Information systems in the age of pandemics: COVID-19 and beyond
Information systems in the age of pandemics: COVID-19 and beyond
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DOI：
10.1080/0960085x.2020.1771968
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发表时间：
2020-06-11
影响因子：
9.5
通讯作者：
Myers, Michael D.
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作者：
Agerfalk, Par J.;Conboy, Kieran;Myers, Michael D.
本期《欧洲信息系统杂志》(EJIS)是关于业务流程管理和数字创新的专刊。客座编辑简·门德林、布莱恩·彭特兰和简·雷克尔很好地解释了这两种方法的互补性(Mendling等人，2020)，并发表了三篇文章来证明这一命题。然而，在把话留给嘉宾编辑和特刊作者之前，我们想借此机会反思一个紧迫的主题，并提出最近发起的一项EJIS倡议。冠状病毒病2019(新冠肺炎)永远改变了我们的世界。数以千计的人死亡，数百万人被封锁，许多企业将无法生存。虽然几个国家已经取消了一些限制措施，以减缓SARS-CoV-2病毒的传播，但我们可以预期，对个人、组织和政府的持续影响将持续很长一段时间。随着世界各地许多学科的学者合作对抗一个看不见的敌人，信息系统学者如何为这一全球努力做出贡献？虽然信息系统学者可能无法直接解决这场危机，但我们相信，我们可以提供可能有助于抗击新冠肺炎的知识和见解，实际上，在未来的大流行期间也是如此。为了给信息系统学者提供一个机会，让他们及时贡献知识，帮助解决当前的新冠肺炎问题，公共信息研究所呼吁就流行病时代的信息系统(https://bit.)进行特别交流Ly/3b8EfaG)。这些特别通讯将侧重于信息系统在疫情期间的设计、使用和影响，例如当前的新冠肺炎危机。我们欢迎各种贡献，包括经验和概念方面的贡献，以及设计科学研究。就新的或改变的数字实践而言，研究个人和组织的反应尤其令人感兴趣。此外，还将欢迎为危机管理建立数字信息基础设施，以及采用信息建模方法来帮助解决或缓解流行病，例如新冠肺炎。此外，我们欢迎关注新开发的系统对个人、组织和社会的短期和潜在长期影响的问题和评论文章。例如，短期修复(例如，通过应用程序监控感染者)是否会导致永久的监控状态？随着个人、组织和政府被迫做出具有深远后果的快速决策，这些决策及其数字解决方案和实践的长期社会影响是什么？
This issue of the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) is a special issue on Business Process Management and Digital Innovation. Guest editors Jan Mendling, Brian Pentland, and Jan Recker, have done a great job in explaining the complementariness of these two approaches (Mendling et al., 2020) and present three articles that vindicate this proposition. However, before leaving the word to the guest editors and special issue authors, we want to take the opportunity to reflect upon an urgent topic and present a recently initiated EJIS initiative. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has changed our world forever. Thousands of people are dying, millions of people are in lockdown, and many businesses will not survive. Although several countries are already lifting some of the restrictions put in place to slow down the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, we can expect a continued impact on individuals, organisations and governments for a long time. As scholars in many disciplines around the world are collaborating in a “war” against an invisible enemy, how can information systems scholars contribute to this global effort? While information systems scholars might not be able to solve the crisis directly, we believe that we can provide knowledge and insights that might be helpful in the fight against COVID-19 and, indeed, during future pandemics. To provide an opportunity for information systems scholars to contribute timely knowledge contributions that can help the current COVID-19 situation, EJIS is calling for special communications on Information Systems in the Age of Pandemics (https://bit. ly/3b8EfaG). These special communications will focus on the design, use and impact of information systems during pandemics such as the current COVID-19 crisis. We welcome all kinds of contributions, both empirical and conceptual, as well as design science research. Studies of individual and organisational responses in terms of new or changed digital practices are of particular interest. Work on digital information infrastructures for crisis management and information modelling approaches to help solve or mitigate pandemics, such as COVID-19, would also be welcome. We furthermore welcome issues and opinion pieces and critical articles that look at the short and potential long-term impacts of newly developed systems on people, organisations and society. For example, will short-term fixes (eg, monitoring of infected people via an app) lead to a permanent state of surveillance? As individuals, organisations and governments are forced to make quick decisions with farreaching consequences, what are the longer-term societal implications of these decisions and their resultant digital solutions and practices?