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Online sex trafficking cases have been increasing every day. The field of Information Systems (IS) has not significantly explored research on online sex trafficking specifically to evaluate existing literature and provide future research directions. In this paper, we use Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) to review the literature on online sex trafficking. Our focus is on policies related to online sex trafficking. We then summarize our findings and suggest a future research agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital activism, political activism mediated by digital technologies, offers the promise of increased visibility and political power for marginalized groups. Yet, this has not been the case outside of a few exceptions such as Black Lives Matter. This paper offers theoretical, conceptual critical research that explores why successful digital activism may elude marginalized groups. We ask why many marginalized groups have been unable to harness the power of digital activism. We suggest that greater reliance on smartphones for internet access in marginalized groups may be at the heart of the problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Integrating digital technologies offer companies a range of potentials for optimizing business processes, exploring new business models and collaborating along value chains to co-create value. However, this integration increases complexity, especially within SMEs that lack extensive resources to drive data transformation. GAIA-X offers potential solutions in form of federated services as a low-threshold way to participate in federated data ecosystems. Thus, in this paper we survey the current state of research on GAIA-X by means of a literature review extracting and collecting design knowledge as well as to prepare further implementation within the scope of our research project. Therefore, we build a concept matrix in which we differentiate the identified body of knowledge by three concepts with 18 characteristic expressions in total. Our analysis of the identified papers highlights architectural approaches for designing a GAIA-X compatible data ecosystem, augmented by additional factors to consider when designing these ecosystems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this systematic literature review (SLR) is to explore how Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) digital technologies are transforming the healthcare sector. Peer-reviewed, full-text research papers published between January 2016 and April 2021, which focused on data-driven healthcare, health data management systems, and the disruptive role of digital technologies in healthcare were retrieved from three electronic databases, namely PubMed Central, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and MEDLINE. Articles included in the SLR were identified and selected using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guideline. Three main themes were identified from 84 research papers included in the SLR, namely, (i) digital technologies driving the transformation of healthcare, (ii) the impact of digital transformation on healthcare, and (iii) areas of transformation in healthcare. The results showed that technological innovations can mitigate the impact of unequal distribution of healthcare services, reduce healthcare costs, improve the quality of care, and the quality of life for patients and healthcare professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores how to bridge the field of IS on sustainability with Sustainability Transitions Research (STR). Using a bibliometric analysis of 5 IS conference proceedings, it maps possibilities for such bridging, moving beyond the current approaches of GreenIT. Semantic content analysis of IS abstracts and keywords indicates themes characterizing GreenIT, focusing mostly on sustainability practice on the organizational level. In contrast, sustainability research (systems-level) is still uncharted territory for the IS community. Social network analysis of the authors and journals shows that collaboration and co-citation "within" the IS community are as low as the connection "without". We propose that more diffusion of IS theory and methods through Design Science may enrich current STR to be truly data-driven and theory-guided. First, the mapping suggests that IS theorizing can augment STR to be more generalizable for the digital era. Second, the thematic patterns suggest that Design Science methods and artifacts can augment the design of large-size STR studies bringing a more robust and data-driven theory-guided analysis of system innovation and transitions actor networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of Digital Twins has gained attraction in research and practice in recent years. Digital Twins are virtual representations of physical objects and they can be connected with their physical counterparts. Through this connection, Digital Twins contribute to the convergence of the real and the virtual world. While existing literature reviews focus strongly on the manufacturing industry, this paper analyzes Digital Twin applications across industries. Based on a systematic literature review, this paper examines 87 Digital Twin applications and proposes a classification scheme with six dimensions to describe the applications identified. The concept of Digital Twins is currently still underrepresented in Information Systems research, which opens up further research opportunities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mobile payment is the activity in which a monetary transaction is made through a mobile device, it has been experiencing impressive growth in recent years. It is not only a means of payment, but also a way to increase consumers' willingness to pay. Mobile payment generates positive business outcomes including higher revenues and increased hiring. Although mobile payment is strategically important for merchants to achieve their financial goals, very few researches systematically studied merchants' adoption of mobile payment. The missing knowledge makes it hard to understand what influence merchants' decision on the adoption of mobile payment. This study extracted 172 mobile payment related papers from three reputable databases, 32 of them were included in