Emerging Technologies and 21st Century Commerce

Research Group Summary

The Emerging Technologies and 21st Century Commerce research group is currently investigating a broad range of issues related to the transformation of commerce by emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, robotics, surveillance, biotechnology, cryptocurrencies and blockchain, and the cluster of technologies known as social media and Web 2.0.

Key Contact

• Stephen Wingreen: Group Leader; Department of Accounting and Information Systems

Members - UC Staff

• Adil Bilal: Researcher; Department of Accounting and Information Systems
• Paul Cragg: Associate Group Leader; Department of Accounting and Information Systems
• Olivia J Erdelyi: Researcher; Faculty of Law
• Hritik Gupta: Researcher; Department of Accounting and Information Systems
• Hushare,Jitendra V: Researcher; Department of Accounting and Information Systems
• Pouyan Jahanbin: Researcher; Business Taught Masters Programmes
• Natasha C H-l Mazey: Researcher; Department of Accounting and Information Systems
• Amitrajit Sarkar: Researcher; Department of Accounting and Information Systems
• Ravishankar Sharma: Researcher; Department of Accounting and Information Systems
• Stephen Wingreen: Group Leader; Department of Accounting and Information Systems
• Constantine Zakkaroff: Researcher; Department of Accounting and Information Systems

• A disconnect in the literature on measurement in the behavioural sciences: a diagnosis and a treatment plan
  Department of Accounting and Information Systems; 29 March 2018
  A seminar by Dr. Sander Zwanenburg of the University of Otago, hosted by the Emerging Technologies and 21st Century Commerce research group, at the Department of Accounting and Information Systems.
• Article: "CEO decision making under crisis: Cases from the Christchurch earthquake", in the Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems, by Amit Sarkar, Stephen Wingreen, and John Ascroft
  Department of Accounting and Information Systems; May 2017
  Well done, Amit and John!
• Article: "Design of blockchain-based precision health-care using Soft Systems Methodology", by Charcy Zhang, Ravi Sharma, Stephen Wingreen, Nir Kshetri, and Arnob Zahid.
  Department of Accounting and Information Systems; 11 December 2019
  Congratulations to members of the Special Interest Group for Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies for their forthcoming publication in Industrial Management and Data Systems.
• Article: "Exploring blog usage in virtual teams: Discovering social media utility", in the Journal of Information Technology Management, by Rob Bastida, Rick Gupta, and Stephen Wingreen.
  Department of Accounting and Information Systems; July 2017
  Congrats, Rob and Rick!
• Article: "Perceptions of trust in bionano sensors: Is it against our better judgement? An investigation of generalised expectancies and the emerging technology trust paradox", in the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, by Natasha Mazey and Stephen Wingreen
  Department of Accounting and Information Systems; May 2017
  Congratulations, Natasha!
• Best Paper, EMCIS 2016
  European, Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems 2016 (EMCIS2016), June 23th – 24th 2016, Krakow, Poland; 24 June 2016
  Congrats to Amit Sarkar, and our co-author, John Ascroft, CIO of Jade Software, for winning the best paper award for "Governing information systems resilience: a case study". Great work, and well-done, everyone!
• Best Paper, HICSS 2020
  Honolulu, Hawaii; 6 - 10 Jan 2020
  Congrats to Amit Sarkar for winning the ISSIP-IBM-CBA-JST-CISCO "Best Industry Studies Paper" for his paper, "Towards a practice-based view of information systems resilience: Using the lens of critical realism" at the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-53).
• Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies in Business, Culture, and Society
  SIGNAL ICT Graduate School; 6 March 2018
  An invited lecture on the topic of blockchain and cryptocurrencies in business, culture, and society, delivered for the SIGNAL ICT Graduate School, Christchurch, New Zealand.
• Concourse Theory and Q-Methodology: Research seminar, workshop, and Ph.D. forum, with Dr. Stephen C. Wingreen
  University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; 1 April 2016
  University College Cork, Department of Business Information Systems and the School of Graduate Studies
• Concourse Theory, Q-methodology, and Q-sort Applications for Blockchain and Bitcoin
  University College Dublin, Smurfit Graduate School of Business Administration and Quinn School of Business; 12 April 2016
  A workshop, delivered to the faculty and students of University College Dublin, Smurfit Graduate School of Business Administration and Quinn School of Business
• Concourse Theory, Q-Methodology, and Q-sort as a Means for Determining Software Feature Sets, a research seminar, presented by Dr. Stephen C. Wingreen
  University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland; 31 March 2016
  University of Limerick, LERO Institute
• Conference Proceeding: Virtue Ethics as a Solution to the Privacy Paradox and Trust in Emerging Technologies", by Adil Bilal, Stephen Wingreen, and Ravi Sharma
  Cambridge, UK; 19 - 22 March 2020
  Great work, Adil!
• Initial trust in emerging technologies and the effect of threats to privacy, by Natasha Mazey.
  University of Canterbury, Department of Accounting and Information Systems; 17 - 19 October 2016
  2016 ACIS Postgraduate Seminar
• MCom thesis, "Organisational information systems resilience : a Q-methodology approach", with distinction, by Amit Sarkar.
  Department of Accounting and Information Systems; 25 August 2016
  Congratulations, and well-done, Amit!
• Ph.D. proposal: "Rise of Technomoral Virtues and Data Ethics: Threats to Personal Information Privacy, Privacy Paradox and Trust in Emerging Technologies", by Adil Bilal
  Department of Accounting and Information Systems; 2 August 2019
  
