Practice-based IS Research
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Item type: Item , Supply Chain Cybersecurity and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs): Exploring Shortcomings in Third Party Risk Management of SMEs(2024-01-03) Kwong, Jillian; Pearlson, KeriSmall and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have long been known to be a weak link in supply chain cybersecurity. Despite their crucial role in the global supply chain, SMEs and their struggle to increase cyber resiliency and improve their defenses is understudied in academic literature. This paper uses qualitative research methods to conduct an empirical study of the challenges SMEs encounter when participating in third party cybersecurity risk assessments. Using interviews with cybersecurity and supply chain practitioners, this study provides an overview of four major risk assessment methods (i.e., questionnaires, audits and certifications, security rating services, and direct testing) and the problems that arise when companies apply tools designed for large corporations to SMEs. Results discuss how and why traditional methods fail and offers insights on how to improve third party risk of SMEs moving forward.Item type: Item , Cutting through Complexity: Strategic Options for Designing a B2B Innovation Platform(2024-01-03) Wlcek, Manuel; Jung, Sven; Wortmann, FelixDesigning and establishing a B2B platform business challenges many company executives and managers. Incentuated by the potential benefits and business opportunities, numerous B2B companies commit to this strategic venture. However, real-world showcases that most B2B companies fail with their platform endeavors. To help company executives and managers navigate the challenges and obstacles of designing B2B innovation platforms more effectively, we highlight seven strategic options and possible solutions to lean on. We base our findings on interviews, discussions, and workshops with C-level executives and managers from three incumbents that successfully established a B2B innovation platform. By following ourstrategic options and possible solutions, practitioners can cut through the complexity of designing and operating B2B innovation platforms to establish new business from scratch.Item type: Item , Data Value and the Search for a Single Source of Truth: What is it and Why Does it Matter?(2024-01-03) Queiroz, Magno; Tallon, Paul; Coltman, TimOrganizations aspire to a single source of truth to improve data-driven decision making. All too often, data is locked inside data silos, raising the question: if a single source of truth is key to unlocking value from data, what should organizations do to get there? This paper presents findings from a survey of 400 E.U. and U.S. organizations. First, cluster analysis reveals three organization types based on value from a single source of truth: data laggards, data followers, and data champions. Next, we show that data champions are more likely to have an adaptable and flexible IT infrastructure alongside a culture of data sharing. They report fewer inhibitors of a single source of truth such as conflicting data standards. Data laggards report fewer IT enablers but also, paradoxically, fewer inhibitors. We turn these results, and insights gleaned from follow-up interviews with IT executives, into a set of non-technical prescriptions for organizations.Item type: Item , Introduction to the Minitrack on Practice-based IS Research(2024-01-03) Milovich, Michael; Rodriguez, Joaquin; Kettinger, Bill; Piccoli, Gabriele