Editor’s Introduction

This issue includes two peer-reviewed research articles. The first paper by Ghandour, Benwell,and Deans proposes a second-order measurement of website performance from the owner’s perspective. Given the increased use of websites, measuring website performance is an important issue. The proposed measurement is interesting in that the construct includes the owner’s satisfaction, rather than the user’s satisfaction. Empirical analysis shows that the instrument is reliable and valid as an alternative benchmark for website performance

Organizational Adoption of Information Technologies

Organizational adoption of information technologies is critical toward enhancing firm’s competitiveness. Many factors have been found influential and plenty of theories have been applied to this area of research. Research in recent years, however, is increasingly oriented toward individual level of technology adoption. One possible reason is the low cost of data collection due to the convenience of online survey. Although this strengthens our understanding of individual’s attitude and intention to use IT; this may in the long run reduce the value of information systems (IS) research from top management perspective. I believe we need to spend more effort to encourage and publish organizational level research in the IS area

Editorial Introduction

This issue starts the tenth year of continuing publication of the Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems. A decade is not a long nor a short time period. The journal started from scratch with the goal of facilitating research in the Asia Pacific Region. After ten years’ effort, I am glad to see the journal to be recognized as a major journal in information systems by many universities and in many countries. We intend to continue publishing high-quality research reports and would like to invite high-profile scholars to submit your best research outputs

Editorial Introduction

Online shopping has become a habit for most consumers after three decades’ evolution of e-commerce. This is particular significant in developing economies such as China and Korea. Alibaba’s Bachelor Festival on November 11 in China has resulted in an incredible number of 168 billion RMB in a single day and 93% of the transactions were on mobile devices, an increase from 82% in 2016. Electronic commerce is really the major driving force for enhancing information technology infrastructure of most organizations

Editor ’s Introduction

Although business intelligence has been a research area in information systems for a long time, it becomes a bandwagon recently after combining with the ever-increasing online data and big data analytics. It allows managers to uncover useful knowledge from a large volume of dynamic data. I think one major reason for such a movement is that scholars can analyze real world behavioral data, rather than keep predicting behavioral intention. I am not saying intention is not useful, but it is interesting if we can go beyond intention to see more real behavior

RFID Technology and Automated Data Collection

Data is the foundation of all information systems and data collection is a crucial and costly activity. Recent development in automated data collection technology, including the radio frequency identification (RFID) and global positioning system (GPS), has significantly revolutionized many existing applications. Because of its ability to individually identify and track product items, RFID is particularly useful in business domains

Editor\u27s Introduction

Two papers are included in this issue. The paper by Pahnia, Siponen and Zheng extends the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) by adding the construct of habit and evaluates the proposed model in the Chinese online retailing context. The result shows thathabit indeed had a significant effect on the actual use of the website. Its effect size and contributionto the explanatory power of the use behavior were quite significant. This is interesting becausehabit is an understudied common approach for human to overcome the bounded rationality.We expect the paper to trigger more future studies along this line

Editor’s Introduction

As the last issue of 2013, the journal presents two papers that cover two important issues in information systems. Online marketing is an important area in electronic commerce. Social media provides a platform for many creative relationship marketing mechanisms

A GRAPH-BASED APPROACH TO MODEL MANAGEMENT

A graph-based framework for model management system design is proposed in this paper. The framework applies graph theory to the development of a knowledge-based model management system, which has the capability of integrating existing models in the model base to support ad hoc decision making. In other words, models in the model base are not only stand-alone models but also building blocks for creating integrated models. This guarantees effective utilization of developed models and promises future development of an automated modeling system. In the framework, nodes and edges are used to represent sets of data attributes and sets of functions for converting a set of data from one format to another respectively. A basic model is defined as a combination of two nodes, one input node and one output node, and an edge connecting the two nodes. A model graph, which is composed of basic models, is a graph representing all possible alternatives for producing the requested information. Each path in a model graph is a model for producing the information. If the path includes more than one basic model, it represents an integrated model. Based on the graphical representation. an inference mechanism for model integration and strategies for model selection are presented