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There has been little theorizing in information systems (IS) or management literature to inform o... more There has been little theorizing in information systems (IS) or management literature to inform organizational strategies for social media engagement. Aral et al. (2013) lament the dearth of scholarly work focused on understanding organizations ’ high-level social media strategies. In this research, we describe our case research to develop an empirically informed understanding of strategic organizational engagement in social media to advance organizational goals. We present an in-depth case study of strategic social media engagement at a successful multi-national business and IT consulting firm who routinely develops and deploys social media strategies to advance organizational goals. We situate our interpretation in the dynamic capabilities perspective, and present a revelatory case well-suited to developing an empirically-informed understanding of strategic social media engagement to advance organizational goals. We develop an analytic perspective of social media based as social s...

Eleanor Loiacono was the accepting Senior Editor. Our motivation for this research is the belief ... more Eleanor Loiacono was the accepting Senior Editor. Our motivation for this research is the belief that blind users cannot participate effectively in routine Web-based activities due to the lack of Web accessibility and usability for non-visual interaction. We take a cognitive, user-centered, task-oriented approach to develop an understanding of accessibility and usability problems that blind users face in Web interactions. This understanding is critically needed to determine accessibility and usability requirements for non-visual Web interaction. We employ verbal protocol analysis for an in-depth examination of difficulties participants face in completing an online assessment through a course management system. We analyze the problems that hinder accessibility and usability and explain the nature of these problems in terms of design principles. Our study contributes an effective method for qualitative evaluation of Web accessibility and usability. Our findings will guide future resea...

AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 2010

Our motivation for this research is the belief that blind users cannot participate effectively in... more Our motivation for this research is the belief that blind users cannot participate effectively in routine Web-based activities due to the lack of Web accessibility and usability for non-visual interaction. We take a cognitive, user-centered, task-oriented approach to develop an understanding of accessibility and usability problems that blind users face in Web interactions. This understanding is critically needed to determine accessibility and usability requirements for non-visual Web interaction. We employ verbal protocol analysis for an in-depth examination of difficulties participants face in completing an online assessment through a course management system. We analyze the problems that hinder accessibility and usability and explain the nature of these problems in terms of design principles. Our study contributes an effective method for qualitative evaluation of Web accessibility and usability. Our findings will guide future research to develop more accessible and usable Web applications for blind users.

The Korean journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 2018

Cervicothoracic thymic cysts are rare and difficult to diagnose preoperatively. We report a case ... more Cervicothoracic thymic cysts are rare and difficult to diagnose preoperatively. We report a case of a cervicothoracic thymic cyst presenting as a lateral neck mass and mimicking a laryngocele in a 3-year-old boy and its definitive management.

The Annals of thoracic surgery, 2017

Intramural course of a coronary artery is a rare association in patients with transposition of gr... more Intramural course of a coronary artery is a rare association in patients with transposition of great arteries. Various techniques have been described for translocation of these during the arterial switch procedure, with mixed results. This report focuses on a novel technique that is reproducible and provides an alternative in this difficult subset of patients.

IS literature offers little theorizing on the attributes of social media useful to construct effe... more IS literature offers little theorizing on the attributes of social media useful to construct effective organizational strategy. Absent theory, there is little to guide organizations to discover the motivational, discursive, or other aspects of social media that can inform their strategy. This paper presents a revelatory case to develop an empirically-based understanding of organizational engagement in social media to motivate strategic directed actions aligned with organizational goals, and provides a strong socio-theoretic foundation for further work to integrate extant organizational and management theory with strategies attuned to specific attributes and characteristics of social media.

