The role of actors in blockchain adoption decisions – an innovation translation perspective
- Chhina, Shipra, Chadhar, Mehmood, Firmin, Sally, Tatnall, Arthur
- Authors: Chhina, Shipra , Chadhar, Mehmood , Firmin, Sally , Tatnall, Arthur
- Date: 2023
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australasian journal of information systems Vol. 27, no. (2023), p.
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- Description: An overview of challenges around blockchain adoption has revealed that there is little understanding of the process of blockchain adoption decisions, including who needs to be involved and consulted at various stages. When systems are designed to intentionally protect privacy or to obscure actors, such as blockchain platforms, it can be challenging to identify them and to understand their roles. To do this we used an Innovation Translation approach from Actor-Network Theory (Latour, 2007) which looks at the roles of both human and non-human actors. To understand the interactions among the actors involved, multiple rounds of interviews were conducted with Blockchain experts, utilising the qualitative Delphi method. The findings of this study propose a framework that provides insight into the decision-process by exploring the actors involved and their roles as they implement strategies to adopt blockchain and to convince other actors. The outcomes will assist blockchain practitioners and researchers to have an understanding of pre-adoption decisions and stakeholder involvement. Organisations considering implementing blockchain will benefit from this research as they will know where to start, who to engage, and which stakeholders are needed during the decision-making process.
- Authors: Chhina, Shipra , Chadhar, Mehmood , Firmin, Sally , Tatnall, Arthur
- Date: 2023
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australasian journal of information systems Vol. 27, no. (2023), p.
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- Description: An overview of challenges around blockchain adoption has revealed that there is little understanding of the process of blockchain adoption decisions, including who needs to be involved and consulted at various stages. When systems are designed to intentionally protect privacy or to obscure actors, such as blockchain platforms, it can be challenging to identify them and to understand their roles. To do this we used an Innovation Translation approach from Actor-Network Theory (Latour, 2007) which looks at the roles of both human and non-human actors. To understand the interactions among the actors involved, multiple rounds of interviews were conducted with Blockchain experts, utilising the qualitative Delphi method. The findings of this study propose a framework that provides insight into the decision-process by exploring the actors involved and their roles as they implement strategies to adopt blockchain and to convince other actors. The outcomes will assist blockchain practitioners and researchers to have an understanding of pre-adoption decisions and stakeholder involvement. Organisations considering implementing blockchain will benefit from this research as they will know where to start, who to engage, and which stakeholders are needed during the decision-making process.
Adoption of blockchain technology : exploring the factors affecting organizational decision
- Malik, Saleem, Chadhar, Mehmood, Chetty, Madhu, Vatanasakdakul, Savanid
- Authors: Malik, Saleem , Chadhar, Mehmood , Chetty, Madhu , Vatanasakdakul, Savanid
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Journal article , Review
- Relation: Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies Vol. 2022, no. (2022), p.
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- Description: Blockchain (BCT) is an emerging technology that promises many benefits for organizations, for instance, disintermediation, data security, data transparency, a single version of the truth, and trust among trading partners. Despite its multiple benefits, the adoption rate of BCT among organizations has not reached a significantly high level worldwide, thus requiring further research in this space. The present study addresses this issue in the Australian context. There is a knowledge gap in what specific factors, among the plethora of factors reported in the extant literature, affect the organizational adoption of BCT in Australia. To fill this gap, the study uses the qualitative interpretative research approach along with the technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework as a theoretical lens. The data was mainly drawn from the literature review and semi-structured interviews of the decision-makers and senior IT people from the BCT adopter and potential adopter organizations in Australia. According to the findings, perceived information transparency, perceived risks, organization innovativeness, organization learning capability, standards uncertainty, and competition intensity influence organizational adoption of BCT in Australia. These factors are exclusively identified in this study. The study also validates the influence of perceived benefits and perceived compatibility on BCT adoption that are reported in the past studies. Practically, these findings are helpful for the Australian government and public and private organizations to develop better policies and make informed decisions for the organizational adoption of BCT. The findings would guide decision-makers to think about the adoption of BCT strategically. The study also has theoretical implications explained in the discussion section. © 2022 Saleem Malik et al.
