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Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

The primary role of a professional society is to facilitate communication among its members. Communications of the Association for Information Systems carries out this role for the Association for Information Systems (AIS) by publishing articles on a wide range of subjects of interest to the membership, including but not limited to regular research papers, debates, panel discussions, and other topics of interest to the global community.

Communications of the Association for Information Systems has a proud tradition of publishing novel, original and groundbreaking research, methodological essays and guidelines, important lively debates about research practices, and is also the only dedicated AIS outlet that publishes matters and studies related to IS pedagogy.

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Open Special Section CFPs:

Leveraging India's Context for Global Information Systems Insights: Location-specific Research and Theory Building, Vol 57
~~Submissions due May 1, 2025~~ Submissions CLOSED on July 1, 2025

Digital Transformation of Higher Education: Pedagogical Innovation Toward Education 4.0?, Vol 57
~~Submissions due June 30, 2025~~ Submissions CLOSED on July 31, 2025

Recently Published Special Sections:

Special Issue: On the future of AIS conferences, Vol 54

Special Section: On sustainability in information systems, Vol 53

Debate: Recent developments in PLS, Vol 52

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What's New @ CAIS:

OVER THE COURSE OF TWO YEARS, THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF THE TENURE OF DENIS DENNEHY AND MARY TATE AS CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF OF CAIS AND THE SECOND YEAR OF THE NEWLY APPOINTED ASSOCIATE EDITOR BOARD, CAIS HAS ACCOMPLISHED THE FOLLOWING:

Increased the number of articles submitted per year by 250+

Reduced the days in review from 73.6 to 45.2

Reduced reviewer turnaround time from 17.5 days to 13.5 days

Reduced the time taken to assign reviewers to an original submission from 20 days to 15

Reduced the time taken to assign reviewers to a revision from 13.6 to 8.5

Reduced the days from submission to decision from 91 to 53

Published a debate on the future of AI

Launched the CAIS YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@The_Journal_CAIS

Increased the number of followers on LinkedIn from 0 to 3000+

Added two new departments: IS for Practitioners and Transactions on Replication Research

AIS, AIS-TRR, AND CAIS ANNOUNCE THE CREATION AND INTEGRATION OF AIS TRANSACTIONS ON REPLICATION RESEARCH (AIS-TRR) AS A NEW DEPARTMENT WITHIN COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CAIS)

CAIS ADVANCES TO A WEB OF SCIENCE IMPACT FACTOR OF 2.3

CAIS ANNOUNCES THE CLOSE OF VOLUME 56, ITS LARGEST VOLUME TO DATE, WITH OVER 1200+ PAGES OF INNOVATIVE IS RESEARCH PUBLISHED IN THE AIS E-LIBRARY AND THE FOURTH VOLUME PUBLISHED DURING THE TENURE OF CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF DENIS DENNEHY AND MARY TATE

CAIS ANNOUNCES THE CONFERRAL OF THE 2024 BEST ASSOCIATE EDITOR AWARD TO JOERG EVERMANN AND STEPHEN MCCARTHY

CAIS ANNOUNCES THE WINNER OF THE 2024 PAUL GRAY AWARD FOR THE MOST THOUGHT PROVOKING PAPER: DESIGN KNOWLEDGE FOR VIRTUAL LEARNING COMPANIONS FROM A VALUE-CENTERED PERSPECTIVE. READ THE PAPER IN VOL 54 OF CAIS AND WATCH THE CAIS INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHORS HERE

CAIS ANNOUNCES AN OPEN REVIEW INITIATIVE. READ MORE ABOUT THE OPEN REVIEW PROCESS IN THE OPEN REVIEW DEPOSITORY HERE

CAIS ANNOUNCES A NEW SPECIAL SECTION DEBATE — CALL FOR PAPERS: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION: PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION TOWARD EDUCATION 4.0? READ THE FULL CALL FOR PAPERS HERE

CAIS LAUNCHES A NEW DEPARTMENT, INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR PRACTITIONERS! PAIDI O'REILLY WILL SERVE AS THE DEPARTMENT EDITOR. READ THE DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW DEPARTMENT HERE, VIEW THE CAIS INTERVIEW WITH PAIDI O'REILLY (IS FOR PRACTITIONERS DEPARTMENT EDITOR) HERE.

CAIS ANNOUNCES A NEW SPECIAL SECTION DEBATE — CALL FOR PAPERS: TABOOS IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS SCHOLARSHIP: SPEAKING OF THE UNSPEAKABLE. READ THE FULL CALL FOR PAPERS HERE

Current Volume: Volume 57 (2025)

IS for Practitioners Articles

Transforming Employee Performance Through Business Process Management: A Real-World Teaching Case
T. S. Dahanayake Yapa, Vathsala Wickramasinghe, and Wasana Bandara

Innovative Research Articles

Rethinking Healthcare Technology Adoption: The Critical Role of Visibility & Consumption Values
Sonali Dania, Yogesh Bhatt, and Paula Danskin Englis

