Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 8th - 10th December, Auckland, New Zealand

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"Integral IS: The Embedding of Information Systems in Business, Government and Society"

Information Systems (IS) as an integral part of society. Integral is defined as: “belonging as an apart of the whole; necessary or the completeness of the whole; or as important, vital, central, essential.” Integral IS means information and technology seamlessly integrated into our social and working lives. As IS researchers and practitioners, we create, design, implement and maintain the systems that play an increasingly important, almost inescapable, role in our lives today. The implementation and effects of seamless integration on such a large scale raises a number of very important issues for practice and research: issues that the Information Systems community should be taking the lead to explore and explain to the wider community.

ISBN: 978-1-927184-26-4

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    Determining Partner Selection Criteria using Information Communication Technology (ICT) Tools
    (ACIS, 2014) Mat, Noor Azliza Che; Cheung, Yen; Scheepers, Helana
    Selecting compatible partners for business collaboration can be a difficult and time consuming task. Identifying the criteria for partner selection is thus important to organisations that are considering business collaborations or to form a collaborative network (CN). Determining the right set of criteria for partner selection involves careful consideration of both intangible and tangible factors. Partner-related criteria or intangible factors such as trust, reputation and management ability have long-term effects on collaborations. Compared to task-related criteria or tangible factors, intangible factors are not easily determined as they involve subjective judgment. The objectives of the paper are to explore the partner selection criteria which relates to partner-related criteria and to identify the information communication technology (ICT) tools to accommodate the criteria. Mixed methods approach has been implemented in this study which begins with an online survey followed by conducting interviews with selected organisations. The findings show several ICT tools that are suitable to be used to help organisations in evaluating the partner selection criteria.
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    Chinese Managers, Guanxi, and Using Business Intelligence: A Research Agenda
    (ACIS, 2014) Song, Yutong; Arnott, David; Gao, Shijia
    China is the world's second largest economy by nominal gross domestic product (GDP) and purchasing power parity (PPP). Despite the considerable amount of IS research in China, little work has been reported on the use of decision support systems (DSS), particularly large-scale business intelligence (BI). Because of the significant cultural differences between the West and China it may be that this Western technology is of little use in Chinese management structures and processes. In particular, the Chinese cultural norm of guanxi may affect BI usefulness. This research seeks to contribute to practice by developing a theory that will help Western BI practitioners to understand and better use guanxi in dealing with Chinese organisations. It is also expected to provide an important addition to knowledge, including BI theory and IS research methods.
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    In search of lost time: investigating the temporality of student engagement, the role of learning technologies, and implications for student performance
    (ACIS, 2014) O Riordan, Niamh
    Much has been written about the importance of engaging students in the learning process. However, studies have shown that students today spend significantly less time on their studies than their forebears. Given the limitations of the existing body of knowledge, this study reviews what is currently known about full-time college students’ time use and its consequences in terms of exam performance and skill acquisition. In particular, the results of our initial investigation suggest the ubiquity of today’s technologies, especially the Internet, has significant and frequently overlooked consequences for student engagement in general and for their consumption of content for learning in particular. Further, future studies are needed to unravel the complex relationship that exists between learning technologies, students’ time use and their academic performance. The paper concludes by highlighting a number of possible avenues for future research in this area.
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    Trust formation in information systems implementation in developing countries: The role of emancipatory expectations
    (ACIS, 2014) Vaidya, Ranjan
    This paper explores trust formation issues in information and communications technology projects in developing countries. My purpose in this study is to understand the stakeholder expectations in the implementation of information and communications technology for development projects (ICT4D). For this I study the computerization of a state agricultural marketing board in India. The board initiated the project in 2003 and by 2011-12, after massive investments, the project was abandoned. I started following this project in 2009, and collected data from the major stakeholder groups in form of semi structured interviews over a three year period. The data was analysed using thematic analysis and my overall approach is critical. It is suggested that expectations of emancipation should be satisfied along physical, social and informational dimensions.
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    Introducing System Controls for Control Theory
    (ACIS, 2014) Nuwangi, Subasinghage Maduka; Sedera, Darshana; Srivastava, Shirish C
    Control theory focuses exclusively on manual control mechanisms, where the control instructions over the organizational employees are executed by a person (e.g. project manager). With the advancement of computer systems, contemporary organizations have commenced handing over employee control aspects to computer systems. In this research, we introduce “system controls”, where a computer system is executing control instructions over the employees. Moreover, we discuss the characteristics, limitations and issues in system controls when added as a perspective of control theory.
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