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Dear colleagues around the world:
It is my pleasure to present the first 2020 JITCAR issue. It is
the penunltimate issue under my editorship that started with the
founding of this journal in 1999. The contents of this issue are:
1. Editorial Preface article by Dr. Varun Grover, Mr. Le Kuai, Mr.
Jia Wei, and Mr. Yaping Zhu ;
2. Research Case Article-1 co-authored by Drs. James Holohan and
Mohammad Y Sarhan;
3. Research Case Article-2 co-authored by Dr. Nikolaus Obwegeser,
Ms. Katrine Arenfeldt, Ms. Amalie Corty Dam, Mr. Kim Harder
Fenger, and Mr. Johan Vang Silkjaer;
4. Expert Opinion report by Dr. Mahesh Raisinghani; and
5. Book Review by Dr. Vijay Vemuri. Summary information of these
items is as follows.
In the editorial preface article titled, "The Complexity of
Establishing Causality in a Digital Environment: An Eye to the
Future", the authors focus on how the changes in "embeddedness"
and "agency" due to digitalization are convoluting establishment
of causality in studying relationships between IT and the social
enterprise.
In the research case article-1 titled, "Subservient to the Upper
Echelon: How Information Systems Managers Practice Strategic
Alignment in the Public Higher Education Sector," the authors
examined in detail two educational institutions, operating under
the auspices of Ireland's Institutes of Technology (IIT), to
explore how the alignment of business and information systems (IS)
strategies is practiced by IS managers. They applied a methodology
that integrates Strategy as Process, constructivist grounded
theory coding and case research methodology. They determined that
the IS manager as a functional manager is expected to reduce costs
and gain operational efficiencies in other functions. He/she is
generally excluded from direct role in developing IS strategy and
also prevented from dealing directly with organization's principal
IS services provider.
In the research case article-2 titled, "Aligning drivers,
contractual governance, and relationship management of
IT-outsourcing initiatives," the authors address the issue of two
alignments in the context of outsourcing: drivers and goals, and
contractual aspects and managerial aspects. The article develops a
conceptual model of IT outsourcing alignment and then analyzes a
single, in-depth case of IT outsourcing in a large Nordic company.
The article concludes that there is a need to achieve a fit among
drivers, goals, contractual factors, and managerial factors of IT
outsourcing initiatives.
The Expert Opinion report documents interview by Dr. Mahesh
Raisinghani with the Managing Partner at CLT E-Sports &
Charlotte Phoenix, Mr. Clarence James (CJ) Collins. His passion in
gaming as a player lodged him into the esports scene many years
ago. More recently he started supporting the Army esports program
which led him to create his own future in esports. The Charlotte
Phoenix is a professional team that competes in a variety of
e-sport titles including Rocket League, League of Legends, and
Call of Duty. E-sports includes a variety of operations, similar
to what you might find in an NBA or NFL format. Esports being
relatively unknown to most Americans, CLT e-sports is designed to
support events and teach the local population about this arena. He
is fully occupied with these two businesses. Questions posed to
Mr. James are: (a) What are E-sports and how would you define it
to someone who has never heard of it?; (b) How important is
information technology (IT) in your indus
try, and your organization?; (c) How do you make money in esports,
its just kids playing video games?; (d) Please name and briefly
describe some of your strategic approaches to the e-sports space;
(e) Please describe the structure and organization of an esports
business; (f) Can you think of 5 different business models in
esports?; (g) What have been the most important technologies
(e.g., mobile, Internet-based, online gaming, imaging, satellite
communications, etc.) that have facilitated the expansion of your
company's products and services?; (h) Why is e-sports in schools a
good thing?; (i) What advice can you offer to companies exploring
getting into esports?
Book review report by Dr. Vijay Vemuri provides a detailed
coverage of the 2018 book titled, "THE AI ADVANTAGE: How to put
the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work,," authored by
Thomas H. Davenport
<https://smile.amazon.com/Nicholas-D.-Evans/e/B001IYVE4I/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1492661110&sr=8-1>
and published in 2018 by MIT Press. This book prefers the term
cognitive technologies rather than AI so that there are no
unreasonable expectations. The book emphasizes that cognitive
technologies are primarily about gaining insights from data,
information and knowledge to transform organizations.
Routledge, in line with the ongoing trends, has published this
journal online for the last six years since 2014. The website to
find all JITCAR issues is:
http://www.tandfonline.com/utca. All
authors and reviewers are encouraged to start using Routledge's
online manuscript submission and reviewing system
http://www.editorialmanager.com/jitcar/. I urge all our current
and future authors and reviewers to familiarize themselves with
this system. I hope you all know that JITCAR is included in the
SCOPUS index.
I hope you will enjoy reading all the items in this issue. With
best regards,
Sincerely
Dr. Shailendra Palvia
Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar 2016-17
Professor of MIS, College of Management
Long Island University Post, Brookville, NY 11801.
Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Nomination from LIU Post in 2012
and 2016
http://liu.edu/CWPost/Academics/Faculty/Faculty/P/Shailendra-Palvia?rn=Faculty+Profiles&ru=/CWPost/Academics/Faculty/Faculty
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of IT Case and Application Research
(JITCAR)
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