David Sundaram

University of Auckland · Department of Information Systems and Operations Management

Worldwide universities have attempted to use the Sustainable Development Goal 4 target 7 (SDG 4.7), as the heart of their sustainability strategy in accordance with the 2030 Agenda. However, a holistic implementation of sustainability policies and regulations in the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) systems and operations have not yet been achie...

The growing availability of expansive social media trace data (SMTD) offers researchers promising opportunities to create rich depictions of societal and social phenomena. Despite this potential, research analysing such data often struggles to construct novel theoretical insight. This paper argues that holistically incorporating temporality enhance...

Obesity and diabetes are more common than ever. In particular, young adults aged 18–25 are becoming more susceptible to obesity through the abundance of fast food, the popularity of online gaming and other factors. This combination often leads to unhealthy lifestyles. For treatment or prevention of these unhealthy behaviors, lifestyle apps have sho...

Social media can serve as a platform for collective engagement with diverse affordances during crises. We explore how social media served this role by focusing on how online mental health discourse evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we examine shifts in collective affordance dynamics within the online mental health community using...

The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiative has recently become an emerging research area. ESG rating is a critical activity in ESG initiatives that still holds some issues. The ESG rating process needs significant transparency, democratization, and standardization improvement. This research aims to propose the technical architecture...

The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiative has recently become an emerging research focus. ESG mainly focuses on reporting and assessment activities. The reporting and assessment area in ESG requires high visibility and transparency. Blockchain is a technology that can potentially address those issues. This research aims to comprehe...

In the context of game-based learning, learning is often limited to basic literacies such as math and reading, even though several educational institutions acknowledge the importance of Values education. In this paper, we discuss how to bring values into a game. We discuss the design and implementation of a customisable version of the popular board...

We explore the potential of values-based digital games in value formation, habit formation and sustainable transformation of individuals, and ultimately sustainable organizations and societies. Literature suggests that “play” is the formation of values particularly in our early years. Play is often facilitated by digital games. Many digital games i...

This paper is a review of the brain-computer interface technology and its latest applications on human subjects. The brain-computer interface is an emerging technology that utilizes neurophysiological signals produced through the electrode interactions initiated inside the human brain to control external devices. Research on connecting human brains...

Social media platform (SMP) use has intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. New user groups are utilising SMPs more frequently to satisfy their unmet psychological needs. However, research to date has insufficiently explored variations in SMP use due to the pandemic. As the pandemic has adversely impacted the general public's mental health, we pr...

Purpose Despite the significance of online communication and interactions, previous research has not systematically compared all features on a single platform from the users' perspective. This study aims to fill this gap by extensively reviewing the current literature on social media affordances and proposes and tests a feature-centric and affordan...

Understanding the societal impact of IT use is a critical step towards preventing harmful activities online. In particular, Vulnerable Groups [VGs] using Social Media Platforms [SMPs] are exposed to a variety of risks. Our research aims to understand how a particular VG, adolescent females, engage with Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat differently....

Asymmetric information could harm a stakeholder in a transaction when they are not aware of the disparity of the information among the various stakeholders. Understanding the relationship and interaction among stakeholders is imperative for making informed decisions. It becomes even more critical in the context of high-value low-frequency transacti...

Innovation is a fundamental characteristic in Information Technology. As soon as new concepts are endorsed and implemented, they start being challenged and their limitations exposed. Improvements and/or replacements are then proposed to address these shortcomings. Reflecting this basic evolutionary aspect of IT, Microservices Architecture (MSA) is...

Supply chains with their intricate connections and multiple sustainability-related impacts have to be the focus of research in order to address and inform corporate sustainability requirements. Academic research is often not centred on providing practical and prescriptive guidance while sustainability initiatives in supply chain practice are hinder...

Agile supply chains facilitate sustainability through higher effectiveness and lower wastage. Agile supply chain frameworks in extant literature are designed for static supply chains and high-granular data that are only available at fixed periods. With the increasing interest in the Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain technology for supply chai...

