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Special issues at JSIS: Past, present and future (guidelines for prospective guest editors) JSIS特刊：过去、现在和未来（未来客座编辑指南）

IF 11.8 2区管理学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101927

Marco Marabelli, Joel José Jimenez Rivera

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IT investment differentiation, strategic distinctiveness, and firm performance IT投资差异化、战略独特性与企业绩效

IF 11.8 2区管理学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101925

Inmyung Choi , Alain Pinsonneault , Kunsoo Han

This study explores the strategic implications of differentiating IT investment from industry peers. Specifically, we examine how firms’ differentiated IT investment influences their strategic distinctiveness and market performance. Conventionally, IS scholars suggest that the deviation of a firm’s IT investment from the industry average enhances firm performance, but they focus on a single dimension of IT investment and test the direct effect of IT on firm performance without considering strategic distinctiveness, the extent to which a firm takes distinctive strategic actions relative to industry peers. This study extends prior research by examining a specific way in which firms differentiate their IT investment by considering multiple dimensions. To this end, we introduce a novel concept, IT investment differentiation, which captures how a firm differentiates its IT investment from its peers, focusing on two dimensions: IT investment magnitude and the configuration of enterprise applications. Using a sample of 1,898 firm-year observations from the United States, we find that the two dimensions of IT investment differentiation, excess IT investment and enterprise application differentiation, lead to distinctive strategic actions. Further, we investigate the moderation effect of IT investment differentiation on the relationship between strategic distinctiveness and firm performance. Overall, our research model and findings imply that differentiated IT investment is integral to enabling and supporting strategic actions, thereby creating competitive advantages for firms.

本研究探讨了将IT投资与行业同行区分开来的战略含义。具体而言，我们考察了企业差异化IT投资如何影响其战略独特性和市场绩效。传统上，信息技术学者认为企业的IT投资偏离行业平均水平会提高企业绩效，但他们只关注IT投资的单一维度，并在测试IT对企业绩效的直接影响时没有考虑战略独特性，即企业相对于行业同行采取独特战略行动的程度。本研究通过考察企业通过考虑多个维度来区分其IT投资的具体方式，扩展了先前的研究。为此，我们引入了一个新颖的概念，IT投资差异化，它捕捉了公司如何将其IT投资与同行区分开来，重点关注两个维度：IT投资规模和企业应用程序的配置。通过对美国1,898个公司年度观察样本的分析，我们发现IT投资差异化的两个维度，即过度IT投资和企业应用差异化，导致了不同的战略行动。进一步研究了信息技术投资差异化对战略独特性与企业绩效关系的调节作用。总体而言，我们的研究模型和研究结果表明，差异化的IT投资对于实现和支持战略行动是不可或缺的，从而为企业创造竞争优势。

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Generative mechanisms of IT-enabled transformation of a hospital laboratory: A critical realist evaluation 医院实验室it化转型的生成机制：一个批判性的现实评估

IF 11.8 2区管理学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Pub Date : 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101923

Sampath Bemgal , Nicole Haggerty

Research efforts in the domain of IT-enabled Organizational Transformation (ITOT) have predominantly focused on identifying the determinants contributing to success in ITOT and the significance of their existing theories. However, the socio-technical dynamics driving the transformation process remain largely understudied. To understand and adequately investigate how the organization transformation process emerges and evolves over time, we need to examine how the social and technical components interact through human agents and under different contextual conditions to enable successful IT-enabled transformations. Considering these social and technical components and their interactions as constitutive of generative mechanisms — that is, the causal mechanisms posited by critical realism — we conducted an in-depth case study of a hospital laboratory’s IT-enabled transformation efforts. Through a critical realist lens, we provide a rich description of key generative mechanisms that contributed towards this laboratory’s successful transformation. Among them, our analysis identifies four noteworthy generative mechanisms which manifested over time to progress the transformation process: (1) inertia disruption; (2) cognitive frame alignment; (3) auto-validation; and (4) affordance actualization. At this laboratory, each and every generative mechanism identified demonstrates how interactions among social and technical components — mediated by the laboratory employees — lead to evolving structural configurations over time, facilitating overall transformation. Our goal is to offer a theoretical explanation by way of generative mechanisms to explain not only how but why the laboratory transformation vision emerged and evolved. Our research advances a causal understanding of the socio-technical process of IT-enabled organizational transformation and offers a rigorous example of applying critical realism and generative mechanisms perspective to study complex IT phenomena.

