Journal of Systems and Information Technology: Volume 20 Issue 2

Towards the creation of an emotion lexicon for microblogging

Georgios Kalamatianos, Symeon Symeonidis, Dimitrios Mallis, Avi Arampatzis

The rapid growth of social media has rendered opinion and sentiment mining an important area of research with a wide range of applications. This paper aims to focus on the Greek…

Examining the determinant factors of perceived online community usefulness using the expectancy value model

Kamarul Faizal Hashim, Felix B. Tan

This study aims to examine the determinant factors of perceived online community usefulness from a motivational point of view. The researchers have combined the use of the…

Salesperson adoption and usage of mobile sales configuration tools

Nodir Sanakulov, Sami Kalliomaa, Heikki Karjaluoto

The purpose of this paper is to examine salespersons’ adoption and usage of mobile sales configuration tools (MSCT) and to identify areas for further development in this realm…

The use of activity theory and actor network theory as lenses to underpin information systems studies

Monica Nehemia-Maletzky, Tiko Iyamu, Irja Shaanika

This study aims to examine how both activity theory (AT) and actor network theory (ANT) can be complementarily applied in information system (IS) studies.

Formulating optimal business process change decisions using a computational hierarchical change management structure framework: A case study

Abdulrahman Alrabiah, Steve Drew

This paper first aims to examine how business process change decisions (BPCDs) were implemented in a government organisation bound by tightly coupled temporal constraints (TTCs)…

The amorphous nature of agile: no one size fits all

Joey F. George, Kevin Scheibe, Anthony M. Townsend, Brian Mennecke

This paper aims to investigate the extent to which newly agile organizations followed 2001’s Agile Manifesto, especially in terms of the 12 principles of the agile approach, as…