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Shiv Nadar University

Decision Sciences, Operations Management, and Information Systems

Annually, MIS Quarterly Executive publishes a U.S.-centric IT Issues and Trends Study. In contrast, the World IT Project collected data on IS issues from over 10,000 IS employees in 37 countries. Though there are some common issues, there are important differences between countries that focus on strategic issues and those that focus on tactical/operational issues. This study highlights the need to address country- or regional-specific differences when pursuing international endeavors.1 © 2021. All Rights Reserved.

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(SME) School of Management and Entrepreneurship

MIS Quarterly Executive

Insights from the World IT Project Survey of IS Organizational Trends

Information systems (IS) research paradigms, models, and findings are largely developed in the context of the U.S. and Western Europe; therefore, they are applicable primarily to the Western context and have limited relevance elsewhere. In response to this incomplete view and potential bias, the World Information Technology (IT) Project was launched more than five years ago to examine many topics, including the nature of organizational IS issues in various parts of the world. Using a common survey instrument, data were collected from IT employees in 37 countries. These 37 countries provide a good representation of the world as they exhibit different economic, cultural, political, religious, and regional differences. Results demonstrate the fallacy of the Western views and reveal that the globe does not always follow them. While there are a few common issues among the 37 countries, namely: IT reliability and efficiency, and security and privacy; more significantly, there are important differences. A cluster analysis of the country data corroborates the findings and divides countries into two groups: those with strategic issues and those with tactical and operational issues. Overall, the study underscores the importance of visioning beyond ethnocentric views and expanding our horizons to the global IT landscape. Particularly, business and IT executives need to address country and regional differences when pursuing international endeavors. IEEE

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Sorry, the World is not Flat: A Global View of Organizational Information Systems Issues

Sustainable freight transportation is aimed at reducing environmental emissions and social inequity along with economic inefficiency to drive the business. Lack of a continuous sustainability assessment and monitoring tool increases the reluctance of freight transporters to adopt world-class sustainability practices. This paper attempts to develop the performance index for a sustainable freight transportation system by innovatively integrating the Consensus Model (CM) with the Fuzzy Evidential Reasoning Algorithm (FERA). A CM has been used to determine the degree of importance of each Key Performance Indicators identified across three dimensions of sustainability. FERA has been used to aggregate subjective judgments with crisp quantitative values. This approach has a unique capability to handle various uncertainties related to impreciseness in decision-making. This study has demonstrated the use of an integrated approach for developing a performance index of the freight transportation system. Sensitivity Analysis of the model provides logical inferences and an understanding of the robustness of the model outputs. It can be interpreted from the results of the study that the firms with higher profitability in the market are focusing more on making their operations sustainable. A proportionate approach of firms towards the economic, environment, and societal well-being, may assist in achieving higher sustainability. © 2021, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

Annals of Operations Research

Performance measurement of sustainable freight transportation: a consensus model and FERA approach

With the sudden outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic all over the world, the education sector has experienced a tremendous transformation from its tradition way of providing lectures to the online mode of lectures. The online meeting platforms play a significant role in enhancing the online learning experience of the students. There are many online meeting platforms available, which offer several similar features yet provide different experiences to the users. It is important to evaluate the most preferable online meeting platform for the education sector to improve the overall education quality especially in the online learning era. This study, therefore, evaluates the preference of higher education students' preferences for online meeting platforms. For this study, three most commonly used online platforms i.e., Google Meet, MS Teams, and Zoom are considered. The evaluation process is done using cross-tabulation analysis and Chi-Square analysis. The results obtained in this study suggests that Google Meet is the most preferred online meeting platform by the students. This study provides an insight about the platform that can be used by the educators to improve the overall learning experiences of the students. © 2021 IEEE.

2021 International Conference on Computational Performance Evaluation, ComPE 2021

A New Paradigm of Learning: Evaluation of Higher Education Students' Preferences for Online Meeting Platform

Negative ties and gender (as a contextual variable) have remained under-studied in the social networks research in management. Drawing on occupational gender-typing theory, the paper hypothesizes that the relationship between indegree centrality of employees in a positive ties-based network and their tendency to cite their colleagues in negative ties differs in a feminine and a masculine occupation. Using network data from two organizations in India, the paper shows that in a feminine occupation (nursing), the higher the indegree centrality of the employees in a positive ties-based network, the less likely are they to cite negative ties whereas, in a masculine occupation (mining), the higher the indegree centrality of the employees in a positive ties-based network, more likely are they to cite negative ties. We make a theoretical contribution by extending the occupational gender-typing theory in social networks research by theorizing and examining the distinctive effects of the context – feminine and masculine occupations – on networks and work relations. We also discuss the managerial implications of the study. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Network centrality and negative ties in feminine and masculine occupations

