Investigating the factors affecting information systems evaluation within sustainable environments

Copyright @ 2013 EMCIS.Currently, organizations and stakeholders are more concerned with environmental issues, thus the role of information systems (IS) and information technologies (IT) within organizations towards ecological being sustainability has changed. Environmental or Green initiatives is realized as having credibly to assist in shifting to a sustainable society. Furthermore, the elements within IS/IT evaluation including costs, benefits and risks within organizations associated with IS evaluation and sustainability are taken into account in terms of the challenges concerning green practices (Green IS/IT) leading the organizations to attempt to diminish the impact of their IS/IT operations towards the environments socially and ethically, which indirectly assist them in achieving competitive advantages competitors through adopting and implementing environmental sustainability practices. In addition, government sectors are taking a step closer in order to create awareness and incorporate green into all components of the business functions. Practitioners and scholars are motivating to use the existing frameworks and models to evaluate IS/IT initiatives with sustainability taken into perspectives. Consequently, the purpose of this paper is to critically review the normative literature associated with IS evaluation within sustainable environments and to develop a conceptual framework or model for IS evaluation within sustainable organizations that measures the impact of environmental sustainability factors and highlight a number of research gaps that need to be addressed in future research

Guest Editors’ Introduction

The Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), sponsored by the Association for Information Systems (AIS), is the premier annual information systems conference in the region. It aims to provide a high quality forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange research findings and practices on key issues in information systems and management. PACIS 2010 was held in Taipei, Taiwan in July 2010 and its theme is “Service Science in Information Systems Research.” In response to the transition of the global economy from the manufacturing to service-dominated economy, service science is emerging as a new and exciting paradigm. It represents a melding of information technology with an understanding of business processes and human behaviors for improving service operations, delivery, innovation, and ultimate values to customers. At the emerging stage of service science, it is essential for information systems (IS) researchers and practitioners to help shape what service science is by fusing IS research into inquiries of service science. Meanwhile, the service-centric view of servicescience may open up exciting opportunities and unique challenges to IS research. Hence, PACIS 2010 aims to facilitate the dialogues among IS professionals in academic and industries to exchange insights on issues related to service science in IS research as well as IS research to service science

Marsilius of Padova as a Democratic Theorist

In this essay I focus on the form of government defended by Marsilius of Padua in the first Discourse of Defensor pacis (1324). The interpretation of his overall account depends heavily on our understanding of the “major and valentior part” of the citizenry upon which all legislative and elective powers are bestowed. I argue that there is sufficient textual evidence to believe that the above term refers not to some small elite group but to the totality of citizens or the overwhelming majority of them. I also argue that his imaginary polity meets all the necessary conditions that any political regime should meet in order for it to be characterised as an essentially democratic one. Thus, Marsilius deserves a more prominent position in the history of democratic ideas

Information Management Environment, Business Strategy, and the Effectiveness of Information Systems Strategic Planning

This paper discusses the effect of organization information management environment (IME) maturity and alignment between business strategy and information systems strategic planning (ISSP) on ISSP success. A research model is formulated and tested using data collected from 49 organizations in China. Data shows that that the higher the information management environment maturity, the more success ISSP and the higher the alignment between business strategy and ISSP, the more success ISSP. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed

The Information Systems Design Science Research Body Of Knowledge – A Citation Analysis In Recent Top-Journal Publications

Information systems (IS) design science research (ISDSR) has received particular attention after the seminal MISQ article by Hevner et al. (2004). Since then, several articles on ISDSR have appeared in top IS journals. This paper examines the development of a common body of knowledge in ISDSR. To this end, a citation analysis in recently published ISDSR articles in top IS journals is conducted. According to Kuhn (1970), a common body of knowledge is important for each emerging scientific discipline. For the purposes of delineating ISDSR from other types of IS research, the author develops three criteria. Based upon these criteria, he identifies 50 ISDSR articles published in the journals of the basket of the six from 2007-2010. An analysis of the citations of these articles reveals that Hevner et al. (2004) is cited as a source in 70% of all articles. Moreover, six further specific publications are cited by more than 10% of all articles. The author argues that ISDSR is developing a common body of knowledge and does have a cumulative tradition

