Hyeonsik Shin

This paper focuses on the conceptualization of causality. Specifically, it discusses on theorists’ explicit or implicit assumptions about the nature, aspects, and meanings of the concept of causality as it r […]

This paper examines the impact of knowledge exchange to organizational performance and provides interesting findings: 1) organizations may forgo investments in both organizational memory and knowledge exchange, 2) […]

This paper provides a set of processes and structures for developing design theory. While current DSR approaches have addressed the “what” and the overall meta-cycle of DSR, the steps needed to produce design the […]

This paper is based on a desire for a consistent framework for understanding the mechanisms or generative processes underpinning the emergence of social systems, and the dynamical or behavioral dimensions of […]

Research Question
What is known about digital innovation, how are the various research streams interrelated, what knowledge gaps exist, and what are fruitful areas of future research that contribute to managerial […]

This essay raises a question that our primary ways of dealing with materiality in organizational research are conceptually problematic. After reviewing current difficulties, the author proposes an alternative […]

After holistic thinking was institutionalized in the 1950s, the concept of ‘system’ and ‘systems thinking’ have been explicitly used. In 1954, general systems theory (GST), the development of a mathema […]

Research Question
How could we reconceptualize the system usage construct to provide a strong theoretical basis?
Research Objectives
This paper presents a systematic approach for reconceptualizing the system […]

Research Question: How IS researchers have dealt with information technology? What implications and research directions can be suggested?
Research Objective: The objective of this commentary is to present […]

Research Question: How information systems (IS) researchers conduct research in the big data era by combining data-driven and theory-driven perspectives? What are the roles of IS researchers at the intersection of […]