Transition arrangements to a new editorial structure
本文介绍了《信息系统期刊》编辑团队更替后的发展，包括投稿量、主题多样性、影响因子提升，以及未来将采用单一主编制并延续期刊文化。
In 2012, the longstanding editors of the Information Systems Journal, David Avison and Guy Fitzgerald, stepped down and were succeeded by Robert Davison, Philip Powell and Eileen Trauth. The last four and a half years have seen the journal develop rapidly, with increases in the number of submissions, the variety of topics, the number of papers accepted for publication and indeed the inclusiveness of the journal as a whole. Our SEs and AEs have expanded not only in absolute numbers, but also in their diversity, with more women serving and more countries represented. Currently, we have 15 SEs located in nine countries and 29 AEs located in 14 countries. In parallel with these developments, the journal's Impact Factor has also risen, now reaching an all time high of 2.522. In order to build further on these strengths, the publisher, Wiley, has decided to move the editorial structure to a single editor in chief (Sullivan, 2016). Robert Davison will be serving as the editor in chief with effect from this first issue of 2017. In the longer term, the journal aims to promote from within, potentially recruiting a future editor in chief from the current dynamic group of senior editors. However, these changes to the editorial structure are not intended to herald further changes away from the current ISJ culture. The ISJ will continue its leadership role in the publication of qualitative and interpretive research even as it welcomes research conducted according to other paradigms. It will also continue to develop its international footprint with global recruitment of authors, reviewers and AEs. Finally, it will continue the tradition of publishing high quality, yet ‘risky’, papers that help to move the IS field forward (Davison et al., 2012). These papers will not be restricted to traditional research articles, but also include research commentaries, opinion papers and shorter communications. Notwithstanding our commitment to continuing the ISJ culture, we wish to involve SEs more in the running of the journal and will be inviting them to write editorials to introduce issues that they believe are relevant to the IS community. The first such SE-authored editorial is scheduled for later this year. We also have a number of exciting special issues forthcoming on topics as diverse as green IS, digital entrepreneurship, the role of storytelling in IS research, social inclusion and IS, and the impact that IS has in the development context. If you would like to propose a special issue, please contact the editor in chief. In this first issue of 2017, we feature four papers. In the first paper, Markus Salo and Lauri Frank (Salo & Frank, 2017) examined mobile usage on a more specific level by focusing on users’ critical incidents: unusually positive or negative experiences with mobile applications. By collecting 605 critical incidents from actual mobile application users, they studied the relationships between specific situational use context and user behaviours. They found out that the specific situational use context does indeed have a link with user behaviours: for example, users are less likely to engage in negative behaviours after negative incidents that take place outdoors or in vehicles than after indoor incidents. In contrast to many general studies, such specific findings can assist researchers and practitioners in breaking down the complex phenomenon of mobile usage that takes place in various situational surroundings. In the second paper, Luiz Joia and Ursula Mangia (Joia & Mangia, 2017) address the turnaway of IT professionals in Brazil, which occurs when the IT professional abandons the IT area and assumes a job in another area in the same organization or another, usually rising to a managerial position. The relevance of this research is supported by the shortage of adequately trained IT professionals to work in the productive sector in Brazil. Therefore, by using and adapting the extant scientific literature, research hypotheses associated with the IT professional turnaway phenomenon are developed and tested. The authors conclude that exhaustion with work in the IT area, job dissatisfaction, the need to acquire further experience to remain attractive in the job market, the need for professional growth, and prior and conscious managerial capacity development for career transition are the main antecedents of the career transition of IT professionals in Brazil to other functional areas. In the third paper, Yong Liu, József Mezei, Vassilis Kostakos and Hongxiu Li (Liu et al., 2017) note that IS research has long been based on a use of regression-based analysis, such as structural equation modelling, that assumes a linear and symmetric relationship between variables. However, this assumption appears to be a methodological limitation that is not only inconsistent with the complexity of human decision making, but also restricts how researchers can think and theorize. Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (FsQCA), an approach aimed at detecting necessary and/or sufficient conditions of an outcome, is an alternative IS methodology enabling IS scholars to model the asymmetric relationships and combinatorial complexities that naturally exist in IS phenomena. FsQCA has been recently widely adopted in both business and management research, while this study offers a systematic interpretation of the technique by tailoring the use of FsCQA to the IS research context. In the fourth paper, Qian Huang, Xiayu Chen, Carol Ou, Robert Davison and Zhongsheng Hua (Huang et al., 2017) draw upon social capital theory to investigate how different dimensions of social capital affect online buyers’ satisfaction and ultimately boost their loyalty to TaoBao, a Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) platform. The authors propose that social capital contributes positively to the economic and social satisfaction of buyers. Three hundred buyers on the C2C platform were surveyed to test the proposed model. The results suggest that buyers’ evaluation of social capital with the community of sellers can enhance their satisfaction with the sellers. Furthermore, perceived effectiveness of e-commerce institutional mechanisms negatively moderates the effect of economic satisfaction and positively moderates the effect of social satisfaction on buyers’ loyalty to the platform.