Michael A. Erskine

• Ph.D. in Computer Science and Information Systems
• Professor (Assistant) at Middle Tennessee State University

Location analytics can inform decision-making and long-term strategies in various sectors and industries such as retail, manufacturing, government, defense, transportation, logistics, energy, and utilities for customer experience management, sales, marketing, supply chain optimization, business continuity and resilience, remote monitoring of critic...

Interpersonal interactions, such as impromptu face-to-face workplace conversations, facilitate knowledge transfer and spur innovation within individual work roles; however, the move to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted these dynamics. This research examines how innovation can be maintained in remote work settings by considering Inf...

Context: Contemporary organizations rely on global virtual teams. This trend, exasperated due to the Covid-19 pandemic, aligns with ongoing globalization and digital transformation efforts. The information system (IS) scholarship has a strong interest in studying groups that develop digital technologies with a frequent focus on global virtual teams...

While business models transformed how we describe organizations, the authors apply equivalent modeling to describe industries. Specifically, the authors propose and implement a structured industry model development process (SIMDP) based on the design science research methodology (DSRM). Moreover, our novel approach conceptualizes an industry model...

Purchasing through e-commerce continues to expand rapidly and is expected to reach $18.89 trillion by 2027. After two decades of e-commerce research, little is known about the effects of economic conditions (developed vs. developing). We synthesize prior e-purchase intention literature from multiple business disciplines (e.g., information systems,...

Professionals routinely view, interpret, and make decisions using geospatial data. Nevertheless, our scientific understanding of how individuals work with geospatial information is still limited. While contemporary decision support systems improve geospatial decision-making, managers and researchers must form a more comprehensive understanding of h...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to inform researchers who are examining the adoption of autonomous vehicle technology and to provide marketing insights for developers and manufacturers of such vehicles and their ancillary technologies. Design/methodology/approach This study assesses consumer attitudes and behavioral intentions regarding auton...

As evidence suggests that exhaustion is particularly pronounced in Millennials, we investigate if generational differences affect the drivers of information systems (IS) career turn-away intention (TAI). An indication of such differences would be of importance toward retaining professionals in the IS workforce as Millennials will soon become the la...

Increasingly, spatial decision support systems (SDSS) help consumers, businesses and governmental entities make decisions involving geospatial data. Understanding if, and how, user- and task-characteristics impact decision-performance will allow developers of SDSS to maximize decision-making performance. Furthermore, scholars can benefit from a mor...

Increasingly, consumers, businesses and governmental entities make decisions involving geospatial data using spatial decision support systems (SDSS). One frequent geospatial decision task is that of location selection, which may involve determining the best site for a new retail store or locating an ideal neighborhood for a future city park. Online...

This chapter presents an extension of the Emergency Description Information Technology (EDIT) project to facilitate the effective collection and communication of information during an emergency. New academic findings and industry technologies inform a modified research framework. The research framework contains four primary research areas that are...

Cloud computing presents an opportunity for organizations to leverage affordable, scalable, and agile technologies. However, even with the demonstrated value of cloud computing, organizations have been hesitant to adopt such technologies. Based on a multi-theoretical research model, this paper provides an empirical study targeted to better understa...

This chapter describes the process used to design, develop and assess a faculty-centric virtual Community of Practice (vCoP) within the environment of post-secondary educational. The primary goals for developing a faculty-centric vCoP were to provide: on-demand, multi-modal learning opportunities for globally-distributed faculty with diverse abilit...

Online mapping services, such as Google Maps and Bing Maps, have become increasingly popular. In addition to providing map, navigation, and directory information, such services provide third-party applications with a technology framework including geospatial-visualization capabilities. For instance, consumers often use location-based services and s...

This paper presents a novel approach toward facilitating the effective collection and communication of information during an emergency. Initially, this research examines current emergency response information workflows and emergency responder dispatch criteria. A process for the optimization of these workflows and criteria, along with a suggested m...

