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{"title":"A research agenda for digital transformation: Multidisciplinary perspectives. By John Qi Dong, Peter C. Verhoef (Eds.), Edward Elgar. 2024. pp. 370. GBP130. ISBN: 9781035306428","authors":"Robert M. Davison","doi":"10.1111/isj.12570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12570","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48049,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems Journal","volume":"35 3","pages":"1044"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reliability in design science research","authors":"Veda C. Storey,&nbsp;Richard L. Baskerville,&nbsp;Mala Kaul","doi":"10.1111/isj.12564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12564","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Reliability, which is concerned with whether something performs as it should, is well-accepted as an important part of any scientific research, with recognised methods for assessing it in the natural sciences. Reliability is a prerequisite for validity, which assesses knowledge production. Design science research is unique in that it produces an artefact and makes contributions to a design knowledge base and is tasked with the duality of design and science. Therefore, reliability should be reconsidered to address the assumptions underlying this type of information systems research.</p><p>This paper proposes a <i>Design Science Reliability Framework.</i> The framework identifies the part of design science research that should be evaluated (artefact, methods, measures and design knowledge). It also considers when reliability should be assessed as a project progresses by differentiating synchronic versus diachronic evaluation. The framework is used to derive a set of techniques for establishing reliability that can be applied during the evaluation process to both a project's knowledge production and its artefacts. Application of the framework should assist design science researchers when considering how to assess their results.</p>","PeriodicalId":48049,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems Journal","volume":"35 3","pages":"984-1014"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social media-enabled crisis response in Vietnam: A tương thân tương ái perspective","authors":"Hailun Qi,&nbsp;Linna Xu,&nbsp;Shan L. Pan,&nbsp;Wenyu (Derek) Du","doi":"10.1111/isj.12562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12562","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A growing amount of information systems (IS) research is examining the use of social media to enable effective crisis response. However, existing studies have overlooked the impact of indigenous concepts, which play an important role in crisis response. Our study intends to offer an indigenous perspective to this research stream by examining how social media-enabled crisis response is enacted in Vietnam. We used COVID-19 as the focal crisis and collected a rich set of discussion threads from social media. By analysing the data through the grounded theory method, our study identifies the indigenous theoretical concept of <i>tương thân tương ái</i>. We further unveil a process model consisting of six mechanisms through which tương thân tương ái inspires crisis response on social media and three roles assumed by social media during this process. Our study contributes to the literature on social media-enabled crisis response by providing an indigenous perspective and a context-specific explanation. It also enriches IS theory in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) by investigating how the indigenous concept of tương thân tương ái influences Vietnam's crisis response on social media. Our findings also provide guidelines that can help communities beyond Vietnam to promote the values of tương thân tương ái during crisis response.</p>","PeriodicalId":48049,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems Journal","volume":"35 3","pages":"933-957"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Decolonizing IS through tecnologia social: Fostering epistemic plurality in the design of solidarity cryptocurrency in Latin America","authors":"Bruno Henrique Sanches,&nbsp;Marlei Pozzebon,&nbsp;Eduardo Henrique Diniz","doi":"10.1111/isj.12566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12566","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Westernised paradigms dominate the information systems (IS) field, often overshadowing alternative epistemologies. This study challenges the prevailing hegemonic view and contributes to the decolonization of IS research and practice by proposing a Latin American and decolonial approach to technological development that emphasises community centrality and epistemic justice through recognition of local knowledges and Indigenous traditions. Using design ethnography, we follow the development of a solidarity cryptocurrency in a Brazilian favela. Our paper offers two key contributions. By introducing <i>tecnologia social</i>, an underrepresented perspective in IS, we highlight ecology of knowledges, centrality of the local and decolonial reconfiguration as principles that can enrich the understanding of IS projects from a decolonial perspective. In addition, we propose a new concept—epistemic dialogical tension—as a process wherein different epistemologies coexist and accommodate each other, encouraging a dynamic interplay of distinct human experiences and worldviews. It offers new paths to IS scholars and practitioners in navigating the complexities of epistemic plurality. We argue that <i>tecnologia social</i> and epistemic dialogical tension provide fertile ground for developing reimagined, decolonized approaches where multiple epistemologies can coexist, favouring the often-silenced communities they are intended to benefit.</p>","PeriodicalId":48049,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems Journal","volume":"35 3","pages":"958-983"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards decolonial IS: Insights from applying pluriverse and conviviality to analyse a co-production intervention in Peru","authors":"Andrea Jimenez,&nbsp;Fenna Imara Hoefsloot,&nbsp;Liliana Miranda Sara","doi":"10.1111/isj.12565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12565","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While there is a growing interest in applying decolonial approaches within the field of information systems (IS), effective avenues for engagement remain largely unexplored. To this end, our paper introduces a framework focused on decolonial IS research informed by the notions of the pluriverse and conviviality. These concepts emphasise a focus on ontological, epistemological and methodological dimensions, with a strong orientation to justice. We illustrate the application of the framework through a re-analysis of our own research project, the co-production of the Metropolitan Water Observatory (MWO) in Lima, Peru. Applying the framework to learn new insights about the MWO, this paper contributes to the IS field by providing a framework from which to examine IS interventions from a decolonial perspective. In addition to advancing theoretical understanding, our framework serves as a valuable resource for scholars navigating the complex landscape of decolonial approaches in IS.