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The Value of AI-Enabled Strategic Integration Capabilities in Driving IT-Enabled Agility and Firm Resilience
Full text linkTurbulence and uncertainty in the business environment and firms’ inability to respond appropriately have been cited as the leading cause of failures. An organizational paradigm, agility, is one of the keys to surviving a crisis and uncertainty. As a response, organizations are increasingly turning to information technology (IT) to help them respond to threats and opportunities during a crisis. Having strong agility allows firms to cope with unexpected changes. In this paper, we introduce the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) systems with IT-enabled agility. We examine how building such an AI-based capability can help organizations anticipate, prepare for, and respond to sudden disruptions to survive. We assert that organizations can drive agility during a crisis through strategic integration and utilization of AI-based systems and methods. In an age when capabilities are generally accepted as the backbone of competitive advantage, integration capabilities remain under-explored. Drawing upon the concept of control and coordination mechanisms, we propose AI-enabled strategic integration capabilities (AISIC) as a firm’s capabilities to utilize AI-based systems to integrate available organizational resources, methods, and tools, including those already developed and those recently developed in an organization. We conceptualize AISIC as consisting of control capabilities (i.e., application building capability and application orchestration capability) and coordination capabilities (i.e., competitive response capability, learning capability, and innovative capability). We hypothesize that AISIC is positively associated with IT-enabled agility and firm resilience, in which IT- enabled agility mediates the relationship between AISIC and firm resilience. Together, IT-enabled agility and firm resilience positively influence firm performance. To test our research hypotheses, we conducted a two-stage survey to collect data from IT and business decision-makers during the period when firms globally were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We measured AISIC in T1; and IT-enabled agility, firm resilience, and firm performance in T2 (four months after T1). Our findings provide support for our hypotheses. We show the process of building agility using an AI-based integrated strategy and offer evidence to support positive relationships between AI, agility, resilience, and performance during a crisis
Industrial metaverse: building a framework in the beverage sector
No full textEste estudo qualitativo transformador explora o desenvolvimento de uma estrutura de metaverso industrial voltada para a indústria de bebidas, considerando as perspectivas de partes interessadas-chave, incluindo produtores, fornecedores, funcionários, consumidores e a comunidade em geral. O design da estrutura é orientado por uma pesquisa baseada em intervenções (IBR), com foco nos potenciais benefícios como maior eficiência operacional, sustentabilidade e engajamento das partes interessadas, ao mesmo tempo em que aborda questões como infraestrutura, privacidade de dados e barreiras à adoção.
O principal objetivo é estabelecer uma estrutura robusta de metaverso industrial que facilite a integração de tecnologias de gêmeos digitais e ambientes imersivos nos processos de manufatura, preparando o terreno para futuras iniciativas de metaverso industrial. Ao posicionar o metaverso como uma ferramenta emergente para a manufatura e a pesquisa, este estudo contribui para a ciência administrativa ao oferecer insights sobre sua aplicabilidade nas operações industriais e na execução de projetos.
Os resultados indicam que um metaverso industrial bem estruturado tem o potencial de impulsionar a inovação no setor de bebidas, promovendo práticas de produção mais sustentáveis e eficientes. Em última análise, este estudo destaca o papel do metaverso na transformação das dinâmicas da indústria, promovendo resiliência e impulsionando uma transformação digital orientada pelas partes interessadas na manufatura.This transformative qualitative study explores the development of an industrial metaverse framework tailored to the beverage industry, considering the perspectives of key stakeholders, including producers, suppliers, employees, consumers, and the broader community. The framework's design is guided by intervention-based research (IBR), focusing on potential benefits such as enhanced operational efficiency, sustainability, and stakeholder engagement while also addressing infrastructure, data privacy, and adoption barriers.