Analysis of Asymmetrical Power Relations in Digital Public Services in the Brazilian Amazon Region
João P. S. da Silva, Diana Cruz Rodrigues, and Mário Vasconcellos Sobrinho

Construction of Conceptual Frameworks in Research: An Information Systems Design Perspective
Pedro Antunes, David Johnstone, and Nguyen Hoang Thuan

Exploring the Role of Third Parties in Digital Transformation Initiatives: A Problematized Assumptions Perspective
Jack O’Neill, David Pidoyma, Ciara Northridge, Shivani Pai, Stephen Treacy, and Andrew Brosnan

Understanding the Implementation of Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Organizations: A Neo-Institutional Theory Perspective
David Horneber

Uncovering the Interplay between IT Identity and Digital Performance in Digital Work
Hepu Deng and Sophia Xiaoxia Duan

A Multivocal Literature Review on Capturing Value Propositions for Private Organizations in a CBDC Ecosystem
Vincent Schaaf, Jonathan Lautenschlager, Hannes Voucko-Glockner, Tobias Plank, Tobias Guggenberger, and Nils Urbach

Privacy in Smart Health Monitoring: A Systematic Review and Research Directions
Jingjing Zhang, Farkhondeh Hassandoust, and Allen C. Johnston

Enhancing Healthcare with Artificial Intelligence: A Configurational Integration of Complementary Technologies and Stakeholder Needs
Digvijay S. Bizalwan, Rahul Kumar, Ajay Kumar, and Yeming Yale Gong

Beyond Routine Activity Theory: Towards a Novel Phishing Victimization Theory
Miloslava Plachkinova, Ace Vo, Gunjan Batra, and Humayun Zafar

Philosophy

Revisiting the Information Hierarchy in the AI Era: Implications of Misinformation, Ignorance, and Imprudence
Ali Baker, Debarun Chakraborty, and Arthur C. McAdams

A Critique of Agential Realism
Ron A. Weber

Commentary, Opinion, and Editorials

The Digital Experiment Reporting Protocol (DERP)
Markus Weinmann, Christoph Schneider, and Joseph Valacich

Panel Reports

Fostering a Responsible Information Systems Research Ecosystem
Jignya Patel, Ping Wang, Suchit Ahuja, Laurie Giddens, and Amber Young

Digital Transformation in the IS field: GREAT Research Opportunities in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
Mohammad AlMarzouq, Youngjin Yoo, Prasanna Karhade, Thomas Grisold, Tawfiq Alashoor, Mazen Shawosh, and Mousa Albashrawi

Forthcoming Papers

Phygitar: Envisioning the Rhythmic Phygital Ecosystem in 2050
Omar A. El Sawy and Pernille Rydén

Innovating With Generative AI at CVPCorp
Olga Biedova, Iris Junglas, Eric Villafranca, and Blake Ives

Breaking the Taboo of Religion and Spirituality in IS Research
Tanya Giannelia and Abby Golub

Who Counts? A Compassionate Critique of Stakeholder Theory in Information Systems
Margeret Hall, Alexandra Pavlakis, and Michelle Friend

Values Behind the Code: Challenging Technological Neutrality in Information Systems Research
Roxana Ologeanu-Taddei

Vulnerability, Poetics, and Mysticism: Troubling the Taboo of Unsanitized Writing in Information Systems
Rick Sullivan

Nonconsensual Sexually Explicit Deepfakes: Moving Beyond Taboos and Barriers
Laurie Giddens, Natalie Gerhart, Russell Torres, and Stacie Petter

Red Lights, Blind Spots: Sex Work and Stigma in Information Systems
Eduard Buzila and Kai Heinrich

Narratives of the Future - Exploring Human-AI Collaboration
Shahper Richter, Alexander Richter, and Matthias Trier

Demonstration of Generative AI Assisted Inductive Coding: Exploring Sociotechnical Imaginaries for Qualitative Research
Jinglu Jiang, Tanya Giannelia, and Ann-Frances Cameron

Mirchi.com: Leveraging Technology for Mass Customization
Murchhana Tripathy and Jeevan J. Arakal

Digital Polycentricity for Socio-Technical Design: Outcomes from the 2024 Workshop on Digital Polycentricity
Ciske Smit, Roba Abbas, and Jeremy Pitt

Mechanism-Based Explanations and Theoretical Contribution in IS Research
Mikko Siponen, Arto Lanamäki, Marco Nathan, and Tuula Klaavuniemi

Designing Sustainable Business Models with Emerging Technologies: Navigating the Ontological Reversal and Network Effects to Balance Externalities
Rubén Mancha and Ainara Novales

Digital Infrastructures for Cultural Revival and Collective Empowerment in Sakhi Bahinpa
Ashutosh Jha

Taking Things Out of Context: A Configuration Analysis of the Persuasiveness of Digital Technologies for Sustainability Across Work-Home Boundaries
Jacqueline Corbett, Rohit Nishant, Sarah Cherki El Idrissi, and Alexander Q. H. Chung

Dying Digitally: Rethinking the Afterlife in the Global South
Adheesh Budree and James Braman