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Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (APJIS)

Special Issue: Digital Transformation in Artificial Intelligence Era

 

Guest Editor

- Byungjoon Yoo, Seoul National University, Korea, byoo@snu.ac.kr

 

Across the world, the development and diffusion of digital technologies are transforming firms, industries, and economies. This digital transformation enables organizations to increase business flexibility and resilience, decrease costs, improve profitability, reduce environmental impact, enhance customer satisfaction, and deliver excellent economic and social value to stakeholders. The change driven by digital transformation is undoubtfully creating a new competitive environment for organizations across all industries.

 

After its introduction, organizations increasingly use artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in various ways, for example, to cut costs and enhance service quality, coordination, productivity, and efficiencies. AI technologies can deliver intelligent tools and capabilities used to solve digital transformation-related problems as well. With AI, organizations can predict consumers’ future behavior more accurately, enhance consumer engagement, and get insight. Or organizations can optimize their supply chains or automate their system.

 

However, our understanding of digital transformation and artificial intelligence is still less. Thus, the purpose of this special issue is to build on existing conversations in digital transformation and artificial intelligence of research and new discussions about how artificial intelligence can help organizations solve digital transformation challenges or how artificial intelligence affects digital transformation. We welcome contributions from scholars who can provide novel, theoretically rich insights into the research questions outlined in this proposal. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

 

Examples of topics of interest include:

• AI-driven digital transformation

• Process and product innovation based on artificial intelligence

• Technological trends of artificial intelligence for disruptive innovation

• Management of digital innovation with artificial intelligence

• Emerging platform or business model based on new digital technologies

• AI governance in digital transformation

• Security issues on digital transformation

• Futuristic directions for digital transformation in the Era of AI

• Applications of AI in digital transformation problems

• Case studies of digital transformation and AI

 

Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems

Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (APJIS) is the premier journal on information systems research in the Asia Pacific region. The journal seeks to advance knowledge about the effective and efficient utilization of information technology by individuals, groups, organizations, society, and nations for the improvement of economic and social welfare. [http://apjis.or.kr]

 

Submission Guidelines

• All papers should be submitted to the submission system (https://www.manuscriptlink.com/journals/apjis)

• All papers will be double blind reviewed using APJIS’s normal procedures

• Submissions should follow standard formatting and style guidelines for the Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (http://apjis.or.kr/common/sub/editorialpolicy03.asp?hoho=1)

• The author(s) should indicate that the submission is for the special issue (Digital Transformation in Artificial Intelligence Era) on the first page of the manuscript

• Any queries in advance of submission can be sent for the attention of the Guest Editors to byoo@snu.ac.kr

 

Time Plan

• Submission due: March 31, 2022

• 1st round review decision: May 31, 2022  

• Revised submission due: July 31, 2022

• 2nd round final review decision: August 20, 2022

• Publication: Fall, 2022

 

 



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Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (APJIS)

Special Issue: IT Applications and Innovations in the Asia Pacific Region

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Guest Editor

Younghoon Chang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China, younghoonchang@bit.edu.cn

Siew Fan Wong, Sunway University, Malaysia, siewfanw@sunway.edu.my

Gohar Feroz Khan, University of Waikato, New Zealand, gohar.khan@waikato.ac.nz

Uchenna Cyril Eze, BNU-HKBU United International College, China, uchennaeze@uic.edu.hk

 

 

The recent economic growth in Asia Pacific is noteworthy. This economic prosperity and growth is primarily driven by technological innovation brought about by world’s leading Pacific-based technology and telecommunication companies such as Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo, to name a few. Furthermore, Asia Pacific-based e-Commerce giants and the Fintech startups (such as Alibaba, Tencent, Line, and Kakao) equally contribute to the economic prosperity. With this region being home to more than 60% of the world population and contributing more than 60 percent of the global growth (IMF, 2018), the rise of technology companies and technology innovation in this region come with several social, technological, business, and political implications.