</p>","PeriodicalId":48049,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems Journal","volume":"35 3","pages":"907-932"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/isj.12565","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The 4Rs: A collective reflexive methodology for realising critical self-transformation in ICT4D research practice","authors":"Pamela Y. Abbott,&nbsp;Salihu Dasuki,&nbsp;Andrea Jimenez","doi":"10.1111/isj.12561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12561","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The “critical turn” in information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) research emphasises a transformative and ethical research practice which can be addressed by developing the critical intent and agency of ICT4D researchers through reflexive practice. There exist, however, limited methodological insights into existing reflexive approaches and a limited understanding of how self-transformation and change can take place through more critically reflexive ICT4D research practice. To address these issues, this paper proposes a reflexive methodology for ICT4D research, labelled “the 4Rs”, which comprises four interrelated reflective and potentially self-transforming processes of Retrospection, Representation, Review and Reinterpretation. We present the explanations and justifications of the methodology in detail with illustrative examples. We also employ a metacognitive process to understand how self-transformation can be realised through the use of this methodology and demonstrate the applicability of the 4Rs for other ICT4D researchers. Our main contribution lies in illustrating how this collective and critical approach can be used to deepen the self-reflexivity of traditional individual confessional accounts. We also demonstrate how the approach can lead to new collective knowledge and contribute to achieving more critical agency.</p>","PeriodicalId":48049,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems Journal","volume":"35 3","pages":"855-906"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/isj.12561","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Harambee as a decolonial digital fundraising approach","authors":"Bright Frimpong,&nbsp;Emmanuel W. Ayaburi,&nbsp;Francis Kofi Andoh-Baidoo","doi":"10.1111/isj.12559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12559","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Deployment of digital crowdfunding platforms, which predominantly are designed in line with Western norms, into Indigenous communities often leads to significant cultural tensions. This study uses the Kenyan Indigenous tradition of Harambee to elucidate how these cultural tensions manifest and are navigated in the context of digital crowdfunding. The study employs a qualitative approach, conducting narrative interviews with individuals experienced in both Harambee and digital crowdfunding within the Kenyan context, to advance our understanding of decolonial digital crowdfunding. The findings reveal significant cultural tensions, including those related to inclusive access, diminished communal engagement and erosion of social capital. These tensions highlight the marginalisation of Indigenous cultures and the reinforcement of colonial tendencies in digital spaces. Additionally, the study uncovers the ingenuity of Indigenous users who are integrating Indigenous knowledge and Harambee norms with digital technologies, to balance cultural sensitivity, strengthen technological inclusivity and preserve their communal values within decolonial digital fundraising. This study advances decolonial scholarship by demonstrating how the integration of both Indigenous and local practices with digital technology not only advances digital decoloniality but also enriches the technology's cultural responsiveness. The findings have practical implications for designing inclusive digital crowdfunding platforms that acknowledge and align with local cultural norms.</p>","PeriodicalId":48049,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems Journal","volume":"35 3","pages":"824-854"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Token-based reviewer economies: Proposed institutions for managing the reviewer shortage problem","authors":"Cecil Eng Huang Chua","doi":"10.1111/isj.12560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12560","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This opinion paper presents two proposed token-based systems to fix the information system academy's review system. At present, the review system consumes more human resources than the information systems academy has by an order of magnitude. The cost of this overflow is borne entirely by information systems researchers. I argue this is because the review system is based on a gift economy that cannot handle the currently sized market. Both proposals involve the creation of tokens and a central governing body. The first proposal involves a market built around a review bank (central governing body) that issues review tokens that function as a proxy currency. Journals function as intermediaries between authors and reviewers. Authors pay journals for reviews, and journals pay experts such as reviewers and editors for their services. Reviewers exchange their review tokens on the open market or trade review tokens for favours with institutions like universities. The second proposal involves a gift economy where reviewers transfer their allegiance from peers to the information systems academy. In this proposal, each individual token is unique, like a trading card and an affiliation board tracks the transfer of tokens, linking former possessors of a token together in a review ring. As tokens are regifted, they accumulate history, and thereby social worth, captured in the form of messages each possessor writes. Former possession of a large number of tokens and of tokens with particular histories confers status benefits. These benefits in turn lock reviewers into the review ring system encouraging them to do further reviews. Economic, social, and other implications of both policies are discussed and questions are posed for the information systems academy to grapple with. Example issues discussed include the effect of the proposals on the political power of reviewers and shifts in political power in the information systems academy.