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Inclusion of Autistic It Workforce in Action: An Auticon Approach

Feb 9th, 2025 | By

ABSTRACT This paper examines the IT workforce management practices of auticon, a pioneering international IT consultancy firm from Germany that employs autistic individuals as its core workforce to deliver economically and socially sustainable IT services. Our analysis of auticon‘s approach allows us to distil four key workplace inclusion lessons for companies on how to best
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Virtual Mobility: Mitigating the Adverse Effect of Violence Against Women on the Development of Employment Capabilities

Feb 5th, 2025 | By

ABSTRACT Violence against women (VAW) is an endemic phenomenon that adversely affects the entire female population, even those who might not have directly experienced violence. This paper examines VAW’s adverse effects on all women’s employment capabilities by imposing restrictions on mobility in public spaces, a fundamental resource required for capability development. Drawing upon the new
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Why You Should Write a Cover Letter

Feb 3rd, 2025 | By

Information Systems Journal, EarlyView. Source



How Do User Commitment and Lean Usage Promote Rich Usage in Social Virtual Worlds: Differential and Quadratic Relationships

Jan 22nd, 2025 | By

ABSTRACT Social virtual world (SVW) platforms face a critical challenge to retain a sound base of active users, which is key to their success and requires a deep understanding of how much (lean usage) and how exactly (rich usage) users’ usage behaviours occur in these platforms. While both lean and rich usage are pivotal considerations
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How AI Helps to Compile Human Intelligence: An Empirical Study of Emerging Augmented Intelligence for Medical Image Scanning

Jan 22nd, 2025 | By

ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing continuously. However, full delegation to an AI application is often not possible or desirable due to technical limitations, ethical concerns or legal issues. Augmented intelligence systems, where humans and AI work together jointly, have been proposed to improve decision making in complex, uncertain and failure-intolerant environments. Yet, this raises
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From Normal to Disaster Response Mode: How Can Virtual Communities Reconfigure Themselves to Respond Effectively to a Disaster?

Jan 18th, 2025 | By

ABSTRACT During a disaster, many people seek information from virtual communities. However, information overload, falsehoods and unrelated topics hinder information flow in virtual communities, putting disaster victims at risk. Given many disasters are generally of a short duration, we explore how virtual communities can quickly reconfigure themselves to respond effectively to a disaster. Drawing on
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Social Inclusion/Exclusion in Information Systems: A Review and Roadmap for Research

Jan 15th, 2025 | By

ABSTRACT Over the past four decades, scholars in information systems (IS) have explored the intricacies of social inclusion/exclusion within IS (SI/E in IS). Despite 40?years of investigation, there remains a notable absence of a systematic analysis of the accumulated knowledge in SI/E within IS research. Addressing this gap, our research aims to organise the literature,
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Digital Transformation: Quo Vadit?

Jan 9th, 2025 | By

Information Systems Journal, EarlyView. Source



Boundary Spanning and Practical Impact in IS Research: A Bourdieusian Analysis

Dec 31st, 2024 | By

ABSTRACT Information systems (IS) research often seeks to deliver practical impact in addition to the traditional requirement for theoretical contribution. While an admirable goal, it is nevertheless a challenging prospect, as key questions remain around how best to facilitate a relationship between IS academic and practitioner communities. To explore this issue, we analyse multi-case study
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Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Learning From CasesBy Roel Rutten, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. 240 pp. GBP 95. ISBN: 978?1?83910?451?0

Dec 29th, 2024 | By

Information Systems Journal, EarlyView. Source