AIS Honors Top IS Leadership and Research at ICIS 2022

The Association for Information Systems honored leaders in the field of information systems during the 2022 International Conference on Information Systems in Copenhagen Denmark. Honored scholars and students have demonstrated exemplary efforts to educate, research, and serve the field through continued engagement and contribution.

The AIS Leadership Excellence Award is given annually to a single person for leadership and innovation in the use and development of information systems. Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager is the recipient of the 2022 AIS Leadership Excellence Award. Ms. Vestager, who has demonstrated exemplary leadership and innovation in the use and development of information systems, was the keynote speaker in Copenhagen.

The AIS LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in information systems, named after one of the world’s first commercial applications of computing (The Lyons Electronic Office), recognizes truly outstanding individuals in the information systems community, both academics and practitioners, who have made exceptional contributions to research in and/or the practice of information systems. The 2022 AIS LEO Award winners are:

• Suzanne Rivard 
• Rajiv Sabherwal 
• Joe Valacich
• Geoff Walsham

The AIS Fellow Award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the information systems discipline in terms of research, teaching, and service. The 2022 AIS Fellows are:

• France Belanger
• Hsinchun Chen
  
• Kieran Conboy
• Anindya Ghose
• Natalia Levina
• Shan-Ling Pan
• Jeffrey Parsons
• Stacie Petter
• Sumit Sarkar
• Ulrike Schultze
• Keng Siau
• Sean Xin Xu

The AIS Leadership Team Recognition Award is special recognition for an elected council member’s dedication to the mission of the association. This award was conferred upon Traci Carte for exceptional strategic contributions made while serving as AIS Vice President of Conferences.

The AIS Doctoral Student Service Award recognizes volunteer contributions made by doctoral students toward the success of AIS conferences, journals, and programs. The 2022 AIS Doctoral Student Service Award winners are:

• Polina Durneva
• Mengyao Fu
• Wenting (Kayla) Jiang
• Yanpei Lin
• Vipin Saini

The Sandra Slaughter Service Award recognizes longstanding members who have provided leadership within the Association, particularly through such activities as participating in the SIGs/chapters/colleges, strengthening the conferences, and participating in AIS-sponsored journals. The 2022 AIS Sandra Slaughter Service Award winners are:

• Jose Benitez 
• Munir Mandviwalla 
• Christina Soh

The AIS Early Career Award recognizes individuals in the early stages of their careers who have already made outstanding research, teaching, and/or service contributions to the field of information systems. The 2022 AIS Early Career Award winners are:

• Sofia Bapna
• Tommy K. H. Chan
• Yong Jin
• Yu-Kai Lin
• Harris Kyriakou
• Sagar Samtani

The AIS Outreach Practice Publication Award recognize members who successfully transfer research to practitioner audiences in practice-based publications. The 2022 Outreach Practice Publication Award was awarded to Yoshimasa Masuda, Carnegie Mellon University/Keio University/Tokyo University of Science for “Enterprise Architecture for Global Companies in a Digital IT Era: Adaptive Integrated Digital Architecture Framework (AIDAF)” and Mayur Joshi, University of Manchester for “Why So Many Data Science Projects Fail to Deliver”.

The AIS Impact Award recognizes information systems research with widespread impact on practice in business and society. The key criteria are breadth of use in practice as well as relevance to information systems research. The assessment of the quality of the work is considered secondary to the degree to which it has been widely adopted. The 2022 AIS Impact Award Winners are:

• Maximilian Schreieck, Manuel Wiesche, and Helmut Krcmar for their work on INTEGREAT Refugee Information Platform and Ecosystem.

• Arun Rai for work on Engaged Scholarship on Digital Supply Chain Innovations.

• Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur for their work on Thought Leadership on Business Models.

The AIS Technology Vision Award is given to those who have contributed to the technology vision for the association. The VISION award is given to those who have articulated a strategic thrust for the association. Sabine Matook is the recipient of the 2022 AIS Technology Vision Award.

The AIS Award for Innovation in Teaching recognizes innovation in teaching approaches/techniques (pedagogy) as well as in delivering courses and programs. This award specifically focuses on the uniqueness/innovativeness that increases student interest and drives achievement. The 2022 AIS Award for Innovation in Teaching award winners are Martin Adam and Matthias Söllner.

The Senior Scholars have annually recognized up to five papers with a Best Information Systems (IS) Publications Award. This award was established to recognize the breadth of high-quality work that is being published in the information systems discipline and was designed to bring outstanding papers across a range of journals to the attention of the IS community, and to give due credit to the journals in which they are published. 2022 winners are:

• “Online Child Sexual Exploitation: A New MIS Challenge” by Dionysios Demetis and Jan Kietzmann, Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS).

• “Digital M&A, digital innovation, and firm performance: an empirical investigation” by André Hanelt, Sebastian Firk, Björn Hildebrandt, and Lutz M. Kolbe, European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS).

• “Realizing value from shadow analytics: A case study” by Hope Koch, Wallace Chipidza, and Timothy R. Kayworth, Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS).

• “Is AI Ground Truth Really True? The Dangers of Training and Evaluating AI Tools Based on Experts’ Know-What” by Sarah Lebovitz, Natalia Levina, and Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, MIS Quarterly (MISQ).