this study as they focus on organizations. A systematic analysis on those included papers identified the factors that impact merchants' adoption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Feedback on task performance is a key component for improvements and learning for many behaviors. Although the IS literature has provided relevant individual contributions on the design, outcomes, and mechanisms of performance feedback, there exists no overarching conceptual framework or theory to integrate those results for a holistic explanation of behavior change through IS-enabled feedback. Further, an overview of the existing literature to facilitate theory development is still missing. This paper presents a systematic literature review on performance feedback in the IS discipline by reviewing 23 articles from high-quality journals. The review provides an overview on the research landscape by coding characteristics of feedback systems and outcomes of the research. It highlights four behavioral mechanisms that performance feedback influences to improve task performance (attention, behavioral control, personal norms, and perceived social norms) and concludes by presenting possible directions for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores how COVID-19 has impacted e-participation, i.e., participation by electronic means, in public decision-making, specifically in certain forms of local community budgeting. We expound the concept of e-participation and its sub-concepts and investigate these as applicable to participatory budgeting. 34 managers in five City Halls in Poland were interviewed on their views and experiences with moving public interactions on-line during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly as these interactions relate to participatory budgeting. The findings indicate that COVID-19 has indeed accelerated the digitalization of the participatory budgeting procedures, and to some extent may have increased community participation in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Firms face increasing pressure to refine business values and succeed in digital transformation. It is essential for organizations to have the required competence and capabilities to make innovation happen. This study argues that digital transformation teams should build the right competence profiles to deliver the changes using digital tools. Based on the dynamic capability theory, this paper proposes that the team’s digital problem-solving capability and benefits management capability are essential for digital transformation success. Using process automation as a context, this paper suggests that digital transformation teams should build data literacy, business process management competence, and computational thinking to form their capabilities for digital transformation, leading to process automation outcomes. This paper develops the conceptual research model and discusses the research method and the future plan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital technologies are revolutionizing the business world and giving rise to a new breed of entrepreneurs: digital entrepreneur. Digital entrepreneurs leverage digital platforms and technologies to create new business ventures and pursue entrepreneurial success. Despite the growing importance of digital entrepreneurship, the literature on this topic remains relatively fragmented on the key player driving digital entrepreneurship: digital entrepreneurs. To gain an understanding of how digital entrepreneurs are characterized in the current literature, this paper reviews the existing literature on digital entrepreneurship and characterizes digital entrepreneurs along several key dimensions. Adopting a systematic literature review approach, we analyzed 43 peer-reviewed papers in the fields of management and entrepreneurship to gain a comprehensive understanding of digital entrepreneurs. Our findings identify four prominent types of digital entrepreneurs, each with their corresponding digital entrepreneurial capability and entrepreneurial processes, and the enablers for their engagement in digital entrepreneurship. To move the field of digital entrepreneurship research forward, we suggest several research directions related to each of these dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper extends previous efforts to remedy the absence of “systems” theorizing within the information systems (IS) field. It addresses the question, “Why is the IS field struggling with sustainability issues?” By leveraging on the nascent foundations built for going back to the systems approach in IS, this paper develops a model for how current efforts in digitalization and digital transformation can support the building of sustainable futures. The bridge that links digitalization to sustainable futures is built on the principles of the system paradigm that provides leverage points for positive interventions that will make a difference to efforts in sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

More and more decisions are made on screens. Digital nudging attempts to guide users' decisions on these screens. One relevant application area of digital nudging are customer journeys. Emerging research on this topic mainly analyses digital nudging on companies' owned conversion screens (i.e. websites). However, in a multi-channel, multi-owner customer journeys (i.e. own website and search engine or social media) there is increasing need to guide users through various digital touchpoints along all stages of the customer journey. This paper examines existing research on the application of digital nudging throughout customer journeys. The literature review reveals that nudging has been considered in customer journey-related literature, but so far with little explicit cross-referencing to nudging and behavioral economics research. The scientific contribution of this paper comprises a synthesis of existing research, identification of research gaps and a research agenda to study the application of digital nudging along the customer journey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researchers and practitioners increasingly recognize the relevance of the complex business environment in which companies develop, produce, and distribute their products and services. This environment is often referred to as business