There has been little theorizing in information systems (IS) or management literature to inform o... more There has been little theorizing in information systems (IS) or management literature to inform organizational strategies for social media engagement. Aral et al. (2013) lament the dearth of scholarly work focused on understanding organizations' high-level social media strategies. In this research, we describe our case research to develop an empirically informed understanding of strategic organizational engagement in social media to advance organizational goals. We present an in-depth case study of strategic social media engagement at a successful multinational business and IT consulting firm who routinely develops and deploys social media strategies to advance organizational goals. We situate our interpretation in the dynamic capabilities perspective, and present a revelatory case well-suited to developing an empirically-informed understanding of strategic social media engagement to advance organizational goals. We develop an analytic perspective of social media based as social systems, and describe topical collectivities as strategically important members of their ontology.

Mis Quarterly Executive, 2013

Organizations are increasingly using social media as an important competitive tool that enables t... more Organizations are increasingly using social media as an important competitive tool that enables them to actively participate with key stakeholders. Recent studies demonstrate how business-to-consumer (B-C) organizations can benefit by engaging with consumers through social media.2 To date, however, there is little guidance on how business-to-business (B-B) organizations can engage with stakeholders through social media to derive strategic benefit. The B-B social media space contains multiple important stakeholders for an organization, including current and potential customers, potential employees, shareholders, competitors, industry thought influencers and casual observers. Meaningful and focused social media conversations on ideas or issues of mutual interest to an organization and its stakeholders form the basis for strategic engagement. Organizations can engage with stakeholders via social media in a way that allows them to manage their brand and influence demand for their products and services, impact overall market directions and guide future strategy.3

Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 2015

Summary Objective: To share how an effectual merging of local and online networks in low resource... more Summary Objective: To share how an effectual merging of local and online networks in low resource regions can supplement and strengthen the local practice of patient centered care through the use of an online digital infrastructure powered by all stakeholders in healthcare. User Driven Health Care offers the dynamic integration of patient values and evidence based solutions for improved medical communication in medical care. Introduction: This paper conceptualizes patient care-coordination through the lens of engaged stakeholders using digital infrastructures tools to integrate information technology. We distinguish this lens from the prevalent conceptualization of dyadic ties between clinician-patient, patient-nurse, clinician-nurse, and offer the holistic integration of all stakeholder inputs, in the clinic and augmented by online communication in a multi-national setting. Methods: We analyze an instance of the user-driven health care (UDHC), a network of providers, patients, stud...

Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on Web Services, 2004., 2004

This paper discusses a solution based on Web services and Service Oriented Architecture involving... more This paper discusses a solution based on Web services and Service Oriented Architecture involving interorganizational information systems in the context of multi-channel integration in retailing industry. Distribution intensive industries such as retailing have seen a proliferation of ...

Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on Web Services, 2004., 2004

Recent technologies including web services, business process modeling tools, and grid computing, ... more Recent technologies including web services, business process modeling tools, and grid computing, are key to facilitating business agility. Web services standardize application interfaces to ease inter-application communication, and facilitate standards based business ...

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 2015

AbstractThe paper deals with the transient semi-analytical solution of linearized Boussinesq equa... more AbstractThe paper deals with the transient semi-analytical solution of linearized Boussinesq equations characterizing the development of groundwater mound in an unconfined two-dimensional heterogeneous aquifer under vertical recharge conditions. The finite aquifer consists of two rectangular basins surrounded by open water bodies and shares a common impermeable or permeable boundary at the mid plane. The governing equations are solved by applying the Laplace transform and finite Fourier sine transform techniques. Accordingly, analytical expressions for water heads for two rectangular basins are obtained for various scenarios. The applicability of the solutions has been illustrated with the help of a case study and numerical examples, considering various cases. The region wise development of the groundwater mound indicates that the effect of heterogeneity becomes significant for small time duration whereas for long time it becomes insignificant. This result can have application in land reclamation problems...

