[AISWorld] [AJIS] New Research Articles published in the Australasian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS)

[Ajis Editor]

Dear Colleagues,



The Australasian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS) has just published
the following first 4 articles in its regular research article section and
1 in the Green IS/IT section of its volume 26.



*Regular Research Articles:*

*Using Process Stories to Foster Process Flexibility: The Experts’
Viewpoint*

Nguyen Hoang Thuan, Hoang Ai-Phuong , Mathews Nkhoma, Pedro Antunes

Thuan.NguyenHoang at rmit.edu.vn

doi: https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v26i0.3479


Process flexibility is essential for organizations coping with uncertainty,
emergence, and change. In this study, we research how process stories may
lessen friction in realizing flexible processes. We use friction as a
metaphor, which characterizes the realization of flexible processes as
handling two opposing forces: one pushes towards flexibility while the
other pulls against flexibility. Using in-depth interviews with BPM experts
as a data-gathering technique, we provide insights into the dynamics of
friction in the BPM lifecycle. We also provide empirical evidence about the
capability of process stories to lessen friction in realizing flexible
processes. This research contributes to understand the context where
process stories may be most fit to realize process flexibility and adds
knowledge about practical complaints experienced by BPM experts when
realizing process flexibility.

#BusinessProcesses#ProcessFlexibility#ProcessStories#EmpiricalStudy#QualitativeInterviews

*Antecedents of Effective Digital Leadership of Enterprises in Asia Pacific*

Nanda Kumar Karippur, Pushpa Rani Balaramachandran

pushparani.b at spjain.org

doi: https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v26i0.2525


Increasing awareness of digital transformation across Asia Pacific is
putting a strong spotlight on how enterprises think of leadership and
related key practices. The pace of transition to the new digital
organisation creates even larger leadership gaps as most organisations have
not moved rapidly enough to develop relevant leadership practices. With the
support of literature, an analysis of related theories of transformational
leadership, ambidexterity and dynamic capabilities are examined and the
most suitable leadership attributes and practices for a digital enterprise
is proposed. We test the proposed research model via a sample of leaders
and senior managers from the Asia Pacific region. The results highlight the
significant roles of leadership attributes, strategic priorities,
organisational focus areas for exploration and digital governance practices
for exploitation, in influencing effective digital leadership. The article
reports valuable insights and relevant implications for leaders,
enterprises, and researchers.

#Ambidexterity#Digitalleadership#Digitaltransformation#Digitalgovernance#Dynamiccapabilities#Transformationalleadership

*Old But Not Out: Social Media Use and Older Adults' Life Satisfaction*

Peter Ractham, Angsana A. Techatassanasoontorn, Laddawan Kaewkitipong

laddawan at tbs.tu.ac.th

doi: https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v26i0.3269


Social media has the potential to have a positive influence on older
adults' quality of life. This study explores how older adults use social
media and the implications of the use on their life satisfaction. A
sequential mixed-method approach is used. First, focus group interviews
were conducted with older adults in Thailand, and a two-step sorting
procedure is employed to develop comprehensive measures of social media use
activity and their life domain affiliation. Next, a field survey is used to
evaluate the influence of satisfaction from social media use on domain life
satisfaction and overall life satisfaction. The findings suggest that older
adults integrate social media into activities in several life domains,
including family, friend, community, health, consumer, education, self,
leisure, and social. Satisfaction from social media use activities
positively associates with domain life satisfaction in all those life
domains. The comprehensive measures of social media activities enable us to
extensively theorize social media use and illustrate that it has a
different meaning for older adults compared with young adults.

#Lifesatisfaction#olderadults#socialmedia#subjectivewellbeing

*Building Social Resilience and Inclusion in Disasters: A Survey of
Vulnerable Persons’ Social Media Use*

Vanessa Cooper, Peter Hayes, Stan Karanasios

vanessa.cooper at rmit.edu.au

doi: https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v26i0.3281


Social media (SM) is increasingly used to reach out to populations for
preparedness and response to disasters. Given the disproportionate impacts
of disasters on vulnerable populations (e.g., older persons, persons
socially/geographically isolated, persons living with disabilities, persons
of low socio-economic means) in this study we focus specifically on the
attitudes, needs and future plans of vulnerable persons towards accessing
and sharing information via SM during extreme weather events. Advancing
understanding in this area is important as there is growing evidence that
people who may be described as more vulnerable may have different
communication needs and less access to disaster related information and
technologies. We present the results of a survey of 215 vulnerable persons
in Victoria, Australia. Rather than consider vulnerable persons as a
homogenous group, we examine how persons with different vulnerabilities
perceive SM for accessing and sharing information in the context of
disasters and report findings which challenge prevalent assumptions about
vulnerable persons and SM. Overall we find that vulnerable persons are not
passive recipients of support during disasters but have self-awareness, a
strong desire to receive information and the capacity to usefully
contribute to the provision of reliable information via SM. With a view to
improving outcomes for vulnerable persons in disasters we offer an agenda
for future research.

#Socialmedia#vulnerablepersons#disastermanagement#communication#community#resilience

*Green IS/IT:*

*Saving the environment from the internet:  A Polynomial Mitigation Model
of Reducing Individual Internet Consumption through Internet Pricing and
Environmental Awareness *

Ayodhya Wathuge, *Darshana Sedera*

ayodhyawathuge at gmail.com

doi: https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v26i0.3239


The ever-increasing internet usage purports to make substantial damage to
the environment as a result of the emissions arising from the internet
supporting infrastructures like data centers. However, there has been much
less discussion on creating an awareness of the damage that the internet
does to the environment. The purpose of this study is to investigate
whether the internet use can be reduced at the individual level by
calibrating internet price and one’s environmental awareness. The study
employs a population-based survey experiment and conducts a polynomial
regression analysis using a sample of 326 individuals to understand the
conjoined relationship between internet price and environmental awareness.
The results indicate that internet price affordability moderated the
relationship between environmental awareness and internet usage. Although,
before inducing awareness, pricing plays a major role in changing
consumption, after inducing awareness the significance of pricing
decreases, and awareness tends to determine the consumption. Moreover, the
multi-group analysis infers that age does not show any significance on
price affordability and environmental awareness, although males display a
high price sensitivity and responsiveness towards awareness than their
female counterparts.

#Environmentalawareness#internetuse#price#polynomialregression#longitudinalsurvey



Thanks for the continuing interest in our work.

Best regards

Professor Karlheinz Kautz
Editor-in-Chief, Australasian Journal of Information Systems

http://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/