Purpose: This vision article alerts service managers to the potential of cognitive computing to reframe their value propositions. Humans are bounded in three ways: perception, rationality and physicality. Cognitive computing, hardware or software that transcends these three limits, offers many...

Global shipping is a self-organizing ecosystem that is critical to the world economy, a growing generator of carbon emissions, an EU target for digitization, and under-served by IS scholars. The global shipping industry is essential for the global economy, as around 90% of the world's trade is...

Shipping, an important factor in the operation of the world economy is a digital age laggard. Digitization can make it more efficient, sustainable, and safer. For IS researchers this domain is also relatively unexplored, and there are opportunities for IS scholars to provide theoretical advances...

Chapter 1: A Capital Idea -- Chapter 2: The Organization as a Capital Creation System -- Chapter 3: The Growth of the Capital Creation System -- Chapter 4: Systems for Creating Capital -- Chapter 5: Energy for Capital Creation -- Chapter 6: Objects -- Chapter 7: The Future -- Section 2: Capital...

This book provides a set of integrated frameworks—capital, systems, and objects—that transcend managerial or technology hype by focusing on the long-term fundamentals that sustain organizational success, and it contains cases from South East Asia to elaborate this concept. Many organizations...

Renewables have become an economically viable alternative to fossil fuels for electricity generation. Managing their intermittency, however, is an information-intensive problem that will require a massive digital transformation of the current electricity system. A comprehensive digital...

This paper reports on a panel held during the 2006 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). The panel titled, "Social Activism in IS Research: Making the World a Better Place," was organized to question whether and how Information System (IS) research is making tangible impacts to...

Three propositions are put forward as a conceptual foundation for Information Systems as an initial step towards creating a foundation for the field, which has operated for half a century by borrowing theory from elsewhere

Numerous normative models have been developed to determine optimal inventory levels, and several articles and case studies have been written about the concerted efforts and practices adopted by manufacturing firms in the United States to reduce inventories. But little is known about whether...