2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2014

In this study, we present preliminary results from case research at a global IT firm with demonst... more In this study, we present preliminary results from case research at a global IT firm with demonstrable success in the strategic use of social media. From the theoretical underpinnings of interest-based homophily, action theory, and social movement theory, we propose a conceptual framework and analytics to consider the question "how can organizations motivate strategic directed action from participants within social media to accomplish organizational goals?" We discuss the theories of interest-based homophilies to identify and explain how organizations can develop information based analytics appropriate to motivate strategic action in social media using similar approaches to those utilized by social movement and social movement framing. There has been little theorizing on the nature and structuration of social media from which appropriate directed action can be strategically conceptualized. This paper presents novel theoretical foundations from which to understand social media and develop effective strategies to advance organizational interests.

There has been little theorizing in information systems (IS) or management literature to inform o... more There has been little theorizing in information systems (IS) or management literature to inform organizational strategies for social media engagement. Aral et al. (2013) lament the dearth of scholarly work focused on understanding organizations ’ high-level social media strategies. In this research, we describe our case research to develop an empirically informed understanding of strategic organizational engagement in social media to advance organizational goals. We present an in-depth case study of strategic social media engagement at a successful multi-national business and IT consulting firm who routinely develops and deploys social media strategies to advance organizational goals. We situate our interpretation in the dynamic capabilities perspective, and present a revelatory case well-suited to developing an empirically-informed understanding of strategic social media engagement to advance organizational goals. We develop an analytic perspective of social media based as social s...

Eleanor Loiacono was the accepting Senior Editor. Our motivation for this research is the belief ... more Eleanor Loiacono was the accepting Senior Editor. Our motivation for this research is the belief that blind users cannot participate effectively in routine Web-based activities due to the lack of Web accessibility and usability for non-visual interaction. We take a cognitive, user-centered, task-oriented approach to develop an understanding of accessibility and usability problems that blind users face in Web interactions. This understanding is critically needed to determine accessibility and usability requirements for non-visual Web interaction. We employ verbal protocol analysis for an in-depth examination of difficulties participants face in completing an online assessment through a course management system. We analyze the problems that hinder accessibility and usability and explain the nature of these problems in terms of design principles. Our study contributes an effective method for qualitative evaluation of Web accessibility and usability. Our findings will guide future resea...

AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 2010

Our motivation for this research is the belief that blind users cannot participate effectively in... more Our motivation for this research is the belief that blind users cannot participate effectively in routine Web-based activities due to the lack of Web accessibility and usability for non-visual interaction. We take a cognitive, user-centered, task-oriented approach to develop an understanding of accessibility and usability problems that blind users face in Web interactions. This understanding is critically needed to determine accessibility and usability requirements for non-visual Web interaction. We employ verbal protocol analysis for an in-depth examination of difficulties participants face in completing an online assessment through a course management system. We analyze the problems that hinder accessibility and usability and explain the nature of these problems in terms of design principles. Our study contributes an effective method for qualitative evaluation of Web accessibility and usability. Our findings will guide future research to develop more accessible and usable Web applications for blind users.

The Korean journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 2018

Cervicothoracic thymic cysts are rare and difficult to diagnose preoperatively. We report a case ... more Cervicothoracic thymic cysts are rare and difficult to diagnose preoperatively. We report a case of a cervicothoracic thymic cyst presenting as a lateral neck mass and mimicking a laryngocele in a 3-year-old boy and its definitive management.

The Annals of thoracic surgery, 2017

Intramural course of a coronary artery is a rare association in patients with transposition of gr... more Intramural course of a coronary artery is a rare association in patients with transposition of great arteries. Various techniques have been described for translocation of these during the arterial switch procedure, with mixed results. This report focuses on a novel technique that is reproducible and provides an alternative in this difficult subset of patients.

IS literature offers little theorizing on the attributes of social media useful to construct effe... more IS literature offers little theorizing on the attributes of social media useful to construct effective organizational strategy. Absent theory, there is little to guide organizations to discover the motivational, discursive, or other aspects of social media that can inform their strategy. This paper presents a revelatory case to develop an empirically-based understanding of organizational engagement in social media to motivate strategic directed actions aligned with organizational goals, and provides a strong socio-theoretic foundation for further work to integrate extant organizational and management theory with strategies attuned to specific attributes and characteristics of social media.

