I hope you enjoy reading the first issue of Volume 34. This issue consists of six articles. In the first article, “The Influence of Green IS Practices on Competitive Advantage: Mediation Role of Green Innovation Performance,” authors Krishnadas Nanath and Radhakrishna R. Pillai explore the relationship between Green IS practices, the performance of Green innovations, and competitive advantages for a firm. The results reveal that the adoption of more Green IS practices has a positive effect on green product/process innovation performance and that the performance of Green innovation has a positive relationship with a sustained competitive advantage. The second article, entitled “Exploring the Contemporary State of Information Technology Governance Transparency in Belgian Firms,” authors Steven De Haes, Tim Huygh, and Anant Joshi undertook an exploratory study of the contemporary state of IT governance transparency in Belgian firms. The findings show that Belgian firms exhibit low IT governance disclosure rates in general. Further, firms operating in industries characterized by a higher IT usage intensity level are more concerned with disclosing their IT governance compared to firms in industries characterized by a lower IT usage intensity level. Finally, firms publicly traded on the stock market are more concerned with disclosing their IT governance compared to firms that are not listed. In the third article, “The Enriched UTAUT Model for the Acceptance of Software Engineering Tools in Academic Education,” Stanislaw Wrycza, Bartosz Marcinkowski, and Damian Gajda applied the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to investigate the behavioral intention to accept a Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool. Model interchange was found to influence behavioral intention, while the influence of professional training diffusion is indirect, as it significantly supports the facilitating conditions for using CASE tools. Further, behavioral intention was found to be directly explained by performance expectancy. While neither effort expectancy nor social influence had a direct influence on behavioral intention, both influenced performance expectancy. In the next article, “Online Banking Information Systems Acceptance: An Empirical Examination of System Characteristics and Web Security,” by Fida Hussain Chandio, Zahir Irani, Akram M. Zeki, Asadullah Shah, and Sayed Chhattan Shah, the technology acceptance model (TAM) is applied to examine the impact of specific systems design factors on motivational factors. The two main motivational factors, perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived ease-of-use (PEOU), were found to be significant determinants of intended use of an online banking system. The impact of PU on intended behavior was more significant than the impact of PEOU. However, behavioral intention to use an online banking system was found to be dependent on both PEOU and PU. In the fifth article, author Tamara Keszey investigates the moderating roles of firm ownership in managerial perceptions of IS in transition economies in her article entitled “Information Systems in Transition Economies: Does Ownership Matter?” The results reveal that perceptions of IS are driven by organizational variables in foreign firms and by environmental variables in domestic firms. Finally, in the last of the six articles in this issue, entitled “Is Online Consumers’ Impulsive Buying Beneficial for E-Commerce Companies? An Empirical Investigation of Online Consumers’ Past Impulsive Buying Behaviors,” authors Se Hun Lim, Sukho Lee, and Dan J. Kim empirically evaluate consumers’ impulsive buying behavior and validate that impulsive buying could have a strong impact on post e-commerce purchase intention and behavior—such as tendency to return goods.
Forthcoming special issues
The next two issues are special issues:
IT leadership, 34(2)
Guest Editor: Mike (Tae-In) Eom, [email protected], University of Portland, Oregon, USA
Starting from the AIS SIGLEAD (Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group on IS Leadership) workshop tracks at the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2016 in San Diego and the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2016 in Dublin, please consider submitting for this special issue.
Enterprise Social Media for Knowledge Management and Innovation in SMEs, 34(3)
Guest Editors: Pedro Soto-Acosta, [email protected], University of Murcia, Spain;
Juan-Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain, and
Alexeis Garcia-Perez, Coventry University, UK
This special issue is closely linked to the track on “Enterprise Social Media for Knowledge Management” at the 17th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM), September 2016, The University of Ulster, UK. Please see more at: http://academic-conferences.org/eckm/eckm2016/eckm16-home.htm.
Your submissions are kindly welcome through ScholarOne Manuscript, for themed issues and for regular issues, at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/uism
Submission details are available on the ISM website:http://www.tandfonline.com/uism
Your contributions to and interest in Information Systems Management are greatly appreciated. I wish you enjoyable reading of this issue.