
Vess JohnsonUniversity of North Texas | UNT · Information Systems and Decision Sciences
Vess Johnson
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
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August 2020 - present
December 2013 - February 2020
Innovative Growth Strategies
Position
- Associate Partner
December 2010 - February 2020
SolidCEO Consulting LCC
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- Partner
Education
August 2011 - August 2014
June 1984 - August 1986
August 1980 - August 1981
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Publications (54)
Purpose
The purpose of this research is to propose and empirically validate a theoretical framework to investigate the willingness of the elderly to disclose personal health information (PHI) to improve the operational efficiency of AI-integrated caregiver robots.
Design/methodology/approach
Drawing upon Privacy Calculus Theory (PCT) and the Techn...
Effective contact tracing is an important tool in trying to control the spread of highly infectious diseases. Utilizing the theory of reasoned action and rational choice theory, this study explores factors impacting the adoption of mobile contact tracing application. Findings indicate that perceived benefits of usage and perceived costs of non-usag...
This research investigates the social, legal, and technological factors that affect the adoption of Internet of Things wearable devices (WIoT) among young adults during and before a healthcare crisis. The study develops a technological acceptance model by integrating the Technological-Personal-Environmental (TPE) framework with new constructs, i.e....
Social network services (SNSs) have attracted more than 4.3 billion users worldwide. However, many feel SNSs have had an overall negative impact on society. This study utilizes the theory of reasoned action and rational choice theory to explore factors impacting SNS continuance. In addition, the study explores the moderating effect of commitment (i...
The meteoric ascent of the cryptocurrency market in the last two years has drawn a large number of both investors and bystanders (NDTV Business Desk, 2022). Nakamoto (2008, p.4) defines cryptocurrency as "a purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash [that] would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going t...
Over the last two decades, online social network services (SNSs) have become increasingly popular (Kourouthanassis et al., 2015). According to a recent report from Kepios (2021), there are more than 4.33 billion active social media users worldwide accounting for more than 55 percent of the global population. Among the most popular, Facebook has mor...
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to examine entrepreneurial activity in the USA and whether it supports a “pull” or a “push” theory of startup creation. The “push” theory argues that individuals are pushed into entrepreneurship by negative external forces, such as job dissatisfaction, difficulty finding employment, insufficient salary or inflex...
Coproduction is defined as collaboration between an organization and the consumer in the design, marketing, or delivery of goods or services, which the consumer ultimately utilizes. While coproduction has existed for decades, the transition from a full-service to a coproduction environment, if not handled correctly, can be met with apprehension, re...
Self-service technologies allow organizations to shift work from employees to the consumer, creating a coproduction environment where the consumer is an active participant in the delivery of a service, which they ultimately consume. While these technologies can have benefits for both consumers and the organizations, they can also present challenges...
Pharmaceutical companies have invested heavily to equip their sales organizations with interactive visual aids (IVAs) running on tablet PCs designed to increase sales productivity and reduce risks associated with regulatory non-compliance. However, research indicates that the majority of sales representatives within these organizations do not use t...
The worldwide big data and analytics investment market continues to grow, with projections indicating strong compound annual growth rates over the next decade. To achieve true competitive advantage from business intelligence and data analytics, organizations must control how these investments are being integrated into the culture of the organizatio...
Traditional brick-and-mortar retailers face increasing competitive pressure from online alternatives. One promising technology to help retailers cope with the ongoing retail crisis is mobile self-checkout systems (MSCOS). However, there have been issues with MSCOS implementation. This study aims at gaining a better understanding of consumer needs r...
This study examines the relationship between the background of an organization’s top information systems executive or chief information officer (CIO) and what a CIO does. It provides a somewhat different picture of the much discussed relative merits of a CIO’s background. Findings indicate that a technical background has little relationship to what...
This article presents the findings of the Society for Information Management’s 38th
Anniversary IT Trends Study, with responses from IT executives in 793 organizations,
including 495 CIOs. Positive trends endure, with IT budgets, salaries, hiring, and CIO
time spent in the C-suite all up. The top five IT investments in 2018 were Analytics,
Cybersec...
The number of brick and mortar retailers that have closed their doors or filed bankruptcy is staggering and crosses virtually every retail segment. As consumer demographics evolve and more consumers move to online purchasing, the question arises as to what role brick and mortar stores will play in the future. This pressure has driven retailers to e...
In the summer of 2017, an online survey was administered to European IT executives, asking them about their concerns, spending, investments, cloud usage, security, workforce, reporting relationships, and other issues of importance. A total of 276 organisations responded. Their top-five most important IT management concerns were: Alignment, Digital...
The roles of women in the workforce have changed significantly over the past several decades. While there has been considerable progress made by women into leadership positions, this progress has been slow. This article explores factors that may impact the ability of women in information technology (IT) to move into leadership positions. Data colle...
M-payment services offer many advantages over traditional payment services and analysts have predicted their explosive growth for years. However, despite touted advantages, adoption has been slow. Recent announcements of m-payment services by high-profile providers such as Apple, Google, and PayPal, along with increased vendor support, may spark re...
