Management Information Systems Field Research Articles

Evolution of Management Information Systems by Super Artificial Intelligence Revolutions

This study explores the impact of the super artificial intelligence (AI) revolution on the evolution of Management Information Systems (MIS) discipline. As AI departments are being set rapidly in all universities worldwide, recognizing that the super AI revolution has significantly transformed the MIS field, this study aims to propose a function formula to model the intricate dynamics between MIS and other related disciplines, such as business analytics, computer science, management science, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. The proposed formula will capture how the super AI revolution introduces new challenges and opportunities, influences the convergence and divergence of related fields, and affects the MIS discipline. Additionally, the study identifies key concerns and technical issues associated with super AI, offering potential mitigation strategies to address these challenges. By emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and the necessity for acquiring specialized skills, this study underscores the need for professionals to effectively navigate the evolving landscape shaped by the super AI revolution.

Word2Vec과 엔트로피를 활용한 연구동향 분석

To understand trends in a specific research field, qualitative literature analysis of major papers published in that field has traditionally been used. Recently, there has been an increasing effort to quantitatively analyze large volumes of literature using text analysis techniques. This study proposes an analysis method utilizing word embedding and entropy. The proposed method is applied to analyze literature in the field of Management Information Systems (MIS). For this purpose, 12,704 papers published in major MIS journals were collected. Word2Vec and annual keyword clustering were applied to 7,813 keywords extracted from these papers, and the research trends in the MIS field were analyzed through vector similarity analysis. Furthermore, research topics were visualized and classified according to their life cycles based on the rate of entropy change and average values. The method proposed in this study is applicable to various research fields and holds significance as a quantitative approach to analyzing large volumes of literature.

Landscape of Digital Technologies Used in the National Health Service in England: Content Analysis.

In England, digital technologies are exploited to transform the way health and social care is provided and encompass a wide range of hardware devices and software that are used in all aspects of health care. However, little is known about the extent to which health care providers differ in digital health technology capabilities and how this relates to geographical and regional differences in health care capacities and resources. This paper aims to identify the set of digital technologies that have been deployed by the National Health Services clinical commissioning groups (NHS CCGs) in England. In doing this, we respond to calls to shed light on the internal dynamics and variation in the form of digital capability in England in terms of health service regional differences and health diversity, equity, and inclusion. We collected 135 annual reports that belong to 106 NHS CCGs in England, comprising more than 18,000 pages in total, released from 2020 to 2021. Using this data set, we identified 2163 pages related to digital technologies and labeled them using content analysis. We follow the construct taxonomy used by digital options theory, a theory from the management information systems field analyzing organizational resource investment choices, in classifying observed technologies according to digital themes-inherent design patterns that we identified and explained. We then used a hierarchical clustering method to extract groups of NHS CCGs that implement similar technology themes. We found 31 technologies from the reports and grouped them into 9 digital themes. The 9 themes were further assigned to 1 of the 3 constructs of digital options theory, the identification of patients' requirements (we identified information portals [76/106], digital health engagement [67/106], and digital inclusion support [45/106]), the development of new work patterns (we identified telehealth [87/106], telemedicine [35/106], and care home technologies [40/106]), the realization of improvements in efficiency and public accessibility (we identified online booking [26/106], online triage [104/106], and digital mental health services [74/106]). The 3 clusters of CCGs are identified based on the 8 themes (Hopkins=0.9914, silhouette=0.186), namely (1) digitally disengaged, (2) digitally engaged, and (3) digital torchbearer. Our findings show prominent digital themes within each construct group, namely information portals, telehealth, and online triage, covering people's fundamental health information needs. Almost half of CCGs fell into the digitally disengaged group, and all London CCGs (5/106) belonged to this group. We propose that practitioners should offer specialized assistance to regions with limited digital engagement, emphasizing digital health literacy, inclusion support, and ongoing evaluation, rather than concentrating solely on technical advancements.