 

On one hand, technology innovation in the region has enabled new business opportunities to flourish. For example, it facilitated the formation of new startup companies that provide various types of innovative services, such as, Go-Jek in Indonesia provides a motorcycle taxi service that includes picking-up school children, sending laundries, and delivering food. Technology innovation in the region has also facilitated market penetration to rural areas thus generating new business avenues for rural residents. Taobao villages, another good example, allows communities of rural food producers to conveniently sell their products. Other technology innovations, such as mobile payments, is transforming China into a cashless society. AI-enabled robots are now deployed in restaurants to prepare meals and serve customers; robot systems are used in logistics companies to deliver packages. On the other hand, while the use of the exiting new technology provides convenience and efficiency to our lives, it also comes with potential problems, which includes adoption barriers and acceptance, privacy and legal issues, and the adverse impacts on traditional businesses and societies. These issues need careful and systematic investigation and analysis to provide academics, practitioners, and government agencies evidence-based information about the potential benefits and risks of these technological innovations in the region.

 

This special issue aims to investigate IT (information technology) applications and innovation in the Asia Pacific region using both qualitative and quantitative methodology. We welcome papers that address, but are not limited to, the following issues and topics.

 

 

Examples of topics of interest include:

• New IT-led business transformation in the region
• New artificial intelligence applications in the region
• Big data and its applications as well as Big Data-driven services in the region
• Internet of things and cloud computing applications in the region 
• New theory and perspective for the adoption and diffusion of IT applications in the region
• Legal and political issues of IT applications in the region
• Diffusion barriers of IT applications in the region
• Financial Technology (FinTech) services in the region
• Individual, business and social Impacts of IT applications in the region
• Cross cultural issues related to IT applications in the region
• The role of IT applications in creating and sustaining business ecosystems in the region

 

ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS:

Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (APJIS) is the premier journal on information systems research in the Asia Pacific region. The journal seeks to advance knowledge about the effective and efficient utilization of information technology by individuals, groups, organizations, society, and nations for the improvement of economic and social welfare.  [http://apjis.or.kr]

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

• All papers should be submitted to the submission system

(https://www.manuscriptlink.com/journals/apjis)

• Submissions should follow standard formatting and style guidelines for the Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (http://apjis.or.kr/common/sub/editorialpolicy03.asp?hoho=1)

• The author(s) should indicate that the submission is for the special issue (Gender and IS) on the first page of the manuscript

 

• Submission due: 2019, October 31

• 1st round review decision: 2019, December 31

• Revised submission due: 2020, February 28

• 2nd round final review decision 2020, May 31

• Publication: 2020, June 30

CALL FOR PAPERS
Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (APJIS)
Special Issue: E-BUSINESS AND E-GOVERNMENT

With the continued expansion of electronic business, we are witnessing a variety of digitally driven businesses that are transforming not only the economy, but also transforming the way customers purchase and live their life. The increase in competition has also led to the emergence and enhancement of seller opportunism in its digital avatar, thus making it mandatory for online markets as well as social media to redefine their business and boundaries of interaction. On the one hand there is an emergence of new business model and on the other there is this menace of fake that is challenging online firms and forcing them to redefine their businesses. Since technology is a double edge sword, it is worthwhile to look at both the aspects of technology enabled e-businesses. Digital technology has also enabled government to participate and invite citizens to participate online and increase their say in shaping and reshaping of public policies and methods of governance. This special issue invites researchers to submit their works in the challenging areas of e-business as well as e-government. The use of novel research methods that use data analytics is encourages. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Auctions and interactive pricing
• Artificial intelligence, blockchain and robotics-induced business and government transformation
• Big data analytics in e-business and e-government
• Digital entrepreneurship in e-business and e-commerce and e-policy entrepreneurs in government
• Digital infrastructure in e-business, e-commerce and e-government
• E-business, and e-government in emerging economies
• E-government policies and strategies
• E-government, institutional and social transformations
• FinTech (Financial Technology) in e-business
• ICT enable co-production in the public and private sector
• IOT (Internet of Things) in e-business and e-government
• IT strategy and risks in managing e-business and e-government
• Mobile commerce, mobile marketing and location-based services
• New business models in e-business, mobile and service innovation
• Online Radicalisation and misuse of social media
• Policy, trading and social media platforms
• Public sector ICT enable reforms (e-justice, e-procurement; e-petitioning, etc.)
• Smart-cities and smart-government
• Seller Opportunism in e-business and e-commerce
• Social media, participation, reputation and social commerce
• Social, economic, psychological, cultural, political, and legal analysis of e- business and e-government
• Sustainable e-business practices and strategies
• Practice-oriented case studies

ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS:
Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (APJIS) is the premier journal on information systems research in the Asia Pacific region. The journal seeks to advance knowledge about the effective and efficient utilization of information technology by individuals, groups, organizations, society, and nations for the improvement of economic and social welfare.  [http://apjis.or.kr/]

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
•The author(s) should indicate that the submission is for the special issue (e-Business and e-Government) on the first page of the manuscript.
• All papers should be submitted to the submission system at http://apjis.or.kr/
• Submissions should follow standard formatting and style guidelines for the Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems

TIME PLAN
• Submission due: 2018, October 30
• 1st round review decision: 2018, December 31
• Revised submission due: 2019, March 30
• 2nd round final review decision 2019, May 30
• Publication: 2019, June 30

GUEST EDITORS
Hee-Woong Kim, Yonsei University, Seoul Korea, kimhw@yonsei.ac.kr
Sumeet Gupta, Indian Institute of Management Raipur India, sumeetgupta@iimraipur.ac.in
Xue Yang, Nanjing University, China, yangxue@nju.edu.cn

ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS:
Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (APJIS) is the premier journal on information systems research in the Asia Pacific region. The journal seeks to advance knowledge about the effective and efficient utilization of information technology by individuals, groups, organizations, society, and nations for the improvement of economic and social welfare. APJIS was accepted for the inclusion in Scopus (2018, July 29)   [http://apjis.or.kr/]

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Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (APJIS)
Special Issue: SMART SERVICES AND INTERNET OF THINGS

GUEST EDITORS
Sung-Byung Yang, Kyung Hee University, South Korea, sbyang@khu.ac.kr
Kyung Young Lee, Dalhousie University, Canada, ky354506@dal.ca
Sunghun Chung, The University of Queensland, Australia, s.chung@business.uq.edu.au

Internet of Things (IoT), which refers to “the networked interconnection of everyday objects, which are often equipped with ubiquitous intelligence”, is now being implemented to many consumer products or services and applied to many different industries. Things that are previously not much to do with the Internet connectivity are now connected to the Internet and provide ‘smart services’ to consumers of many industries.

This special issue on ‘Smart Services and Internet of Things’ focuses on the topics related to the applications of IoT to consumer products and services, which have become ‘smarter’ thanks to IoT. There are many applications of IoT that enable smart services. For example, with wearable technologies, wristwatches have become smarter (i.e., smartwatches) and have enhanced consumers’ lives in various ways (e.g., fitness tracking, health monitoring, scheduling, communications support, etc.). Smart speakers (e.g., Google Home and Amazon Echo) have improved consumers’ experience in searching information, managing time, online shopping, etc. Smart home technologies have helped us save energy consumption and have provided more comfort in everyday lives. There are many other applications of IoT and smart services applied in diverse industries, such as healthcare, agribusiness (e.g., IoT connected smart farms, vineyards, and fish-farms), tourism, and transportation, to name a few. Moreover, even many municipal and federal governments are adopting IoT to improve their citizens’ lives better and smarter (e.g., the city of Chicago). Smart services and IoT, however, present both opportunities and threats related to IT security. As more things (e.g., devices, sensors, homes, etc.) are connected to the Internet, more aspects of our lives become embedded in smart services enabled by IoT. Therefore, IT security issues with IoT and smart services would become much more important than those in conventional IT systems, since the security breaches to IoT and smart services might do serious harms to our lives.