ecosystem. Various types of business ecosystems have been presented and discussed in literature, such as innovation or platform business ecosystems. We conduct a systematic mapping study analyzing 136 papers in order to characterize types of business ecosystems. We provide an overview of 12 business ecosystem types and visualize how they interrelate with each other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given the growing output of scientific literature, researchers are faced with a daunting challenge when it comes to performing systematic literature reviews. Hence, the use of Information Systems to achieve operational excellence has gained increasing importance in systematic literature reviews. However, existing solutions to support systematic literature reviews are often restrained to a single aspect of the process or lack interoperability. As such, researchers may not be able to efficiently leverage recent promising advancements in Machine Learning and Text Analytics. Therefore, we developed a flexible and modifiable artifact that aims to support systematic literature review processes from a holistic point of view. We expect our artifact to be a first step towards semi-automation of systematic literature reviews, which will gain relevance in the near future, as the trend of rising scientific literature output is expected to continue. Our development process follows a Design Science Research approach including continuous evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sustainability is no longer a new trend, but an increasingly important necessity. Information Systems (IS) research is also addressing the topic more often, although, for example, company practices lack applicable solutions. At the same time, the demand for corporate sustainability and opportunities to apply digital enterprise solutions is growing. This situation creates an enormous potential to profitably couple the demand with the opportunities. In our paper, we discuss the potential that personal virtual assistants (PVAs) have to create corporate sustainability effects. Using a triangulated methodological approach, critical gaps are identified by means of a systematic literature review. Based on this, qualitative group discussions and interviews are used to analyze other influencing factors and correlations in an empirical study. It subsequently becomes clear that sustainability is subordinate to the cost-benefit trade-off, which most companies regard as being the most critical. Consequently, we present a practice-oriented bridging framework to overcome this drawback. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Open innovation is a process through which companies open their borders and collaborate with external stakeholders like open source communities to bring new ideas and develop novel digital technologies to gain a competitive position. In this paper, we studied an open source project, i.e., Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) – a Linux Foundation project started by automobile manufacturers and technology companies to innovate technologies for automobiles. By analyzing the code contribution of AGL, we show that much of the code contribution is made by external companies supplying technology to automotive companies and later using the open innovation process to benefit from it. We find evidence that automobile manufacturers engage in open source communities for outside-in, inside-out, and coupled open innovation. As such, this paper shows to managers in larger companies the importance of open source as a way to do open innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The widespread adoption of digital technologies has dramatically increased the concerns over invasion of consumers’ information privacy. Several studies show that despite the increasing concerns over invasion of privacy, consumers seldom engage in activities to protect their personal information. Why does privacy remain an elusive concept in practice even though it is widely discussed? This article adopts a resource dependency perspective (Emerson 1962; Pfeffer and Salancik 1978) to explain the reasons of the discrepancy between consumers’ privacy attitudes and their actual behaviors. In particular, this paper explains the power-dependency asymmetry in the consumer-firm relationship and explores the mechanisms that foster consumers’ dependency on the firm. The dependency asymmetry in a consumer)firm relationship is proposed to enhance the consumers’ willingness to self-disclose personal information or allow the firm to intrude into their privacy through new invasive technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In emerging economies, digital innovation has become a driving force of financial inclusion and socioeconomic development. However, who are the users? This simple yet crucial question has often been neglected. This paper argues that in order for a digital innovation for financial inclusion to generate expected outcomes, we need to examine whether the users are the intended users. This paper explores this issue by examining one particular instance--M-Shwari--the mobile-based digital savings service, which is intended to bank the unbanked, low-income population in rural areas in Kenya. In contrast to the expectation, the findings show that M-Shwari is likely to be used by high-income households in urban areas, who are already banked. This paper contributes to the emerging digital innovation and financial inclusion literature by calling for further research toward users in this particular context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of virtual reality (VR) in Marketing research and practice is blooming, which suggests that Marketing can largely benefit from VR applications. In multidisciplinary applications of technology, it is important to organize the results of current studies and to define the terminology to subsidize future studies. To date, there is no literature review regarding the use of VR in all marketing applications. This paper aims to leverage future studies and practices by presenting a systematic review that covers VR immersive applications to Marketing performed by a team of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Marketing, Psychology and Information System (IS) researchers. From over 630 papers retrieved, 59 papers were reviewed. The findings were analyzed and discussed according to the technological and psychological immersion perspectives and marketing applications. Consumer learning was the most frequent topic investigated. Most studies reported positive outcomes. Gaps and limitations were identified, and future works were suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