Code Adventure: An Educational Game for Learning JAVA Programming

The purpose of this project is to (1) develop an educational game for learning in a JAVA programming course for undergraduate students, (2) compare the learning achievements of educational games and lectures, and (3) assess learner game acceptance with learning through games. The sample used in this research were 50 first-year undergraduate students in the field of management information systems from the Department of Information Science, S University in Thailand. In game design and development, The researcher developed the game based on the concept of game flow elements, such as challenges, story, fun, beauty, and so on, in order to inspire learners to be engaged in learning through games. The tools used in the research were (1) educational game performance evaluation forms, (2) an educational game for learning JAVA programming concepts, (3) a learning achievement test, and (4) student satisfaction assessment forms. The research results showed that (1) the learning efficiency of the educational game was very good, (2) the academic achievement of learning by the educational game was higher than that of learning by lecture, and (3) the acceptance of learning with computer games by the students was excellent. Additionally, learning through games made it easier for students to absorb the subject and learn more effectively. It has been discovered that learning through games improves learning results for students.

Management Information Systems Research: A Topic Modeling Based Bibliometric Analysis

ABSTRACT Management information systems (MIS) have an interdisciplinary structure. Naturally, it develops and changes with the influence of other fields. This study tries to analyze MIS through academic studies on this topic. In this context, the analysis included 25304 articles published in the Scopus database from 2016 to 2021. Then, the performance analysis, part of bibliometric analysis, was used to measure the research productivity and impact of authors, institutions, countries, and journals. This way, the field’s most influential authors, institutions, countries, and journals were determined. Afterward, the articles were gathered under 15 categories with topic modeling. These categories were examined on an annual basis, and more detailed results were tried to be revealed. This study both revealed the primary lines of the MIS field and ended up being a guide for researchers about the topics they can focus on in the future.

A Bibliometric Analysis of Published Articles on Management Information Systems (MIS)

This paper aimed to explore trends in management information systems (MIS) research from 2017 to 2021 and compare their contributions based on different countries and authors. In particular, this study presents a bibliometric analysis of MIS highlighting key themes including, effective top MIS journals, authors, contributing countries, source types, sponsoring institutions, document languages, and subject areas, within the past five years. The data were chosen from Web of Science and Scopus databases based on defined search terms relating to MIS. Microsoft Excel 2016 was used to summarize bibliometric features, including the number of publications, subject areas and country contributions. Based on the search results, a total of 3624 papers were included. The results showed that most of the articles were published in journals and conferences, mainly in English. Additionally, most of the research in MIS was in the computer, engineering, medicine and management sciences fields and China contributed the largest percentage of articles (17%). The “ Journal of Physics” and the “International Conference on Information Systems Development” had the highest publication number, while, the European Commission, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the National Science Foundation were the top funding institutions.The outcomes provide a global perspective of the MIS field, identifying the works that have had the greatest impact, the main study traditions or themes that have been explored in MIS studies. Structural analyses revealed changes in the MIS over time. The paper concluded with suggestions and accumulated knowledge for future study. Keywords: Bibliometric analysis, Information Systems, Management Information Systems, MIS field. DOI: 10.7176/IKM/11-4-14 Publication date: November 30 th 2021

Functional analysis of generalized linear models under non-linear constraints with applications to identifying highly-cited papers

This article introduces a versatile functional form for Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) through a simple, yet effective, transformation of the current framework. The models are applied through a new hierarchical bayesian estimation procedure for logistic regression to highly-cited papers in the Management Information Systems (MIS) field. The results are uniformly better, in regards to model fit and inference for in-sample and out-of-sample data, for simulation studies and real-world data applications, requiring very little time to convergence to true population parameters. In simulation studies, I show that the method contains the true parameters nearly three times as often as widely used existing GLMs, and does so while having confidence intervals that are 54.50% smaller, while requiring around two-thirds the number of MCMC iterations as existing bayesian methods. In Scientometric applications the methodology is shown to be highly robust with predictive/classification accuracy, either equaling or exceeding existing methods for identifying highly-cited articles including Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). Thus, the method is shown to be robust to the amount of asymmetry (or symmetry) of the probability of success (or failure) and robust to unbalanced samples and varying Data Generating Processes. Further, the methodology is equivalent to current methods if the data support them and is therefore complementary to existing methods, without loss of interpretability of model parameters. For the MIS field it finds that Popularity Parameter (PP) of an article Keywords can predict whether a paper will be highly-cited (top 25% of highly-cited articles) between two to three years after publication and beyond. Furthermore, given the small number of iterations needed for convergence, the methodology can also be used as a baseline method in Big Data (BD) settings for both Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) contexts as well.