• Ph.D. proposal: "Understanding Organisational Information Systems Resilience: Using the Critical Realism Lens", by Amitrajit Sarkar
  Department of Accounting and Information Systems; 29 January 2020
  
• Ph.D. thesis defense, "Initial trust in emerging technologies and the effects of threats to privacy", by Natasha Mazey
  Department of Accounting and Information Systems; 24 September 2018
  Congratulations, and well-done, Dr. Mazey!
• Ph.D. thesis defense, "Social media usage and its effect on virtual team dynamics:a transactive memory system approach", by Rick Gupta
  Department of Accounting and Information Systems; 29 January 2016
  Congratulations, Dr. Gupta, and well-done!
• Seminar with Robert Thomson, "Relational mobility and behaviors on social network sites"
  Department of Accounting and Information Systems; 4 September 2015
  Robert Thomson, of Hokkaido University, presented his research on relational mobility and behaviors on social network sites. It was a pleasure to be your host for the day, Rob, and to hear your research. Thank you for coming, and you are certainly welcome back any time!
• Technology and Privacy in the 21st Century: An Analysis of Personal Information Privacy Concerns using Q-Methodology
  National University of Ireland at Galway; 8 April 2016
  A research seminar, presented by Dr. Stephen Wingreen, for the National University of Ireland at Galway, Whitaker Institute, IS Research Seminar Series.
• Technology, Freedom, and Privacy in the 21st Century: Perspectives About the Ethical Implications of Emerging Technologies
  Trinity College Dublin, Neill Lecture Theatre; 26 April 2016
  A public lecture, by Dr. Stephen Wingreen, on the ethical challenges posed by modern technologies, and their implications for freedom and privacy in the 21st Century.
• Valuing Bitcoin, and Translating the Blockchain: Initial Results From the World Cafe
  University College Dublin, Smurfit Graduate School of Business Administration and Quinn School of Business; 25 April 2016
  A research seminar, delivered to the faculty and students of University College Dublin, Smurfit Graduate School of Business Administration, and Quinn School of Business.

• Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Sciences: Information Systems
• Management, Human Resources, Industrial Relations, International Business and Other Business: Business Administration; Business Development; Employment Relations; Entrepreneurship; Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility; Human Resources; Knowledge Management; Management; Organisational Behaviour and Theory; Small Business Management; Strategic Management
• Science & Technology: Science & Technology
• Resilience: Technological: Information Technology and Telecommunications

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

• Sharma R., Wingreen SC. and Janarthanan SBT. (2022) Design principles for Hadoop-based platforms: A reverse-engineered design-science approach. Journal of Management Information and Decision Sciences 25(2S): 1-19. (Journal Articles)

• Nurhas I., Jahanbin P., Pawlowski J., Wingreen S. and Geisler S. (2022) Patterns of Sociotechnical Design Preferences of Chatbots for Intergenerational Collaborative Innovation: A Q Methodology Study. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/8206503. (Journal Articles)

• Sharma RS., Mannava PN. and Wingreen SC. (2022) Reverse-Engineering the Design Rules for Cloud-Based Big Data Platforms. Cloud Computing and Data Science : 1-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.37256/ccds.3220221213. (Journal Articles)

• Zahid A., Sharma R., Wingreen S. and Inthiran A. (2022) Soft Systems Modelling of Design Artefacts for Blockchain-enabled Precision Healthcare as a Service. In International Conference on Electronic Business (ICEB 2022). (Conference Contributions - Published)

• Zahid A., Poulsen JK., Sharma R. and Wingreen SC. (2021) A systematic review of emerging information technologies for sustainable data-centric health-care. International Journal of Medical Informatics 149 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104420. (Journal Articles)

• Sarkar A., Wingreen SC., Ascroft J. and Sharma R. (2021) Bouncing back after a crisis: Lessons from senior management team to drive IS resilience. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)