在it驱动的组织转型（ITOT）领域的研究工作主要集中在确定ITOT成功的决定因素及其现有理论的意义上。然而，推动转型过程的社会技术动力在很大程度上仍未得到充分研究。为了理解和充分调查组织转换过程是如何随着时间的推移而出现和发展的，我们需要检查社会和技术组件是如何通过人类代理和在不同的上下文条件下进行交互的，以实现成功的支持it的转换。考虑到这些社会和技术组件及其相互作用是生成机制的组成部分——即批判现实主义假设的因果机制——我们对一家医院实验室的it转型工作进行了深入的案例研究。通过批判现实主义的镜头，我们提供了一个丰富的关键生成机制的描述，有助于这个实验室的成功转型。其中，我们的分析确定了四种值得注意的生成机制，这些机制随着时间的推移表现为推进转型过程：(1)惯性破坏；(2)认知框架对齐；(3) auto-validation;(4)功能实现。在这个实验室，每一种生成机制都证明了社会和技术成分之间的相互作用——由实验室员工调解——如何随着时间的推移导致结构配置的演变，促进整体转型。我们的目标是通过生成机制提供一个理论解释，不仅解释实验室转型愿景是如何出现和发展的，而且解释为什么。我们的研究推进了对IT驱动的组织转型的社会技术过程的因果理解，并提供了一个应用批判现实主义和生成机制视角来研究复杂IT现象的严谨例子。

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Digital transformation by outflanking: How peripheral agents transform resisting organizations 包抄式数字化转型：外围代理如何转变抵抗组织

IF 8.7 2区管理学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Pub Date : 2025-07-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101924

Viktor Arvidsson , Jonny Holmström , Kalle Lyytinen

Information systems scholars have long investigated how to design and implement Information Technology (IT) systems that realize organizations’ strategic, transformative goals. Most studies of this kind posit that transformation originates and is executed from the top, relegating others to the role of bystanders and/or recipients of the change. However, transformation by peripheral agents is possible and sometimes even necessary, given the inherent conservativism of top management and the disruptive and political nature of Digital Transformation (DT). To our knowledge, only few studies have examined the conditions or processes whereby DT originates from the periphery, and no study has theorized such conditions. To address this void, we theorize such transformation as a process of outflanking wherein peripheral agents deploy IT systems to initiate, promote, and actualize the DT of a resisting organization encumbered by high political inertia. The concept of outflanking is inductively inferred from the longitudinal study of a successful 15-year DT journey experienced by a mid-sized Swedish city. The case narrates the city’s DT as a political process and draws on a rich data corpus collected from multiple sources (interviews, archival data, system documentation). Our analysis reveals that during outflanking, peripheral agents deployed three IT-use tactics—shielding, enrolling, and repurposing—which led to successfully overcoming the strong and persistent political inertia. The surprising findings invite a fuller theorizing of the roles IT can play as a means during DT and the (peripheral) actor heterogeneity in initiating, enabling, and effectuating DT. Given the rise of distributed, flexible, and powerful low-cost IT solutions that offer peripheral agents ample opportunity to outflank the core’s resistance, tactical IT use and peripheral agents’ role in DT will likely grow in significance in the future.

信息系统学者长期以来一直在研究如何设计和实施信息技术（IT）系统，以实现组织的战略变革目标。这种类型的大多数研究都假定变革是从高层开始并执行的，将其他人降级为旁观者和/或变革接受者的角色。然而，考虑到最高管理层固有的保守主义以及数字化转型（DT）的破坏性和政治性，外围代理人的转型是可能的，有时甚至是必要的。据我们所知，只有少数研究考察了DT起源于外围的条件或过程，并且没有研究将这种条件理论化。为了解决这一空白，我们将这种转变理论化为一个包围圈的过程，在这个过程中，外围代理部署IT系统来发起、促进和实现被高度政治惰性阻碍的抵抗组织的DT。从瑞典一个中型城市成功的15年DT之旅的纵向研究中，归纳出了侧翼外攻的概念。该案例将城市的DT描述为一个政治过程，并利用了从多个来源（访谈、档案数据、系统文档）收集的丰富数据语料库。我们的分析表明，在包抄中，外围代理部署了三种it使用策略——屏蔽、招募和重新利用——这导致成功克服了强大而持久的政治惰性。这些令人惊讶的发现促使人们对IT作为DT过程中的一种手段所扮演的角色以及在启动、启用和实施DT过程中（外围）参与者的异质性进行更全面的理论化。考虑到分布式、灵活和强大的低成本IT解决方案的兴起，这些解决方案为外围代理提供了充分的机会来绕过核心的阻力，战术IT使用和外围代理在DT中的作用在未来可能会变得越来越重要。

