in the process of auditing on the values and procedures of the certification process with implications for understanding corporate IT Security performance as a function of auditing expertise represented at the highest levels of organizational decision making.

Digital Humanities and Information Systems: Strengthening a Tradition of Innovation

Jan H. Kroeze et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

In the last decades Digital Humanities developed from an interdisciplinary approach introducing computing in the traditional areas of study to a discipline of its own. The basis, therefore, are the traditional approaches of the humanities as a study of the experienced world – for example hermeneutics – which are transported in the digital media and used to get a deeper insight of the effects of new media on society. In both areas of study, a close relationship of Digital Humanities to the discipline of Information Systems, that addresses “IT, along with procedures and data” (Travica, 2014, p. 15), are obvious. Nevertheless, until now there is very little contact between these two disciplines, even though the mutual interchange would be very fruitful for both sides. This panel wants to introduce Digital Humanities to Information Systems, as well as to show already existing approaches for collaboration.

Industry Partnership for Business Analytics Programs: Role of Advisory Board Members

Luvai Motiwalla et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This panel focuses on building academic partnerships and research collaborations between business schools and local businesses to support the business analytics (BA) programs. Besides providing real-world experiential learning opportunities for their students, a key challenge faced by public universities in particular is the decline of state funding, the rapid pace of change in the world around them, and increasing demands from different stakeholders. The goal of this panel is to discuss collaboration and partnership ideas at a strategic level and stimulate thinking on how business firms and higher education institutions can work together in new ways to enhance knowledge and skills in BA programs. The panelists are representatives of major Boston area companies which are collaborating the MS in Business Analytics program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. They will explain their engagement with the program and how they are helping shape tomorrow’s workforce with collaborative research projects and their role as advisory board members.

How would you like your Digital Future served: Huxley-Orwell-Kafka Dystopian Style or Digitally Responsible?

Jean-Henry Morin et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

This panel brings together leading scientists and scholars in various areas of cybersecurity to initiate a discussion on a very controversial issue: shaping the digital future of our society. Digital Responsibility of different stakeholders is considered and debated arguing for an all-embracing consideration to broaden the scope of what is commonly known as Critical Infrastructure. Drawing on the panel participants and the audience, we hope to set the ground for agendas in research, industry, and public policy in an interactive part of the panel to be collected and documented after the panel.

Innovation and the changing structure of financial markets

Wendy Currie et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

Over the past fifty years, financial markets have become fundamentally changed as automation replaces almost every activity. The growth of the electronic market coincided with the demutualization and deregulation, as regulators wanted to “…perfect the mechanism of a free and open market…to protect investors and the public interest” (SEC, 2012, p196). Developments with new technology have significantly enhanced the efficiency of markets. Yet serious problems have arisen in the form of illegal trading behavior and intermittent market events known as ‘flash crashes’. Some commentators describe this phenomenon as a crisis in the market structure (Bodek and Dolgopolov, 2015) caused by instability and fragmentation. This panel will review innovations that have occurred between financial markets and computerized high-frequency trading (HFT). Discussion will try to answer questions such as: what are the drivers behind this innovation; does HFT benefit the market; and do changes need to be made to current regulations?

What is a Data Science/Analytics Degree?

Jeffrey Saltz et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

Data science, and the related field of analytics, is an emerging discipline that integrates concepts across a range of domains, including computer science, information systems, software engineering and statistics. While the number of data science / analytics programs continues to increase, there has been little discussion on how we should define this emerging educational field. This panel will foster a debate with respect to what are the key learning objectives within these programs and should there be different types of data science related programs (such as an applied data science program or a business analytics program in addition to data science programs). Via a debate, this panel, along with the audience, will explore the field of data science and these emerging questions regarding data science and analytics education.

Inroads to Engaging iGeneration Students in Innovative IS Education: Lessons Learned in the Trenches

Timothy R. Hill et al. — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:00 PDT

Some iGeneration students we face in our classrooms today were just seven years old when the iPhone was introduced. They are profoundly different from previous generations in ways that often make them challenging to engage, but delving into those distinctions offers strategies to meet the challenges. The panel is drawn from different roles in different programs that have been exploring such strategies in their classrooms, leveraging the iGeneration’s penchant for social media and compelling story-telling to engage them in innovative IS education. These programs are experimenting with experiential learning cast as blog postings from a fictional student character that vicariously places real students inside a Silicon Valley startup, crafting a mobile/web app using Saleforce.com’s innovative enterprise technology platform. Preliminary data has suggested promise and the panelists share their perspectives, as instructors, administrators and iGeneration students themselves, based on their early experiences, to help identify lessons learned and stimulate creative discussion.

Noise or Quality? Cross-nested Hierarchical Effects of Culture on Online Ratings

Thomas Mattson — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:28:32 PDT

Previous feedback system research in a variety of contexts has focused on the impact that ratings (as proxies for quality) have on a variety of social and economic outcomes with equivocal findings. These mixed findings may be partially due to noise (factors not related to quality) embedded in aggregated or average positive and negative ratings. One significant source of ratings noise may come from culturally diverse raters’ issuing ratings in virtual environments. Culture impacts how groups of individuals are socialized to behave and think, which may result in members’ having different attitudes towards publicly downgrading (negative ratings) or praising (positive ratings) other members in the feedback system. In this paper, I investigate how culture influences rating practices specifically in public electronic knowledge sharing communities. Using a cross-nested hierarchical linear model, I demonstrate empirically that cultural differences at the community, occupation, and national levels interact in unique ways to increase or decrease an individual’s propensity to give and receive a positive or a negative rating. My study contributes to the literature on rating systems along with having practical ramifications for the designers of feedback systems.

