scholarly journals Investigating digital sustainability: A retrospective bibliometric analysis of literature leading to future research directions

First Monday ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gagan Deep Sharma ◽  
Dimitrios Reppas ◽  
Glenn Muschert ◽  
Vijay Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Business Information Systems ◽  
The Core ◽  
Business Information ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Over Time

This paper provides a bibliometric analysis of the digital sustainability literature from four angles: economics, management/business, information systems/IT, and sociology/communication. The core contribution is to map the development of the literature in digital sustainability over time and across various clusters. Through VOSviewer analysis, we identify the main keywords used by the literature; the countries from which most of the literature is emerging; the most influential authors working in the field; and, their impacts by observing their citations and networks. Moreover, through CitNetExplorer analysis, we track the development of the field over time, i.e., identify key publications and divide those into clusters. The analysis finds a much more developed coverage of digital sustainability in the scholarship of management/business and therefore reveals a clear need for greater exploration of the sociological and economic aspects of digital sustainability. We argue that more robust collaboration patterns should be established among all four considered disciplines to achieve progress in digital sustainability. We envisage that digital sustainability as a field of study will mature as publications and ideas will become consolidated. Such integration strengthens the evolution of the field and topics across all four considered disciplines.

scholarly journals Mapping and Clustering Analysis on Environmental, Social and Governance Field a Bibliometric Analysis Using Scopus

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7304
Author(s):  
Shang Gao ◽  
Fanchen Meng ◽  
Zhouyang Gu ◽  
Zhiyuan Liu ◽  
Muhammad Farrukh
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Clustering Analysis ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Bibliographic Data ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Scopus Database

Academic interest in ESG has grown significantly in recent years. Nevertheless, bibliometric and visualization research on this topic is still insufficient. This study aims to conduct publication metrics on the literature connected with ESG and attempt to give a research agenda for future research. In this study, we used data from the Scopus database. Various bibliometric techniques, such as bibliographic coupling and co-occurrence analysis, were combined with assorted themes to present an overview. To the best of our knowledge, there is no study that analyses the bibliographic data on ESG fields; this study is a unique contribution to the literature. This study also provides an overview of the trends and trajectories with a visual and schematic frame for the research of this topic. This may help researchers understand the current trends and future research directions, and enable future authors to conduct their studies more effectively.

Gamified Self

2016 ◽  
pp. 304-327
Author(s):  
Rachelle DiGregorio ◽  
Harsha Gangadharbatla
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Over Time

Gamified self has many dimensions, one of which is self-tracking. It is an activity in which a person collects and reflects on their personal information over time. Digital tools such as pedometers, GPS-enabled mobile applications, and number-crunching websites increasingly facilitate this practice. The collection of personal information is now a commonplace activity as a result of connected devices and the Internet. Tracking is integrated into so many digital services and devices; it is more or less unavoidable. Self-tracking engages with new technology to put the power of self-improvement and self-knowledge into people's own hands by bringing game dynamics to non-game contexts. The purpose of this chapter's research is to move towards a better understanding of how self-tracking can (and will) grow in the consumer market. An online survey was conducted and results indicate that perceptions of ease of use and enjoyment of tracking tools are less influential to technology acceptance than perceptions of usefulness. Implications and future research directions are presented.

Service-Driven Computing with APIs

2016 ◽  
pp. 238-261
Author(s):  
Hiranya Jayathilaka ◽  
Chandra Krintz ◽  
Rich Wolski
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Software Integration ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Network Bandwidth ◽  
Key Technologies ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Barrier To Entry ◽  
Over Time

While both SOAP and REST have been used widely to implement Web services and software integration, over time REST has emerged as the predominant approach. REST provides developers with a lower barrier to entry for implementation and greater development flexibility than SOAP. Its architectural conventions and best practices can be integrated into Web services incrementally as opposed to the all-or-nothing adoption of SOAP. In order to achieve generality, SOAP standards are extensive, rigid, and complex. This complexity can lead to implementations that introduce significant overhead on the network bandwidth consumption, execution times, and throughput of SOAP services, especially in the emerging resource-restricted mobile realm. This chapter provides an overview of the logical and physical design of modern Web services and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the predominant styles. It provides evidence and reasoning behind the emergence of REST as the leader for the development of next-generation Web APIs and services. The chapter also delineates the key technologies that underlie REST and describes emerging and future research directions in support of REST-based APIs and service development.

