Australasian Journal of Information Systems: Announcements

AJIS Section Release: The Australasian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS) has just published 5 new articles in its Volume 28 Research Article section

Australasian Journal of Information Systems — 2024-11-22

The Australasian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS) has just published five new articles in its Research Article section of its volume 28:

Information Systems Research in Australia and New Zealand: A Survey of Research Activity from 2020 to 2022

Marc T. P. Adam, Sultana Lubna Alam

marc.adam@newcastle.edu.au

doi: https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v28.5079

Over the past 60 years, the information systems (IS) discipline has become an established research field in Australia and New Zealand. Throughout its history, the discipline has experienced an ongoing formation and evolution of its unique identity, with important links to both business and computing-focused research. As a sociotechnical discipline, IS research considers a wide range of phenomena that emerge when social systems interact with technical systems. Yet, there is a lack of research into how recent socioeconomic and technical developments, such as accelerated digitisation in the aftermath of Covid19, widescale university restructuring, and a revision of the government’s research classification schemes, have affected the IS discipline. Against this backdrop, the present paper seeks to establish the current state of the IS discipline in Australia and New Zealand. Based on a survey of 123 IS researchers, we confirm the sociotechnical nature of the IS discipline in this region, identify research focus areas, provide research output benchmarks at different academic levels, and assess the level of engagement with general and specialised conferences. Our results provide important insights into the positioning of the IS discipline at the nexus of business and computing-focused research.

Business process patterns for improving social sustainability

Thorsten Schoormann, Marco Di Maria

thorsten.schoormann@tu-braunschweig.de

doi: https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v28.4949

Business process management (BPM) has the ability to boost transformations towards sustainable entities by innovating organizational structures. While the majority of existing BPM tools and methods focus on economic obligations, social sustainability is often underrepresented. This is problematic because it inhibits business improvement of people’s quality of life (e.g., health and equity), fails to address changing customer demands beyond transactional excellence, and obstructs the consideration of new regulations. Based on a literature review and expert interviews, recurrent problems and best practice solutions for integrating social sustainability into business processes were collected. These were formalized into a set of process patterns and then evaluated through illustrative demonstrations, an applicability check, and interviews with process experts. The paper proposes ten patterns together with a series of examples to guide the analysis and improvement of processes in terms of social sustainability. They support both generating novel ideas and identifying weaknesses. In doing this, our work complements existing tools and methods from sustainable BPM, advances the current body of knowledge in this stream, and opens avenues for a more holistic consideration of sustainability in business processes.

Risks of e-commerce Recommender Systems: A Scoping Review

Eranjana Kathriarachchi, Shafiq Alam, Kasuni Weerasinghe, David Pauleen

e.kathriarachchi@massey.ac.nz

doi: https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v28.4869

While recommender systems (RS) used in e-commerce have improved significantly providing customers with a personalised shopping experience, scholars have constantly raised concerns over the risks associated with e-commerce RS. However, a lack of methodological synthesis of risk-generating events associated with e-commerce recommender systems has curtailed systematic investigation of the risks of e-commerce RS. This paper presents a scoping review aimed at addressing this gap by synthesising different risk-generating events involved with the use of e-commerce RS as reported in the literature that could affect the welfare of customers who use those systems. Accordingly, peer-reviewed research studies published from 2003-2023 were extracted from the SCOPUS database and EBSCOhost platform for review. Sixty-two publications with evidence on risk-generating events of e-commerce RS were considered for the review. Twenty risk-generating events were identified through the review. These events were mapped with the corresponding risks based on existing frameworks on risks of e-commerce. We were able to identify several risk-generating events that had not previously been considered in conceptualising the risks of e-commerce RS. Further, we identified the plurality of the outcomes of risk-generating events which could provide guidance for the evaluation of e-commerce recommender systems from a multistakeholder perspective.

Achieving Desired Project Outcomes with Control Modes amidst Technical Uncertainty

Vijay V. Raghavan, Lakshman Mahadevan

lmahadevan@fgcu.edu

doi: https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v28.4669

Organizations aim to achieve successful project outcomes in information systems development (ISD) projects by managing the technical uncertainties that arise with adopting innovative technologies. This study, guided by control theory, investigates various control modes—namely, behavior, outcome, clan, and self-control—and their role in enhancing internal efficiency and psychological outcomes among project members in the presence of technical uncertainty. Our findings reveal that outcome and clan control modes are particularly effective at promoting favorable project results amidst the technical uncertainty surrounding innovative technology development, whereas behavior and self-control modes show no significant impact. As a result, prioritizing outcome and clan control modes is recommended for managing ISD projects characterized by technical uncertainty.

Creating an immersive environment of Metaverse for businesses

Harish Kumar, Vijay Kumar Sharma

harish.kumar@iimkashipur.ac.in

doi: https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v28.4529

Metaverse is an immersive environment that shares online space with users to interact with an artificial world through avatars or other digital representations. By leveraging the immersive features of Metaverse, businesses can create new opportunities for revenue generation, customer engagement, collaboration, innovative products, services, or innovation. The development and governing of user interfaces and virtual environments are challenging. Since the metaverse concept is emerging, numerous questions remain about designing, executing, and benefiting from it in the business environment. This study identifies enablers that can support creating an immersive Metaverse environment for businesses to gain new business opportunities. The study deploys multi-criteria decision-making techniques, "Total Interpretive Structural Modelling," and "Cross-Impact Matrix Multiplication Applied to Classification" to establish cross-relationships among enablers. The study also provides a hierarchical roadmap for creating an immersive metaverse environment. Recognizing which enablers hold the most influence in a hierarchy can lead to the strategic development of an immersive environment. This study will help researchers, policymakers, technology consultants, and business practitioners explore Metaverse's most impacting enablers to gain competitive advantages and future opportunities for the business.

