Introduction to Social Media: Culture, Identity, and Inclusion Minitrack

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The Trajectory of IT in Healthcare at HICSS: A Literature Review, Analysis, and Future Directions

Research has extensively demonstrated that healthcare industry has rapidly implemented and adopted information technology in recent years. Research in health information technology (HIT), which represents a major component of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, demonstrates similar findings. In this paper, review the literature to better understand the work on HIT that researchers have conducted in HICSS from 2008 to 2017. In doing so, we identify themes, methods, technology types, research populations, context, and emerged research gaps from the reviewed literature. With much change and development in the HIT field and varying levels of adoption, this review uncovers, catalogs, and analyzes the research in HIT at HICSS in this ten-year period and provides future directions for research in the field

What is in or out of a particular field of knowledge? Reflections on IT Governance Studies

The goal of this research is to understand the conceptualization of IT Corporate Governance (ITCG) and discuss the dichotomy and sometimes paradoxical approach between the definitions in literature and what is included as part of IT Governance field. The data collection has been conducted through a systematic research of ProQuest databases. As a result, 536 publications have been found between 1983 and 2014 with the search terms. Through content analysis, the research has been refined to a group of 457 articles published between 1995 and 2014, considering nature of research, base theories, research strategy, and use of basic concepts. The results show that numerous studies are not using ITCG theory as a foundation to support their arguments. Only 110 publications deal with the context and definition of the seminal concepts. As a result of content analysis it is observed that 237 publications could be considered as inclusion errors because they do not address enough artifacts to be worked as the subject of IT Governance, most of them portray of best practice models in a conceptual basis. Through the preliminary results, it is possible to think about the extent to which these basic concepts even are enough to what is being researched as IT Governance, or at what point the researches has indeed addressed the proposed subject

In or Out? Perceptions of Inclusion and Exclusion Among AIS Members

People want a sense of community, a benefit that a professional association such as the Association for Information Systems (AIS) can provide to members. When attempts to create a shared experience fall short and we feel excluded, we disengage and stop further attempts to participate. In this paper, we lay a foundation for individual and association inclusion practices in the AIS. First, we describe the current state of inclusion practices in the academy and in the AIS. Then, we describe findings from a survey of AIS members that measured their perceptions about inclusion and exclusion and factors that cultivated these perceptions. In doing so, we establish a baseline against which we can measure future change. Our data yields key insights about diversity and inclusion in the AIS, and we offer recommendations for all individuals in various roles and positions in the AIS

Network ethics and government to business relationships in Portugal

The analysis of ethical issues in Internet-enabled marketplaces remains generally under-explored and this gap is even more prominent in practices associated with G2B networks. This paper argues that the application of Network Ethics to G2B relationships requires a focus on specific questions that arise from the evolution of the way government has come to interact with business. To this purpose, the paper starts by outlining the relevance of universal values to Network Ethics. The next section draws out and briefly discusses the most relevant ethical issues that arise in the rapidly changing context of G2B relationships. To provide an application and substantiate the claims of the paper, the development of public e-procurement in Portugal is presented and analysed in the scope of the background public policies for information society and e-government development in Portugal. It is shown that use of the Internet for e-procurement purposes is growing in Portugal and the main constraints and risks associated with further developments are laid out and discussed. Overall the theoretical analysis and the empirical case point to the growing importance of developing interoperability standards and promoting greater transparency and competition in public e-procurement. It is further argued that reliable analysis in terms of Internet-enabled marketplaces requires both a solid ethical framework and its application in conjunction with empirical knowledge of the situations being studied, and that only in this way can network ethics effectively contribute to the promotion of greater accountability and ethical behaviour on the ground