“Digital” is a popular adjective for concepts related to electronic, computerized or networked processes in current research and practice. From an ontological-theoretical perspective, the prevalence of digital things triggers the question, how Digitality itself could be conceptualized. This article studies the ontology of Digitality and consequently discusses Digital Innovation (DI) from a new perspective. First, literature on Digitality is analyzed. Based on the findings, an ontological conceptual framework of Digitality (OCFD) is proposed. It describes four layers of Digitality: physical foundations, virtuality, digital culture and world, and digital metaphysics. From a human perspective, requirements to grasp and embody Digitality are highlighted, as well as the expansion of reality. Finally, Digitality is discussed as a paradigm of DI and exemplary digital phenomena are projected onto the OCFD. This paper contributes to DI research and practice through theory-building towards a better understanding of ontological characteristics and practical implications of Digitality in DI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digitalization requires organizations to strategically invest in information technology (IT). As a result, the costs associated with IT in companies are rising and technological progress changes the setting for IT management. This poses challenges for IT managers to ensure spend-efficiency and manage IT costs transparently. However, no current literature review gives an overview of how IT cost management (ITCM) research dealt with past transformations. This paper aims to investigate ITCM concepts considering their historical context. It then derives implications for the digital age and identifies future research fields. The historical literature review reveals that ITCM research evolved with technological advances and the target to manage all IT-related costs and evaluate the impact of IT spend. However, the presented concepts lack consideration of current changes that hamper spend-efficiency and strategic decisions. Hence, this paper enables future research to address the identified research gaps. Additionally, practitioners gain awareness of how they can benefit from developed ITCM concepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The metaverse refers to merging the physical and virtual environments, providing new opportunities for transferring real-world identities into the digital space. Mapping identities into the metaverse is done using blockchain tokens. Therefore, we define the set of metaverse services associated with a blockchain as “blockchain-based metaverse” (BM). While blockchain applications have long been considered more privacy-preserving than centralized applications, we argue that the underlying premises of this assumption have changed for the BM context. Since blockchain transactions are pseudonym-based, it is generally possible to link them to real-world identities. This probability has increased in the BM, making inferences about identities more likely, which completely changes the privacy situation. In our paper, we conceptually re-assess the privacy assumption of blockchains and suggest four propositions to demonstrate how the privacy level changes in the BM. We also provide technical and organizational measures to address the privacy shortcomings and present a research agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the world moves ever forward into a digital future, the need for responsible digital innovation (RDI) becomes increasingly urgent. This paper presents the access-control-transparency (ACT) theory, a simple yet powerful framework for guiding designers and developers in creating digital artifacts that embody the principles of responsible design. With a focus on promoting access, control, and transparency, this theory aims to address the dark side of digital innovation and ensure that new technologies are developed in a way that considers their impact on individuals, communities, and society. The paper also explores avenues for future research, including the impact of ACT-driven design principles on organizational and societal outcomes, the role of individual and organizational values in the RDI process, and the incorporation of human-centric design and ongoing reflection into the ACT theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Critical Infrastructures (CI) are systems that are essential for maintaining vital societal functions, and their disruptions can have a significant negative impact on a nation's well-being. CI has become the focus of many digital advancements, resulting in them becoming increasingly intertwined. Therefore, a more holistic approach to infrastructure management must be adopted, in which CI typically organize themselves as a System of Systems (SoS). The main issue that CI organizations face is the unclarity of how to make their IT function as one system. IT-Governance (ITG) is critical to guide the implementation of SoS within individual organizations. However, current literature acknowledges the lack of research on Inter-organizational IT-Governance (IoITG), which is necessary for creating a digital SoS. This researchin-progress paper first proposes a definition for digital SoS for CI and then highlights the need for further research on IoITG capability in the context of SoS for CI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the potential benefits that digital transformation can bring, the success rate of its implementation remains low at only 30% (BCG, 2020). The situation is even more critical and challenging in a highly competitive manufacturing industry. The dynamic environment with increasing uncertainties leads to decreased communication between departments, thus diminishing the advantages of joint venture cooperation. This paper analyzes the challenges of implementing information technology (IT) and organizational reform in an international joint venture through the perspective of the Human-Digital