Thank you for your continuing interest in our work.

Kind regards

Professor Michael Davern and Dr Stuart Black

Co-Editors-in-Chief

Australasian Journal of Information Systems

https://ajis.aaisnet.org

AJIS Visibility: Seeking entries for the AJIS Paper Development Workshop at ACIS 2024

Australasian Journal of Information Systems — 2024-10-15

The purpose of the workshop is to develop and nurture research in the region, consistent with the current goal of AJIS to promote "interesting and sufficiently rigorous" research (see our recent editorial: https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v28.5427)

The Workshop

The workshop will run for a full day and is an opportunity for scholars to share their developing works. We envisage a mix of brief workshop presentations, together with individualised and small group mentoring, feedback and guidance provided by the AJIS editorial team and other senior academics. As this runs concurrently with the ACIS Doctoral Consortium, doctoral consortium participants should not apply.

Submission, Registration, Deadlines

We welcome work-in-progress or early full-draft papers on any IS topic within the scope of AJIS. A submission does not bind authors to submit the paper to AJIS, nor does acceptance at the workshop guarantee the paper will ultimately be accepted for publication in the journal.

Submissions should be at least 10 pages (excluding references and tables) and follow the usual author guidelines for AJIS. We stress that this is not an idea development workshop - we are focused on helping 'unstick and extend' current working papers/projects and accelerate their path towards publication. Early-career researchers are encouraged to apply, but the workshop is not restricted to early-career researchers.

Submissions should be submitted to the Co-Editors-in-Chief at ajis.eic@aaisnet.org. Together with your submission please indicate which author or authors will be attending the workshop if the submission is accepted. Only authors of accepted papers will be permitted to attend the workshop.

Submissions will be desk reviewed by the AJIS editorial team with decisions made on a rolling basis until the workshop reaches capacity, or until November 21.

A separate registration is not required and there is no cost for the workshop - but please note that this event is self-catered. It is of course expected that authors will be registered for the ACIS 2024 conference.

We look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you at ACIS 2024 in Canberra!

Kind regards,

Michael Davern & Stu Black

Co-Editors-in-Chief Australasian Journal of Information Systems

AJIS Article Release: Editorial: AJIS - Thinking Differently in Service of The Community

Australasian Journal of Information Systems — 2024-09-09

AJIS Improvement: AJIS RSS/ATOM feed

Australasian Journal of Information Systems — 2015-11-12

You will now find an RSS/ATOM link box on the home page. Subscribe your outlook or other equipped email clinet and automatically receive advice of new articles.

AJIS Improvement: Automatic update of ORCID publication records

Australasian Journal of Information Systems — 2015-10-07

What this means for researchers More visibility for your work! AJIS supplies crossref with your ORCID identifier when registering publications ... as long as you have your ORCID details in your author record. This auto-update facility simply means that when we include the info crossref can update and add work(s) to your ORCID record automatically for you. You can still choose to hide/show whatever works you choose, and, of course, you’ll have the opportunity to authorize or switch off the integration completely (though future publications may trigger a new request). Overall, you’ll benefit from a more complete and up-to-date ORCID record to showcase your work.

AJIS Reviews: How to respond to reviewer comments

Australasian Journal of Information Systems — 2015-01-28

Responding to peer reviewer comments requesting for major revisions is indeed a daunting task for most authors! Although this requires a lot of effort, it contributes to improving your paper, making it worthwhile. This video provides some useful tips that will help you respond to peer reviewer comments effectively. http://www.editage.com/insights/how-to-respond-to-peer-reviewer-comments This video is provided by Editage Insights under a CC:BY-NC-SA license.

Tips for Avoiding Plagiarism

Australasian Journal of Information Systems — 2014-08-21

The RCC statement describes and clarifies some of the more common issues which give rise to allegations of scholarly misconduct. We strongly recommend that you read and distribute this statement.

AJIS Reviews: Advice on writing rejections

Australasian Journal of Information Systems — 2014-01-29

This is an interesting article which provides some advice on writing a high quality rejection. Bilbrey, E., et al. (2014). "A Novel Rubric for Rating the Quality of Retraction Notices." Publications 2(1): 14-26. When a scientific article is found to be either fraudulent or erroneous, one course of action available to both the authors and the publisher is to retract said article. Unfortunately, not all retraction notices properly inform the reader of the problems with a retracted article. This study developed a novel rubric for rating and standardizing the quality of retraction notices, and used it to assess the retraction notices of 171 retracted articles from 15 journals. Results suggest the rubric to be a robust, if preliminary, tool. Analysis of the retraction notices suggest that their quality has not improved over the last 50 years, that it varies both between and within journals, and that it is dependent on the field of science, the author of the retraction notice, and the reason for retraction. These results indicate a lack of uniformity in the retraction policies of individual journals and throughout the scientific literature. The rubric presented in this study could be adopted by journals to help standardize the writing of retraction notices.