{"title":"Artificial intelligence and the environment: ethical challenges and strategic opportunities for organizations","authors":"Marco Marabelli , Robert M. Davison","doi":"10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101921","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101921","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>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 <em>AI strategizing</em>, 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.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Strategic Information Systems","volume":"34 3","pages":"Article 101921"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144563802","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":"How do IT misalignments and IT ambidexterity imbalances lead to organizational agility? Substitution, complementarity, and contingency interdependencies with a configurational approach","authors":"Ana Ortiz de Guinea , Louis Raymond","doi":"10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101907","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101907","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>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) <em>complementarity</em> of exploration between the IT and business domains; (2) <em>substitution</em> of exploitation between the two domains; and (3) <em>contingent effects</em> (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.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Strategic Information Systems","volume":"34 3","pages":"Article 101907"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144222812","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":"The new management logic of digital megaprojects: An agenda for information systems research","authors":"Sha Huang , Kevin C. Desouza","doi":"10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101911","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101911","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>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.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Strategic Information Systems","volume":"34 3","pages":"Article 101911"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144195202","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}
Matthias Tuczek , Kenan Degirmenci , Yuanyuan Song , Kevin C. Desouza , Michael H. Breitner , Richard T. Watson
{"title":"Strategic implications of cognitive computing in IS: addressing AI fragmentation through knowledge similarity transformation","authors":"Matthias Tuczek , Kenan Degirmenci , Yuanyuan Song , Kevin C. Desouza , Michael H. Breitner , Richard T. Watson","doi":"10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101908","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101908","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>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.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Strategic Information Systems","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 101908"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144146822","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":"Avoiding virtual dystopia: A design theory for emancipatory participatory immersive platforms","authors":"Fabian Tingelhoff , Jens Joachim Marga","doi":"10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101910","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101910","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>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.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Strategic Information Systems","volume":"34 4","pages":"Article 101910"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144134582","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":"AI Agents: Potential implications for IS Research?","authors":"Shan-Ling Pan , Rohit Nishant , Tuure Tuunanen , Jyoti Choudrie","doi":"10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101906","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101906","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Strategic Information Systems","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 101906"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144134722","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":"Directions for future IS research on sports digitalisation: A stakeholder perspective","authors":"Lily Haffner, Ilan Oshri, Julia Kotlarsky","doi":"10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101905","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101905","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this theoretical review, we analyse the IS literature on the rapidly evolving strategic phenomenon of <em>sports digitalisation</em>. We provide insights on how sports digitalisation is currently understood in the IS literature when examined from a stakeholder perspective. Our analysis identifies the key stakeholders involved in sports, the competition stages (i.e., before, during, or after), the nature of digitalisation in sports, and the key outcomes on which the literature focuses (behavioural, cognitive, and performance-related). Our analysis also points out several gap areas in the extant literature: the lack of attention paid to non-competing stakeholders (e.g., managers, referees, spectators) and the behavioural impact of digitalisation on stakeholders during competitions; and the current focus on analysing the effect of a single digitalisation solution on a single stakeholder. Building on these findings, we propose three future directions to advance research on sports digitalisation. First, future research needs to examine the effect of digitalisation on an eco-system of sports stakeholders. Second, the use of naturalistic reality images as a data source would enhance research during competition. Last, future studies need to consider the blending of borrowed (behavioural and cognitive) theories and novel digitally-enhanced concepts to strengthen the theoretical foundations of sports digitalisation in Information Systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Strategic Information Systems","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 101905"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144124490","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":"Welcome to the second issue of Volume 34 of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems","authors":"Yolande E. Chan JSIS Editor-in-Chief","doi":"10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101909","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101909","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Strategic Information Systems","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 101909"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144084082","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":"Process-level value creation from business analytics: A theoretical literature review of value creation paths and changes induced by machine learning","authors":"Pascal C. Kunz , Kai Spohrer , Armin Heinzl","doi":"10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101902","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101902","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research on business analytics (BA) has made various incongruent assumptions about how BA systems are applied in business processes and how they create value. Meanwhile, machine learning (ML) is changing how BA systems create value, but research streams on ML and BA have yet to come to a shared view on process-level value creation. In this theoretical literature review, we draw on the Information Value Chain (IVC) to synthesize 176 articles from top journals and present a model of process-level value creation from BA systems. We contextualize and extend the IVC with six distinct value creation paths, explain how the characteristics of ML-based BA systems change value creation paths, and propose a research agenda.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Strategic Information Systems","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 101902"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143906904","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}
Jiaying Liu , Andrew Schwarz , Marten Risius , Rudy Hirschheim , James Van Scotter
{"title":"Conceptualizing Echo Chambers and Information Cocoons: A Literature Review and Synthesis of Current Knowledge and Future Directions","authors":"Jiaying Liu , Andrew Schwarz , Marten Risius , Rudy Hirschheim , James Van Scotter","doi":"10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101904","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101904","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Echo Chambers and Information Cocoons have become the subject of a multifaceted academic debate – ranging from the proper conceptualization and delineation of related concepts, to questions about their prevalence and uniqueness in the online environment, to arguments about their societal impact and the role of digital technologies. This study presents a systematic literature review that analyzes the existing research to synthesize relevant findings and build the missing foundations of these phenomena. This study follows a hermeneutic analytical approach to the literature to clarify and model the distinction between information cocoons and echo chambers. Furthermore, we summarize the selected literature and identify existing knowledge gaps to outline future research opportunities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Strategic Information Systems","volume":"34 2","pages":"Article 101904"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143902064","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}