PROPOSED FRAMEWORK FOR THE ROLE OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION YSTEMS IN IMPROVING ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE IN HOSPITALS A FIELD STUDY AT CAIRO HEART INSTITUTE HOSPITAL

The study aimed to identify the role of management information systems, especially in hospitals, in improving environmental performance. A field study on the Cairo Heart Institute Hospital, Researchers in this study relied on an inductive approach: based on data, statistics and historical facts. The research is based on the study of management information systems and their role in improving the environmental performance of hospitals based on data and statistics from sources Such as books, periodicals, publications, scientific journals, and internet conferences. The researchers also used the descriptive and analytical approach in defining the research problem represented in highlighting management information systems and their role in improving environmental performance in hospitals, and to achieve the goal of the research, a sample of 300 individuals was selected. This study relied on the method of investigation to collect the necessary primary data. Direct and directed, the survey list was presented to a number of managers at the National Heart Institute, as well as some academics specialized in the field of management information systems in Egyptian universities and research centers, in order to verify the extent of the content's validity of the measures used in the list. In light of the results of the study, the most important of which is that there is a statistically significant relationship between the availability of software and the improvement of the environmental performance of the Heart Institute Hospital in Cairo. There is a statistically significant relationship between the management information systems and the improvement of the environmental performance of the Cairo Heart Institute Hospital. It has been possible to reach through a proposed framework the most important recommendations, including the need to establish a central information system at the level of the National Heart Institute hospital in cooperation between the Ministry of Health and Population and the specialized information bodies that includes a group of experts and consultants working on planning and policy-making and providing the hospital management with accurate, clear and sufficient data and information. Which helps them to make the right decisions and then provide a good health service. Establishing a special department for medical quality at the National Heart Institute Hospital that includes a group of capable and specialized expertise in the field of quality management at the Institute.

Career success in academia

PurposeIn this study, the authors explore the boundaryless careers of faculty and adopt the intelligent career framework to examine success factors for academic careers.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a field study of 36 researchers in the management information systems field from 22 institutions in the US, Australia and Canada. The authors selected the participants representing four strata of researchers: luminaries (high expertise status and high citizenship behavior), experts (high expertise status but low leadership roles), statesmen (low expertise status but high leadership) and journeymen (low expertise status and low leadership). Data regarding the participants' experience of social relationships and social resources as well as entrepreneurial motivations were collected and analyzed.FindingsResults show that faculty who “know-why”, “know-how”, and “know with whom” possess socially valued resources and are successful in advancing their careers. They establish high social status and exercise power within their networks to mobilize resources that promote their careers. On the other hand, faculty who fall short of these competencies impose social closure on themselves and do not strive to exploit resources available through their contacts. The study advances a number of theoretical propositions to guide future research on boundaryless intelligent careers.Social implicationsSocial relationships and social resources do not substitute individual competence, leadership and entrepreneurial motivations; individuals need to develop competence valued by their professional communities and exploit available opportunities and assume leadership roles in order to effectively establish instrumental relationships and mobilize social resources to achieve career advancement.Originality/valueIn this study, we attempt to extend career development research through an examination of the bidirectional relationship between know-why, know-how and know-who in academia.