This article presents the findings of the Society for Information Management's 38th Anniversary IT Trends Study, with responses from IT executives in 769 organizations. Positive trends endure, with IT budgets, salaries, hiring, CIO job tenure and CIOs' time spent with their C-suite peers all up. The most prevalent large new IT investment is Busines...
This article presents the findings of the Society for Information Management’s 37th anniversary IT Trends Study. Positive trends persist, with IT budgets, salaries, hiring and CIO tenure all up. Increased spending on cloud, software development, security and innovation offset decreases in hardware, software and facilities. Today’s IT leaders must b...
This article presents the findings of the Society for Information Management's 37th anniversary IT Trends Study. Positive trends persist, with IT budgets, salaries, hiring and CIO tenure all up. Increased spending on cloud, software development, security and innovation offset decreases in hardware, software and facilities. Today's IT leaders must b...
SKILLED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) professionals are scarce and costly. IT managers must not only ensure they hire the right entry-level capabilities and skills but also understand how to acquire, nurture, retain, and develop an evolving and diverse set of employee skills throughout the IT hierarchy. They must also ensure they develop their own sk...
This article presents the findings of the Society for Information Management’s 36th anniversary study. Overall, the study finds a major shift in the focus of IT executives. IT leadership is becoming more pragmatic, holistic, strategic and business-focused, while also working to optimize IT operations and services, with priorities like agility, in-...
With the growth in social networking and the highly competitive nature of the social networking market, it is important to understand the factors that influence social network site (SNS) member retention. In order to better understand continuation intention among SNS members, the authors propose and empirically test a model built upon the IS contin...
This article presents the findings of the Society for Information Management's 36th anniversary study. Overall, the study finds a major shift in the focus of IT executives. IT leadership is becoming more pragmatic, holistic, strategic and business-focused, while also working to optimize IT operations and services, with priorities like agility, inno...
This article presents the major findings from the Society for Information Manage-ment’s (SIM) 2014 IT Trends Study. Organizations continue to invest in IT to improve operations, reduce costs, and enable business strategies. IT budgets, hiring, and sala-ries are modestly increasing, and IT executives are cautiously optimistic that this trend will co...
eBooks and eBook readers represent a major technology discontinuity for those involved in the creation, publication, distribution, and consumption of written material ranging from books to magazines. Emerging from this disruption is an important new market, ultimately driven by the individual adoption of mobile eBook readers. This paper views mobil...
The struggle to understand the changing role of the CIO has been plaguing researchers for decades. The goal of this research is to define a more granular framework for defining the roles of the CIO. This framework is based on two dimensions: interactions ("with whom" the CIO interacts with) and activities ("what" the CIO does during that interactio...
Despite enduring economic uncertainties, we get a sense of watchful optimism from the Society for Information Management’s (SIM) 2013 IT Trends Study. This article presents the major findings based on responses from senior IT leaders in 484 U.S.-based organizations, including their top IT management issues and concerns, their largest/most significa...
The Information Systems (IS) discipline was founded on the intersection of computer science and organizational sciences, and produced a rich body of research on topics ranging from database design and the strategic role of IT to website design and online consumer behavior. In this book, the authors provide an introduction to the discipline, its dev...
Organizational use of IT and the effect of IT on organizational practices and outcomes are widely researched in the IS community. One stream of organizational IS research deals with organizational consequences of IT, such as the effect of IT investments on firm value, and the role of IT capabilities in gaining competitive advantage. The second stre...
The Internet is the enabler of transactions between companies and individuals. Related research is generally focused on two broad research questions: (1) how does IT influence the markets (the macro level), and (2) how can trade be best conducted in the IT-enabled environment (the micro level). At the macro level, research includes such topics as o...
Research of the individual use of IT and the effects of IT on individual behavior and outcomes constitutes the most voluminous IS research area. This area can be broadly subdivided into research on factors in individual adoption and use, and research on personal computing environments. Identification of critical success factors related to the indiv...
In spite of concerns, on the part of some IS academics, about the “missing IT artifact”, we find that a major segment of IS research is devoted to the design and development of the various information systems and IT artifacts. Several IS development topics are concerned with IS development methodologies and practices, including system development m...
From e-mails to mobile video-conferencing, Information systems play an important role in enabling communication among individuals. A significant amount of IS research is devoted to understanding the effect of the IT on communication and collaboration, including communication between individuals, teamwork, and the creation and development of larger...
In this book we describe the more prominent topics of IS research and relate them to the five broad IS research areas: IT artifact and IS development, IT and organizations, IT and individuals, IT and markets and IT for teamwork and collaboration. Within each of the research areas, the topics are organized into sub-areas. We present an organizing fr...
Following the results of the bibliometric study presented in the Appendix, we define the structure of IS research in terms of five research areas and 51 research topics. The identified research areas closely mirror those in the Sidorova et al. (2008) study. The research areas include IT artifact and IS development, IT and organizations, IT and indi...
The information revolution powered by information technology is changing the way in which knowledge work is performed and organizations are managed. Information and communication technology (ICT) has permeated all areas of business, from supply chain management to intra-office communication. Personal activities from shopping to driving have been in...
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