Pub Date : 2025-02-16DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101889
Yusheng Zhou , Lei Zhu , Chuanhui Wu , Qun Wang , Qinjian Yuan
Some online communities built on user-generated content have implemented user participation in self-governance to increase content compliance while saving operational costs. However, there is little knowledge on the impact of user participation in self-governance, particularly regarding users’ content contributions. Drawing on social cognitive theory, this study examined the impact of users’ participation in self-governance on knowledge contribution in an online Q&A community, as well as how the user’s social status and activity level may modify this impact. We obtained a rich sample from a major online Q&A community in China and tested our hypotheses employing multiple identification methods and robustness tests. We found that participation in self-governance decreases the quantity but increases the quality of users’ knowledge contributions. In addition, users’ social status and activity level were found to weaken the effect of participation in self-governance on knowledge contribution. The insights derived from this study are crucial for online communities heavily relying on user-generated content. By understanding the mechanics of the impact of user participation in self-governance, online communities can improve their content management strategies and strike a trade-off between knowledge generation and moderation.
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Big data analytics (BDA) has attracted significant attention from organisations who are seeking to leverage its analytical capabilities to enhance performance. Yet, most BDA investments fail to realise their expected value, indicating that the path for BDA value creation remains unclear; scholars call for a better understanding of the role of BDA use. Therefore, we seek to answer the research question: How does the use of BDA impact business value? We conducted a developmental literature review, resulting in the conceptualisation of the BDA-Use-Value (BDA-UV) framework. The framework consists of 10 constructs: BDA system capabilities, BDA use, BDA users and tasks, BDA organisational capabilities, complementary organisational resources, BDA learning, goal-oriented activities, intermediate outcomes, ultimate outcomes, and the internal and external environment. The framework also includes 10 propositions, which illuminate the relationships within the BDA value chain, BDA learning loop, and BDA context. This research contributes to theory by providing a consolidated view of disparate yet commensurate research streams (business value of IT and system use) and is critical in the BDA context where organisations are struggling to leverage BDA’s informating potential to derive value.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101887
Yolande E. Chan JSIS Editor-in-Chief
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Pub Date : 2025-01-03DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2024.101885
Emmanouil Papagiannidis , Patrick Mikalef , Kieran Conboy
The widespread and rapid diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI) into all types of organizational activities necessitates the ethical and responsible deployment of these technologies. Various national and international policies, regulations, and guidelines aim to address this issue, and several organizations have developed frameworks detailing the principles of responsible AI. Nevertheless, the understanding of how such principles can be operationalized in designing, executing, monitoring, and evaluating AI applications is limited. The literature is disparate and lacks cohesion, clarity, and, in some cases, depth. Subsequently, this scoping review aims to synthesize and critically reflect on the research on responsible AI. Based on this synthesis, we developed a conceptual framework for responsible AI governance (defined through structural, relational, and procedural practices), its antecedents, and its effects. The framework serves as the foundation for developing an agenda for future research and critically reflects on the notion of responsible AI governance.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-28DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2024.101874
F. Iannacci , S. Karanasios , G. Viscusi , R. McManus , C. Rupietta , C.W. Tan
This study conceptualizes e-Government maturity from the theoretical lens of strategic change. Drawing on a multiplicity of theories, it undertakes a fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of the drivers of e-Government maturity over the 2010–2020 decade. It bypasses partially conflicting findings about the contribution of human capital to high levels of e-Government maturity by showcasing instead two configurations of conditions where human capital investments become a non-trivial necessary condition over time. Theoretical, methodological, and practical implications are discussed by zooming in on the configurational patterns emerging over time and, by extension, refining the notion of ‘turning point’ discussed in the literature.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-21DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2024.101872
Ilan Oshri , Federica Angeli , Julia Kotlarsky , Jatinder S. Sidhu
The COVID-19 pandemic set off a systemic crisis that spread rapidly across the globe in early 2020, significantly affecting the outsourcing industry. Information Technology (IT) vendors as well as client firms found it challenging to maintain their performance levels. The Information Systems (IS) outsourcing literature, notably, had little insight to offer to client firms about effective IT outsourcing strategies for a systemic crisis. However, the literature did discuss two distinct yet interconnected logics for understanding IT outsourcing performance in non-crisis contexts. Whereas one logic revolves around the possession of strong internal capabilities, the other centers on the externalization of services. Building on this work, we develop a conceptual model to guide a configurational analysis centering on the sustenance of IT outsourcing performance during a systemic crisis. Based on the findings emerging from a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) of 200 companies across 13 countries, we theorize six organizational logics that client firms can consider to sustain IT outsourcing performance. These logics entail different combinations or configurations of client-firms’ IT outsourcing characteristics and the characteristics of the crisis faced. As systemic crises can engender more or less intense uncertainty, thus affecting the strategic options available to decisions makers, we also use our findings to theorize organizational logics that can enable performance sustenance during low, medium, and high severity crises. We discuss our research’s contributions to the IS outsourcing literature as well as its practical implications.