Competitiveness Model (Monod, et al., 2021) Since three dimensions of the Model can analysis those problems in comprehensive way. It adopts a qualitative methodology by conducting a case study (Yin, 2017) through interviews with 17 staff and related party-in-interests from both sides, as well as corporate observation. Theoretically, this paper contributes to a thorough analysis of the challenges of digital transformation and organizational changes within companies from three different dimensions. Practically, it contributes to an understanding of the impact that IT and digital technologies have on the joint venture and offers insights into how business processes can be innovated to enhance competitive advantages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The digital transformation of the public sector is driven by the desire of citizens and businesses to use online services, but it also offers the potential for cost savings and more effective and efficient workflows. A key challenge in this transformation is the development of new digital leadership competencies. This paper examines the changing competency requirements for public sector leaders. Based on interviews with public sector employees at managerial and non-managerial levels, competencies for successful leaders in times of digital change are identified and summarized in a preliminary Public Sector Digital Leadership Competency Model. Our findings suggest that in addition to technical or managerial competencies, social competencies such as communication are particularly important for driving digital transformation in public administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The advancement of blockchain technologies has created new opportunities for businesses to deliver new innovative offerings while improving their existing efficiencies to stay relevant and maintain the required competitive advantage. As such, blockchain technology has emerged as an opportunity to radically revolutionize and transform the banking and financial industry. This paper aims to bridge the existing gap in the literature by identifying empirically relevant opportunities and anticipated risks of blockchain transformation in the sector. This study collated and empirically analyzed the conceptualized model using a qualitative case study approach, culminating with specific recommendations. The findings highlight how the realization of blockchain technology value, competitive advantage, innovation and impact is required to develop successful implementation strategies. Similarly, acknowledging associated risks from scalability, Interoperability, security, and regulatory perspectives is equally vital to developing the necessary measures to guide its successful implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Large-scale sharing networks rely on digitally enabled platforms that connect users beyond the limits of social and geographical proximity. The phenomenon of the Digital Sharing Economy (DSE) embraces a broad diversity of sharing patterns. This paper aims to present an exhaustive classification of these patterns. It illustrates 5504 different sharing models that vary in the attributes of their fundamental business model components, i.e., the type of shareable resources, resource providers, resource receivers and sharing practices. This classification can be useful to characterize the DSE and visualize sharing and exchange patterns within its networks. In particular, the classification of digital sharing models can help platform providers position themselves in the broad spectrum of market and non-market-based sharing and tap into practicable business model innovations in the DSE domain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss the nature of Digital Twins (DTs) using the theoretical lens of Information Technology (IT) artifact. Utilizing a systematic literature review approach, we propose that DTs go beyond conventional understanding of IT artifacts and can provide organizations with capabilities that allow for performance improvement. Additionally we bring to light aspects of DTs that could benefit from further research in the form of a research agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Smartphones have become central devices of daily use in our society and constitute an important part of IS research. An emergent group of smartphone users is children who grow up facing the ubiquity of such devices. Yet, little is understood concerning the antecedents and consequences of their smartphone use. This systematic literature review identifies 30 papers that empirically analyze the causes and effects leading to or resulting from smartphone usage of this vulnerable group to assess the current state of research. Parenting style is key in explaining causes for smartphone use of children. In terms of consequences, negative effects seem to outweigh the benefits. Especially sleep quality, quantity and cognitive abilities are negatively affected. Our paper identifies opportunities for further research and provides advice on proactive approaches to ensure responsible interaction of children with smartphones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The emergence of digital technologies is disrupting entire industries and businesses face severe shifts in their competitive environment. New competitors with digitally driven business models enter the market and challenge incumbent firms. The concept of business model can help to understand the influence of digitization, but current research efforts do not fully provide a broad understanding. The aim of the paper is to structure the existing literature and provide a conceptual framework for future research. Therefore, a systematic literature review is conducted to gain comprehensive insights. Findings reveal that the impact of digitization on business models can be described through the concept of business model change, namely: creation, termination, revision and extension. This paper provides a conceptual framework based on for future research on the impact of digitization on business models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current paper aims at introducing a new approach in technology acceptance called "Technology Utilization". There is a body of research in failure of technology acceptance theories to support the empirical studies. The