Episodes
Digital technology as a boundary object for making sense of time and temporality in hybrid work. Griva, A., Chandra Kruse, L., Hattinger, M., Högberg, K., Pappas, I. O., & Conboy, K. (2024). Making space for time: Strategies for the design of time‐aware hybrid work. Information Systems Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12552
Published 08/31/24
Published 08/31/24
Five principles that help us develop situated explanations. Grisold, T., Kremser, W., Mendling, J., Recker, J., Vom Brocke, J., & Wurm, B. (2024). Generating impactful situated explanations through digital trace data. Journal of Information Technology, 39(1), 2-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/02683962231208724
Published 08/17/24
Building muscle from experiences with confronting crises. Tremblay, M. C., Kohli, R., & Rivero, C. (2023). 'Data is the New Protein: How the Commonwealth of Virginia Built Digital Resilience Muscle and Rebounded from Opioid and COVID Shocks', MIS Quarterly, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 423-449. https://doi.org/10.25300/MISQ/2022/17260
Published 09/02/23
Doing the right thing can result in bad experiences; doing the wrong thing can result in good experiences. Balozian, P., Burns, A. J., & Leidner, D. E. (2023). 'An Adversarial Dance: Toward an Understanding of Insiders’ Responses to Organizational Information Security Measures', Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 161-221. https://doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00798
Published 01/07/23
Two excellent papers from ACIS 2022 in Melbourne, Australia. Rinaudo, N. B., Matook, S., & Dennis, A. R. (2022). 'Social Media’s Stockholm Syndrome: A Literature Review of User’s Love and Hate', paper presented at the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Melbourne (Australia), paper 127. Hannon, O., Gal, U., & Dar-Nimrod, I. (2022). 'Aversion vs. Abstinence: Conceptual Distinctions for the Receptivity Toward Algorithmic Decision-Making Systems Within Value-laden...
Published 12/10/22
People often have rational justifications for why they don't follow the cybersecurity policies. Karjalainen M., Sarker S., & Siponen M. (2019), 'Toward a Theory of Information Systems Security Behaviors of Organizational Employees: A Dialectical Process Perspective', Information Systems Research, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 687-704, https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2018.0827
Published 11/19/22
Great outcomes aren't exclusive to shiny new objects. Paavola L. & Cuthbertson R. (2022), 'Transformative Power of Mundane Technologies in Institutional Change', Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2022.868
Published 07/29/22
Everything we know about dynamic capabilities and IS research as of 2022. Mikalef P., Pateli A. & Ortiz-de-Guinea A. (2022), 'Dynamic Capabilities in Information Systems Research: A Critical Review, Synthesis of Current Knowledge, and Recommendations for Future Research', Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), https://doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00736
Published 03/26/22
What do we know about interoperability in the age of digital platforms and ecosystems? Hodapp D. & Hanelt A. (2022), 'Interoperability in the Era of Digital Innovation: An Information Systems Research Agenda', Journal of Information Technology, https://doi.org/10.1177/02683962211064304
Published 03/12/22
It's a little bit more complicated than the good ol' triple-constraint model. Iivari J. (2021), 'A Paradox Lens to Systems Development Projects: The Case of the Agile Software Development', Communications of the Association for Information Systems, vol. 49, https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.04901
Published 02/26/22
In the era of ubiquitous digital technology, our perception of time is undergoing a serious paradigm shift. Ivaturi and Chua (2021), 'Rethinking Time: Ubichronic Time and Its Impact on Work', European Journal of Information Systems, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0960085X.2021.1966326
Published 08/21/21
Will there still be a future for human work in the hyper-automated future of algorithmic decision-making? Grønsund T. & Aanestad M. (2020), 'Augmenting the Algorithm: Emerging Human-in-the-Loop Work Configurations', Journal of Strategic Information Systems, vol. 29, no. 2, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2020.101614
Published 08/08/21
The different groups of people involved in the Monero cryptocurrency have very different feelings about privacy. How is this going to play out in the design of Monero? Renwick R. & Gleasure R. (2021), 'Those Who Control the Code Control the Rules: How Different Perspectives of Privacy Are Being Written Into the Code of Blockchain Systems', Journal of Information Technology, https://doi.org/10.1177/0268396220944406
Published 03/26/21
