[AISWorld] Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems Vol. 5 Issue 1

[Michelle Yen]

Dear Colleagues,

 

On behalf of the Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems (PAJAIS), I am pleased to announce that Vol. 5. Number 1, 2013 issue of PAJAIS is now available at the journal web site: http://journal.ecrc.nsysu.edu.tw/pajais/

PAJAIS is also available through AIS e-library: http://aisel.aisnet.org/pajais/

 

Table of Contents 

 

Guest Editor’s Introduction

Shang-Ling Pan

 

Abstract

Sponsored by the Association of Information Systems (AIS), the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) is the premier annual information systems (IS) conference in the region. It serves to provide a platform to researchers and practitioners to share their research findings and practices in the field of information systems and management.

The theme of PACIS 2012 is “IS Innovation in Pacific Asia” and Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam was chosen to host the conference. In recent decades, this region has undergone remarkable economic progress and rapid development. Amidst the dynamism of growing change and transformation, organizations and the society at large face unique challenges as a result of the diverse economic, political, and sociocultural contexts in this part of the world. Their development experience, therefore, has stood out as an extraordinary example of how information systems and technology are being leveraged in generating new solutions.

Meanwhile, as we deliberate on the impacts of such a diverse and dynamic context on the unique application of IS, we should consider deeply the effects of IS innovation on the environment. In other words, it represents an opportunity for the IS researchers and practitioners to think about how information and communication technologies can contribute to the advancement of the social, cultural and economic well-being of our region.

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1)      Engaging Students: Digital Storytelling in Information Systems Learning

Nathan R. Bromberg, Angsana A. Techatassanasoontorn and Antonio Diaz Andrade

Abstract

One of the general challenges in today’s teaching and learning environment is identifying ways to create meaningful and engaging learning experiences that go beyond a traditional lecture.

The discovery-learning paradigm has a potential to address this challenge by encouraging students to be active participants in their learning experience. In this paper, we report on our exploratory study of the use of digital storytelling to support discovery learning in an introductory information system (IS) course. Digital storytelling, in contrast to the traditional lecture format, encourages students to use computer-aided mixed media such as audio, video and images to construct and convey knowledge around a topic in the form of a story. The aim of the digital storytelling project was to encourage students to take ownership in their learning process by giving them the opportunity to design, create and present their own class materials. We discuss our findings on how digital storytelling facilitates learning of complex IS concepts. The results suggest that a careful pedagogical design around story planning, digital story production and reflection are important to achieve positive learning experience of students.

 

Keywords: Digital Storytelling, Discovery Learning, Information Systems.

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2)      Disaster Recovery – New Challenges and Opportunities for Business Process Management Research and Practice

Olivera Marjanovic and Petri Hallikainen

 

Abstract

Managing processes across community/NGOs, government and business agencies brings upon brand new challenges, yet to be explored by the Business Process Management (BPM) community.

This research focuses on disaster recovery, as a prime example of such a complex cross-organisational environment. Even though every disaster is unique, when considered from the process perspective, disaster recovery could be seen as a set of operational processes – some of which are highly structured and predefined, while the others are knowledge-intensive. i.e. highly emergent, ad-hoc processes that need to be designed in-situ and managed as they evolve. Through an in-depth review of the relevant literature published by the Business Process

Management (BPM) and disaster recovery (DR) research communities this paper reports on the existing research on the management of DR processes. The literature was analysed through a theoretical lens combining two existing frameworks previously developed and used by the BPM community. Our research provides insights into the main characteristics of DR processes and the existing research gaps found across BPM and DR. These insights were used to identify relevant theories that could be used by information systems researchers to study different aspects of DR processes, in particular: (i) sharing and co-creation of process-related knowledge among very diverse process participants; (ii) management of data and information flows across different types of organizations (business, governmental and community/NGOs); (iii) flexible coordination mechanisms, and (iv) provision of more flexible IS support for these emerging knowledge-intensive processes.

 

Keywords: Disaster Recovery, Business process Management (BPM), Operational processes, Knowledge-intensive process, Literature review.

 

3)      Enhancing Organizational Fit Factors to Achieve ERP Project Success

Shin-Yuan Hung,Wen-Ju Yu,Charlie C. Chen, and Jung-Chang Hsu

 

Abstract

Organizational fit is an important project success factor; however, its importance and relationships with key project management (PM) factors in large-scale software projects have not been thoroughly investigated. The purpose of this paper is to investigate of the direct effect of organizational fit factor on ERP project success, and the moderating effect of organizational adaptation and PM factors on the relationship between organizational fit and ERP success. A total of 69 enterprises in Taiwan were surveyed. The collected data were analyzed using the regression analysis. The data analysis results indicate that organizational fit has a direct and positive influence on ERP project success. Depends on project success measures (cost, time, performance, and benefit) to achieve, organization adaptation factors (i.e. system and business process adaptation) and key PM factors (i.e. teamwork, top management support, end-user training, and vendor’s advising capability)play strong moderating roles in the relationship between organizational fit and ERP success. These findings lead to academic and practical implications on improving ERP project success via managing these key factors.

 

Keywords: Project Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Adaptation, Organizational Fit

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Best Regards, 

Dr. Ting-Peng Liang, Editor in Chief, 

Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems 

Information Systems Department 

College of Business Administration 

Electronic Commerce Research Center
National Sun Yat-sen University 
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http://www.ecrc.nsysu.edu.tw/
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Ju-min Michelle Yen
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