-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] JSIS Best Paper 2019 Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:51:45 +0000 From: Guy Gable g.gable@qut.edu.au To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

The best JSIS paper of 2019 is:

Chanias, S., Myers, M. D., & Hess, T. (2019). "Digital transformation strategy making in pre-digital organizations: The case of a financial services provider." The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 28(1), 17-33. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0963868718300143/pdfft?md...

Congratulations to Simon Chanias, Institute for Information Systems and New Media, LMU Munich, Germany; Michael Myers, University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand; and Thomas Hess, LMU!

Their article commences from recognition that the formulation and implementation of a digital transformation strategy (DTS) has become a key challenge for many pre-digital organizations across traditional industries. Using interpretive in-depth case studies, they study how a European financial services provider formulated and implemented a DTS. By focusing on the underlying processes and strategizing activities, they demonstrate that digital strategy making not only represents a break with the conventions of upfront strategic information systems (IS) planning, but reveals a new extreme of emergent strategy making. They conclude that a DTS is continuously in the making; a highly dynamic process involving iterating between learning and doing; and building on theory from IS strategizing and strategy-as-practice literature, they theorize an integrated process/activity model that characterizes DTS formulation and implementation in pre-digital organizations.

This year we don't have a single runner-up. There were too many strong, close possibilities. Even listing the four below, we are yet uncomfortable given the several other very close contenders.

- Vial, G. (2019). Understanding digital transformation: A review and a research agenda. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems 28(2), 118-144.

- Baker, J., & Singh, H. (2019). The roots of misalignment: Insights on strategy implementation from a system dynamics perspective. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 28(4), 101576.

- Jones, M. (2019). What we talk about when we talk about (big) data. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 28(1), 3-16.

- Moeini, M., Rahrovani, Y., & Chan, Y. E. (2019). A review of the practical relevance of IS strategy scholarly research. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 28(2), 196-217. In combination, these papers make significant contributions beyond the topics to the Information Systems field more generally.

We are pleased to give promotional access to the winning paper, which can be read free online until the end of 2020. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0963868718300143/pdfft?md...

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