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to use the framework of stakeholder analysis in a participatory democracy, used in forest management planning, for arriving at the best management option for selected sacred groves of Kachchh. This is achieved by accounting for economic, cultural and ecological values and the resulting outcomes in the complex institutional mechanism. Additionally, this study provides a framework for complex decision-making that characterizes the management of sacred groves involving multiple criteria and options accounting for multiple stakeholders that involve conflicting interests. Design/methodology/approach: The analytical hierarchy process was used to calculate the global priorities of management options using the relative importance of stakeholders, weights of different decision criteria to arrive at the best management practice for selected groves of Kachchh. The global priorities of management options rank management practices based on stakeholders' values and their effects on the choice of management strategy as well as on the potential to attain a compromise between competing interests. For this purpose, survey responses of 141 individuals belonging to seven different stakeholder categories were analyzed. Along with focus group discussions, and personal interviews, a stratified random sampling technique was used to survey respondents. Findings: Based on the global priority weights of the alternatives, it is determined that the restoration management option (guggal is restored by planting new guggal sapplings, cattle grazing is prohibited and high levels of ecosystem goods and services are provided) had the highest score, followed by the preservation management option (grazing is allowed on the periphery, juvenile guggal is preserved and moderate ecosystem goods and services are provided). Therefore, restoration of sacred groves is the best management practice of sacred groves in West Kachchh, offering a compromise between maximizing provision of ecosystem services and economic benefits in terms of allowing cattle grazing. Originality/value: Though there are several studies on best management practices for community-owned forests, irrigation systems, and pasture lands, and the role of local institutions in sustaining these common-pool resources; such studies for sacred groves are absent, despite sacred groves being one of the longest surviving common-pool resources that has sustained it over several decades. This is the first study that uses the framework of stakeholder analysis to arrive at the best management practice for sacred groves. The uniqueness of the study lies in a comprehensive evaluation of ecological–economic–cultural interests of multiple stakeholders toward management of sacred groves. © 2021, Emerald Publishing Limited.

Benchmarking

Developing a framework for sacred grove management using stakeholder analysis: evidence from sacred groves in Gujarat, India

This project focuses on organizational, technological, and individual information technology (IT) issues in Ghana. IT has been widely adopted in Ghana, and it is growing at a relatively fast pace as more firms are trooping into the country. In this study, it was noticed that security and privacy became the top issues. This was not surprising because this has been a matter of concern to many organizations around the world as the adoption of IT must provide the assurance to the issues surrounding privacy and security. The government institutions in Ghana have started to rely heavily on IT, and security and privacy have been a major concern for employees. Business intelligence/analytics (BI/BA) is considered one of the major technology issues as indicated by a high demand for BI/BA professionals. Both small and large IT firms are providing BI/BA services in Ghana, and the demand is very strong. BI/BA is followed by customer relationship management systems and enterprise application integration in that order. Most of the IT professionals in the country are somewhat satisfied with their jobs, and they enjoy lower work pressures, workload, and burnout. They also exhibit a strong sense of professional accomplishment. Nevertheless, they are only somewhat loyal to their organizations and are more loyal to the IT profession because currently there is a high level of unemployment in Ghana, and it is difficult for IT professionals to easily change jobs. © 2020 The Author(s).

World Scientific-Now Publishers Series in Business

Chapter 11: Information technology issues in Ghana

The World IT Project, the largest study of its kind in the IS academic field, was conceptualized more than a decade ago. Long time in the making, the project was motivated by the dominant and pervasive bias in IS research towards American and Western views. In very broad terms, the World IT Project captures the organizational, technological, and individual issues of IT employees across the world and relates them to cultural and organizational variables. The project was officially launched in 2013 and is now in the publication phase. Because of the enormous global scale of the project, a single or even two or three publications cannot fully describe our findings. This book is a major publication that describes and analyzes the organizational, technological, and individual issues of IT employees in the 37 countries that were included in the project. This first chapter provides the necessary background for the remaining country chapters, which are co-authored with specific country teams. In here, we describe the goals and objectives of the World IT Project, its general framework and major research questions, the relevant literature and theoretical background, methodological details, expected outcomes and publications, and important contributions. The goal is to provide a world view of IT issues that will be relevant to stakeholders at the firm, national, and international levels. © 2020 The Author(s).

Chapter 1: The world IT project: A long journey in the making

Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal

Guest editorial

Purpose: The paper aims to investigate existing research in factors impacting organic food purchase with special reference to eco-labels and identify the relative influence of various determinants. Design/methodology/approach: A conceptual framework is proposed of organic food buying behaviour after analysing a sample of 154,072 consumers reported in 91 research studies from 2001–2020. The factors are categorised into four categories on the basis of relatedness. In addition, the factors were analysed based on time, region and national economic status. Findings: The impact of consumer psychographics, socio-demographic and product-related factor categories were found to be more pronounced compared to supply-related factor category. The results show that among individual factors like health concern, environment concern, knowledge and awareness, eco-labels and price followed by trust in organic food are the most important factors in organic food purchase. The findings suggest that eco-labels increase trust in organic food by reducing information asymmetry in consumers. However, there were differences in perception and factors importance between high-income economies and emerging economies. Originality/value: The study is unique, as it analyses secondary research based on criteria of high-income economies and emerging economies. The conceptual framework can also be incorporated further into different cognitive models like the theory of planned behaviour. © 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited.