The Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2021 Best Paper Award and Best Honorable Mention Awards. The best paper winner for 2021 is “Online Child Sexual Exploitation: A New MIS Challenge” by Dionysios Demetis and Jan Kietzmann, from the University of Hull and University of Victoria, respectively. This paper addresses the societal issue of online child sexual exploitation.
Two papers received the best paper honorable mention award. The first, “Unpacking the Difference Between Digital Transformation and IT-Enabled Organizational Transformation” by Lauri Wessel, Abayomi Baiyere, Roxana Ologeanu-Taddei, Jonghyuk Cha, and Tina Blegind-Jensen. With more than 1,100 downloads in 2021 and already more than 150 citations this paper is currently the most downloaded and cited article from JAIS in 2021.