The following questions in general could be asked and explored in this special issue. What are the impact of IoT and smart services on individuals, groups, firms, industries, or countries? What are the challenges and successes in implementing IoT on smart services in various industries? Why are some implementations of IoT and smart services more successful than others? How do people/firms adopt IoT and smart services? What are the challenges and issues related to adopting IoT and smart services? What are the key security issues for IoT and smart services? All conceptual, analytical, technical, and empirical papers are welcome as long as they develop or extend theory and provide implications to practice. We encourage all research methodologies, including simulations, text-mining, sentiment analysis, field experiments/observations, case studies, surveys, etc. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Adoption and diffusion of IoT and smart services
• Applications and business models of IoT and smart services
• Business intelligence in IoT and smart services
• Business models and processes of IoT and smart services
• Case studies of IoT and smart services
• Challenges and successes in implementing IoT on smart services
• Concepts and theories of IoT and smart services
• Deviant consumer behaviors in smart services
• Impact of IoT and smart services on individuals, groups, firms, industries, or countries
• IoT and smart cities
• IoT and smart factories/smart farms
• IoT and smart home
• IoT and smart products
• IoT and smart services in tourism, healthcare, game, and other industries
• Policy, governance, and sustainability issues of IoT and smart services
• Privacy and security issues for IoT and smart services
• Research methods in IoT and smart services
• Technologies for design IoT and smart services

ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS:
Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (APJIS), a SCOPUS indexed journal, is the premier journal on information systems research in the Asia Pacific region. The journal seeks to advance knowledge about the effective and efficient utilization of information technology by individuals, groups, organizations, society, and nations for the improvement of economic and social welfare. [http://apjis.or.kr/]

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
• All papers should be submitted to the submission system (https://www.manuscriptlink.com/journals/apjis).
• Submissions should follow standard formatting and style guidelines for the Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (http://apjis.or.kr/common/sub/editorialpolicy03.asp?hoho=1).
• The author(s) should indicate that the submission is for the special issue (Smart Services and IoT) on the first page of the manuscript.

TIME PLAN
• Submission Due: 2019, March 15 (Extended, and no further extension)
• 1st Round Review Decision: 2019, May 15
• Revised Submission Due: 2019, July 15
• 2nd Round Final Review Decision: 2019, August 31
• Publication: 2019, September 30

CALL FOR PAPERS
Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (APJIS)
Special Issue: GENDER DIFFERENCES IN INFORMATION SYSTEM USAGE & APPLICATION

GUEST EDITORS
Hyunjeong Kang, Hongik University, South Korea, hjkang@hongik.ac.kr 
Jinyoung Min, Chosun University, South Korea, saharamin@chosun.ac.kr
Juhee Kwon, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, juhee.kwon@cityu.edu.hk 

Digital innovation has penetrated today’s society and economy. IT has substantially changed the manner in which people consume products, work in organizations, and interact with others. However, few research has explored gender differences in IT use and application. Various types of gender issues may be found in the development of digital products and services or information systmes in work places technologies are applied and employed. Some negative examples include the sexually objectified representation of women in digital games, masculine “brogramming” culture in Silicon Valley, and cyberbullying of women, to name a few. Therefore, in order to bridge gender gaps in IS development and deployment, we need to examine the gender issues of IS in organizations and society such as gender differences in social media usage patterns, gender inequalities in technology product market, or gender divide in IS workforce. In this special issue, we call for papers exploring gender issues that can arise in work environments, digital spaces, and development of digital products and services. The topics may include but are not limited to:

   • Gender oriented approach of IS research
   • Gender concerns in digital spaces and cultures
   • Gender gap and inequality in technological fields
   • Gender related digital products and consumption
   • Gender and online communities
   • Gender differences in terms of IS usage pattern
   • Digital capitalism and gender
   • Gendered construction of software/hardware/platforms
   • Gender, digital divide and digital world
   • Representation of gender related technology
   • The way gender and technology shape our culture and society
   • The role of ICT and their consequences regarding gender
   • Social media and gender
   • Gender related cyberbullying
   • The role of IT on inclusion and exclusion of gender in work places
   • The role of ICT and gender in higher education
   • The gender and identity issues regarding the rise of ICT
   • Robotics and their representation of gender
   • Innovative gender practices in smart work environment
   • The operation of gender in relation to different types of technologies

ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS:
Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (APJIS) is the premier journal on information systems research in the Asia Pacific region. The journal seeks to advance knowledge about the effective and efficient utilization of information technology by individuals, groups, organizations, society, and nations for the improvement of economic and social welfare.  [http://apjis.or.kr/]

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
•All papers should be submitted to the submission system (https://www.manuscriptlink.com/journals/apjis)

•Submissions should follow standard formatting and style guidelines for the Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (http://apjis.or.kr/common/sub/editorialpolicy03.asp?hoho=1)

•The author(s) should indicate that the submission is for the special issue (Gender and IS) on the first page of the manuscript

TIME PLAN
•Submission due: 2019, October 31
•1st round review decision: 2019, December 31
•Revised submission due: 2020, March 30
•2nd round final review decision 2020, May 31
•Publication: 2020, June 30

Call for Papers

Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (APJIS)

Special Issue: Data analytics in artificial intelligence era

 

Guest Editors

Hong Joo Lee, Catholic University of Korea, South Korea, hongjoo@catholic.ac.kr 
Habin Lee, Brunel University London, United Kingdom, habin.lee@brunel.ac.uk
Namgyu Kim, Kookmin University, South Korea, ngkim@kookmin.ac.kr

 

Data analytics and the techniques of artificial intelligence have been applied to diverse business or decision problems to gain benefits and extract business insights from the various forms of data. They values for businesses, organizations and individuals by helping them make better and smarter decisions. Many consumer products with smart features such as voice recognition and environmental control have been introduced and penetrated the human life gradually. Also many services such as chatbots in customer service and roboadvisors in finance are available due to the integration of data analytics and AI. The usage of these smart products and data analytics driven products leaves digital footprint in various forms and we have an opportunity to understand the changes of human behaviour due to the introduction of the usage. To advance in helping decision making and automation for business organizations and people, a virtous cycle of data analytics and AI is needed. Data analytics is one of key parts in AI research and the usages of AI services and products will produce lots of data to be analyzed for gaining insights and making feedbacks to the services. In addition, a way of integrating data analytics and AI research can provide a breakthrough in both areas. For this special issue, we invite paper submissions that investigate business applications and impacts of data analytics and AI, or propose novel way of integrating data analytics and AI. We welcome papers that address important business or decision problems with novel data analytics methods in a wide range of contexts, including marketing, healthcare, social network and media, financial services. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Data Analytics & AI
• Applications of BI, AI, And Analytics
• Innovative Approaches in incorporating Data Analytics and AI Research
• Applications of Deep Learning in Business Problems
• Methodologies and Processes for Data Analytics and AI Techniques
• Integration of Big Data, Analytics and AI Research
• Data and Text Mining for Business Analytics
• Text Analytics for Consumer Research  
• Text Analytics for Semantic and Sentiment Analysis
• Web Mining and Social Network Analysis
• Web Usage Mining and Web Personalization
• Addressing Societal Challenges with Intelligence and Analytics
• Computational Social Science
• Analytics for Healthcare Services
• Network Analysis for Open Source Software Development
• Sports Analytics
• Machine Learning in Finance
• Machine Learning Applied to Services
• Fraud Analytics for Service Systems
• Recommender Systems for Services
• Social Network Analytics Applied to Services
• Analysis and Prediction of User Behavior in Smart Phone
• Next Generation of Analytics and AI Applications in Business
• Influences of AI on Human Behavior
• Ethical and Privacy Issues in Data/Text/Web Mining
• Privacy Issues Resulting from Data Analytics and AI
• Policies and Law for Applying Data Analytics and AI
• Futuristic Directions for Data/Text/Web Mining in the Era of AI
• Case Studies of Applying Data Analytics and AI

Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems:

Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (APJIS) is the premier journal on information
systems research in the Asia Pacific region. The journal seeks to advance knowledge about
 the effective and efficient utilization of information technology by individuals, groups,
organizations, society, and nations for the improvement of economic and social welfare.[http://apjis.or.kr/]

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

•All papers should be submitted to the submission system
 (http://www.e-apjis.or.kr/journal.do?method=journalintro&journalSeq=J000067)
•Submissions should follow standard formatting and style guidelines for the Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (http://apjis.or.kr/common/sub/editorialpolicy03.asp?hoho=1)
•The author(s) should indicate that the submission is for the special issue
(Data Analytics in Artificial Intelligence Era) on the first page of the manuscript

TIME PLAN

• Submission due: 2019, April 30
• 1st round review decision: 2019, June 30
• Revised submission due: 2019, September 30
• 2nd round final review decision 2019, November 30
• Publication: 2019, December 31

 

한국경영정보학회 회원님들.

한국경영정보학회의 출간하는 Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems의(APJIS) Special issue를 다음과 같이 계획하고 있습니다. 많은 분들의 관심과 논문 투고를 부탁드리며, 첫번째 Special Issue의 Call for papers 첨부하여 보내드립니다.

1) E-Business and E-Government

    - Guest editors

       Hee-Woong Kim (Yonsei Univ), Sumeet Gupta (Indian Institute of  Management Raipur),

       and Yang Xue (Nanjing Univ)

    - Target publication: 2019 June

2) Smart Services and IoT

    - Guest editors

      Sung-Byung Yang (Kyung Hee Univ), Kyung Young Lee (Dalhouise Univ),

      and Sunghun Chung (Univ of Queensland)

    - Target publication: 2019 September

3) Data Analytics in Artificial Intelligence Era

    - Guest editors

      Hong Joo Lee (Catholic Univ of Korea), Habin Lee (Brunel Univ),

       and Namgyu Kim (Kookmin Univ)

    - Target publication: 2019 December

4) 4번째 Special Issue는 강현정교수님과 한국 IS여성학자분들께서 준비 중에 계십니다.

    - Target publication: 2020 Mar

감사합니다.

APJIS welcomes proposals for Special Issues that are designed not only to draw attention to new emerging topics in information systems (IS) but also to encourage insightful and influential research on topics that fall within the scope of the journal.

 

Potential Guest Editors who would like to propose a Special Issue are invited to prepare a proposal and then submit it to the Editor-in-Chief through apjis@kmis.or.kr. Then, the Senior Editorial team will consider whether the proposal is of interest to the journal. When you submit a proposal, it needs to include at least the following: the title of the Special Issue, a brief CV of the proposed Guest Editors, a statement of the Special Issues significance for IS area, and an outline time schedule.

 

Once the proposal is approved, the Guest Editors are expected to actively encourage submissions based on the Call for Papers. Being invited to submit a manuscript does not mean that publication is guaranteed. The review process by which Special Issue manuscripts are handled is nearly identical to that of regular submissions to APJIS.

 

The Guest Editors make decisions at all stages of the reviewing process, up to the final acceptance decision, which is made by the Editor-in-Chief. The Guest Editors are expected to adhere to all APJIS guidelines, including the Statement of Editorial Policy, Code of Ethics, Instructions for Contributors, Guidelines for Reviewers and Style Guide. Submissions, which the Guest Editors find unsuited to the topic of the Special Issue, but still appropriate for APJIS in general, are transferred to the regular process, if necessary.

 

Once sufficient papers have been accepted for publication, the Guest Editors and the Editor-in-Chief discuss and agree on the contents and order of the Special Issue. In addition, the Guest Editors are asked to prepare an editorial introduction and submit it with accepted papers to the Editor-in-Chief. The maximum length of a Special Issue is one issue of the Journal. However, a Special Issue may be smaller depending on the number of accepted manuscripts. Guest Editors are responsible for ensuring successful completion of the Special Issue.

 

If you have any question, please contact the Editor-in-Chief through apjis@kmis.or.kr.

