Youngjin Kwon

Hello, I am a Ph.D. candidate (4th year) in the MIS department at the Fox School of Business, Temple University.

My research interest is how information on social media affects decision-making and judgment. […]

Overall Framework

Information value chain

knowledge derivation (e.g., knowledge management)
decision making (e.g., decision support system)

The four Vs of big data include volume, variety, […]

Introduction

The fundamental shift of IT’s role from functional support to driver of business value creates the cross-level nonlinear causality between firms and IT-induced hyperturbulence at the collective […]

The objective of this paper

To articulate the possible contributions of design science paper and help design science researchers publish in leading journals
Specifically, to explain the appropriate balance […]

Introduction

The authors use the term, Universal Use (UU), to capture what diverse factors contribute to “continued use” of the Internet on top of mere access, which was of primary interest to […]

Motivation for this research

We have not sufficiently attempted to examine information and IS prior to the development of a computer.
This paper argues that looking at historical emergence of information […]

Multilevel Research on System Usage

A summation of individual usage is not necessarily same with that of usage in a collective.
System usage is defined as a user’s employment of a system to perform a […]

About Theory

The author discusses theory in terms of the nature of theory in general, generalization, causality, and goals (explanation and prediction).
Theory, in this study, is “abstract entities that aim […]

Call for papers written by Burton-Jones et al. (2018) in MIS Quarterly

An opportune time to develop next-generation IS theories

Fundamental changes in the field’s core phenomena are happening. Much of […]