2020 年初,COVID-19 大流行引发了一场迅速蔓延全球的系统性危机,对外包行业造成了重大影响。信息技术(IT)供应商和客户公司都发现,保持业绩水平是一项挑战。值得注意的是,信息系统(IS)外包文献对客户公司应对系统性危机的有效 IT 外包战略几乎没有什么见解。不过,这些文献确实讨论了在非危机背景下理解信息技术外包绩效的两种截然不同但又相互关联的逻辑。一种逻辑围绕着拥有强大的内部能力,另一种逻辑则以服务外部化为中心。在此基础上,我们建立了一个概念模型,用于指导以系统危机期间 IT 外包绩效的维持为中心的配置分析。根据对 13 个国家 200 家公司进行的模糊集定性比较分析(fsQCA)得出的结论,我们从理论上提出了客户公司为维持 IT 外包绩效可以考虑的六种组织逻辑。这些逻辑需要客户企业的 IT 外包特征和所面临危机的特征的不同组合或配置。由于系统性危机会带来或多或少的不确定性,从而影响决策者的战略选择,因此我们还利用我们的研究结果,从理论上提出了在低、中、高严重性危机期间能够维持绩效的组织逻辑。我们将讨论我们的研究对信息系统外包文献的贡献及其实际意义。
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Pub Date : 2024-11-15DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2024.101875
Inmyung Choi , Min-Seok Pang
Digital innovation is ubiquitous across a wide range of industries, blurring the boundary between traditional and technology industries. An increasing number of firms in traditional industries such as manufacturing, retail, or service now regard themselves as technology companies. In this study, drawing on corporate governance literature, we develop a theoretical framework for the relationship between CEO power and digital innovation. We posit that a more powerful CEO more effectively directs risky digital innovation, leads change management, and resolves conflicts within a firm’s digital and business sides. We find that a more powerful CEO can drive digital innovation to a greater extent. Interestingly, this relationship is weakened by a board of directors’ external social capital but strengthened by the board’s internal social capital. Surprisingly, CEO power is negatively associated with the firm’s non-digital innovation. Our research significantly contributes to the literature on strategic information systems (SIS) on multiple fronts and offers meaningful managerial insights for organizations aiming to innovate using digital technologies.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-11DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2024.101870
Anuragini Shirish , Shirish C. Srivastava , Niki Panteli , John O’Shanahan
Most prior public sector digital transformation (DT) research has examined the role of digitalization in improving either the internal operational efficiency of the government or the quality of government service delivery to external stakeholders such as citizens and businesses. Although policy-driven digitalization of specific sectors is key for promoting public value, government’s role in orchestrating extra-government digitalization initiatives to create public value has not been sufficiently investigated. To address this perceptible void in the public sector DT literature, we study a government-led DT program designed to promote digitalization among microbusinesses (MB), a sector that has major economic and social implications. Given the significant role of technical and business knowledge in facilitating enterprise DT, we examine and theorize different knowledge mechanisms through which government policy initiatives can help foster MBs’ DT. Drawing on qualitative data from a series of structured interviews and focus groups with government agents, digital champions, and MB owner-managers involved in the implementation of a government-led DT program for MBs in Ireland, among the different DT stakeholders, we identify three knowledge pathways playing different knowledge-related roles and aiming to facilitate this transformation: top-down, bottom-up, and multidirectional. Each pathway comprises distinct practices. Collectively, the identified knowledge mechanisms in the DT program knowledge ecosystem foster social value creation for both MBs and government stakeholders, and therefore for the nation as a whole. Specifically, sustenance of the DT program is achieved through “initiation” and “instantiation” knowledge routes. Our findings offer theoretical contributions to the literatures on government-led digital transformations, effectiveness of government-led digital initiatives, and digital transformation in the MB sector. Our study also has significant implications for policy and practice.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-29DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2024.101868
Hamed Zolbanin , Benoit Aubert
This paper proposes a process model for design-oriented machine learning (DS-ML) research in the area of information systems (IS). As DS-ML studies become more prevalent in addressing complex business and societal challenges, there is a need for a standardized framework to conduct, communicate, and evaluate such research. We integrate elements from the design science research (DSR) process model, action design research (ADR), and the Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) to develop a comprehensive Machine Learning Process Model (MLPM) tailored for academic DS-ML studies. The MLPM outlines eight key phases, including: problem identification; objective formulation; data understanding; data preparation; design, development, and refinement; evaluation; reflection and learning; and communication. We discuss the unique aspects of each phase in the context of DS-ML research and highlight the iterative nature of the process. By providing this structured approach, we aim to enhance the rigor, transparency, and comparability of DS-ML studies in IS research. This model serves as a step towards establishing consistent standards for DS-ML research, facilitating its integration into mainstream IS literature, and unlocking new opportunities for innovation and impact in the field.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-25DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2024.101871
Stephen McCarthy , Paidi O’Raghallaigh , Carol Kelleher , Frédéric Adam
Digital innovation is a complex process in which actors seek to create new value pathways by combining digital resources in a layered modular architecture. While IS scholarship has a rich tradition of research on developing and implementing digital artefacts within intra-organisational contexts, our understanding of knowledge integration across distributed innovation networks is nascent and under-theorised. This is an important area of research given the rising importance of digital innovation networks and the challenges faced in integrating specialised knowledge, especially given the greater diversity, speed, reach, and scope made possible by digital technologies. Drawing on in-depth case study findings from a health IoT project involving multiple organisations and disciplines, we explore how knowledge is integrated across boundaries during the initiation stage of a digital innovation network. Our findings point to boundaries related to the digital platform’s organising vision, resource allocation, delivery roadmap, technical architecture, and intellectual property, to name but a few challenges. We then reveal five socio-cognitive modes of knowledge integration which actors strategically enact to cross syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic boundaries: Signalling, Assembling, Contesting, Discounting, and Finalising. The choice of mode depends on the perceived knowledge status (‘what they know’) and social status (‘who they are’) of network actors, which highlight the salience of both social and cognitive dependencies for knowledge integration. We further discuss the contribution of design objects for overcoming differences and distinctions between specialist actors in a digital innovation network.
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