- Authors: Malik, Saleem , Chadhar, Mehmood , Chetty, Madhu , Vatanasakdakul, Savanid
- Date: 2022
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- Relation: Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies Vol. 2022, no. (2022), p.
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- Description: Blockchain (BCT) is an emerging technology that promises many benefits for organizations, for instance, disintermediation, data security, data transparency, a single version of the truth, and trust among trading partners. Despite its multiple benefits, the adoption rate of BCT among organizations has not reached a significantly high level worldwide, thus requiring further research in this space. The present study addresses this issue in the Australian context. There is a knowledge gap in what specific factors, among the plethora of factors reported in the extant literature, affect the organizational adoption of BCT in Australia. To fill this gap, the study uses the qualitative interpretative research approach along with the technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework as a theoretical lens. The data was mainly drawn from the literature review and semi-structured interviews of the decision-makers and senior IT people from the BCT adopter and potential adopter organizations in Australia. According to the findings, perceived information transparency, perceived risks, organization innovativeness, organization learning capability, standards uncertainty, and competition intensity influence organizational adoption of BCT in Australia. These factors are exclusively identified in this study. The study also validates the influence of perceived benefits and perceived compatibility on BCT adoption that are reported in the past studies. Practically, these findings are helpful for the Australian government and public and private organizations to develop better policies and make informed decisions for the organizational adoption of BCT. The findings would guide decision-makers to think about the adoption of BCT strategically. The study also has theoretical implications explained in the discussion section. © 2022 Saleem Malik et al.
Business simulation games in higher education : a systematic review of empirical research
- Faisal, Nadia, Chadhar, Mehmood, Goriss-Hunter, Anitra, Stranieri, Andrew
- Authors: Faisal, Nadia , Chadhar, Mehmood , Goriss-Hunter, Anitra , Stranieri, Andrew
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Journal article , Review
- Relation: Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies Vol. 2022, no. (2022), p.
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- Description: Over the last few years, business simulation games (BSGs) in higher education have attracted attention. BSGs tend to actively engage students with course material, promoting higher engagement and motivation and enabling learning outcomes. Increasingly, researchers are trying to explore the full potential of these games with an upsurge of research in the BSG field in recent years. There is a need to understand the current state of research and future research opportunities; however, there is a lack of recent systematic literature reviews in BSG literature. This study addresses this gap by systematically compiling online empirical research from January 2015 to April 2022. We followed PRISMA guidelines to identify fifty-seven (57) papers reporting empirical evidence of the effectiveness of BSGs in teaching and learning. Findings showed that BSGs improve learning outcomes such as knowledge acquisition, cognitive and interactive skills, and behaviour. The review also summarises different issues concerning the integration of BSGs into the curriculum, learning theories used in the selected studies, and assessment methods used to evaluate student achievement in learning outcomes. The findings of this review summarise the current research activities and indicate existing deficiencies and potential research directions that can be used as the basis for future research into the use of BSGs in higher education. © 2022 Nadia Faisal et al.
- Authors: Faisal, Nadia , Chadhar, Mehmood , Goriss-Hunter, Anitra , Stranieri, Andrew
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Journal article , Review
- Relation: Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies Vol. 2022, no. (2022), p.
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- Description: Over the last few years, business simulation games (BSGs) in higher education have attracted attention. BSGs tend to actively engage students with course material, promoting higher engagement and motivation and enabling learning outcomes. Increasingly, researchers are trying to explore the full potential of these games with an upsurge of research in the BSG field in recent years. There is a need to understand the current state of research and future research opportunities; however, there is a lack of recent systematic literature reviews in BSG literature. This study addresses this gap by systematically compiling online empirical research from January 2015 to April 2022. We followed PRISMA guidelines to identify fifty-seven (57) papers reporting empirical evidence of the effectiveness of BSGs in teaching and learning. Findings showed that BSGs improve learning outcomes such as knowledge acquisition, cognitive and interactive skills, and behaviour. The review also summarises different issues concerning the integration of BSGs into the curriculum, learning theories used in the selected studies, and assessment methods used to evaluate student achievement in learning outcomes. The findings of this review summarise the current research activities and indicate existing deficiencies and potential research directions that can be used as the basis for future research into the use of BSGs in higher education. © 2022 Nadia Faisal et al.
