[AISWorld] 2015 BEST PAPERS OF the Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS): FREE ONLINE ACCESS

[Sirkka Jarvenpaa]

Building on JSIS's long tradition of publishing excellent articles that deal with practically important strategic issues associated with information systems development, management and use, the editors and publishers are pleased to announce the winner and runner up of the JSIS Best Paper Award for 2015.
Both papers address highly practically strategic issues and make significant novel contribution to the discipline of information systems. Congratulations to the authors of these outstanding papers.
We are pleased to give promotional access to both papers<http://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-journal-of-strategic-information-systems/news/2015-best-paper-award>, which can be read free online.
The best JSIS paper of 2015:   <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096386871300036X>
Design for Social Media Engagement: Insights from Elderly    <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0963868715000232>
Volume 24, Issue 2, June 2015, Pages 128-145
Paolo Spagnoletti, Andrea Resca, Øystein Sæbø
The paper provides an action design science contribution and addresses how social media can address an ill-defined problem in care of the elderly. This is an area with few studies and particularly in terms of how action design research can be leveraged in the context of social media technologies. The paper emphasizes an alternative view of design as an emergent process of engagement and learning rather than the traditional view of problem solving that focuses on internal consistency and coherence of the proposed solution. A three-year project, HOPES, was studied longitudinally. Data were generated from direct observations, focus groups of domain experts, researchers, and users. A digitally-enabled elderly support network instantiated the view of social media as an ensemble artefact in the context of the geriatric unit of an Italian health care institution. Social media in IS design connected the technology artefact, the information artefact, and the social artefact. The study provides a set of principles for social media engagement in elderly care assistance. The outcomes are innovative in terms of engaging people and institutions in the provision of personalized assistance and transforming relationships in the process. The study extends the view of design as a sociotechnical construction beyond closed workplace settings and the 'container' view of the organization,
The Runner Up of 2015:
The tension between business process modelling and flexibility: Revealing multiple dimensions with a sociomaterial approach<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0963868715000384>
Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2015, Pages 189-202
João Porto de Albuquerque, Marcel Christ
The paper addresses an under-researched yet a highly critical topic in information systems management.  The authors point to the contradictory effects on flexibility of business process modeling: while recent approaches to modeling are being used to pursue flexibility as a strategic goal, the outcome might actually lead to a reduction in organizational flexibility. The case study research on which the article is based adopts a sociomaterial approach based on Actor-Network Theory ''to develop a multidimensional understanding of flexibility as a relational effect of sociomaterial networks." Taking place in a large aircraft maintenance corporation, the study highlights the influence of process modeling on organizational flexibility.
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-journal-of-strategic-information-systems/news/2015-best-paper-award