Digital Transformation and Information Systems
We are facing grand challenges, and Information Systems and e-Business applications play a vital role in providing innovative solutions to address those challenges. IT has transformed business operations, enabled new business models and markets, connected experts around the world to collaborate virtually, and provided financial inclusion to millions of unbanked populations around the world. While the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many aspects of our lives, digital technologies and e-Business models have mitigated (some) damages caused by the pandemic.
Benefits created by digital transformations may not distribute consistently across socioeconomic classes or between developing and developed countries. Findings based on research conducted in WEIRD (western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic) domains does not generalize to the rest of the world. Growing, rural, eastern, aspirational, transitional (GREAT) domains such as India (Karhade & Kathuria 2020) now account for a significant proportion of world economic output, thereby warranting special attention from business and management researchers. We call for interdisciplinary research that explores the role of Information Systems and e-Business necessitating digital transformations in the time of these grand challenges.
We invite original interdisciplinary research articles on a broad coverage of topics on consumers, citizens, businesses, industries and governments, ranging from technical to strategic issues. Some research topics could include :
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Digital Strategy -
Digital Platforms & Digital Innovation 
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Digitization and Internationalization -
Digital Transformations in response to the COVID pandemic 
Key References
- Karhade, P. & Dong, J. Q. 2021. "Innovation outcomes of the digitally enabled collaborative problemistic search capability," MIS Quarterly, 45(2), pp. 693-718.
- Karhade, P. & Dong, J. Q. 2021. "Information Technology Investment and Commercialized Innovation Performance: Dynamic Adjustment Costs and Curvilinear Impacts," forthcoming, MIS Quarterly.
- Karhade, P. & Kathuria, A., 2020. “Missing Impact of Ratings on Platform Participation in India: A Call for Research in GREAT Domains,” Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 47(1), p.19.
- Karhade, P., Shaw, M.J. and Subramanyam, R., 2015. “Patterns in Information Systems portfolio prioritization: Evidence from Decision Tree Induction,” MIS Quarterly, 39(2), pp.413-434.
- Kathuria, A., Karhade, P. and Konsynski, B., 2020. “In the realm of hungry ghosts: Multi-level theory for supplier participation on digital platforms,” Journal of Management Information Systems, 37(2), pp.396-430.
- Khuntia, J., Kathuria, A., Saldanha, T.J. and Konsynski, B., 2019. “Benefits of IT-enabled flexibilities for foreign versus local firms in emerging economies,” Journal of Management Information Systems, 36(3), pp.855-892.
- Saldanha, T.J., Sahaym, A., Mithas, S., Andrade-Rojas, M.G., Kathuria, A. and Lee, H.H., 2020. “Turning Liabilities of Global Operations into Assets: IT-Enabled Social Integration Capacity and Exploratory Innovation,” Information Systems Research, 31(2), pp.361-382.
- Saldanha, T., Kathuria, A., Khuntia, J. and Konsynski, B., 2021. “Ghosts in the machine: How marketing and human capital investments enhance customer growth when innovative services leverage self-service technologies,” forthcoming, Information Systems Research.