It is my pleasure to introduce issue 36 numbers 3, a special issue on the theme “Information Systems (IS) Leadership.” The special issue editor is Jennifer Gerow, Virginia Military Institute, USA. The three themed articles are introduced by Jennifer. I wish to thank her for her quality work in preparing this excellent-themed issue. I am happy to introduce her:
Jennifer E. Gerow is an associate professor in the Economics and Business Department at Virginia Military Institute. She holds a BS degree in biological sciences with a minor in secondary education, an MBA, and a PhD in management (concentration: information systems) from Clemson University. Her research interests are IT-business strategic alignment, power, and politics in the workplace, and drivers of IT use/resistance. She has publications in MIS Quarterly, European Journal of Information Systems, Information & Management, Information Systems Management, The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application, International Journal of e-Politics, Journal of Service Science & Management, and the proceedings of various conferences.
Regular articles
The issue concludes with two regular articles. In the first article, “A Hybrid SEM-Neural Network Model for Predicting Determinants of Mobile Payment Services,” authors Sujeet Kumar Sharma, Himanshu Sharma, and Yogesh K. Dwivedi develop and test a new research model to understand and predict the key determinants influencing the adoption of mobile payment services in a Middle Eastern country, Oman. The results imply that usefulness is not enough to motivate users to adopt mobile payment services. It is important for decision-makers to provide significant importance to other constructs such as trust, security, awareness, customization as well so that current customers can be retained, and potential consumers can be attracted. The second article, entitled “Board Level IT Governance: A Scoping Review to set the Research Agenda,” authored by Laura Caluwe and Stephen De Haes addresses the current research associated with IT-related strategic decision-making and control. This article creates an agenda for future research to address the gap identified in their analysis of the current research.
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We hope the articles within this special issue of ISM are interesting to you for your research and teaching activities. Again, thanks to Jennifer for preparing this informative special issue.