The primary objective is to establish a robust industrial metaverse framework that facilitates the integration of digital twin technologies and immersive environments into manufacturing processes, laying the groundwork for future industrial metaverse initiatives. By positioning the metaverse as an emerging tool for manufacturing and research, this study contributes to administrative science by offering insights into its applicability in industrial operations and project execution.
The findings indicate that a well-structured industrial metaverse has the potential to drive innovation within the beverage sector, fostering more sustainable and efficient production practices. Ultimately, this study highlights the metaverse’s role in reshaping industry dynamics, promoting resilience, and advancing stakeholder-driven digital transformation in manufacturing.Este estudio cualitativo transformador explora el desarrollo de un marco de metaverso industrial adaptado a la industria de las bebidas, teniendo en cuenta las perspectivas de las principales partes interesadas, incluidos productores, proveedores, empleados, consumidores y la comunidad en general. El diseño del marco está guiado por la investigación basada en intervenciones (IBR), centrándose en beneficios potenciales como una mayor eficiencia operativa, sostenibilidad y compromiso de los actores, al tiempo que aborda cuestiones relacionadas con la infraestructura, la privacidad de los datos y las barreras de adopción.
El objetivo principal es establecer un marco sólido de metaverso industrial que facilite la integración de tecnologías de gemelos digitales y entornos inmersivos en los procesos de fabricación, sentando las bases para futuras iniciativas de metaverso industrial. Al posicionar el metaverso como una herramienta emergente para la manufactura y la investigación, este estudio contribuye a la ciencia administrativa al ofrecer ideas sobre su aplicabilidad en operaciones industriales y ejecución de proyectos.
Los hallazgos indican que un metaverso industrial bien estructurado tiene el potencial de impulsar la innovación en el sector de las bebidas, fomentando prácticas de producción más sostenibles y eficientes. En última instancia, este estudio destaca el papel del metaverso en la transformación de las dinámicas industriales, promoviendo la resiliencia y avanzando hacia una transformación digital impulsada por las partes interesadas en el ámbito manufacturero.Diese transformative qualitative Studie untersucht die Entwicklung eines industriellen Metaversum-Rahmenwerks, das speziell auf die Getränkeindustrie zugeschnitten ist. Dabei werden die Perspektiven zentraler Interessengruppen berücksichtigt – darunter Produzenten, Lieferanten, Mitarbeitende, Konsument*innen sowie die breitere Gemeinschaft. Das Design des Rahmenwerks basiert auf interventionsorientierter Forschung (IBR) und konzentriert sich auf potenzielle Vorteile wie verbesserte operative Effizienz, Nachhaltigkeit und Einbindung der Stakeholder. Gleichzeitig werden Herausforderungen wie Infrastruktur, Datenschutz und Hürden bei der Einführung adressiert.
Das Hauptziel besteht darin, ein robustes Rahmenwerk für ein industrielles Metaversum zu schaffen, das die Integration von Digital-Twin-Technologien und immersiven Umgebungen in Fertigungsprozesse erleichtert und damit den Grundstein für zukünftige Metaversum-Initiativen im industriellen Bereich legt. Durch die Positionierung des Metaversums als aufkommendes Werkzeug für Produktion und Forschung leistet die Studie einen Beitrag zur Verwaltungswissenschaft, indem sie Einblicke in seine Anwendbarkeit in industriellen Abläufen und Projekten bietet.
Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass ein gut strukturiertes industrielles Metaversum das Innovationspotenzial im Getränkesektor erheblich steigern kann und nachhaltigere sowie effizientere Produktionspraktiken fördert. Letztlich hebt die Studie die Rolle des Metaversums bei der Neugestaltung industrieller Dynamiken hervor und zeigt auf, wie es Resilienz stärkt und eine stakeholdergetriebene digitale Transformation in der Produktion vorantreibt.Cette étude qualitative transformative explore le développement d’un cadre de métavers industriel adapté à l’industrie des boissons, en tenant compte des perspectives des principales parties prenantes, notamment les producteurs, les fournisseurs, les employés, les consommateurs et la communauté au sens large. La conception de ce cadre est guidée par une recherche basée sur l’intervention (IBR), en mettant l’accent sur les bénéfices potentiels tels qu’une efficacité opérationnelle accrue, la durabilité et l’engagement des parties prenantes, tout en abordant les défis liés à l’infrastructure, à la confidentialité des données et aux obstacles à l’adoption.