Investigating the adoption intention of gamification apps on mobile services

Previous studies exploring adoption in the field of management information systems have focused on the objects of information systems or information technologies. However, since the popularity of smart phones has led to the usage of apps, limited investigations have attempted to understand the usage intention of apps. In this study, a research model is proposed to comprehend how users perceive and adopt a gamification app in the initial adoption phase of the information system life cycle. Since there are various topics within gamification services, we only pinpoint one popular type of service, exercise, as the research subject. The investigation involving 173 usable subjects was conducted to evaluate the model by using structural equation modelling. The result demonstrates that our proposed model explains 56.7% of the variance. The findings have interesting implications with respect to the initial usage of exercise gamification apps, both for researchers and practitioners.

What does MIS survey research reveal about diversity and representativeness in the MIS field? A content analysis approach

Diversity and representativeness are two enriching components of an academic field and for quite some time, Management Information Systems (MIS) researchers have been advocating for more studies on them. The objective of this study is to investigate the extent to which survey-based research articles reflect diversity in MIS research and to evaluate representativeness in journals in the MIS field. Diversity is a multifaceted concept that can be delineated along several constructs such as diversity in research approach, diversity in theories, and diversity in research methods. Survey research is the dominant research method in the MIS field accounting for 32–41% of published empirical research studies. In this study, diversity is conceptualized and explored through six factors that are easily identifiable in a survey-based research article namely the unit of analysis, research topics, type of respondents, number of authors, number of schools of authors, and number of country of authors. The study makes use of a set of 1466 survey-based research articles published over 21 years in 15 mainstream MIS journals in Europe and the USA to study diversity and representativeness using Tsallis entropy and Chi-Square statistics. The results present an overview of the state of the MIS survey-based research in Europe and the USA while also revealing that MIS researchers are predominantly gathering survey data from business executives at the firm and individual units of analysis in both regions. Overall, we find dominant categories (top 2) emerge for each factor as they relate to diversity both in Europe and the USA with three factors having the same dominant categories indicating that diversity continues to elude the MIS research field. The results have implications for both research and practice in the MIS field.

The Citation Analysis of Dissertations in the Field of Management Information Systems in Turkey

The aim of this study is to perform a citation analysis of dissertations completed at the Department of Management Information Systems (MIS) in Turkey between 2006 and 2018. For this purpose, a total of 177 dissertations including 173 master’s and 4 doctoral dissertations were analyzed through citation analysis to investigate general characteristics and bibliometric features. The key findings show that the average number of dissertations completed per year was 14 and there is not a common pattern for the distribution of completed dissertations by the years. Most of the dissertations were completed at Bogazici University (45%) and Gazi University (26%). An average dissertation was 121 pages long. The average number of citations in dissertations was 76, and journals received more than half of the citations (52%) while books did 27%, electronic publications 14%, theses 5% and other types of documents/sources 2%. More than half of the journals (61%), the most frequently used source type in dissertations, were in English. “Information Management”, “Management Information Systems (MIS) Quarterly” and “Journal of Marketing” were among the most frequently cited journals. “Fred. D. Davis”, “Viswanath Venkatesh” and “Icek Ajzen” were the most frequently cited authors. The mean half-life of the sources cited in the dissertations was 7,3 years. This study is the first one which has analyzed the dissertations completed at MIS Departments in Turkey through the citation analysis method. In this respect, the findings can be used to examine the intellectual features of MIS discipline/field in Turkey and to create core library collections in the field. Moreover, this study is expected to be a pioneering one for similar citation analysis and bibliometric studies related to other types of sources in addition to dissertations and for other researchers in the field of MIS in the future.

