MIS Quarterly

Do you run experiments or A/B tests on a large-scale digital experimentation platform? ?? If so, you may want to learn more about the implications of using these experiments for scientific discovery. In this article, University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business researchers Ahmed Abbasi, Sriram Somanchi, and Ken Kelley shed light on orthogonal test planes (OTPs), an industry standard on large-scale digital experimentation platforms. Their research shows that experiments on OTPs where each experiment is run in an ecosystem of other experiments can lead to confounding and biased estimations. They conducted a case study at a major e-commerce company to illustrate how interactions in concurrent experiments can bias treatment effects, often causing a positive skew. They worry that confounding in scientific research is a microcosm of a larger epistemological confounding about significant contributions to scientific knowledge, potentially undermining the validity of findings, theory, cumulative literature, and practice. ?? Learn more about the implications these findings have for research on testing by reading the rest of this open access paper here: https://lnkd.in/gDzZGar8 . #misq #misquarterly #openaccess #mis #informationsystems #researchinsights #digitalexperiments #bias #concurrentexperiments #scientificdiscovery

Through the collaboration ?? of Likoebe Maruping, Dezhi (Denny) Yin, Adela Chen, Atreyi Kankanhalli, Andrew Burton-Jones, and EIC Sue Brown, this issue's editor's comments explore the evolution and importance of quantitative behavioral IS research. Check out the issue now! ?? https://lnkd.in/gAhA9taJ . #misq #misquarterly #openaccess #mis #informationsystems #researchinsights #academicpublishing #peerreviewed #academia

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Do elaborate and in-depth reviews help persuade online consumers to buy a product? New research from published in MIS Quarterly reveals — surprisingly — that consumers’ use of online reviews in decision-making might not be as deliberative and logical as commonly believed. Dezhi (Denny) Yin, an associate professor in the School of Information Systems and Management at the University of South Florida Muma College of Business, co-authored the study. https://lnkd.in/eUFikaxZ

How does technology reshape society? ???? MISQ Insiders Sonika Jha and Zoyia Konstantopoulou explore "How Information Technology Matters in Societal Change: An Affordance-Based Institutional Perspective" with authors Isam Faik, Michael Barrett, and Eivor Oborn. Read the interview now! . #misq #misqinsider #misquarterly #informationsystems #researchinsights #DigitalTransformation #SocietalChange #TechImpact

Volume 49, Issue 1 of MIS Quarterly is available now! ?? Read the Editor’s Comments and check out the issue here: https://lnkd.in/gAhA9taJ . #misq #misquarterly #openaccess #academicpublishing #informationsystems #academia #researchinsights #peerreviewed #peerreview #ebsco #mis #data

Digital technologies have significant implications and influence on social justice. In this curated collection of case studies, MISQ authors have illuminated various phenomena demonstrating the impact of digital technologies on social justice across the world. ?? Gwanhoo Lee (American University - Kogod School of Business) and Woo Sik Lee (Korea Social Security Information Service) analyze how the South Korean government identifies social welfare blind spots using a rule-based model, a machine learning algorithm, and a human-driven heuristic method, evaluating how the three methods complement each other. ?? Arlette Danielle R. (ETH Zürich), Rebecca Ruehle (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam), Alyssa Jade McDonald-Baertl (Fine Cacao and Chocolate Institute), Carla Martin (Harvard University), Laura Marie Edinger-Schons (University of Hamburg), and Aniruddh Agarwal (Vertwo Advisory) explore co-designing a digital peer training model for cacao farmers in Nicaragua to develop a framework to mitigate secondary injustices when using technology-enhanced learning. ?? Maximilian Schreieck (Universit?t Innsbruck), Manuel Wiesche (TU Dortmund University), Olga Usachova (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and Helmut Krcmar (Technische Universit?t München (Technical University of Munich) use the case of the Integreat, an information platform for refugees in Germany, to demonstrate how the mechanisms of digital platforms support and promote social inclusion for refugees by facilitating access to resources and encouraging participation in their community. ?? Christy Cheung (Hong Kong Baptist University), Marten Risius (Hochschule Neu-Ulm), and Yuan F. (The University of Queensland) investigate the use of doxing during the 2019 Hong Kong protests as a form of digital activism for social justice, illustrating how it both advances accountability and perpetuates social injustice. ? Wenyu Du (Beihang University) and Delin Zeng (Beijing Jiaotong University) conduct a case study on the environmental injustice created by e-waste exports to Nigeria’s Olusosun dumpsite, proposing IS solutions for e-waste recycling monitoring and collaboration and raising awareness of the issue among users and e-waste workers. ?? ??This article is available via Open Access. Learn more about the implications and intersections of digital technologies and social justice by reading this collection of curated case studies here! https://lnkd.in/dSZZqCav . #misq #misquarterly #mis #informationsystems #researchinsights #DigitalInclusion #PlatformDesign #SocialJustice #ISDesign #InclusiveTech

The first issue of Volume 49 of the MIS Quarterly is coming out this week! ? ??Here’s a sneak peek into the upcoming issue and the topics it features! . #misq #misquarterly #data #researchinsights #informationsystems #cybersecurity

?? Author interview: When justice is blind to algorithms In a MIS Quarterly article published last year, House of Innovation researchers Charlotta Kronblad, Anna Essén and Magnus M?hring reveal how hidden biases in public sector algorithms often go unnoticed—putting fairness and accountability at risk. In this video interview, they explain how the project started, what they found out, and what their recommendations to address these flaws are. The project was named one of 2024’s most promising by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). How can we ensure algorithms serve the public transparently and fairly? Share your thoughts in the comments below! Filming & editing: Carl Eneroth, Sthlm Social Innovation Lab Production: Amélie Reichmuth, House of Innovation #Digitalization #AI #Innovation #PublicSector