I hope you find the second issue of volume 37 interesting to read. Six articles are included in this issue. The first, entitled “Linking Excessive SNS Use, Technological Friction, Strain, and Discontinuance: The Moderating Role of Guilt,” authored by Adeel Luqman, Qingxiong (Derek) Weng, Ayesha Masood, Ahmed Ali, and Muhammad Imran Rasheed examines the excessive use of social networking sites (SNSs) on smartphones for social, hedonic, and cognitive purposes. The results show that all three forms of SNS use lead to technology-family and technology-personal health friction, while hedonic and cognitive uses were significantly associated with technology-work friction. In the second article, “The Interactive Effect of Board Monitoring and Chief Information Officer Presence on Information Technology Investment,” author Serdar Turedi investigates the role of the presence of a CIO position and its impact on the relationship between board monitoring and IT investment decisions in a firm. The findings indicate that IT investment decisions are subject to agency problems as shown by board monitoring having a significant impact on the IT investment of firms. Next, authors Laurie Hughes, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, and Nripendra P. Rana apply the Interpretive Ranking Process (IRP) methodology in the context of an information system project failure case study for the purpose of analyzing the interrelationships between factors surrounding the failure. The results, presented in their article entitled “A methodological Critique of the Interpretive Ranking Process for Examining IS Project Failure,” emphasize the suitability of this method for practical applications, but also highlight the limitations for larger sized problems. In the fourth article, entitled “Biometric identification for socioeconomic development in Ghana,” authors John Effah, Emmanuel Owusu-Oware, and Richard Boateng employ the interpretive case study methodology with the e-government enactment framework to assess Ghana’s biometric identification initiative implementation and reasons for its failure to achieve the intended socioeconomic development impacts. Four main reasons are identified for the failure, including lack of stakeholder consensus, conflicting laws, executive control, and incomplete infrastructure for data capture. The fifth article, entitled “Should data structures look flat for end users?” authored by Michael Schulz, Paul Alpar, and Patrick Winter, empirically investigates, via an online experiment among end users with varying analytical expertise, how data should be structured for presentation. The results provide evidence that the flat data model has advantages at certain levels of task difficulty and data model complexity over the multidimensional and the relational data model. In the final article, “Triggers of social network collapse,” author Ivan Belik quantitatively analyzes social networks for their sustainability. An approach to detect an agent’s potential power to trigger a network’s dissolution, referred to as the Shapley-based dominance in networks, is introduced.
Forthcoming special issue
The next issue is scheduled to be a special issue:
Business Intelligence & Big Data for Innovative and Sustainable Development of Organizations, 37–3 2020
Special Issue Editors: Jozef Zurada, University of Louisville, USA, and Celina M. Olszak, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
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