Social Media in a Social Phenomenon: Social Media in the Entrainment of Contention to Innovation

In this inductive theory building paper, I examine the impact of social media on a social phenomenon. I particularly focus on a social phenomenon that concerns firms—the entrainment of contention to innovation. The entrainment of contention to innovation is defined as the alignment of the pace and/or timing of contention (e.g., opposition, petition, protest) with those of firms’ innovation. To examine the impact of social media on that entrainment, I first examine the entrainment of contention to innovation in general and then look into the innovation-contention entrainment by innovation type. Based on this, I finally examine the societal impact of social media. I focus on the energy sector and gather such qualitative data as patents, news releases, and the texts on social media. I perform a content analysis on those data and graphically analyze the outcomes of the content analysis. Preliminary findings will be presented at the conference

In Search of the Meaning of Digital Technology: How is it Different from Information Technology?

Information technology is at the heart of IS scholarship. In the past decade, IS researchers took much interest in a seemingly different type of technology: digital technology (as well as its cousins, such as digital innovation and infrastructure) (Baiyere et al., 2019). As scholars, we must be cautious and skeptical about the theoretical distinctiveness of the ongoing digital relabeling, no matter where the paper is published

20 Years Old but Still a Teenager? A Review of Organizing Vision Theory and Suggested Directions

Organizing vision theory, a native, 20-year old IS theory, provides a macro-level cognitive institutional perspective on how IT innovations are adopted, used, and diffused within and across organizations. As such, the theory addresses a core issue of the IS discipline and can help researchers answer senior scholars’ repeated calls for more macro-level research. How have researchers in the past two decades, then, developed and leveraged this important theory? In this paper, we review the organizing vision literature, providing assessments of the depth and breadth of IT innovation diffusion research it has spurred. Our analysis suggests that literature the theory is at an intermediate developmental stage, at best. Based on our findings, we suggest future directions for organization vision theory. Our review approach can inform evaluations of other native IS theories

What If 140 Characters Can Impact Your Company’s Market Value? Tweeting Corporate Social Responsibility and Stock Prices in the Financial Sector

Many firms signal, announce, and conduct organizational activities on the prevalent Information and Communication Technology Twitter. Then, do firms financially benefit from tweeting those activities? In this paper, we focus on corporate social responsibility (CSR) signaled through tweets and examine via the event study methodology the impact of CSR tweets on organizational effectiveness measured in abnormal stock returns. Our findings show that Twitter has a broadcasting power like tradition media; tweeting CSR impacts stock prices. Managers thus may want to announce organizational activities on the more cost-effective tool Twitter, rather than on press releases. We also demonstrate that tweeting CSR less frequently is more impactful on stock prices than tweeting CSR more frequently. Managers should also take advantage of these findings; tweeting similar messages over and over again might not be as effective in getting across a particular message

RESEARCH ON THE USABILITY OF GAMES FOR THE INTERVENTION OF KOREAN DYSLEXIA - FOCUSING ON COUNTING GAMES –

It is estimated that around 5% of the Korean population, or about 2,500,000 people, have dyslexia. For the purpose of developing a functional dyslexia intervention, online phonological awareness games that focus on counting syllables and phonemes have been developed. In this research, a usability test was conducted to evaluate two such games. A checklist was developed based on the test results of the User Interface experts. The checklist consisted of 10 questions to be answered by students and 18 questions for clinicians. The subjects for the usability test comprised 21 students and 22 clinicians. A test platform was developed to provide a test environment that was conducive to playing online games. The analysis of the usability test results has been grouped into two parts: a quantitative analysis and a qualitative analysis. Based on the quantitative analysis results, the dyslexic students averaged 8.5 points (±1.53) on a Likert Scale of 10; while the dyslexia clinicians averaged 8.7 points (±0.87) on the same Likert Scale. Based on the results of the qualitative analysis, an enhancement of the rewards function, a better user interface for the button used to check for the correct answer, and a button to enlarge the screen were identified as areas for improvement. In the future, the requirements of the test subjects and the stakeholders will be taken into consideration, and the games will be improved accordingly

IMPROVING ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS VIA LOGIC DIVERSITY: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA NARRATIVES AND USE IN THE ENERGY SECTOR