This paper explores asymmetric information and how to counterbalance it. It utilizes the case study of a hypothetical company called “Hashable”. The purpose of this case study is to exemplify a proposed solution to address the information asymmetry faced by buyers of residential real estate in New Zealand. A procedural response is provided for orga...

This study examines a blockchain-based micro-credential system implementation with a particular focus on understanding user perceptions. While blockchain technology has become increasingly popular, its applications extend far beyond finance and cryptocurrency. In particular, blockchain enables the generation and management of verifiable digital cer...

Healthcare supply chains are becoming increasingly complex and characterized by rapid and unpredictable changes, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic. This unpredictability means supply chains are challenged from all levels. Patients, employees and society are all sources of uncertainty resulting with the need for supply chains to be healthier...

The sharing economy is a mega-trend in the world and fractional homeownership is on the rise. When each transaction is a high-stake bargaining game involving multiple stakeholders, maintaining a harmonious and frictionless fractional ownership in real estate is challenging. While academics and practitioners have been focusing on nascent technology...

This paper investigates the current state of organizational knowledge management practices (KMP) to shed light on how the implementation of a knowledge management system impacts corporate performance. To this end, we include 52 research articles published in the high-ranked Information Systems (IS) journals from 2010 to 2021 to capture the continuo...

The saying ‘buyer be aware’ has been used as an excuse from a seller’s perspective to withhold information that could negatively impact a transaction. This asymmetric information is especially prevalent in high–value, low-frequency assets. Using New Zealand real estate as an exemplar to understand the difficulties faced in such a transaction, we de...

Young women aged between 16–24 are often severely affected by social media, causing them to become depressed, anxious and stressful. The current procedural and technological responses to depression, anxiety and stress (DAS) are not directly targeting young women, even though one in four experience symptoms of common mental health conditions. Furthe...

The rapid growth of the phenomenon of Online Social Networks (OSN) has had a revolutionary impact on human decision-making (DM). It is apparent that OSN play an important role in supporting different types of DM, as they provide their users with various forms of support, ranging from instrumental and informational to emotional. The risk comes from...

Social media data provides researchers with insight into how social media platforms are used, and how they shape the lives of their respective users. While exploring and analyzing data has vast research potential, the process for doing so is tedious, time-consuming, and difficult, especially for non-technical researchers. In most cases, researchers...

The data produced by social media engagement is of interest to various organizations and has been used in different applications like marketing, finance and healthcare. Though the potential of mining this data is high, standard data mining processes do not address the peculiarities of social media data. In this paper, we explore the perils of using...

Academics and practitioners have realized that supply chains with their many interactions and impacts have to be investigated in order to meet corporate sustainability imperatives. Research has thus far offered only limited theoretical guidance while practical applications often lack a systematic approach. The realization of sustainability goals is...

In New Zealand, we dispose off around 5 million tires, and 70% end up in a landfill. There, the tires occupy a considerable amount of space. Often unaccounted for once disposed off, the tires eventually attract pests and other contaminants. This situation is highly dangerous to nearby eco-systems, housing animals, and people alike. When tires are s...

There is more computing power in your smart phone now than all the computers used by NASA in 1969 to place man on the moon.

The term SME [Small to Medium Enterprise] is used extensively, both by practitioners and by academics. However, while both argue the importance of research relevant to SMEs few follow the same definition of the term. The lack of agreement has fostered inconsistency, as within the definition of SME, multiple heterogeneous subcategories exist and res...

This research aims to design and implement a framework and system platform for creating values-based digital games for the young. Studies show that many digital games include violence and about half of the violent incidents have negative repercussions such as increased aggression in the “real” world. This influential nature of digital games calls f...

The technological solutions offered today evolve at a rapid pace, as this happens, risk management and security practices are becoming more relevant and in fact, now a necessity for most growing organisation. Governance, Risk management and compliance (GRC) are established and well-adhered functions in a business which have individually always been...

Prevalence of chronic diseases has become a serious problem in our society. These illnesses are commonly caused by dietary and lifestyle risk factors and are hard to cure completely. However, behavioral changes such as adopting a healthy diet and lifestyle are effective in reducing chronic conditions. In this research, we propose to build games tha...