Journey with Ting-Peng Liang in Pacific Asia Information Systems Field

Our respectful old friend Professor Ting-Peng Liang (in short, TP) whom we loved suddenly passed away on May 20, 2021. But we cannot forget his smile and passion, and his inerasable footprints in PACIS, PAJAIS, and AIS Community. He was the founder of PACIS, founding editor-in-chief of PAJAIS, and past president of AIS to list just a few. He was the pioneer who received the first AIS Fellow and the first LEO Award from Asia Pacific. That is why the leaders of the information systems field organized the first ever special tribute session in PACIS 2021 in memory of TP (https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2021/253/

Portfolio approach to information technology security resource allocation decisions

This paper presents a portfolio optimization approach to information technology (IT) security investment decisions in an organization. This approach has been motivated by the extreme variations that are found in IT security requirements for organizations in addition to the diversity of starting conditions found in organizations that choose to embark on a formal approach to managing their security. Often, a budgetary allocation is made for IT security and IT managers and management are faced with the problem of how to allocate these monies or resources across competing projects and products that can potentially improve or enhance IT security in an organization. Instead of ranking or rating the various alternatives based on their benefits only, it is demonstrated how, by identifying organizational objectives, and then aligning the decisions with the objectives, one can optimally allocate resources across the IT security portfolio. The approach in this paper has been to provide a generic decision framework that can be customized by practitioners and fine-tuned by other researchers. The approach is explained and then the results are discussed using a case study. Both the strengths and weaknesses of this approach are highlighted and suggestions for how this approach can be deployed and enhanced are provided

Going beyond operational efficiency in HR using IT – A Literature Review of Human Resources Information Systems

Leading academics claim that the management of human resources will be most critical in gaining competitive advantage.Today, the human resources departments (HR) are transforming themselves from an administrative cost-center to an internalpartner delivering additional business value. In this transformation process, information technology (IT) could play a keyrole. Therefore, this paper aims to unfold both the current state of knowledge concerning the value contribution ofinformation systems (IS) for the HR function and approaches that go even beyond operational efficiency. Reviewing nearly8,000 articles, published in the proceedings of eight major IS conferences reveals that in total 35 articles exclusively dealwith the topic of human resources information systems (HRIS) but only very few research approaches show, how HRIScould help to go beyond operational efficiency. Furthermore, the literature analysis identifies that approaches dealing with theIT support for HR planning processes are completely missing so far

Model Based Identification and Measurement of Reorganization Potential in Public Administrations – the PICTURE-Approach

Public administrations are faced with a modernization and performance gap. On the one hand citizens and companies have increasing requirements. On the other hand the financial and human resources remain static or even decrease. In recent years public administrations tried to counteract with reengineering their business processes. However, it is observable that reengineering projects in public administrations have a too narrow focus as they concentrate on a small subset of their overall processes. In this paper we claim that significant progress in the identification and measurement of reorganization potential can only be achieved by including the majority of all administrational processes – the process landscape. Therefore, we propose a method architecture which is capable of two things: Firstly, it supports a distributed modeling process across a whole public administration in order to capture the process landscape. Secondly, it is able to estimate the reorganization potential within the process landscape based on an analysis model. A working example derived from a currently funded EU project is supplemented in order to demonstrate our approach and to make it more comprehensible to the reader

Investigating The Effect Of Participation-Limiting Structures On Outcomes Of E-Democracy Systems

Modern information systems provide a technical foundation for greater participation of citizens in the agenda-setting and decision-making processes of government. Information systems researchers and designers will need to address a number of issues to design IS applications for the effective functioning of evolving forms of democracy. This paper identifies a research agenda at the intersection of information systems research, economics and political science research and avenues for information systems researchers to contribute to the research agenda