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The paradox of digital platform launch: A study of incumbent firms in China 数字平台启动的悖论：对中国现有企业的研究

IF 8.7 2区管理学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101922

Mengjin Gao , SungYong Um , Young-Kyu Kim , Dongwon Lee , Jieun Kim

Digital platforms are widely understood to create value through network externalities. However, the change from traditional pipeline models to platform-based operations presents substantial organizational challenges. This study investigate how firm status—defined as a firm’s relative position within interorganizational hierarchies—interacts with platform type to influence post-launch performance. Using panel data from Fortune China 500 firms, we find that high-status firms tend to underperform relative to low-status firms after launching digital platforms. Although high-status firms initially benefit from reputational advantages that attracts early participants, the openness and scalability required to drive network externalities may diminish the exclusivity and control on which their status depends. This performance gap is especially pronounced in B2C platforms, where network externalities are stronger, showing that status advantages can paradoxically constrain firm performance. Our findings highlight the inherent tension between pipeline and platform models and underscore the need for status-sensitive strategies in post-launch digital platform. We address the challenge of measuring firm status by using analyst coverage residuals, isolating firm status effects while controlling for performance-related confounding factors. Our study advances the understanding of social contingencies in digital platform launches and provides a robust empirical approach to capturing status-based organizational constraints among incumbent firms.

人们普遍认为，数字平台通过网络外部性创造价值。然而，从传统的管道模型到基于平台的操作的转变给组织带来了巨大的挑战。本研究探讨企业地位（定义为企业在组织间层级中的相对位置）如何与平台类型相互作用，从而影响上市后的绩效。利用中国财富500强企业的面板数据，我们发现地位高的企业在推出数字平台后，往往表现不如地位低的企业。虽然地位高的公司最初受益于吸引早期参与者的声誉优势，但驱动网络外部性所需的开放性和可扩展性可能会削弱其地位所依赖的排他性和控制力。这种绩效差距在网络外部性更强的B2C平台上尤为明显，这表明地位优势会矛盾地约束企业绩效。我们的研究结果强调了管道和平台模式之间的内在紧张关系，并强调了在发布后的数字平台中需要状态敏感策略。我们通过使用分析师覆盖残差来解决衡量公司地位的挑战，隔离公司地位影响，同时控制与绩效相关的混杂因素。我们的研究促进了对数字平台发布中的社会偶然性的理解，并提供了一种强有力的实证方法来捕捉在位企业之间基于地位的组织约束。

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Artificial intelligence and the environment: ethical challenges and strategic opportunities for organizations 人工智能与环境：组织的道德挑战和战略机遇

IF 8.7 2区管理学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101921

Marco Marabelli , Robert M. Davison

In this viewpoint article, our goal is to raise awareness and spark debate in the Information Systems (IS) community regarding a prominent concern that has important strategic and ethical implications: the environmental impact of the increasing use of generative artificial intelligence (GAI). We examine several specific issues, beginning with GAI’s heavy consumption of natural resources and electricity. We then move to assessing how the rich and the Global North gain via GAI, while the poor and the Global South must deal with its adverse effects. We then move to assessing GAI’s impact on underrepresented communities and countries in the Global South; while GAI contributes to global warming, this affects people unevenly, because it is mostly rich people and the Global North that make intensive use of these technologies. After suggesting that more local and global laws are needed to regulate the sustainable use of AI, we report on how organizations can perform AI strategizing, for instance to control emissions in smart cities and improve weather forecasting. We conclude with a research agenda that aims to encourage IS scholars to focus on the environmental impact of AI, its ethical implications for organizations, and how GAI can be used strategically to benefit all.