• “Role of Social Media in Social Protest Cycles: A Sociomaterial Examination” by Monideepa Tarafdar and Deepa Kajal Ray, Information Systems Research (ISR).

The ACM SIG MIS has sponsored the award for outstanding doctoral dissertations for many years. For 2022, the ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Awards are:

• Winner: Sebastian Lins for the dissertation titled “Unveiling and enhancing the Effectiveness of Information System Certifications”. Lins is now at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

• First Runner Up: Xiang (Shawn) Wan for the dissertation titled “The Economic Value of Algorithmic Product Recommendation Systems”. Wan is now at Santa Clara University.

• Second Runner Up: Malmi Amadoru for the dissertation titled “The Organizing Values of Digital Innovations: The Case of Blockchain Using the Twitter Discourse”. Amadoru is now at HEC Montreal.

The Ting-Peng Liang PACIS Young Scholar Award was established in 2021 in memory of Professor Ting-Peng Liang who founded PACIS and PAJAIS, served AIS President, and received AIS Fellow and LEO Award. This award recognizes the outstanding young scholar who contributed a best paper at PACIS each year. The 2022 TP Liang PACIS Young Scholar Award winner is Jicheng Zeng­­.

ICIS 2022 also featured awards for numerous excellent papers.

ICIS 2022 Best Complete Paper Award, in Honor of TP Liang

• “Short-Video Marketing in E-commerce: Analyzing and Predicting Consumer Response” by Yutong Guo, National University of Singapore, Chao Ban, Alibaba Group, Xiao Liu, Alibaba Group, Khim Yong Goh, National University of Singapore, Xixian Peng, Zhejiang University, Jiang Yang, Alibaba Group, and Xiaobo Li, Alibaba Group.

ICIS 2022 Best Complete Paper Award, in Honor of TP Liang, Runner Up

• “Competing with Superstars: Does Exclusive Third-Party Content Discourage Complementary Innovation?” by Nele Lueker, University of Mannheim, Jens Foerderer, Technical University of Munich, and Armin Heinzl, University of Mannheim.
  

Best Short Paper Award, in Honor of TP Liang

• “A Social Science Approach Using Big Data for City Planning” by Kim Huat Goh, Nanyang Technological University, Waifong Boh, Nanyang Technological University, and Premchand Dommaraju, Nanyang Technological University.

Best Short Paper Award, in Honor of TP Liang, Runner Up 

• “The Nexus of Translational Action” by Jonathan Wareham, ESADE Business School, Laia Pujol Priego, IESE, University of Navarra, Angelo Romasanta, ESADE Business School, and Gozal Ahmadova, ESADE Business School.

Best Impact Paper Award, in Recognition of Nunamaker-Chen

• “Real-Time Purchase Prediction Using Retail Video Analytics” by Anindya Ghose, New York University, Beibei Li, Carnegie Mellon University, Rubing Li, New York University, and Kaiquan Xu, Nanjing University

Best Impact Paper Award, in Recognition of Nunamaker-Chen, Runner Up

• "Weaponizing the GDPR: How Flawed Implementations Turn the Gold Standard for Privacy Laws into Fool's Gold" by Alexander Gladis, RWTH Aachen University, Nicole Janine Hartwich, RWTH Aachen University, and Oliver Salge, RWTH Aachen University.

Best Student Paper Award, in Honor TP Liang

• “Personalized Recommendation for Balancing Content Generation and Usage on Two-Sided Entertainment Platforms” by Hao Arthur Zhang, Zhejiang University, Zhiling Guo, Singapore Management University, and Mingzheng Wang, Zhejiang University.

Best Student Paper Award, in Honor of TP Liang, Runner Up

• “Impacts of Reminding Social Nudges on User Engagement Behaviors: Evidence from a Field Experiment” by Manzhou Li, Peking University, Lini Kuang, Tsinghua University, Alex Wang, Peking University, Jiayin Zhang, Tsinghua University, and Sean Xin Xu, Tsinghua University.

Best Kauffman Paper Award

• “Embedding Service Logic into Business Model Design: The Case of Predictive Maintenance for Industry 4.0” by Shane J. Mcloughlin, Lero, NUIM, Abhinay Puvvala, Lero, The Irish Software Research Centre, Niall Connolly, Maynooth University, Giovanni Maccani, Ideas for Change, Barcelona, and Brian Donnellan, Maynooth University.

Best Kauffman Paper Award Runner Up

• “Becoming Sustainable Together: ESG Data Commons for Fintech Startups” by Cancan Wang, IT University of Copenhagen, Carsten Østerlund, Syracuse University, Qiuyu Jiang, IT University of Copenhagen, and Yvonne Dittrich, IT University of Copenhagen.

Best Kauffman Student Paper Award

• “Algorithmic Unfairness on Digital Labor Platforms: How Algorithmic Management Practices Disadvantage Workers” by Laura Schulze, University of Goettingen, Manuel Trenz, University of Goettingen, Zhao Cai, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, and Chee-Wee Tan, Copenhagen Business School.
  

Best Kauffman Student Paper Award Runner Up

• “Heavy Medal - The Consequences of Introducing Symbolic Awards on Contribution Behavior in Online Communities” by Alexander Staub, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Tom Grad, Copenhagen Business School, and Christopher Lettl, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.