Special Issue: Information Systems Research from the Behavioral Economics Perspective

 

At the turn of the 20th century, the discipline of economics went through the neoclassical revolution, built on assumptions about rationality of human behavioral economics. Behavioral economics (hereafter, BE) is primarily concerned with the bounds of rationality of economic agents. Behavioral Economics, which was incorporated the insights of psychology and other social sciences into the economic behavior, provides many important insights into managerial behavior (Bazerman and Moore, 2013). It has dealt with the effects of psychological, social, cognitive, and emotional factors on the economic decisions of individuals and organizations (Kahneman, 2011). Since the BE is primarily concerned with the bounds of rationality of economic agents, it covers a ranger of various concept, methods and fields.

Although many of IS researchers have realized the importance of an interdisciplinary perspective to explain some of IS phenomenon, the application of BE research are not well represented. This special issue promotes papers that show a direct link between BE and IS field, with a special focus on the effects of IT implementation and usage on economic agents’ perception, behavior, and decision making process. Much of what the IS field is about relates to information processing for decision making. In particular, the current IS environments are facing the important issues regarding privacy, trust, and security, which are fundamentally connected to both the BE and IS.

Therefore, this special issue aims to examine the main applications of BE to Information System Research, both in classical terms as well as influenced by new emerging technologies. The BE arises from research that shows human boundary rationality and failures in acting in “self”—interest, loss aversion, among others—influence the making of economic choices and decisions. According to Goes (2013)’s editor comments in MIS Quarterly, along the advent of all emerging technologies, the decision-making IS environments have amplified and expanded in complexity, reaching many of individuals and consumers. These environments are characterized by increasing information richness and interactive decision making, often resulting in economic transactions: crowdsourcing and collective intelligence, electronic marketplaces, personalization and recommendation systems, and so forth.

This special issue therefore promotes papers that show a direct link between Behavioral Economics (BE) and IS fields, with a special focus on the effects of IT implementation and usage on economic agents’ perception, behavior, and decision making process. We believe that this theoretical perspective explored represent promising new avenues for much of IS research and we cordially invite you to submit your valuable work to our special issue in APJIS.

 

Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:

§   Applications of behavioral economics findings to in various IS fields

§   Applied evolutionary economics and psychology to IS fields

§   Boundary rationality and impact on making decisions in business and organizations

§   Cross-cultural behavioral variation with impact on IT implementation (usage) at organizational/ individual levels

§   Factors influencing preferences, judgment, choices, decisions and the way they impact IT users’ behavior

§   Impact of new technologies on supply and demand of service industries

§   Impact of procedural rationality in decision making process by leveraging IT

§   Impact of technology implementation in “procedural rationality” risk reduction

§   Individual and organizational decision making by utilizing IT

§   Loss aversion and risk evaluation at individual/ organizational levels

§   New technologies related to consumption and environment

§   Rational behavior under imperfect competition with implications at business level

 

Submission Guidelines

§   Submissions should follow standard formatting and style guidelines for the Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (http://www.apjis.or.kr/common/sub/s.asp).

§   Manuscripts should be submitted through the APJIS Online Submission System (www.e-apjis.or.kr).

§   When you submit your manuscript, please specify that your manuscript is submitted for the special issue.

 

Important Dates

§   Deadline for article submission: 30 December 2015 29 Feb 2016(Extended)

§   Reviews returned to authors: 15 February 2016

§   Deadline for submission of the revised articles: 30 April 2016

§   Final articles selected: 30 May 2016

§   Publication of the APJIS Special Issue: June 2016

 

Guest Editors

§   Soon Jae Kwon, Daegu University, kwonsj@daegu.ac.kr  

§   Jong Seok Lee, University of Memphis, jslee4@memphis.edu

 

References

Bazerman, M.X. and Moore, D.A. (2013), Judgment in Managerial Decision Making, 8th edition, Wiley.

Goes, P.B. (2013), Information Systems Research and Behavioral Economics, MIS Quarterly, Vol. 37 No. 3 pp. iii-viii.

Kahneman, D. (2011), Thinking, Fast and Slow, Macmillan.