</p>","PeriodicalId":48049,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems Journal","volume":"35 2","pages":"761-806"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/isj.12560","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143423933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Extending the process frontier of digital transformation: A flow-oriented perspective","authors":"Hajar Mozaffar,&nbsp;Marina Candi","doi":"10.1111/isj.12557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12557","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Strong interest in digital transformation to increase business value calls for new and improved theorising of the digital transformation process. Traditional perspectives fail to address the complex socio-technological challenges and entanglement of actions at multiple levels that characterise the process. This research adopts a <i>flow-oriented</i> perspective to <i>extend the process frontier</i> of digital transformation. This entails analysing the <i>lines of action</i> that intertwine to form <i>storylines</i> of digital transformation. Drawing on a multilevel longitudinal qualitative study, the research offers three valuable contributions: First, the paper advances the discourse on digital transformation by introducing the heretofore unrecognised phenomenon of <i>transitional moments</i>. Second, by introducing a novel taxonomy for lines of action, the paper demonstrates the evolving nature of the digital transformation process, surpassing conventional rational-system model interpretations. These two contributions broaden the process frontier of digital transformation by underscoring the dynamic and continuous nature of digital transformation, emphasising its non-linear progression, and rejecting the notion of an idealised direct path to a predefined goal. These two additions to the digital transformation discourse lay the foundations for our third contribution, which is a set of proposed research approaches for future investigations into digital transformation, regardless of research focus, phenomena, or domain.</p>","PeriodicalId":48049,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems Journal","volume":"35 2","pages":"720-760"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/isj.12557","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143424259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transcending the qualitative-quantitative divide in IS research using QCA as a configurational, comparative approach","authors":"Federico Iannacci,&nbsp;Angsana A. Techatassanasoontorn,&nbsp;Zhongyun (Phil) Zhou,&nbsp;Chee-Wee Tan","doi":"10.1111/isj.12556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12556","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;In August 2021, we issued a call for papers (CfP) with the aim of bringing together information systems (IS) research that transcends the qualitative-quantitative divide using qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) as a configurational, comparative approach. We received 35 submissions and eventually selected six papers for publication in the special issue (SI). We want to thank the anonymous Reviewers and the SI Associate Editors for their insightful and constructive feedback to the authors and the Scientific Advisors for their invaluable help throughout the peer-reviewing process.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Table 1 below categorises the papers published in this SI with regard to their mode of reasoning, theoretical approach, and methodological approach.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thus far, QCA studies in IS have primarily followed an abductive reasoning mode. Drawing on Ragin (&lt;span&gt;1987&lt;/span&gt;) insight that social science advances most when it entails an iterative dialogue between ideas and evidence (Ragin, &lt;span&gt;1987&lt;/span&gt;), IS scholars have developed configurational propositions (or hypotheses) based on their dialogues between existing theories and empirical evidence. Compared to a purely deductive approach that relies on theoretical logic rather than empirical evidence, IS scholars have used QCA to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and empirical evidence. Compared to a purely inductive approach that focuses on empirically grounded knowledge, IS scholars have used QCA to develop middle-range theory often in the form of substantive theory to advance knowledge of IS phenomena in a specific area of inquiry.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More recently, IS scholars have advocated using either deductive or inductive approaches by developing a set of prescriptive guidelines for conducting QCA research (Park et al., &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;). While the deductive approach is based on the intersection between theoretical propositions formulated in Boolean notation and empirically identified configurations, the inductive approach is based on an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon of interest and the ensuing formulation of empirically grounded propositions drawing on previous QCA findings. Drawing on these prescriptive guidelines, recent IS studies have used the theorised–observed configuration comparison technique to test whether their configurational hypotheses were supported (Sun et al., &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;). For example, Sun et al. (&lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;) drew on the Technology-Organisation-Environment framework and incorporated strategic orientation as an aspect of decision-making for organisational technology adoption. Their study matched the theorised and observed configurations and outlined four possibilities: ‘when a configuration is theorised and observed, the hypothesis is supported. When a configuration is theorised but not observed, it indicates that the hypothesis is only supported under certain conditions, that is, conditionally supported. When a configuration is not theorised but observed, the hy","PeriodicalId":48049,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems Journal","volume":"35 2","pages":"814-820"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/isj.12556","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143424252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}