在这篇观点文章中，我们的目标是提高信息系统（is）社区对一个具有重要战略和伦理意义的突出问题的认识并引发辩论：越来越多地使用生成式人工智能（GAI）对环境的影响。我们研究了几个具体问题，首先是GAI对自然资源和电力的大量消耗。然后，我们将评估富人和全球北方如何通过GAI获利，而穷人和全球南方必须应对其不利影响。然后，我们开始评估GAI对全球南方代表性不足的社区和国家的影响；虽然GAI加剧了全球变暖，但它对人们的影响并不均衡，因为主要是富人和全球北方密集使用这些技术。在提出需要更多的地方和全球法律来规范人工智能的可持续使用之后，我们报告了组织如何执行人工智能战略，例如控制智能城市的排放和改善天气预报。最后，我们提出了一个研究议程，旨在鼓励IS学者关注人工智能对环境的影响、其对组织的伦理影响，以及如何战略性地利用人工智能造福所有人。

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How do IT misalignments and IT ambidexterity imbalances lead to organizational agility? Substitution, complementarity, and contingency interdependencies with a configurational approach IT错位和IT双敏捷性失衡是如何导致组织敏捷性的？使用配置方法进行替代、互补和偶然性相互依赖

IF 8.7 2区管理学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101907

Ana Ortiz de Guinea , Louis Raymond

Two main and separate Information Systems (IS) research streams have investigated the link between information technology (IT) and organizational agility via the concepts of IT ambidexterity and IT alignment. This study examines IT ambidexterity and IT alignment for agility by breaking down each concept and investigating questions regarding the balance between exploitation and exploration alongside those of fit between the IT and business domains. To do so, we apply configurational theory inductively to empirically identify and theorize how interdependencies between capability types (i.e., exploitation and exploration) and domains (i.e., IT and business) lead to agility. A fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) of data gathered through a survey of manufacturing SMEs unveils three specific forms of interdependencies: (1) complementarity of exploration between the IT and business domains; (2) substitution of exploitation between the two domains; and (3) contingent effects (positive vs. negative) of each, IT exploitation and IT exploration, depending upon the intensity of the remaining elements. These interdependencies enable the derivation of four theoretically meaningful propositions for future research that reconcile inconsistent findings in both research streams. Overall, this study contributes beyond past research focused on either IT ambidexterity or IT alignment by providing a compelling parsimonious theoretical explanation of how – and which – IT misalignments and imbalances between exploitation and exploration lead to high agility and which do not. These insights are also of high practical value, as they provide manufacturing SMEs with more options to reach agility.

两个主要的和独立的信息系统（IS）研究流通过IT双灵巧性和IT一致性的概念调查了信息技术（IT）和组织敏捷性之间的联系。本研究通过分解每个概念，并调查有关开发和探索之间的平衡以及IT和业务领域之间的契合的问题，来检查IT的两重性和敏捷性的IT一致性。为了做到这一点，我们运用配置理论归纳地识别和理论化能力类型（例如，开发和探索）和领域（例如，IT和业务）之间的相互依赖如何导致敏捷性。通过对制造业中小企业调查收集的数据进行模糊集定性比较分析（fsQCA），揭示了三种特定的相互依赖形式：(1)IT和业务领域之间的探索互补性；(2)两个领域之间的替代利用；(3) IT开发和IT探索的偶然效应（积极或消极），取决于其余要素的强度。这些相互依存关系使得四个理论上有意义的命题的推导为未来的研究，调和不一致的发现在两个研究流。总的来说，这项研究的贡献超越了过去关注IT双敏捷性或IT一致性的研究，它提供了一个令人信服的简洁理论解释，说明了开发和探索之间的IT错位和不平衡如何以及哪些会导致高敏捷性，哪些不会。这些见解也具有很高的实用价值，因为它们为制造业中小企业提供了更多实现敏捷性的选择。

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The new management logic of digital megaprojects: An agenda for information systems research 数字大项目的新管理逻辑：信息系统研究议程

IF 8.7 2区管理学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Pub Date : 2025-06-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101911

Sha Huang , Kevin C. Desouza

Digital megaprojects play an increasingly strategic role in our modern economies as nations seek to leverage information systems to address complex societal challenges, build global competitiveness and drive economic growth. This viewpoint article offers a comprehensive conceptual understanding of the nature and distinctive characteristics of digital megaprojects. It introduces a conceptual framework that distinguishes between various management approaches for different types of projects, emphasising the novel logic necessary for effectively managing digital megaprojects. Lastly, the article proposes a research agenda highlighting the importance of future studies in this field.