On the March of Time and the Meaning of Days

As of this issue, The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems marks its 50th year of publication. We are minded to introspect, then, on what it means to have been here for 50 years. For some, it means that this journal came to be in the year that astronauts first landed on the moon; that sounds like a very modern occurrence, but having transpired in 1969, it was literally a half century ago. That is 18,250 days, or 2,607 weeks, or 599 months, or, of course, one half of a century. Century - the Latin root of which connotes groups of 100; half of 100 being fifty, and that being a darned large number in some respects, but in others very small. It depends on point of view, as the physicist Einstein (1921) would have put it. When you are moving at great speeds, time seems to pass more slowly (as compared to the perceptions of a less-fast moving observer). Time and its passage are a subjective perception of the perceiver, even outside of the physics of relativity (Evans, 2005). As Carol Saunders once speculated in a closing essay during her time at MIS Quarterly, it only seems like yesterday that we came to be a field of inquiry in Management Information Systems, and we could consider ourselves in the geological scheme of time to be very young indeed (Saunders, 2007). On the other hand, for those busily engaged in the fast-moving activities of publishing a journal like ours, time flies in different ways when we consider how long significant landmarks of the field of Management Information Systems have been in place (as has this journal, for a similar period of time). It was just yesterday, and it has been forever. We only just took Volume 48, Number 1 to press, it seems, and here we are at 50(1)! Time is in the Einsteinian details.

50 Years of The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems

This article offers a historical overview of the middle years of publishing The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems in the context of the evolution of the field of Management Information Systems. The journey of the editor-in-chief during these years is revealed, including the challenges and professional development achieved through journal editorship. The development of DATA BASE is contrasted with the complementary evolution of the MIS Quarterly. Possibilities for advancing DATA BASE into a socialmedia platform are explored.

Peran Innovativeness sebagai variabel moderator model UTAUT pada Aplikasi Lembur Berbasis Android (Studi pada karyawan tetap PDAM Kota Malang)

The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) is a theory in the field of Management Information Systems that explains the relationship between the variables of information technology acceptance. UTAUT has been widely applied in various studies with different cultures, places, subjects and times. UTAUT has many developments carried out by world researchers by developing UTAUT modeling with other variables that are relevant to of previous researches. This research is part of the development of UTAUT by making the innovativeness variable as a moderator of variables. This research is a form of contribution in the development of UTAUT research that tested in Indonesia with the research subject are employees of Water Company of Malang City (PDAM Malang City) which is Regional Owned Enterprises with 78 samples representative of 14 departments of the company. The differences of place, time, subject and culture make this research interesting because it produces different conclusions that can contribute and become references for next research.

A data‐driven method for rating management information systems journals in the same scale of the Association of Business Schools Journal Guide

AbstractAn appropriate measurement of journal quality is essential in accreditation, funding allocation, hiring, merit pay, tenure, and promotion decisions in academics. The current best practice to rate journal quality is to combine journal bibliometrics with expert assessment. For example, the Association of Business Schools (ABS) Journal Guide generated by this method is widely used by many business schools. However, different journal bibliometrics calculated in the citation network sometimes provide inconsistent ranking, and it is hard for domain experts to utilize the conflicting information. Therefore, given a journal, if the ABS Scientific Committee members are not familiar with it and different journal bibliometrics provide conflicting information, the given journal is hard to be rated and will not be included in the ABS journal list. In order to solve the above issue and maintain a comprehensive list of journals in the management information systems (MIS) field, this paper proposes a data‐driven method to predict the ABS rating based on six popular bibliometrics for any given MIS journal. To the best of our knowledge, our method is the first work on this type to predict ABS ratings, which can serve as a more reliable rating reference and is much easier to be used to generate the rating for a comprehensive list of journals in the MIS field. In this paper, comprehensive experiments are conducted to evaluate the rating performance of our method from four different perspectives, including new journals, top journals, and interdisciplinary journals, and identifying overrated and underrated journals by ABS. Experiment results show our method can provide very reliable estimated ABS ratings for most MIS journals with few exceptions. Since our method is not perfect, expert knowledge is encouraged to be included to correct our estimated ABS ratings. However, such correction must be conducted under the following two constraints. First, domain experts must have sufficient evidences to do the correction. Second, correction can be adding or subtracting 1, but not beyond 1.