Retail Customer Engagement

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Andrea Moretta Tartaglione ◽  
Giuseppe Granata
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Customer Engagement ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Future Research Directions

Customer engagement is one of the most debated topics in marketing literature. The great interest of the scientific community resulted in a large amount of research on this topic making it difficult for scholars to understand how to really contribute to advance the research. Based on these considerations, this chapter aims to provide an overview of the research findings and trends of previous studies to guide the researcher to the most influential works, results, and issues that need more insights. In particular, this chapter offers a literature review on customer engagement and retail customer engagement using bibliometric analysis and scientific mapping study. Results show the most productive authors, most cited publications, most frequent words, and clusters of related words. The analysis provides a description of the state of the art of retail customer engagement and suggests future research directions.

Towards a Taxonomy of Information Systems: Or Does Anyone Need a Taxi?

1992 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Grimshaw
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Dimensional Approach ◽  
Business Information Systems ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Business Information ◽  
Integrated Taxonomy ◽  
The One

Many academic and practical traditions have been brought to bear upon the field of business information systems in an attempt to understand a rapidly changing subject. The insights provided by traditional disciplines to an essentially multi-disciplinary subject is essential and very healthy. However, there is a danger of proliferating many different, overlapping frameworks of information systems. There is a need to review the frameworks and suggest a way of integrating several approaches. The future research effort depends upon a consistent set of data being available and discussed. This paper reviews previous frameworks used to promote the understanding and discussion of information systems. The one-dimensional approach is rejected in favour of a three-dimensional approach built around three basic questions characterized as the three Ts. What tasks does the information system have to perform? What technology can best deliver the systems? In what timeframe are we operating? The paper concludes by suggesting an integrated taxonomy, based on the three Ts as the basis for future research and discussion.

Mass Customization with Configurable Products and Configurators

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Heiskala
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Mass Customization ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Customer Requirements ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Customer Perspective ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Configurable Products

Configurable products are an important way to achieve mass customization. A configurable product is designed once, and this design is used repetitively in the sales-delivery process to produce specifications of product individuals meeting customer requirements. Configurators are information systems that support the specification of product individuals and the creation and management of configuration knowledge, therefore being prime examples of information systems supporting mass customization. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no systematic review of literature on how mass customization with configurable products and use of configurators affect companies. In this chapter, we provide such a review. We focus on benefits that can be gained and challenges which companies may face. A supplier can move to mass customization and configuration from mass production or from full customization; we keep the concerns separate. We also review benefits and challenges from the customer perspective. Finally, we identify future research directions and open challenges and problems.

scholarly journals Reputation-Based Trust Approaches in Named Data Networking

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioanna Angeliki Kapetanidou ◽  
Christos-Alexandros Sarros ◽  
Vassilis Tsaoussidis
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Named Data Networking ◽  
Information Centric Networking ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
The Core ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Data Networking

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has arisen as an architectural solution that responds to the needs of today’s overloaded Internet, departing from the traditional host-centric access paradigm. In this paper we focus on Named Data Networking (NDN), the most prominent ICN architecture. In the NDN framework, disseminated content is at the core of the design and providing trusted content is essential. In this paper, we provide an overview of reputation-based trust approaches, present their design trade-offs and argue that these approaches can consolidate NDN trust and security by working complementary to the existing credential-based schemes. Finally, we discuss future research directions and challenges.

Rethinking project management

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 716-743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Walker ◽  
Beverley Lloyd-Walker
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Axial Coding ◽  
Over Time

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent of the continuing influence on project management (PM) research directions of rethinking project management over the last ten years. Design/methodology/approach The authors chose a qualitative research approach that involved reading all papers published in the International Journal of Managing Project in Business since its commencement in 2008. Content analysis was performed on these papers to allow axial coding of key article content influence themes. Findings The research identified the strength, over time, of the three research interest clusters on the PM research agenda and resultant changes in the PM paradigm. The five directions put forward by the rethinking PM agenda and other researchers ten years ago have continued to influence the PM research agenda. Originality/value Findings provide a better understanding the changes in PM research directions since rethinking PM, the increased breadth and sophistication of PM research in general, and future research directions.

Team-Level Constructs

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 325-348
Author(s):  
David Chan
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Substantive Content ◽  
Multilevel Research ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

Studies of team-level constructs can produce new insights when researchers explicitly take into account several critical conceptual and methodological issues. This article explicates the conceptual bases for multilevel research on team constructs and discusses specific issues relating to conceptual frameworks, measurement, and data analysis. To advance programmatic research involving team-level constructs, several future research directions concerning issues of substantive content (i.e., changes in the nature of work and teams, member-team fit, linking team-level constructs to higher-level constructs) and strategic approaches (i.e., the construct's theoretical roles, dimensionality and specificity, malleability and changes over time, relationships with Big Data) are proposed.

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