Patrick Y.K. Chau
Vice Provost for Research & Li Dak Sum Chair Professor in Information Systems and Operations Management
Nottingham University Business School China
Editor-in-Chief, Information & Management
Keynote I: Neuroscience and management: its applications and development

ABSTRACT: The growing use of neuroscience in management research has flourished in the past decade. A growing number of scientists from different backgrounds have combined research methods from neuroscience, experimental and behavioral economics, and cognitive and social psychology to look into human decision-making especially in a managerial context. The talk provides an overview of neuroscience in management research and discusses opportunities and challenges of conducting neuroscience in management research.

Dorothy E. Leidner
Ferguson Professor of Information Systems
Baylor University, Texas, USA
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Association for Information Systems
Keynote II: Human dignity amid personal data digitization

ABSTRACT: With the rapidly evolving permeation of digital technologies into everyday human life, we are witnessing an era of personal data digitalization. Personal data digitalization refers to the sociotechnical encounters associated with the digitization of personal data for use in digital technologies. Personal data digitalization is being applied to central attributes of human life -- health, cognition, and emotion – with the purported aim of helping individuals live longer, healthier lives endowed with the requisite cognition and emotion for responding to life situations and other people in a manner that enables human flourishing. A concern taking hold in manifold fields ranging from IT, bioethics, and law, to philosophy and religion is that as personal data digitalization permeates ever more areas of human existence, humans risk becomin g artifacts of technology production. This concern brings to center stage the very notion of what it means to be human, a notion encapsulated in the term human dignity, which broadly refers to the recognition that human beings possess intrinsic value and, as such, are endowed with certain rights and should be treated with respect. This keynote will present a theoretical perspective of human dignity amid personal data digitalization, synthesizing what we know about personal data digitalization into a higher order theoretical structure around the concept of human dignity. Building upon the CARE theory as a foundation, researchers in a variety of IS research streams could develop mid-range theories for empirical testing or could use the CARE theory as an overarching lens for interpreting emerging IS phenomena. Practitioners and government agencies can also use the CARE theory to understand the opportunities and risks of personal data digitalization and to develop policies and systems that respect the dignity of employees and citizens. (Adopted from Leidner and Tona, The CARE theory of dignity amid personal data digitalization. forthcoming MIS Quarterly)

Christy Cheung
Professor in Professor, Department of Finance and Decision Sciences
Director, Research Postgraduate Programme
Hong Kong Baptist University
Editor-in-Chief, Internet Research
Keynote III: The dark side of social media: The role of technology in social media harassment

ABSTRACT: Social media harassment, a cyberbullying behavior, poses a serious threat to users and platform owners of social media. The growing body of social media harassment research has made it challenging for researchers and practitioners to comprehend the current state of knowledge. In this sharing, I will present our literature analysis of prior studies and discuss the research themes and patterns of social media harassment. I will also talk about a recent study on bystander reporting intervention of social media harassment. The study contextualizes the bystander intervention framework and reporting literature to social media in order to understand why bystanders report social media harassment. Our contextualized intervention framework focuses on three sociotechnical aspects—the online social environment, characteristics of the technology platform, and their interplay—that explain bystander reporting on social media platforms. We tested the model using data gathered from 291 active Facebook users. Most hypotheses were supported. We expect that this study contributes to the cyberbullying literature by offering a novel sociotechnical explanation of mechanisms that shape bystanders’ willingness to report social media harassment. Further, this study offers insight into how to build safer and secure social media platforms for all users.

Fred Young Phillips
Professor of Technology Management
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Editor-in-Chief, Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Keynote IV: Publishing in Technological Forecasting and Social Change: Then and now

ABSTRACT: This talk profiles this high-impact international journal, explains authors’ and explains editors’ workflows. It zeroes in on five essential items authors should attend to carefully, in order to survive the layers of review. These are Topic, Title, Abstract, Methodology, and Prose. Getting past desk review and into peer review is essential, so the talk concludes with a checklist of twenty ways not to get desk-rejected.