Welcome to the first issue of volume 39. This issue begins with the last two articles which complete the special issue on the theme “Business Intelligence & Big Data for Innovative and Sustainable Development of Organizations.” The special issue editors are Jozef Zurada, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA; Celina M. Olszak, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland; and Dilek Cetindamar, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. In total, the special issue is comprised of eight articles. The first six articles appeared in volume 38 issue 4. The last two appear in this issue and are introduced by Jozef, Celina, and Dilek in their Letter from the Special Issue Editors. Again, I am grateful to them for all of their hard work in preparing the special issue.
Additionally, this issue includes four regular articles. The first article among the four, entitled “Developing Business Risk Resilience through Risk Management Infrastructure: The Moderating role of Big Data Analytics,” by Nitya P. Singh, investigates how firms enhance the effectiveness of their risk management infrastructure by using Big Data analytics. The results of a survey of senior and middle management professionals reveal that among firms adopting Big Data analytics, Big Data analytics capabilities positively moderate the impact of risk management infrastructure on risk resilience, thereby improving the effectiveness of a risk management infrastructure. The next article, “Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Objectives, Stakeholders, and Future Research Opportunities,” by Christian Meske, Enrico Bunde, Johannes Schneider, and Martin Gersch, is a Research Note which discusses risks of black-box artificial intelligence. The authors argue for the need for explainability, and review research on explainable artificial intelligence in the body of information systems research. In the third of the four articles entitled, “What you see is what you g(u)e(s)t: How profile photos and profile information drive providers’ expectations of social reward in co-usage sharing,” authors Timm Teubner, Marc Adam, Sonia Camacho, and Khaled Hassanein develop a theoretical model, based on Social Presence and Signaling Theory. The model conceptualizes the mechanisms guiding online product/service providers’ expectations of social reward in co-usage sharing, where providers share the space with the people to whom they rent, based on two key artifacts of online representation of the consumer, i.e., profile image and profile information. The results of a scenario-based online experiment show that both artifacts drive social reward. Finally, the last article in this issue, “Goal Equivocality and Joint Account of Meaning Creation in an Enterprise System Program,” by Jacob Chia-An Tsai, Xiaosong (Jason) Wu, Gary Klein, and James J. Jiang, develops a model of inter-dependence and equivocality of goals in the context of an enterprise system implementation, based on the theory of constructive controversy. The results of an empirical evaluation of this model show that the complex relationship in an ES implementation requires consideration of the joint effect of goal equivocality and goal interdependence.
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Again, a heartfelt thank you to Jozef, Celina, and Dilek for preparing this interesting special issue. We hope you, our readership, find the remaining two articles of the special issue and the additional four articles within this issue of Information Systems Management valuable and useful for your own research and teaching. I wish you enjoyable reading.