COVID-19 datasets : a brief overview
- Sun, Ke, Li, Wuyang, Saikrishna, Vidya, Chadhar, Mehmood, Xia, Feng
- Authors: Sun, Ke , Li, Wuyang , Saikrishna, Vidya , Chadhar, Mehmood , Xia, Feng
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Computer Science and Information Systems Vol. 19, no. 3 (2022), p. 1115-1132
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- Description: The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic affects lives and social-economic development around the world. The affecting of the pandemic has motivated researchers from different domains to find effective solutions to diagnose, prevent, and estimate the pandemic and relieve its adverse effects. Numerous COVID-19 datasets are built from these studies and are available to the public. These datasets can be used for disease diagnosis and case prediction, speeding up solving problems caused by the pandemic. To meet the needs of researchers to understand various COVID-19 datasets, we examine and provide an overview of them. We organise the majority of these datasets into three categories based on the category of ap-plications, i.e., time-series, knowledge base, and media-based datasets. Organising COVID-19 datasets into appropriate categories can help researchers hold their focus on methodology rather than the datasets. In addition, applications and COVID-19 datasets suffer from a series of problems, such as privacy and quality. We discuss these issues as well as potentials of COVID-19 datasets. © 2022, ComSIS Consortium. All rights reserved.
- Authors: Sun, Ke , Li, Wuyang , Saikrishna, Vidya , Chadhar, Mehmood , Xia, Feng
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Computer Science and Information Systems Vol. 19, no. 3 (2022), p. 1115-1132
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- Description: The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic affects lives and social-economic development around the world. The affecting of the pandemic has motivated researchers from different domains to find effective solutions to diagnose, prevent, and estimate the pandemic and relieve its adverse effects. Numerous COVID-19 datasets are built from these studies and are available to the public. These datasets can be used for disease diagnosis and case prediction, speeding up solving problems caused by the pandemic. To meet the needs of researchers to understand various COVID-19 datasets, we examine and provide an overview of them. We organise the majority of these datasets into three categories based on the category of ap-plications, i.e., time-series, knowledge base, and media-based datasets. Organising COVID-19 datasets into appropriate categories can help researchers hold their focus on methodology rather than the datasets. In addition, applications and COVID-19 datasets suffer from a series of problems, such as privacy and quality. We discuss these issues as well as potentials of COVID-19 datasets. © 2022, ComSIS Consortium. All rights reserved.
Cybersecurity challenges in blockchain technology : a scoping review
- Mahmood, Samreen, Chadhar, Mehmood, Firmin, Selena
- Authors: Mahmood, Samreen , Chadhar, Mehmood , Firmin, Selena
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Journal article , Review
- Relation: Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies Vol. 2022, no. (2022), p.
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- Description: Blockchain technology (BCT) is an emerging technology. Cybersecurity challenges in BCT are being explored to add greater value to business processes and reshape business operations. This scoping review paper was aimed at exploring the current literature's scope and categorizing various types of cybersecurity challenges in BCT. Databases such as Elsevier, ResearchGate, IEEE, ScienceDirect, and ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest) were searched using a combination of terms, and after rigorous screening, 51 research studies were found relevant. Data coding was performed following a framework proposed for scoping review. After careful analysis, thirty different types of cybersecurity challenges in BCT were categorized into six standardized classes. Our results show that most of the studies disclose cybersecurity challenges in BCT generally without pointing to any specific industry sector, and to a very little extent, few papers reveal cybersecurity challenges in BCT related to specific industry sectors. Also, prior studies barely investigated the strategies to minimize cybersecurity challenges in BCT. Based on gap identification, future research avenues were proposed for scholars.