Commentary: Reflections on Being a Professor-in-Residence

Chris T. Street — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:23:58 PDT

Deciding what to do during a sabbatical is one of the most exciting times for professors. An opportunity to recharge and renew and develop professional skills is an important contributor to staying current and relevant in research and in the classroom. This paper describes a professor-in-residence (PiR) sabbatical experience that was somewhat non-traditional. Instead of visiting an academic institution, a PiR sabbatical involves becoming embedded in a company (in this case, a small software company) and is the flip-side to the executive-in-residence concept popular in many business schools. This paper describes the experience and provides suggestions and insight for professors, hosts, and institutions when considering sabbatical options and how to plan for them.

Towards a Decomposed Expectation Confirmation Model of IT Continuance: The Role of Usability

A.K.M. Najmul Islam et al. — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:17:10 PDT

We propose a decomposed expectation confirmation model of IT continuance by 1) decomposing user expectation and confirmation into two dimensions of usefulness and usability, 2) conceptualizing the role of usability in IT continuance research, and 3) exploring changes in user perceptions of usability and usefulness over time and their impacts on user satisfaction and continuance intention. We tested the proposed research model using longitudinal data that we collected in two points in time six months apart from 125 users of the LinkedIn professional social networking site (pSNS). The results show that 1) perceived usability, usability confirmation, perceived usefulness, and usefulness confirmation determined user satisfaction with pSNS and 2) perceived usability along with satisfaction predicted continuance intention, whereas perceived usefulness had no effect. This study contributes IT continuance research by 1) proposing and empirically validating a decomposed model of IT continuance and 2) by bringing in usability as a core construct of interest for IT continuance research.

An Exploratory Study on Sustainable ICT Capability in the Travel and Tourism Industry: The Case of a Global Distribution System Provider

Roya Gholami et al. — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:17:06 PDT

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity today. Environmental values have spread globally and consumer beliefs are pressurizing firms in almost all industries to comply with green regulations. Sustainability has become such an important part of business strategy that almost every major company now has an executive with “sustainability” in their title. The travel and tourism industry produced 14 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2010. Policy makers have responded with ambitious targets. The European Union aims to achieve a 60 percent reduction in transport sector emissions by 2050. This exploratory study draws on the sustainable ICT capability maturity framework (SICT-CMF) and the case of the Amadeus IT Group, a large travel and tourism industry corporate enterprise that specializes in IT solutions. The study investigates the current capability maturity level of sustainable ICT in the company. The findings suggest that the company is a market leader in terms of sustainability initiatives and that it demonstrates an “advanced” level of sustainability capability. We discuss the lessons learned from Amadeus’ experience.

The Linkage between Conferences and Journals in the Information Systems Field: Observations and Recommendations

Ping Zhang et al. — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:17:02 PDT

Younger scholars often receive advice to submit work to conferences for feedback and polishing in anticipation that they will later submit it to a journal for publication. But is this a normal practice? What do the IS scholars really think or do about the linkage between conferences and journals? What are IS journals’ policies and their editors-in-chiefs’ views on that linkage? This paper explores aspects of the relationship between conference presentation and journal publication, which include motivations for participating in conferences, potential for subsequent publication, preferred journal targets, and progress of paper development following conference presentation. We obtained data that form the basis for our findings and recommendations from two main sources: 1) a panel study with two sequential surveys of IS scholars who presented papers at three consecutive International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) meetings (in St. Louis 2010, Shanghai 2011, and Orlando 2012) and 2) an email interview with the editors-in-chief of 21 major IS journals in regard to their respective journals’ policies and their personal views. The paper provides recommendations for various stakeholders including scholars, journal editors, conference organizers, leaders in the field, and anyone outside the IS field who wants to understand its norms and culture.

Strategic Alignment in SMEs: Strengthening Theoretical Foundations

Chris T. Street et al. — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:16:58 PDT

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are a vital part of the global economy in that they compose the vast majority of all businesses worldwide. In spite of these firms’ importance, they remain understudied in strategic alignment research. In this paper, we consolidate and extend the IS literature on strategic alignment in SMEs. We develop a set of theoretical propositions that outline the ways in which SMEs’ unique characteristics affect their ability to achieve and sustain alignment between their IS/IT strategy and their overall business strategy. In some respects, SMEs can achieve and sustain alignment as larger firms do, while, in other respects, they differ noticeably. We ground each of our propositions in the dynamic capabilities framework to strengthen the theoretical foundations of strategic alignment research, particularly in SMEs. We discuss the implications of our propositions and note theoretical issues emerging from the study of strategic alignment in the SME context.

Course Design based on Enhanced Intercultural Transformation Theory (EITT): Transforming Information Systems (IS) Students into Inventors during Academic Exchange

Chitra Sivakumar et al. — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:16:54 PDT

In this paper, we propose the enhanced intercultural transformation theory (EITT) with additional factors (i.e., support and motivation) as an extension to the existing intercultural transformation theory (ITT). Based on the EITT, we propose a three-phased (i.e., learner, explorer and inventor) framework of an exchange experience assessment (EEA) course with all five EITT factors (i.e., stress, adaptation, growth, support and motivation) interfaced with three stakeholders (i.e., student, patent advisor and instructor). Also, we report the design of the EEA course and its implementation in a university. The collected data confirmed our proposed EITT and EEA course framework that helped to transform information systems (IS) students into inventors. We found that students could develop patentable inventions through the stress-adaptation-growth process during their academic exchanges, but they still needed the patent advisors’ and instructor’s support and motivation. Our findings can enable any interested faculty in any university to attempt offering a similar course for the benefit of budding undergraduate inventors during academic exchange.