In the past, information systems (IS) captured and represented the lived (external) reality. Now, they are the lived reality. Baskerville R. L., Myers M. D., & Yoo Y. (2020), 'Digital First: The Ontological Reversal and New Challenges for Information Systems Research', MIS Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.25300/MISQ/2020/14418
Published 11/21/20
Social media can make people feel envy. But is this always a bad thing? And what does it mean for social media platforms? Wu J. & Srite M. (2020), 'Envy on Social Media: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly', International Journal of Information Management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102255
Published 11/14/20
The old factory paradigm is fading away, but what will replace it? We look to the digital nomads to envision some possibilities. Wang B., Schlagwein D., Cecez-Kecmanovic D., & Cahalane M. C. (2020), 'Beyond the Factory Paradigm: Digital Nomadism and the Digital Future(s) of Knowledge Work Post-COVID-19', Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 21(6), pp. 1379-1401, https://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol21/iss6/10/
Published 11/07/20
The conspiracy theory "QAnon" started in a fringe, esoteric corner of the Web. How did it become part of the mainstream public sphere? De Zeeuw D., Hagen S., Peeters S., & Jokubauskaite E. (2020), 'Tracing Normiefication: A Cross-Platform Analysis of the QAnon Conspiracy Theory', First Monday, https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i11.10643
Published 10/31/20
In Western culture, there's social capital and virtue ethics. In Chinese culture, there's guanxi and qinghaui. Xiao X., Tan B., Leong C., & Tan F. T. C. (2020), 'Powered by “Qinghuai”: The Melding of Traditional Values and Digital Entrepreneurship in Contemporary China', Information Systems Journal, https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12301
Published 10/24/20
The lockdowns of COVID-19 have seen a sharp increase in the use of web conferencing systems. How have these been useful, and how can we improve on these for the future? Hacker J., Vom Brocke J., Handali J., Otto M., & Schneider J. (2020), 'Virtually in This Together – How Web-conferencing Systems Enabled a New Virtual Togetherness During the COVID-19 Crisis', European Journal of Information Systems, https://doi.org/10.1080/0960085X.2020.1814680
Published 10/17/20
Sometimes people set up their own IT systems outside of what is officially supported by the IT department. When these IT systems are revealed, what happens to them? Fürstenau D., Rothe H. & Sandner M. (2020), Leaving the Shadow: A Configurational Approach to Explain Post-Identification Outcomes of Shadow IT Systems’, Business & Information Systems Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-020-00635-2
Published 10/10/20
Smartphone apps for contact-tracing haven't really worked well for us during COVID-19. How could we do this better going forward? Riemer K., Ciriello R., Peter S. & Schlagwein D. (2020), 'Digital Contact-Tracing Adoption in the COVID-19 Pandemic: It Governance for Collective Action at the Societal Level', European Journal of Information Systems, https://doi.org/10.1080/0960085X.2020.1819898 The first and third authors are the hosts of The Future This Week, one of the podcasts that I...
Published 10/02/20
During a pandemic like COVID-19, we need thorough contact-tracing, and smartphone apps are a great way to do that. But how can we get enough people on board to make this effective? Riemer K., Ciriello R., Peter S. & Schlagwein D. (2020), 'Digital Contact-Tracing Adoption in the COVID-19 Pandemic: IT Governance for Collective Action at the Societal Level', European Journal of Information Systems, https://doi.org/10.1080/0960085X.2020.1819898 The first and third authors are the hosts of...
Published 10/02/20
The rollout of the COVID-19 contact tracing app in France hasn't gone entirely well. How can the concepts of Alienation and Solutionism help us understand what went wrong? Rowe F., Ngwenyama O. & Richet J.-L. (2020). 'Contact-tracing Apps and Alienation in the Age of COVID-19', European Journal of Information Systems, https://doi.org/10.1080/0960085X.2020.1803155 10 Minute I.S. Paper (TMISP) is the podcast where we cover Information Systems research papers, in brief. You can find out...
Published 09/26/20
Information Technology (IT) is increasingly involved in societal change. Where does this happen, how does this happen, and what does this entail? Faik I., Barrett M., & Oborn E. (2020). ‘How Information Technology Matters in Societal Change: An Affordance-based Institutional Logics Perspective’, MIS Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 1359-1390, https://doi.org/10.25300/MISQ/2020/14193 10 Minute I.S. Paper (TMISP) is the podcast where we cover Information Systems research papers, in brief....
Published 09/18/20