John Mooney

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Full) at Pepperdine University

While information technology is playing a significant transformative role in virtually every industry, within the agriculture sector, family-operated farming enterprises have been slow to adopt IT solutions to manage their operations. This study adopts a sequential mixed-methods research design to examine the pre-and post-adoption phases of farmers...

This open access book brings together perspectives from multiple disciplines including psychology, law, IS, and computer science on data privacy and trust in the cloud. Cloud technology has fueled rapid, dramatic technological change, enabling a level of connectivity that has never been seen before in human history. However, this brave new world co...

Firms have consistently struggled to measure the business value of information technology (IT). In an era where IT is transitioning to a services model, firms are replacing capital expenditure with operating expenditure. The implications for IT business value measurement are significant. In this chapter, we examine the state of knowledge about IT b...

The Internet of Things offers massive societal and economic opportunities while at the same time significant challenges, not least the delivery and management of the technical infrastructure underpinning it, the deluge of data generated from it, ensuring privacy and security, and capturing value from it. This Open Access Pivot explores these chall...

The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), combined with greater heterogeneity not only online in cloud computing architectures but across the cloud-to-edge continuum, is introducing new challenges for managing applications and infrastructure across this continuum. The scale and complexity is simply so complex that it is no longer realistic for...

The importance of demonstrating the value achieved from IT investments is long established in the Computer Science (CS) and Information Systems (IS) literature. However, emerging technologies such as the ever-changing complex area of cloud computing present new challenges and opportunities for demonstrating how IT investments lead to business value...

This open access Pivot demonstrates how a variety of technologies act as innovation catalysts within the banking and financial services sector. Traditional banks and financial services are under increasing competition from global IT companies such as Google, Apple, Amazon and PayPal whilst facing pressure from investors to reduce costs, increase ag...

The growing pervasiveness of technology enables the collection of copious volumes of personal data which creates risks for consumer privacy and makes data protection increasingly complex for organizations. The difficulties facing organizations are further exasperated by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which introduces stringent re...

Information technology such as farm management mobile applications present many opportunities to the farming community including reducing paper work, streamlining compliance requirements and providing data backups. However, many family farmers continue to resist adoption of these technologies. In order to improve adoption and sustained usage of the...

This paper studies a fourth emerging service model of cloud computing, Business Process as a Service (BPaaS). BPaaS is generating hype but it is under researched with a lack of clarity regarding how BPaaS differentiates itself from other service models and what opportunities and challenges it presents for management and organisations attempting to...

Cloud computing is a service–based perspective on the provision of computing through the exploitation of technical innovations. The topic has exploded with interest in academic and technical literatures with some seeing it as a catalyst for innovation and economic growth whilst others see it conforming to the fashion hyperbole of many IT innovation...

In December 2012, the AIS Special Interest Group on Decision Support, Knowledge and Data Management Systems (SIGDSS) and the Teradata University Network (TUN) cosponsored the Business Intelligence Congress 3 and conducted surveys to assess academia’s response to the growing market need for students with Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Analy...

Distance learning has come a long way since Sir Isaac Pitman initiated the first correspondence course in the early 1840s. Today the challenges of globalization call for new and innovative learning systems for management education. To meet these challenges the traditional classroom model for delivering business education is giving way to a more hol...

We investigated how the CIO's job has changed over the past years and found that the CIOs’ role has evolved to reflect both the firm's IS infrastructure and strategy. This has led to two versions of the role: an executive-level manager focused on the firm's strategy and processes, and a technical manager focused on minimizing costs by rationalizing...

Managing IS security risks is a top concern for business organizations because of the significant negative impact of IS security breaches. Spending on IS security is expected to exceed $30 billion this year, yet in spite of these investments losses in excess of $15 billion are anticipated to occur because of security breaches. Current IS security r...

Evolving competitive, organisational and technology environments drive organisations to continually evaluate how information technology resources can be exploited for competitive value. The emergence of a global information infrastructure has spawned an entirely new area for competitive exploitation, electronic marketplaces. This paper first presen...

Empirical research on the contribution of IT to firm performance has yielded contradictory and inconclusive findings. Many of these studies used firm-level output, which while useful, provide only a limited understanding of the dynamic process behind the creation and measurement of business value. Process- oriented research has been proposed as a p...

In the current competitive environment, the need for better management of all organizational resources, and specifically IT, requires comprehensive assessment of their contribution to firm performance. However, there is little empirical evidence that IT is capable of creating value, nor has a comprehensive framework of business value emerged. Many...

Thesis (Ph. D., Administration)--University of California, Irvine, 1996. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 198-214).