present research suggests technology utilization; that is last phase of acceptance where the main focus is on how the technology is being used. The paper reviews the literature on technology acceptance and illustrates the need for a new approach that highlights the use of technology as opposed to its uptake. The article demonstrates technology utilization concepts through an open source software project. The paper extends the literature for theoretical supports of technology acceptance by introducing the concept of technology utilization, for further development and investigation. The paper also informs practitioners that adoption of a technology is not only about its uptake but also relates to its use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Business modeling has become an essential tool in practice for analyzing and generating business models. In recent years, digital innovation with data-driven services gained an important role for the development of new or improved business models. As a consequence of this development, the impact of data on business models in general and business modeling in particular becomes an important issue in research as well as practice. Yet, research on business modeling for data-driven business models (DDBM) is a burgeoning field of research. Hence, this paper surveys the extant literature of DDBM to assess the state of the art in this area. Based on these insights, the paper suggests requirements of DDBM and opportunities for future business modeling research that could improve the analysis and generation of DDBM. As a consequence of these requirements, we suggest opportunities to extend the Business Model Canvas for data-driven business models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite government attempts to increase citizens' interaction with e-government services provided through governmental websites, to guarantee a high level of involvement by citizens in government services, more governmental initiatives are needed. This research paper presents the idea of smart government, particularly m-government, as a potential governmental initiative that would provide citizens with an easier approach to using government services. It is therefore necessary to explore citizens' interactions with government and to articulate the main predictors that may affect their intentions to use m-government as a new way of using government services. This study proposes an m-government adoption model to introduce the main factors that would influence citizens' intentions to use m-government services. By identifying these factors, the Jordanian government could build a plan for marketing and introducing mgovernment as a new method of using government services. This paper provides a foundation for future empirical studies on m-government and government 2.0 adoption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The megatrend digitalization turns mechatronic products into continuous collectors and generators of use phase data. By analyzing this data, manufacturers can uncover valuable insights about the products and the users. Especially in product planning, these insights could be used to plan promising future product generations. The systematic exploitation of data analytics results, however, represents a serious challenge, as research on the topic is still scarce. In this paper, we present 13 design principles for exploiting data analytics results in product planning. The results are based on a systematic literature review and a workshop with a research consortium. The evaluation of the design principles is demonstrated with a real case of a manufacturing company. The identified design principles represent a first contribution to a still scarcely explored research field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this research-in-progress paper, we argue that feminist epistemologies can greatly benefit Information Systems research as it tries to grapple with societal issues of marginalization, emancipation, and distribution of power associated with digital technologies. Indeed, Information Systems scholars’ growing focus on “doing good” requires us to think carefully not only about who the subject and objects of study are, but also on our own privileges as researchers. By drawing on Spivak and Deleuze and Guattari, we propose that feminist perspectives can play a key role in researching marginalized voices. We engage in asking questions and emphasize the need for IS research to (1) locate experiences of alternative subjectification done in environments where people are subjugated or obliged to conform to an imposed identity; and (2) enter a dialog with major theories to showcase the contradictions within dominant discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As digital transformation has occurred over the last decade, organizations have been compelled to seek new business models. As a consequence of this development, the impact of data on business models has become a focus of interest in research as well as in practice. Based on typical characteristics of data-driven business models (DDBMs), this paper develops 19 design principles for their visual representation. The design principles were derived from semi-structured interviews with experts in the field of DDBMs and were clustered into the Business Model Canvas (BMC). The contribution of this paper is threefold. First, the developed design principles deepen the knowledge base on DDBMs. Second, other business model representations can be assessed against these design principles and new or aligned representations can be developed. Third, the design principles can be used by practitioners to develop a DDBM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to understand how different stakeholder groups evaluate national digital location infrastructure in a developing country of Ghana. Information Systems literature has discussed the digital infrastructure phenomenon extensively, however, little is known about evaluating the performance of digital infrastructures. To address this gap, this paper employs a qualitative interpretive case study methodology to understand how different stakeholder groups evaluate performance of a national digital location infrastructure implemented in Ghana. Findings show how effective evaluation of digital infrastructure can be achieved