An understanding of geospatial reasoning ability (GRA) is essential to human-computer interaction research, as many recent consumer and commercial technologies require an ability to interpret complex geospatial data. Individuals, as well as government, commercial and military organizations, use such technologies regularly. For instance, consumer te...

This paper presents a novel approach toward facilitating the effective collection and communication of information during an emergency. Initially, this research examines current emergency response information workflows and emergency responder dispatch criteria. A process for the optimization of these workflows and criteria, along with a suggested m...

The attitude towards cloud computing is influenced by multiple factors acting as drivers and barriers for its adoption. This research paper aims at the reconceptualization and operationalization of widely accepted influencing factors on technology adoption in relation to cloud computing. A literature review on technological innovation characteristi...

Cloud computing has presented an opportunity for organizations to leverage affordable, scalable, and agile technologies. However, even with the demonstrated value of cloud computing, individuals, universities and corporations have been hesitant to adopt such technologies. This research-in-progress provides an important exploration of the drivers an...

Businesses and individuals must appear both capable and trustworthy in order to be successful in the online environment, including electronic commerce transactions. This chapter presents recent findings and implications of these findings on the eImage paradigm first suggested by Gregg and Walczak (MIS Quarterly 32:653–670, 2008). Perceptions of cap...

The growth and rapid change of social media technologies and societal norms regarding social media has caught many organizations off-guard. Universities, who must manage their reputations, were particularly susceptible to such changes as they have multiple stakeholder groups, including existing social networks that quickly adopted social media tool...

This research-in-progress explores the capability of intelligent expert systems to guide victims or witnesses of emergency events with the collection and communication essential of safety data. Specifically, this paper utilizes a design-science approach to investigate data collection related to automobile accidents in order to provide an appropriat...

Consumer, business and governmental entities increasingly rely on spatial decision support systems (SDSS) for decision-making involving geospatial data. Understanding user- and task-characteristics that impact decision performance will allow developers of such systems to maximize geospatial decision-making performance. Furthermore, scholars will be...

Organizations that leverage their increasing volume of geospatial data have the potential to enhance their strategic and organizational decisions. However, literature describing the best techniques to make decisions using geospatial data and the best approaches to take advantage of geospatial data’s unique visualization capabilities is limited. Thi...

The application of Web 2.0 concepts and technologies across departments as well as across corporate boundaries is enjoying increasing popularity. By their innovative and light-weight nature, those concepts and technologies are being applied for information- and knowledge exchange as well as for supporting and enhancing the innovation capability. Gr...

The application of Web 2.0 concepts and technologies across departments as well as across corporate boundaries is enjoying increasing popularity. By their innovative and light-weight nature, those concepts and technologies are being applied for information- and knowledge exchange as well as for supporting and enhancing the innovation capability. Gr...

Benefits of utilizing desktop virtualization technology in higher education environments include the ability to deploy numerous applications, which may conflict on a traditional desktop, into a single image. Additionally, the utilization of thinclients could produce substantial energy savings and reduce physical desktop replacement costs. Finally,...

Recent disasters have demonstrated that an immense amount of information is shared using social networks before, during and after large-scale disaster events (Twitter, 2012). Accessing such information in real-time and in a methodological manner would allow disaster responders to allocate resources more efficiently. This paper presents an initial r...

The global proliferation of personal mobile devices has provided the capability of electronic data collection to billions of people. Furthermore, recent innovations in technologies and implementation methodologies have allowed groups of people to collect and analyze large quantities of data. Examples of such systems include Wikipedia, a community-s...

This research-in-progress analyzes the impacts of geospatial website attributes on eImage, or the online image of an organization. Specifically, geospatial attributes on websites of service-oriented businesses that must convince consumers to visit their physical locations are addressed. Limited existing research regarding geospatial website attribu...

Today's organizations often gather large quantities of geographic and geo-spatially referenced data to support business decision-making. While there has been research into the significance of user characteristics on decision-performance when working with geospatial data, there is conflicting knowledge on the necessity of the geospatial reasoning ab...