随着各国寻求利用信息系统来应对复杂的社会挑战、建立全球竞争力和推动经济增长，数字大型项目在现代经济中发挥着越来越重要的战略作用。这篇观点文章对数字大型项目的性质和独特特征提供了一个全面的概念理解。它引入了一个概念框架，区分不同类型项目的各种管理方法，强调有效管理数字大型项目所需的新颖逻辑。最后，文章提出了研究议程，强调了该领域未来研究的重要性。

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Strategic implications of cognitive computing in IS: addressing AI fragmentation through knowledge similarity transformation 认知计算在信息系统中的战略意义：通过知识相似度转换解决人工智能碎片化问题

IF 8.7 2区管理学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101908

Matthias Tuczek , Kenan Degirmenci , Yuanyuan Song , Kevin C. Desouza , Michael H. Breitner , Richard T. Watson

Without an integrated model of how the human brain works and processes information, artificial intelligence (AI) will remain a mysterious black box that can misfire as circumstances change. An integrated study of the three cognitive computing components (AI, cognitive psychology, and neurobiology) is necessary to create explainable AI findings. This paper introduces cognitive computing systems (CCS) as a domain for information systems (IS) research. It reviews the interdisciplinary implications of CCS concepts by developing a new computational method, knowledge similarity transformation (KST), to improve digital-augmented literature analysis in fragmented knowledge areas. Based on the dual CCS and KST contribution, this article outlines strategic implications for organizational value creation opportunities and future research directions from a technological, psychological, and physiological perspective.

如果没有一个完整的人脑工作和处理信息的模型，人工智能（AI）将仍然是一个神秘的黑匣子，可能会随着环境的变化而走火。对三个认知计算组成部分（人工智能、认知心理学和神经生物学）的综合研究是创造可解释的人工智能发现的必要条件。本文介绍了认知计算系统（CCS）作为信息系统（IS）研究的一个领域。它通过开发一种新的计算方法——知识相似转换（KST）来回顾CCS概念的跨学科含义，以改进碎片化知识领域的数字增强文献分析。基于CCS和KST的双重贡献，本文从技术、心理和生理的角度概述了组织价值创造机会的战略含义和未来的研究方向。

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Avoiding virtual dystopia: A design theory for emancipatory participatory immersive platforms 避免虚拟反乌托邦：解放式参与式沉浸式平台的设计理论

IF 8.7 2区管理学 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Pub Date : 2025-05-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101910

Fabian Tingelhoff , Jens Joachim Marga

Immersive platforms, accessed via VR and AR interfaces, offer a profound digital experience but raise significant privacy and ethical concerns. Current systems collect extensive user data; this enables manipulative advertising and behavior control, fosters self-censorship, and diminishes authentic self-expression – especially among marginalized communities. The unchecked development of immersive platforms threatens to create oppressive environments due to power imbalances and a lack of regulation. This paper addresses the urgent need for emancipatory design guidelines to prevent such outcomes. By integrating critical theory with Participatory Design, we propose Emancipatory Participatory Immersive Platforms. These platforms involve users in their design and dismantle oppressive structures through four emancipatory tools (i.e., agency, dialogue, inclusion, and rationality), substantiated by eight actionable design principles. Our framework aims to empower users, promote inclusivity, and ensure rational engagement – and thereby foster immersive platforms that maintain functional benefits while enhancing freedom and equity.

通过VR和AR接口访问的沉浸式平台提供了深刻的数字体验，但也引发了严重的隐私和道德问题。目前的系统收集大量的用户数据；这使得操纵广告和行为控制成为可能，助长了自我审查，削弱了真实的自我表达——尤其是在边缘化群体中。由于权力不平衡和缺乏监管，沉浸式平台的无限制发展可能会创造出压迫性的环境。本文论述了解放设计指南的迫切需要，以防止这种结果。通过将批判理论与参与式设计相结合，我们提出了解放式参与式沉浸式平台。这些平台让用户参与设计，并通过四种解放工具（即代理、对话、包容和理性）拆除压迫性结构，并以八项可操作的设计原则为依据。我们的框架旨在赋予用户权力，促进包容性，并确保合理的参与——从而培育沉浸式平台，在保持功能优势的同时增强自由和公平。

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