through independent analysis of stakeholders' interests and their corresponding interpretation of the success or failure of national digital location infrastructures. The study also shows that meeting stakeholder groups' expectations is not enough grounds for national digital infrastructures to gain favorable evaluation. The findings have implication for policy, practice, and research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study is to understand the use of digital infrastructure for port container handling and success or failure of stakeholders' goals. Information Systems (IS) research on digital infrastructure has focused more on health, telecommunication, government, and manufacturing and less on port container handling. IS literature on DI has focused more on e-health, e-government, e-commerce as well as different industries and platforms and less on the use of DI and success or failure of stakeholder goals. To address this gap, we employed affordance theory as an analytical lens and qualitative, interpretive case study as a methodology to investigate the use of digital infrastructure for port container handling in Ghana. The findings show how digital infrastructure conditions success or failure of stakeholder goals. The findings also have implications for research, practice, and policy. This paper contributes to the emerging literature stream on digital infrastructures. The originality of the paper lies in its focus on the use of port container handling systems as a significant IS research phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The career development patterns in the IT industry remain unrevealed, with existing research only focusing on the lateral job mobility and the job level changes were ignored. Revealing career development patterns necessitates the observation of a considerable number of individual career trajectories. However, data preparation is a demanding and expensive task, and the limited sample size results in coarse-grained career patterns. Digital professional platforms now allow for the accumulation of substantial amounts of real- world career trajectories, creating an unparalleled chance to uncover patterns. This paper develops a data- driven career pattern mining method: Density-Equilibrium Career Paths Pattern Mining (DECPPM), which overcomes the challenges of huge cardinality and job title imbalance that impede effective job title clustering and pattern mining. Using DECPPM, we uncover the career development patterns of IT professionals in terms of both job function and job level changes. Furthermore, we characterize the career patterns of IT individuals in different job levels from a multidimensional and temporal perspective, contributing to the literature on the relationship between career mobility and career success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

IT identity plays a significant role in individuals' IT adoption and use behaviors and can impact job satisfaction. However, other individual traits, like the digital mindset, previously showed to also affect the effects of the intertwining of IT and workplaces on job satisfaction. Therefore, we examine the role of a digital mindset in shaping IT and job identity and survey 167 employees. By analyzing the relationship between these concepts, the paper contributes to a better understanding of how identities are formed and how they affect job satisfaction in the digitally-enabled workplace. Our results demonstrate that IT identity’s effect on job satisfaction is fully mediated by job identity. We also reveal that a digital mindset moderates the relationship between IT and job identities. Further, we discuss the key challenges and opportunities associated with the adoption and use of IS in organizations and provide insights into the future directions of IS research. Overall, we contribute to the ongoing discourse on the role of IT identity and digital mindset in the workplace and provide valuable insights for researchers and practitioners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the rapidly evolving digital era, firms need to innovate their business models (BMs) to thrive and benefit from new digital technologies. While digital BM innovation (DBMI) can create competitive advantage through differentiation, firms often struggle to create and extract value from digital technologies. In this paper, we analyze 41 cases of BM change and identify three configurations that lead to DBMI and two configurations that do not. These configurations illustrate the BM elements in which digital technologies are used for DBMI and explain how firms use digital technologies for strategic innovation. Combined with existing research on DBMI, this research provides a missing piece of the puzzle to connect specific technologies in the BM to implement a digital business strategy and undergo a digital transformation. For practical purposes, the findings suggest three alternative strategies for DBMI that identify which elements need to be changed together to achieve DBMI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Incumbent firms increasingly acquire startups for digital innovation. Startups excel at sensing market opportunities, and incumbents provide valuable resources and knowledge to seize these opportunities in digital business models. While extant research has explored the benefits resulting from such acquisitions, the reasons and strategic motivations for startup acquisitions remain unclear. This paper seeks to explore the motivations behind such acquisitions and their impact on digital business strategies. Drawing on a qualitative analysis of 124 startup acquisitions by retail incumbents, we identify six reasons incumbents acquire digital startups and two strategic goals pursued through these acquisitions. They illustrate how and why the acquisitions contribute to the incumbents' strategic goals for digital innovation and growth, and propose three testable hypotheses to deepen our understanding of this relationship. This study provides valuable insights for incumbents seeking to collaborate with startups and identifies startups suited for acquisition or collaboration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Innovating in the digital age has important implications for most firms. This study explores why and how a manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) comes