Isam Faik

Western University | UWO

Emerging technologies are both a cause of many grand societal challenges (GSCs) facing twenty-first-century societies and an integral part of some of their most promising solutions. As an element of the GSCs, technology becomes intertwined with several interrelated issues that constitute the GSCs. This calls for approaches to Technology Assessment...

This paper investigates the embeddedness of digital entrepreneurship in the entrepreneurs' indigenous value system by examining the influence of ‘Ubuntu’ on digital entrepreneurship activities in the South African context. We do so through an interpretive field study of two innovation clusters in South Africa. Our findings reveal Ubuntu as the basi...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) increasingly leverage digital platforms in order to compensate for their resource limitations. In this study, we draw on an organizational learning perspective to explore how SMEs benefit from the resources provided by third-party digital platforms. Specifically, we examine the mechanisms that enable SMEs to deve...

Social media are increasingly credited with the emergence and rapid scaling of social movements. Consequently, many studies have explored the role of social media and other forms of Information and Communication Technology in enabling collective action beyond formal organizations. The focus in these studies has been on connective actions that emerg...

While there has been much work on the relationship between information technology (IT) and organizational change, there has been limited research that theorizes the relationship between IT and societal change. This paper draws on institutional theory, in particular institutional logics, to develop a model of IT and societal change, which we argue i...

This paper examines how co-presence is enacted in technology-mediated medical practices, particularly under time pressure. Extant literature highlights time (e.g. immediacy and duration of interactions) as a critical condition for copresence, but there has been little attention to the variation of copresence over time. In this paper, we investigate...

This paper examines how co-presence is enacted in technology-mediated medical practices, particularly under time pressure. Extant literature highlights time (e.g. immediacy and duration of interactions) as a critical condition for copresence, but there has been little attention to the variation of copresence over time. In this paper, we investigate...

SMEs are the backbone of most economies. However, their limited resources and capabilities represent significant challenges to survive in the hypercompetitive digital environment for market activities. In particular, the lack of marketing capabilities amongst SMEs undermines their competitiveness and threatens their viability. Increasingly, SMEs at...

In High-Reliability Organizations where unexpected events can have fatal consequences, it is necessary to respond effectively and recover quickly to achieve high and reliable performance. Given that resilient healthcare organizations depend greatly on coordination mechanisms and actors’ collaboration, this paper investigates resilience when the pra...

Digital platforms have emerged as a major organizational form in various industries including hospitality (e.g., Airbnb), innovation (e.g., Designhill), and software development (e.g., Apple iOS). Some platforms evolve successfully to build stable and growing ecosystems, while many fail to do so. The high rate of failure amongst platforms can be li...

The increasing adoption of digital platforms as a new mode of organizing economic and social activities has led to a growing interest in research on this topic amongst IS scholars. As a result, the digital platforms literature has grown significantly over the last decade. Yet, scholars call for more research on the topic as platforms evolve and man...

The spread of inaccurate or “fake” content over social media platforms (SMP) has become a major societal challenge with significant social and political repercussions. Studies in the IS field have examined the credibility of online information as a key construct. However, little attention is paid to the behavior of individuals when faced with quest...

While several studies have looked at the transition between practices when actors are faced by surprising events, little is known about practice transition when these events become routine. Understanding the challenge of routinized surprises is particularly important for high-reliability organizations, where the focus is on high quality and error-f...

Patient involvement in decision making during patient-physician interactions has been shown to have positive effects on healthcare outcomes. However, despite the widespread adoption of technology-mediated medical diagnosis and treatment, the nature of patients’ involvement in decision making on telemedicine platforms remains ambiguous. This study i...

This article is concerned with modernisation as a prevalent discourse of association between technological change on the one hand and social, economic and political changes on the other. We discuss modernisation as a concept that spans several domains of change including national development, organisational change and epistemological shift. These d...

Modernisation as a discourse and practice of institutional reform shapes much of the transformative actions in the public sector, particularly in third world countries. This article presents an analysis of the modernisation processes and the role of information technology in these processes using an actor-network theory (ANT) approach. The empirica...

In the context of drug eluting stent, we present two-dimensional numerical models of mass transport of the drug in the wall and in the lumen to study the effect of the drug diffusion coefficients in the three principal media (blood, vascular wall, and polymer coating treated as a three-compartment problem) and the impact of different strut appositi...

Stenting is becoming the major interventional cardiology procedure worldwide. However restenosis remains a major limitation to the effectiveness of stents. Alterations to the local hemodynamics in the stented segment of the artery could be a potential factor in the development of in-stent restenosis. The characterization of wall shear stress and of...

Stenting is becoming the major interventional cardiology procedure worldwide. However restenosis remains a major limitation to the effectiveness of stents. Alterations to the local hemodynamics in the stented segment of the artery is a potential factor in the development of in-stent restenosis. The characterization of wall shear stress and of blood...