Over the last decade, social media has diffused widely through society, increasingly impacting aspects of our lives. In the private sphere, we use social media to develop and maintain personal relationships. In the civic arena, activists use social media to raise awareness of social ills and mobilize collective action. Politicians use social media to represent their platforms, solicit citizens’ input, mobilize financial support, and get out votes. Emergency responders use social media to collect and disseminate information about natural and man-made disasters. Mass media uses social media to extend its information gathering reach, relying on citizen journalists for the copy, photographs, and video footage they share through social media, and its information dissemination reach as media organizations raise awareness and draw audiences through social media. Against this backdrop of private and civic use of social media, businesses have increasingly begun to adopt and use social media for a range of purposes including internal communication and knowledge sharing, marketing and product promotion, recruiting, and engaging in and representing their social responsibility activities. Despite extensive organizational use of social media, however, our systematic understanding of the impact of such use on organizational effectiveness is still limited. In particular, it is not clear why/how social media might impact organizations’ financial performance and legitimacy—crucial organizational effectiveness that determines organization survival. In my dissertation, I therefore propose a mechanism that addresses this why/how question. In particular, I propose that organizational logic diversity is a key mechanism through which organizational social media use can enhance organizations’ legitimacy and financial performance. I further propose that the comprehensiveness of organizational narratives influences organizational social media use and moderates the effect of firms’ social media use on logic diversity. I examine my proposed research model within the context of the energy sector. Because of its geopolitical significance, the energy sector is being buffeted by activities in the civic arena—by activists challenging firms’ practices, politicians and government regulators for whom the energy sector serves as a platform, emergency responders dealing with the fallout of disasters, and mass media for whom the sector provides rich copy. Using archival data in conjunction with novel data extraction approaches—including machine learning, I constructed a panel dataset of 83 firms across five years. I then tested my research model on this dataset using a Prais-Winsten regression to account for panel heteroscedasticity and panel-specific autocorrelations. Findings largely support my proposed model. I conclude by discussing the meaning and salience of these findings to ongoing research on social media and the business value of IT

Whose Talk is Walked? IT Decentralizability, Vendor versus Adopter Discourse, and the Diffusion of Social Media versus Big Data

Discourse plays a central role in organizing vision and computerization movement perspectives on IT innovation diffusion. While we know that different actors within a community contribute to the discourse, we know relatively little about the roles different actors play in diffusing different types of IT innovations. Our study investigates vendor versus adopter roles in social media and big data diffusion. We conceptualize the difference between the two IT innovations in terms of their decentralizability, i.e., extent to which decision rights pertinent to adoption of an organizational innovation can be decentralized. Based on this concept, we hypothesized: (1) adopters would contribute more to discourse about the more decentralizable social media and influence its diffusion more than would vendors; (2) vendors would contribute more to discourse about the less decentralizable big data and influence its diffusion more than would adopters. Empirical evidence largely supported these hypotheses

Conflict Asymmetry in Face-to-face and Computer Mediated Teams

Jehn and colleagues (2010) investigated conflict asymmetry (i.e., different perceptions towards conflict) in a face-to-face context from a multilevel perspective and found that both group and individual levels of conflict asymmetry had negative impacts on performance. In this paper, we conducted a conceptual replication of their work to understand how computer-mediation and time may impact previous findings on conflict asymmetry. At the group-level, we observed a three-way interaction suggesting computer-mediation may reduce the negative consequences of conflict asymmetry early in a teams’ lifecycle. At the individual level, we observed a two-way interaction wherein the negative correlation between high task-conflict asymmetry perceptions and satisfaction took time to emerge

DEVELOPMENT OF AN EDUCATIONAL ONLINE GAME FOR THE INTERVENTION OF KOREAN DYSLEXIA - A GAME UTILIZING SYLLABLE COUNTING FOR PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS INTERVENTION -

5% of the world population suffers from dyslexia (difficulty in reading), and according to research, the brain begins to distinguish characters at the age of 60 months. Thus, at the time when children are learning to speak at the age of 60 months, the dyslexic intervention is most needed. During intervention, the teacher needs to use a verified method according to the educational needs of the students with dyslexia. In Korea, the number of teachers specialized for dyslexia education is highly insufficient. Therefore, a program that accessible to as many dyslexic children as possible in highly in need which can offered independent yet effective learning.  This study aimed to develop an effective online game program for the treatment of dyslexia. We first researched the contents and characteristics of the current phonological dyslexia interventions, and examined the needs of stakeholders. Then, based on the survey results, we designed a game for phonological awareness (syllable counting)

Seawater-Mediated Solar-to-Sodium Conversion by Bismuth Vanadate Photoanode- Photovoltaic Tandem Cell: Solar Rechargeable Seawater Battery

Conversion of sunlight to chemical energy based on photoelectrochemical (PEC) processes has been considered as a promising strategy for solar energy harvesting. Here, we propose a novel platform that converts solar energy into sodium (Na) as a solid-state solar fuel via the PEC oxidation of natural seawater, for which a Na ion-selective ceramic membrane is employed together with photoelectrode (PE)-photovoltaic (PV) tandem cell. Using an elaborately modified bismuth vanadate-based PE in tandem with crystalline silicon PV, we demonstrate unassisted solar-to-Na conversion (equivalent to solar charge of seawater battery) with an unprecedentedly high efficiency of 8% (expected operating point under I sun) and measured operation efficiency of 5.7% (0.2 sun) and long-term stability, suggesting a new benchmark for low-cost, efficient, and scalable solid solar fuel production. The sodium turns easily into electricity on demand making the device a nature-friendly, monolithic solar rechargeable seawater battery