to innovate through a service IT-based project. To do so, the research question is: how is a digital servitization process enacted in an established manufacturing SME? Mobilizing the business model canvas as an analytical tool, we opt for an interpretive single case study in a context characterized by a long history of innovation. Specifically, we focus on the servitization phenomenon through the development of an Internet of things (IoT) platform. The main contributions of this study are twofold. For researchers, our results support a better understanding of how innovation may occur in the manufacturing sector when SMEs add services to their existing products. For practitioners, this paper opens new ways of talking about innovation, notably concerning strategic IT value creation in the digital age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The advances in digital technologies and improved digital literacy have provided myriads of opportunities for societies. Particularly in the public sphere, improved digitalisation has meant better access to information for citizens, among others. Digital technologies, such as social media, have been proven invaluable in events such as a public health crisis such as COVID-19. However, the adoption of these technologies has also brought challenges related to misinformation, where publicly available information is manipulated and disseminated for purposes that are against the public interest. This paper presents an ongoing empirical study that attempts to explore the measures taken by the public sector to manage misinformation. The study, conducted in two developing countries, explores the immediate and long-term approaches to tackling misinformation. The implication of the expected results for research and practice are also presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides a literature analysis of digital dark nudging instances. Specifically, the literature analysis identified 14 relevant publications from various research disciplines. As a result, we systematically categorized the publications into seven instances of digital dark nudging (e.g., false expectations) within five application domains (e.g., e-commerce). Moreover, our results suggest that digital dark nudging leads the various adverse effects for individuals, such as monetary losses. We contribute to existing research by providing an overview of digital dark nudging research. Our findings indicate the need to investigate the long-term consequences of digital dark nudging. Furthermore, we pinpoint the need for clear differentiators between regular digital nudging and digital dark nudging, which is desperately needed to ensure to positive nature of digital nudging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital entrepreneurship has been touted as accessible with promises of opportunities for all and has the potential to create a more inclusive entrepreneurial environment because, compared to traditional entrepreneurship, it can lower the barriers to start a new venture. Yet, there are concerns that the underrepresented communities face the challenge in engaging in digital entrepreneurship due to lack of technology access, usage, and skills. This paper proposes a conceptual framework based on a dual-theory perspective from Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), to examine factors affecting the underrepresented communities’ intentions toward digital entrepreneurship. We plan to conduct a survey study at Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), where the students’ population are representative of the underrepresented communities, to identify what are the key factors that influence the intentions of this sector towards selecting digital entrepreneurship as a career option. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digitization creates digital artefacts that represent physical objects but with augmented and novel characteristics. The ways in which we interact with these digital artefacts necessarily change, including the way we classify them. Classification is the fundamental human activity of grouping, naming, and describing objects to make sense of the world. Classification is therefore fundamental to research as it underpins theory. In this paper we introduce classification and the role of classification as background, followed by an analysis of the way in which classification is adopted within Information Systems (IS). The results of this analysis indicate that IS research adopted the classical classification approaches even though often not explicitly stated. We then analyze digital classification and results indicate that, even though digital classification is classification, existing classification approaches, and by extension, IS classification literature, does not support digital classification sufficiently despite the need due to contemporary and digitized socio-technical developments. Finally, classical classification is contrasted with digital classification requirements of digital classification regarding key characteristics, purpose, and approach. The comparison also includes suggestions that indicate how existing classification approaches could be extended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital transformation (DT) emerges from the blending of personal and corporate IT environments. As a single, enmeshed reality, the fully integrated technologies strengthen social connectedness and promote face-to-face interaction and local community ties through social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and the Internet of Things. The Internet, digital technologies, and digital sensors shape the growing interconnectedness of people, organizations, and machines as the basis of the digital economy. However, the popularity of digital transformation research and the heterogeneous fields of application demand a consolidated overview of digital technology. Based on a literature review and a taxonomy-development approach, this paper presents a taxonomy of digital technology in the context of digital transformation: its characterisation, its roles/impacts, and the digital platform and ecosystem components. Overall, we aim to contribute to a better understanding of digital technology in digital transformation research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]