Transportation is one of the most fundamental aspects of modern society; a key enabler of the many other ways modern man has developed. This paper assesses the issue of transportation from both a high-level and more detailed perspective to provide a holistic picture of the current landscape for potential transportation efficiency improvement – alon...

China is attracting increasing attention because of its rapidly emerging economy. With development becoming increasingly sophisticated, the business environment in China is going through a transformational stage. Organizations in China have to be able to adjust to social, economic, cultural and technical changes by being adaptive. Adaptive organiza...

Transportation is an aspect of life that touches every one of us. With rapid advances in technology and lifestyles, modern civilization is witnessing an ever-increasing need for improvements in transportation efficiency and effectiveness to keep pace with modern demands and steadily increasing populations.

Education is a powerful key for children to unlock the world and achieve a higher quality of life. However, in today’s world, there are millions of underprivileged children who do not have access to education. Research has long shown the benefits of technology-facilitated education – including higher achievement and improved attitudes towards learn...

Sustainability, sustainable development, and transformation is about balancing the economic, environmental and social aspects of organisations and their operations. Existing systems do not comprehensively support sustainable transformation nor do they allow decision makers to explore interrelationships and influences between the sustainability dime...

Netnography is a new approach that uses ethnographic principles to provide rich insights into human society. It combines archival and online communications, participation and observation, with new forms of digital and network data collection, analysis and research representation. While the use of Netnography is gaining momentum there are a few weak...

Businesses are facing turbulences in an environment that includes social, political, technical and economic challenges. Traditional business networks lack the adaptability to rapidly reconfigure their strategy, people, structure, business processes, and systems to respond to such challenges. In this paper we analyse structures and limitations of tr...

The languages are disappearing at an alarming rate; half of 7105 plus languages spoken today may disappear by end of this century. When a language becomes extinct, communities lose their cultural identity, practices tied to a language and intellectual wealth. The rapid loss of languages motivates this study. We first introduce collective intelligen...

One language and its culture die every 2 weeks. If nothing is done, half of the over 7,000 languages spoken today could disappear by the end of this century. Only 600 or so languages with large numbers of speakers (more than 100,000) may survive. The current state of language endangerment highlights the need for revitalizing endangered languages fo...

Health and finance are two aspects of life that are crucially important. Health and finance sites are the most frequently visited by online participants. The sheer volume of sites and the variety of information and advice available online on those two topics have left individuals with potentially greater support for their decision-making (DM) proce...

Augmented globalisation and the increased speed of operations in the business world have led to dramatic changes in organisational life; the traditional way of work is no longer competitive. It is assumed that an organisation that knows how to communicate and share knowledge quickly will always have an extra competitive advantage in comparison to o...

Complex changes in an Organization’s Information Systems require roadmapping to ensure planning and execution meet the objectives. While traditional projects have plethora of methodologies to help achieving their goals, agile projects are harder to plan, particularly when dealing with Unupgradable Legacy Processes (ULP). A ULP is a process that is...

As populations age and chronic diseases become more prevalent, new strategies are required to help people live well. Traditional models of episodic health care will not be sufficient to meet changing health care needs and the reorientation of services towards maintaining function as opposed to treating illness. One strategy to meet these challenges...

Online Social Communities and Networks (OSNs) have become a popular source of information for those seeking advice for everyday decision making. A key benefit of OSNs is known to be the provision of free and easy access to a wide range of information, largely unconstrained by geographical barriers and free of charge. This paper specifically address...

Many linguists claim as many as half of the world’s nearly 7,105 languages spoken today could disappear by the end of this century. When a language becomes extinct, communities lose their cultural identity and practices tied to a language, and intellectual wealth. Preservation of endangered languages is a critical but challenging effort. A language...

Business-to-Business (B2B) relationships have long relied on integration of partner’s processes as a means to create seamless, efficient, and effective end-to-end business processes. Inter-Organizational Information Systems (IOIS) have largely been endorsed as B2B enablers, and their middleware components have become critical in integrating process...