Formação, Disseminação e Colaboração: Internacionalização em Administração de Sistemas de Informação

Resumo Este artigo revela o perfil de internacionalização dos pesquisadores brasileiros no campo de Administração de Sistemas de Informação (ADI) com base em análise de três dimensões: Formação, Disseminação de pesquisa e Colaboração em redes internacionais. Baseado na coleta de dados provenientes da Plataforma Lattes, Google Scholar e dos websites das instituições de ensino, referente a um total de 554 pesquisadores com doutorado completo, um grupo de 50 pesquisadores brasileiros neste campo foi identificado com algum grau de inserção internacional. Este estudo revela que os pesquisadores mais internacionalizados do campo são majoritariamente provenientes de instituições das regiões Sudeste (66%) e do Sul (28%) do País. Apenas uma parcela (16%) desses pesquisadores realizou doutorado no exterior, embora outros tenham tido experiências internacionais por intermédio de pós-doutorado (38%), cursos de extensão (45%) ou bolsa sanduíche (18%). A Disseminação internacional dos trabalhos deste grupo de pesquisadores cresceu 65% no período entre 2010 e 2015, com publicação em periódicos e participação em congressos internacionais. A rede de Colaboração internacional deste grupo de pesquisadores também foi identificada na pesquisa.

PERGESERAN PARADIGMA SISTEM INFORMASI MANAJEMEN

<span class="fontstyle0">Management Information Systems (MIS) is a field that began to develop since the 1960s. Although there is no single consensus, it is generally defined as a driver's license system that provides information used to support the operation, management, and decisionmaking in organization. Prainformasional in the community, the people in it using a rigid paradigm assisted by intuition, the basis used by them to select the types of information needed is often not obvious because it is colored by the subjective nature of perception. But then in today's modern society, in addition to the paradigm shift that uses a creative<br />approach to merger, also using the scientific paradigm that enables the selection of information can be done quickly and accurately. In the world of education though, MIS become one of the important factors to improve services at the same time saving for education. With advances in the development of education in Indonesia, both from an<br />administrative or technological aspect, the process of education services in Indonesia should be done effectively and efficiently. Therefore, to develop the quality of education needed some support facilities, where one of the supporting facilities is the application of information technology in the field of Management Information Systems<br /></span><span class="fontstyle2">Keywords: </span><span class="fontstyle0">Management Information System, Paradigm Shift, Education</span>

Using Serious Games in Data Communications and Networking Management Course

ABSTRACTData communications and networking management is one important course taught in business schools. To prepare themselves for future career, students need to acquire the data communications skills and the higher-order cognitive skills (HOCS) from this course so that they relate the relevance of the theory to practical problems. Prior literature shows that serious games offer an ability to trigger enjoyment in learning this difficult subject. Therefore, in this study, we empirically examined the effects of serious game feature on students’ learning experience, focusing particularly on concentration and enjoyment, as well as measuring the perceived improvement in their HOCS. The results revealed that features of serious games have positive effects on students’ concentration and enjoyment, and such learning experience did indeed significantly improve their perceived HOCS. The results encourage faculty members to adopt serious games to teach difficult subjects in the field of management information systems.

An Empirical Study of Global Interest in the Academic Discipline of Management Information Systems

A popular perception among scholars in the field of Management Information Systems is that the interest to study the subject has been slowly fading since past few years. Closing down of independent MIS departments, fall in enrollment of students, etc. are cited as common examples in favor of such perception.However, firstly, what is lacking is clear evidential data which can show any significant decline (or otherwise) in perceived interest in MIS in recent years. Secondly, whatever little supporting data is provided, is usually geographically restricted to US. Thirdly, there is little research done to compare interest levels with other management disciplines. This paper attempts to fill these critical gaps by analyzing online search queries to quantitatively identify interesting trends in public interest in MIS as an academic discipline over past decade across the world. Also, the longitudinal analyses include comparison with other disciplines as well.Results show an interesting mix of expected and unexpected trends. In the context of continuously declining interest in entire management discipline, while some countries have indeed shown a declining interest in MIS, overall global interest has remained almost constant over past decade. Emerging focus in developing countries in Latin America, Africa, etc. is noteworthy, and shows a major geographic shifting of interest-base away from USA, India, China, and Europe, which were the exclusive hubs of MIS academia a decade ago. However, the key takeaway from the results is that MIS is definitely not a dying academic field, and it is expanding towards a non-US-centric future.