- Authors: Mahmood, Samreen , Chadhar, Mehmood , Firmin, Selena
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Journal article , Review
- Relation: Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies Vol. 2022, no. (2022), p.
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- Description: Blockchain technology (BCT) is an emerging technology. Cybersecurity challenges in BCT are being explored to add greater value to business processes and reshape business operations. This scoping review paper was aimed at exploring the current literature's scope and categorizing various types of cybersecurity challenges in BCT. Databases such as Elsevier, ResearchGate, IEEE, ScienceDirect, and ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest) were searched using a combination of terms, and after rigorous screening, 51 research studies were found relevant. Data coding was performed following a framework proposed for scoping review. After careful analysis, thirty different types of cybersecurity challenges in BCT were categorized into six standardized classes. Our results show that most of the studies disclose cybersecurity challenges in BCT generally without pointing to any specific industry sector, and to a very little extent, few papers reveal cybersecurity challenges in BCT related to specific industry sectors. Also, prior studies barely investigated the strategies to minimize cybersecurity challenges in BCT. Based on gap identification, future research avenues were proposed for scholars.
Factors affecting the organizational adoption of blockchain technology : extending the technology–organization– environment (TOE) framework in the Australian context
- Malik, Saleem, Chadhar, Mehmood, Vatanasakdakul, Savanid, Chetty, Madhu
- Authors: Malik, Saleem , Chadhar, Mehmood , Vatanasakdakul, Savanid , Chetty, Madhu
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Sustainability (Switzerland) Vol. 13, no. 16 (2021), p.
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- Description: Blockchain technology (BCT) has been gaining popularity due to its benefits for almost every industry. However, despite its benefits, the organizational adoption of BCT is rather limited. This lack of uptake motivated us to identify the factors that influence the adoption of BCT from an organizational perspective. In doing this, we reviewed the BCT literature, interviewed BCT experts, and proposed a research model based on the TOE framework. Specifically, we theorized the role of technological (perceived benefits, compatibility, information transparency, and disintermediation), organizational (organization innovativeness, organizational learning capability, and top management support), and environmental (competition intensity, government support, trading partners readiness, and standards uncertainty) factors in the organizational adoption of BCT in Australia. We confirmed the model with a sample of adopters and potential adopter organizations in Aus-tralia. The results show a significant role of the proposed factors in the organizational adoption of BCT in Australia. Additionally, we found that the relationship between the influential factors and BCT adoption is moderated by “perceived risks”. The study extends the TOE framework by adding factors that were ignored in previous studies on BCT adoption, such as perceived information trans-parency, perceived disintermediation, organizational innovativeness, organizational learning capa-bility, and standards uncertainty. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
- Authors: Malik, Saleem , Chadhar, Mehmood , Vatanasakdakul, Savanid , Chetty, Madhu
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Sustainability (Switzerland) Vol. 13, no. 16 (2021), p.
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- Description: Blockchain technology (BCT) has been gaining popularity due to its benefits for almost every industry. However, despite its benefits, the organizational adoption of BCT is rather limited. This lack of uptake motivated us to identify the factors that influence the adoption of BCT from an organizational perspective. In doing this, we reviewed the BCT literature, interviewed BCT experts, and proposed a research model based on the TOE framework. Specifically, we theorized the role of technological (perceived benefits, compatibility, information transparency, and disintermediation), organizational (organization innovativeness, organizational learning capability, and top management support), and environmental (competition intensity, government support, trading partners readiness, and standards uncertainty) factors in the organizational adoption of BCT in Australia. We confirmed the model with a sample of adopters and potential adopter organizations in Aus-tralia. The results show a significant role of the proposed factors in the organizational adoption of BCT in Australia. Additionally, we found that the relationship between the influential factors and BCT adoption is moderated by “perceived risks”. The study extends the TOE framework by adding factors that were ignored in previous studies on BCT adoption, such as perceived information trans-parency, perceived disintermediation, organizational innovativeness, organizational learning capa-bility, and standards uncertainty. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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