[AISWorld] Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems Vol. 10 Issue 3

[Jacob Tsai]

Dear Colleagues,



On behalf of the Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information
Systems (PAJAIS), I am pleased to announce that Volume 10, Number 3, 2018
issue of PAJAIS is now available at the journal website: http://pajais.org/

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



*Table of Contents*



Editorial Introduction

James J. Jiang


This issue starts the tenth year of continuous 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.

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1)     Hospital Leadership in Support of Digital Transformation

Mohan Tanniru, Jiban Khuntia, Jack Weiner



Abstract

Evolving customer expectations and the rapid introduction of new
information technologies are influencing business operations, and
businesses need to transform themselves with new operating models to remain
competitive. The traditional top-down administrative leadership approach is
not sufficiently flexible to support the innovation needed to sustain
customer engagement and retention. There is a need for both an enabling
leadership that supports the exploration of innovative ideas quickly for
viability and an adaptive leadership to transition the ideas that show
promise into the current business model or a variation of this model to
sustain growth. We define digital leadership as a strategic process that
collectively uses these three leadership styles to create an ecosystem that
advances a culture of innovation within organizations.  This leadership
process uses four foundational platforms to support business
transformations: (1) An innovation platform to empower teams to explore
ideas that create value using digital transformations; (2) An agile system
and business platform to quickly design and deliver IT implementations; (3)
A learning platform to support reflective discourse that leads to
organizational capacity building; and (4) An adoption platform to decide
when and what implementations get transitioned to the regular business for
sustaining competitiveness. We will illustrate how digital leadership is
used to transform the culture of a community hospital through several IS
implementations recognized by external peers for their innovativeness.



Keywords: Digital leadership, healthcare transformation, IS implementation,
complexity theory, hospital innovations

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2)     Understanding Technology Transition at the Individual Level

Rahul Thakurta, Nils Urbach, Anamitra Basu

Abstract

The present era is witness to numerous instances of new technologies
constantly replacing those that are being used, a phenomenon coined as
technology transition. In this research, based on existing evidences, we
propose a theoretical model to explain technology transition from an
individual user’s perspective. Results based on validation of the proposed
model based on survey data identifies key factors that may influence an
individual’s intention to transition from a conventional computing device
to a tablet computer. The findings have implications to both theory and
practice which have been also delineated.


Keywords: human behavior and IT; technology transition; technology use;
tablet computers; digital innovation

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3)     Defining the Strategic Role of the Chief Information Security Officer

Sean B Maynard, Mazino Onibere, Atif Ahmad



Abstract

The level of sophistication and dynamism of the security threat environment
requires modern organizations to develop novel security strategies. The
responsibility to strategize falls to the Chief Information Security
Officer (CISO). A review of the security literature shows there has been
little emphasis on understanding the role of the CISO as a strategist. In
this research, we conduct a systematic literature review from the
disciplines of information security and strategic management to identify
specific attributes required by CISOs to become effective strategists. We
discuss these attributes in the context of Information Security Management
and argue that CISOs with these attributes or capabilities are better
positioned to overcome the existing strategic security challenges facing
organizations.


Keywords: Information Security; Information Security Strategy

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4)     An Investigation of the Managerial Use of Mobile Business
Intelligence

Wei Hou, Shijia Gao



Abstract

As a new trend in business intelligence (BI), mobile BI has been gaining
increasing adoption by managers. However, there is little academic research
about the managerial use of mobile BI. Adopting the key constructs of
Task-Technology Fit theory and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of
Technology as the theoretical lens, this exploratory study aims to deliver
a preliminary understanding on why and how managers use mobile BI, from
both the managers’ and the vendor’s perspectives. A case study was
conducted with a large government authority whose mobile BI vendor is an
industry leader worldwide. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with
seven senior managers from this organization and the vendor. Through
discussing the reasons why managers use mobile BI and their use patterns, a
series of emergent propositions are drawn. The empirical results from this
study not only contribute to this currently underexplored area of mobile
BI, but also help enable the industry to make mobile BI products that
better suit managers’ needs.


Keywords: Mobile BI, Business Intelligence, Mobile Decision Support
Systems, Managers, Technology Use, TTF, UTAUT


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Best regards,

Dr. Jacob Chia-An Tsai
PAJAIS Editorial Manager