L’objectif principal est d’établir un cadre solide de métavers industriel facilitant l’intégration des technologies de jumeaux numériques et des environnements immersifs dans les processus de fabrication, posant ainsi les bases des futures initiatives de métavers industriel. En positionnant le métavers comme un outil émergent pour la fabrication et la recherche, cette étude contribue aux sciences de gestion en offrant des perspectives sur son applicabilité aux opérations industrielles et à l’exécution de projets.
Les résultats indiquent qu’un métavers industriel bien structuré a le potentiel de stimuler l’innovation dans le secteur des boissons, en favorisant des pratiques de production plus durables et efficaces. En définitive, cette étude met en lumière le rôle du métavers dans la transformation des dynamiques industrielles, la promotion de la résilience et l’avancement d’une transformation numérique centrée sur les parties prenantes dans le domaine de la fabrication
Public sentiments toward the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from the academic literature review and Twitter analytics.
Full text linkThe recent COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted nations across the globe. Not only has it created economic shocks, but also long-term impacts on the social and psychological behaviors of the public. This can be attributed to the severity of the pandemic and because of the preventive and control measures such as global lockdowns, social distancing, and selfisolation that the governments imposed. Previous studies have reported significant changes in human emotions and behaviors are used to measure public sentiments about certain phenomena (such as the recent pandemic). The present study aims to study the public's sentiments during the COVID-19 outbreak based on an analytics review of public tweets highlighting changes in emotions. A dataset of 58,320 tweets extracted from Twitter and 61 academic articles was explored to analyze behavioral and emotional changes during previous and current pandemic situations. We chose the RPA – COV (Research Process Approach – COVID-19) approach, which was combined with the LBTA (Literature-Based Thematic Analysis) and the COVTA (COVID-19 Twitter Analytics). The sentiments' analysis results were coupled with word-tree analysis and highlighted that the public showed more highly neutral, positive, and mixed emotions than negative ones. The analysis pointed that people may react differently on Twitter as compared to real-life circumstances. The present study makes a significant contribution towards understanding how the public express their sentiments in pandemic situations
A Sociomaterial Approach to Co-Creating RFID Value in a Multi-Firm Supply Chain Knowledge Sharing Environment: A Longitudinal Case Study
Full text linkOrlikowski and Lacono (2001, p. 132) aptly argue that IT artifacts, particularly distributed network technology applications, including RFID, “do not provide the same material and cultural properties in each local time or context of use.” A sociomaterial theory suggests the importance of adopting an integrative approach to study the social and material effects when examining IT benefits realization. While much has been written about the high potential of RFID as a new class of strategic enterprise information systems, the early adopters of RFID and researchers still have to answer the question on how to co-create the business value of RFID in supply chain environments. In this longitudinal case study of six firms involved in the research, development, implementation and use of an innovative RFID system, several critical barriers to co-creating RFID-enabled business value were identified. Finally, a sociomaterial approach to study RFID provided new insights into these barriers
RFID Applications, Issues, Methods and Theory: A Review of the AIS Basket of TOP journals
No full textAbstractWhat is the current level of knowledge development on RFID technology, the technology at the core of the “Internet of Things” within the AIS basket of top journals? And what are the potential future research directions on RFID technology within this outlet? To answer these questions, we conducted a comprehensive review of articles published between 2000 and 2011 in journals within the AIS basket of top journals. A total of 25 relevant papers were found and analyzed by publication year, application areas, topics, approaches, and theories used. Finally, a list of potential research directions is discussed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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