• Wingreen SC., Klaus T., Schambach T. and Blanton JE. (2021) Motivation to participate in professional development in technologically-intensive work environments. Communications of the Association for Information Systems 49 26: 535-555. http://dx.doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.04926. (Journal Articles)

• Bilal A., Wingreen SC. and Sharma RS. (2021) Rise of technomoral virtues and data ethics for artificial intelligence: An application of virtue ethics, Concourse Theory, and Q-methodology. University of Nantes, France: 37th Annual Conference International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity, 16-17 Sep 2021. (Conference Contribution - Other)

• Bilal A., Wingreen SC., Sharma RS. and Jahanbin P. (2021) Trust development in artificial intelligence-based emerging technologies: Rise of technomoral virtues and data ethics. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)

• Sharma R., Kshetri N., Wingreen SC., Shaikh AA. and Altamimi F. (2021) UML artefacts for a blockchain-enabled platform for fairtrade. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)

• Sarkar A., Wingreen S., Ashcroft J. and Sharma R. (2020) A Unified Principal-Agent Strategy for Information Systems Resilience Using the Lens of Critical Realism. In Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS-53). (Conference Contributions - Published)

• Morrison R., Mazey NCHL. and Wingreen SC. (2020) The DAO controversy: The case for a new species of corporate governance? Frontiers in Blockchain 3(25) http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2020.00025. (Journal Articles)

• Sarkar A., Wingreen S., Ascroft J. and Sharma R. (2020) Towards a practice-based view of information systems resilience: Using the lens of critical realism. In Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-53). (Conference Contributions - Published)

• Bilal A., Wingreen S. and Sharma R. (2020) Virtue Ethics as a Solution to the Privacy Paradox and Trust in Emerging Technologies. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series: 224-228. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3388176.3388196. (Conference Contributions - Published)

• Sharma R., Zhang C., Wingreen SC., Kshetri N. and Zahid A. (2019) Design of blockchain-based precision health-care using Soft Systems Methodology. Industrial Management + Data Systems http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IMDS-07-2019-0401. (Journal Articles)

• Sharma RS., Wingreen S., Kshetri N. and Hewa TM. (2019) Design principles for use cases of blockchain in food supply chains. In Proceedings of the 25th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2019. (Conference Contributions - Published)

• Croxson A., Sharma R. and Wingreen S. (2019) Making sense of blockchain in food supply-chains. In Proceedings of the 30th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2019). (Conference Contributions - Published)

• Zhang X., Sharma R. and Wingreen SC. (2018) Block-chaining in precision healthcare: A design research approach. In Proceedings PACIS 2018. (Conference Contributions - Published)

• Laybourne C., Sarkar A. and Wingreen SC. (2018) Organizational decision priorities to ensure project management success: A Q-Methodology approach. In Proceedings of the Middle East & North Africa Conference for Information Systems (MENACIS 2018). (Conference Contributions - Published)

• Jahanbin P. and Wingreen SC. (2018) The effect of the social media tools on virtual team performance: The mediating role of Transactive Memory System mapping with the feature richness. In Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference for Information Systems (PACIS 2018) Association for Information Systems. (Conference Contributions - Published)

• Sarkar A., Wingreen SC. and Cragg P. (2017) CEO decision making under crisis: An Agency Theory perspective. Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems 9(2): 1-22. (Journal Articles)

• Bastida R., Gupta H. and Wingreen SC. (2017) Exploring blog usage in virtual teams: Discovering social media utility. Journal of Information Technology Management 28(1-2): 15-27. (Journal Articles)

• Geiger M., Waizenegger L., Remus U. and Wingreen SC. (2016) From pragmatist to passenger - a Q-methodological study of connectivity types. In Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2016). (Conference Contributions - Published)

• Sarkar A., Wingreen SC. and Ascroft J. (2016) Top management team decision priorities to drive IS resilience: lessons from Jade Software Corporation. In Proceedings of the 22nd Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2016). (Conference Contributions - Published)

• Gupta H. and Wingreen SC. (2015) Examining the effect of social media tools on virtual team conflicts: a process model. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)

• Sarkar A. and Wingreen SC. (2015) How CEOs of small firms make decisions to ensure IS resilience. In. (Conference Contributions - Published)

• Domino MA., Wingreen SC. and Blanton JE. (2015) Social Cognitive Theory: The Antecedents and Effects of Ethical Climate Fit on Organizational Attitudes of Corporate Accounting Professionals - A Reflection of Client Narcissism and Fraud Attitude Risk. Journal of Business Ethics 131(2): 453-467. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2210-z. (Journal Articles)

• Gupta H. and Wingreen SC. (2014) Understanding the Effect of Social Media Tools on Organisational Virtual Team Dynamics. In Proceeedings of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2014). (Conference Contributions - Published)