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Weigel A, Baumgart TL, Zeuge A, Sauter LM, Niehaves B, Huchler N, Heinlein M, Wittal R, Staiger B. Competence transfer in virtual realities: Can virtual reality bring products and services together? Work 2022; 72:1727-1743. [DOI: 10.3233/wor-211244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND: The virtual and real worlds of work are increasingly merging through digital transformation. This also applies to products and services. Virtual Reality (VR) with all its learning opportunities is a promising technology to improve workflows and enable transparency between different departments and organizations. This transparency is particularly important when it comes to preventing potentially dangerous work situations. OBJECTIVE: We investigate weaknesses in competence transfer processes between computer-aided designers and service employees connected in a hybrid value chain. On the one hand, designers receive only little feedback, hence are missing necessary evaluation to adjust their designs to empirical specifications. On the other hand, service employees, therefore, work with sometimes impractical machine designs which makes their work on-site unergonomic, dangerous, and more difficult. METHODS: We present a design science-driven, empirical approach to provide enhanced competence transfer with the help of VR. Thereby, we evaluate a self-developed VR demonstrator with an iterative approach consisting of 60 qualitative interviews. RESULTS: The developed VR demonstrator supports interorganizational sharing of (tacit) knowledge by enabling designers to take the service perspective and ensuring collaboration across organizational boundaries. By intentionally using VR technology as an interruption to the work, the design can be viewed from a service perspective and evaluated for occupational safety and health issues. CONCLUSIONS: The work process improvements achieved by the VR demonstrator enable early consideration of design issues that are particularly relevant to safety, thus ensuring greater occupational safety and health protection in the processes for service employees.
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Berente N, Salge CADL, Mallampalli VK, Park K. Rethinking Project Escalation: An Institutional Perspective on the Persistence of Failing Large-Scale Information System Projects. J MANAGE INFORM SYST 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2022.2096545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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- Nicholas Berente
- University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
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- KP Consulting, 1619 Country Walk Trail, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30043
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O'Connor M, Conboy K, Dennehy D. Time is of the essence: a systematic literature review of temporality in information systems development research. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & PEOPLE 2022. [DOI: 10.1108/itp-11-2019-0597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to identify, classify and analyse temporality in information systems development (ISD) literature.Design/methodology/approachThe authors address the temporality and ISD research gap by using a framework – which classifies time into three categories: conceptions of time, mapping activities to time and actors relating to time. The authors conduct a systematic literature review which investigates time in ISD within the Senior Scholars' Basket, Information Technology & People (IT&P), and top two information systems conferences over the past 20 years. The search strategy resulted in 9,850 studies of which 47 were identified as primary papers.FindingsThe results reveal that ISD research is ill equipped for contemporary thinking around time. This systematic literature review (SLR) contributes to ISD by finding the following gaps in the literature: (1) clock time is dominant and all other types of time are under-researched; (2) contributions to mapping activities to time is lacking and existing studies focus on single ISD projects rather multiple complex ISD projects; (3) research on actors relating to time is lacking; (4) existing ISD studies which contribute to temporal characteristics are fragmented and lack integration with other categories of time and (5) ISD methodology papers lack contributions to temporal characteristics and fail to acknowledge and contribute to time as a multifaceted interrelated concept.Originality/valueThis work has developed the first SLR on temporality in ISD. This study provides a starting point for ISD researchers and ISD practitioners to test commonly held temporal assumptions of ISD researchers and practitioners.
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Queiroz M, Tallon PP, Coltman T, Sharma R. Conditional paths to business unit agility: corporate IT platforms and the moderating role of business unit IT autonomy. EUR J INFORM SYST 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/0960085x.2022.2039564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Magno Queiroz
- College of Business, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, US
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- Sellinger School of Business, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, US
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- School of Business, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
- Waikato Management School, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- Waikato Management School, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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van Oorschot KE, Akkermans HA, Van Wassenhove LN, Wang Y. Organizing for permanent beta: performance measurement before vs performance monitoring after release of digital services. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT 2022. [DOI: 10.1108/ijopm-03-2021-0211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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PurposeDue to the complexity of digital services, companies are increasingly forced to offer their services “in permanent beta”, requiring continuous fine-tuning and updating. Complexity makes it extremely difficult to predict when and where the next service disruption will occur. The authors examine what this means for performance measurement in digital service supply chains.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use a mixed-method research design that combines a longitudinal case study of a European digital TV service provider and a system dynamics simulation analysis of that service provider's digital service supply chain.FindingsWith increased levels of complexity, traditional performance measurement methods, focused on detection of software bugs before release, become fragile or futile. The authors find that monitoring the performance of the service after release, with fast mitigation when service incidents are discovered, appears to be superior. This involves organizational change when traditional methods, like quality assurance, become less important.Research limitations/implicationsThe performance of digital services needs to be monitored by combining automated data collection about the status of the service with data interpretation using human expertise. Investing in human expertise is equally important as investing in automated processes.Originality/valueThe authors draw on unique empirical data collected from a digital service provider's struggle with performance measurement of its service over a period of nine years. The authors use simulations to show the impact of complexity on staff allocation.
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Arnott D, Gao S. Behavioral Economics in Information Systems Research: Critical Analysis and Research Strategies. JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 2021. [DOI: 10.1177/02683962211016000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Theories of decision-making have long been important foundations for information systems (IS) research and much of IS is concerned with information processing for decision making. The discipline of behavioral economics (BE) provides the dominant contemporary approach for understanding human decision-making. Therefore, it is logical that IS research that involves decision making should consider BE as foundation or reference theory. Surprisingly, and despite calls for greater use of BE in IS research, it seems that IS has been slow to adopt contemporary BE as reference theory. This paper reports a critical analysis of BE in all fields of IS based on an intensive investigation of quality IS research using bibliometric content analysis. The analysis shows that IS researchers have a general understanding of BE, but their use of the theories has an ad hoc feel where only a narrow range of BE concepts and theories tend to form the foundation of IS research. The factors constraining the adoption of BE theories in IS are discussed and strategies for the use of this influential foundation theory are proposed. Guidance is provided on how BE could be used in various aspects of IS. The paper concludes with the view that BE reference theory has the potential to transform significant areas of IS research.
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- David Arnott
- Monash University, Faculty of Information Technology, Clayton, Australia
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- Monash University, Faculty of Information Technology, Clayton, Australia
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Kim J, Park EH, Park YS, Chun KH, Wiles LL. Prosocial rule breaking on health information security at healthcare organisations in South Korea. INFORMATION SYSTEMS JOURNAL 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/isj.12338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Jongwoo Kim
- Management Science and Information Systems University of Massachusetts Boston Boston Massachusetts USA
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- Information Technology & Decision Sciences Old Dominion University Norfolk Virginia USA
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- Nursing Old Dominion University Norfolk Virginia USA
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Lee JS, Keil M, Wong KFE. When a growth mindset can backfire and cause escalation of commitment to a troubled information technology project. INFORMATION SYSTEMS JOURNAL 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/isj.12287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Jong Seok Lee
- Department of Accounting and Information Management Haslam College of Business, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Knoxville Tennessee USA
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- Regents' Professor of the University System of Georgia, John B. Zellars Professor of Computer Information Systems, J. Mack Robinson College of Business Georgia State University Atlanta Georgia USA
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- School of Business and Management Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Clear Water Bay Hong Kong
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