Department of Information Systems and Operations Management: Recent submissions
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Enhancing Experiential Learning through Virtual Reality: A Case Study in System Design and Hazard Analysis
(2023-08-07)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/1/2024** ABSTRACT: The recent advancement of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies leads to an extensive need for an industrial workforce. Training in AM requires ... -
ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (IS) STRATEGY, IT GOVERNANCE, AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: TWO ESSAYS ON HOW IT FIRMS UTILIZE THE ROLES OF IS STRATEGY AND IT GOVERNANCE TO IMPROVE FIRM PERFORMANCE
(2023-08-14)This dissertation includes two essays. For essay one, we investigate the implications of organizational wireless and mobile strategy on firm performance in the context of publicly traded information technology firms in the ... -
Cyber Risk Exposure through Supply Chain Information Network: An Application of Social Network Analysis
(2023-07-31)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 08/01/2024** In this paper, I study the impact of supply chain information networks on cyber risk exposure. I document that firms that are more central in the supply chain ... -
THREE ESSAYS ON INFORMATION SECURITY POLICY COMPLIANCE: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL INFLUENCE
Motivating employees to comply with information security policies (ISP) is a major challenge for organizations. Employees who do not comply with these policies can impose a serious threat to the safety of organizational ... -
Examining the Influence of Information Technology on Health Behaviors and Health Outcomes
(2022-12-20)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 12/19/2024** ABSTRACT: Information Technology (IT) has radically changed our daily lives and it has the potential to help us adopt healthy behaviors and improve health ... -
Design of Digital Social Platform Features and User Well-Being
(2023-05-19)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 05/14/2025** ABSTRACT: The purpose of the three-essay dissertation is to advance our understanding of the effect of digital social platforms on users’ behavior and ... -
The Relationship Between Sustainable Supply Chain Management Controversies, Sustainability Practices, and Firm Performance: The Role of Different Organizational Resources and Environmental Turbulence
(2023-05-10)This dissertation explores the relationship between sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) controversies and sustainability practices, and their direct and indirect effects on firm performance. SSCM controversies refer ... -
BEHAVIORAL ASPECTS IN OPERATIONAL DECISIONS. APPLIED FACTOR INVESTIGATIONS ON THE MICRO (INDIVIDUAL) AND MESO (CLUSTER) LEVELS
(2020-06-22)Normative theoretical models in operations management have been widely utilized by businesses and scientists to explain multiple phenomena. They assume that operating systems are managed by fully rational decision-makers ... -
ESSAYS OF THE POWER OF USER-GENERATED CONTENTS AND ONLINE COMMUNITIES
(2020-05-04)How the internet and mobile technologies shape users’ online content generation and how user- generated content on social media and online communities influence their subsequent behaviors are under-researched in the IS ... -
Business Analytics in the 21st Century from the Perspective of Academic Journals
(2020-06-08)Do research trends in business and statistics predict or even reflect the emergence of analytics in business practice and programs in the 21st century? My dissertation explores the answer to this question from several ... -
ESSAYS OF THE VISUAL EFFECTS ON ONLINE HUMAN DECISION-MAKING AND DATA SCIENCE APPLICATIONS
(2019-11-08)How human makes decisions online is an important research area in IS, many different techniques and online scenarios are used to probe into the related issues. In the first essay, this study investigates the crowdfunding ... -
Three Essays on Text Analytics & Behavioral Operations Management
(2019-08-19)My dissertation is about the use of textual analytics in the field of operations management and behavioral operations management. My first chapter analyses the growth of the area of operations management over the past 21 ... -
A STUDY OF BEHAVIORS IN PROCUREMENT, SUPPLY CHAIN AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
(2021-08-09)In the first chapter, we investigate the loss aversion behavior in service procurement auction. We study and compare two mechanisms, i.e., the percentage reimbursement policy and flat reimbursement policy to improve buyer's ... -
APPLICATION OF INTERPRETABLE MACHINE LEARNING IN FLIGHT DELAY DETECTION
(2021-05-06)Precise flight delay prediction is vital for the airline industries and passengers. This thesis focuses on applying several machine learning and auto-ML techniques to predict flight delays. A flight delay is said to occur ... -
SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN, OPERATIONAL CAPABILITIES, AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: THE ROLE OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT
(2018-08-14)Supply chain agility has been the cornerstone of research in supply chain management field. Despite the benefits associated with pursuing agile supply chain strategy, little is known about how the agile supply chain strategy ... -
Three Essays on Adoption and Continuous Improvement of Information Security Management in Organizations
(2018-07-23)In information intensive organizations secured management of information has become an important issue. Although organizations have been actively investing on information security, crime rate in this area keep increasing. ... -
Intellectual Structure of Business Analytics and Data Driven Insights for Information Security Breaches
(2018-08-09)Recent decades have exhibited phenomenal surges in not only in the amount of data generated globally but also in the methods used for analyzing data. Cybersecurity breaches have also increased in recent years. This ... -
Inferring Big Five Personality Factors using Text Analysis Its Assessment and Impact on Prosocial Behavior and IS Security Compliance
(2020-06-01)Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in general and text mining in particular have resulted in a number of services and applications that infer and provide personality measures from text. The validity of these services, ... -
DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM TO SUPPORT INTERVENTION IN NEWBORN HEALTHCARE
(2017-11-27)One of the most vulnerable populations in healthcare is the newborn infant. As hospitalization for childbirth is the largest cause for entry into a healthcare facility, the population of newborns each year is extensive as ... -
INVESTIGATION OF SUPPLY CHAIN GOVERNANCE MECHANISMS AND ASSESSING THEIR EFFECT ON SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE IN THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY
(2016-05-11)With the increasing level of globalization in manufacturing, it is becoming increasingly pertinent to monitor the execution of contractual agreements between buyers and suppliers. These monitoring mechanisms are essential ...