AMCIS 2021 Names Conference Best Papers

Thank you to all who participated in AMCIS 2021. The conclusion of AMCIS wraps up the 2021 AIS Virtual Conference Series. AMCIS welcomed more than 1,500 attendees across 40 countries who participated in 55 TREOs, 15 workshops, 8 panels, 6 PDS’, and 10 social events alongside paper sessions, the CIO Symposium, keynote, and more.

AMCIS 2021 had 529 papers submitted within 29 conference tracks. All AMCIS papers, as well as video presentations, are available in the AIS eLibrary. Visitors of the eLibrary have an opportunity to leave comments for the authors and continue discussing the paper asynchronously. The keynote session, panel recordings, and other various presentations such as social events are also available in the eLibrary.

AMCIS 2021 Awards:

Best ERF Papers:
Best ERF Paper: “What Makes Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) Excellent? An Investigation in Business Analytics Courses” by Ying Wang and Jaeki Song

1st Runner-Up: “Exploring the Determinants of Customer Loyalty to Internet-Only Bank Services” by Ya-Ling Wu and Kai-Hsien Chen

2nd Runner-Up: “Motivational Factors for Big Data Analytics Continued Use” by Mohsen Javdan and Maryam Ghasemaghaei

Best Complete Papers:
Best Complete Paper: “Fake News Detection on the Web: An LSTM-based Approach” by Piyush Vyas, Jun Liu, and Omar El-Gayar

1st Runner-Up: “Complementarities for IT Business Value of Firms: Synthesis for Future Empirical Work” by Wei Zhang and Arun Rai

2nd Runner-Up: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Digital Transformation and the COVID-19 Pandemic” by Luiz Antonio Joia, Marcel Fornazin, and Ana Paula dos Santos Tavares

TREO People’s Choice Awards:
Best Abstract: “Online Auction Buyers’ Brain Images When Making Purchasing Decisions Involving Different Types of Rewards” by Pei-Hsuan Hsieh, Meng-Lan Chen, and Wen-Jiun Ching

Runner-Up: “An Affordance Perspective of Ras 2.0: Theorizing the New Generation of Recommendation Agents” by Jeremy Fei Wang

Outstanding Reviewers:
Markus Noeltner: EBS University of Business and Law (Germany)
Tamina Sulana: University of North Carolina at Greensboro (USA)
Carolin Marx: University of Potsdam (Germany)
Tomas Borsa: University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Christian Leyh: Technische Universitat Dresden (Germany)
Steven Pentland: Boise State University (USA)
Gerson Tuazon: University of Auckland (New Zealand)
Mary Lebens: Metropolitan State University (USA)
Jim Buchanan: Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand)
João Carlos Gonçalves: State University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
James Gaskin: Brigham Young University-Provo (USA)
Ben Roelens: Open University of the Netherlands (Netherlands)
Maureen Tanner: University of Cape Town (South Africa)
Thank you to everyone who participated and made AMCIS 2021 possible. We look forward to seeing you at ICIS 2021!