There has been little theorizing in information systems (IS) or management literature to inform o... more There has been little theorizing in information systems (IS) or management literature to inform organizational strategies for social media engagement. Aral et al. (2013) lament the dearth of scholarly work focused on understanding organizations' high-level social media strategies. In this research, we describe our case research to develop an empirically informed understanding of strategic organizational engagement in social media to advance organizational goals. We present an in-depth case study of strategic social media engagement at a successful multinational business and IT consulting firm who routinely develops and deploys social media strategies to advance organizational goals. We situate our interpretation in the dynamic capabilities perspective, and present a revelatory case well-suited to developing an empirically-informed understanding of strategic social media engagement to advance organizational goals. We develop an analytic perspective of social media based as social systems, and describe topical collectivities as strategically important members of their ontology.

Mis Quarterly Executive, 2013

Organizations are increasingly using social media as an important competitive tool that enables t... more Organizations are increasingly using social media as an important competitive tool that enables them to actively participate with key stakeholders. Recent studies demonstrate how business-to-consumer (B-C) organizations can benefit by engaging with consumers through social media.2 To date, however, there is little guidance on how business-to-business (B-B) organizations can engage with stakeholders through social media to derive strategic benefit. The B-B social media space contains multiple important stakeholders for an organization, including current and potential customers, potential employees, shareholders, competitors, industry thought influencers and casual observers. Meaningful and focused social media conversations on ideas or issues of mutual interest to an organization and its stakeholders form the basis for strategic engagement. Organizations can engage with stakeholders via social media in a way that allows them to manage their brand and influence demand for their products and services, impact overall market directions and guide future strategy.3

Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 2015

Summary Objective: To share how an effectual merging of local and online networks in low resource... more Summary Objective: To share how an effectual merging of local and online networks in low resource regions can supplement and strengthen the local practice of patient centered care through the use of an online digital infrastructure powered by all stakeholders in healthcare. User Driven Health Care offers the dynamic integration of patient values and evidence based solutions for improved medical communication in medical care. Introduction: This paper conceptualizes patient care-coordination through the lens of engaged stakeholders using digital infrastructures tools to integrate information technology. We distinguish this lens from the prevalent conceptualization of dyadic ties between clinician-patient, patient-nurse, clinician-nurse, and offer the holistic integration of all stakeholder inputs, in the clinic and augmented by online communication in a multi-national setting. Methods: We analyze an instance of the user-driven health care (UDHC), a network of providers, patients, stud...

Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on Web Services, 2004., 2004

This paper discusses a solution based on Web services and Service Oriented Architecture involving... more This paper discusses a solution based on Web services and Service Oriented Architecture involving interorganizational information systems in the context of multi-channel integration in retailing industry. Distribution intensive industries such as retailing have seen a proliferation of ...

Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on Web Services, 2004., 2004

Recent technologies including web services, business process modeling tools, and grid computing, ... more Recent technologies including web services, business process modeling tools, and grid computing, are key to facilitating business agility. Web services standardize application interfaces to ease inter-application communication, and facilitate standards based business ...

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 2015

AbstractThe paper deals with the transient semi-analytical solution of linearized Boussinesq equa... more AbstractThe paper deals with the transient semi-analytical solution of linearized Boussinesq equations characterizing the development of groundwater mound in an unconfined two-dimensional heterogeneous aquifer under vertical recharge conditions. The finite aquifer consists of two rectangular basins surrounded by open water bodies and shares a common impermeable or permeable boundary at the mid plane. The governing equations are solved by applying the Laplace transform and finite Fourier sine transform techniques. Accordingly, analytical expressions for water heads for two rectangular basins are obtained for various scenarios. The applicability of the solutions has been illustrated with the help of a case study and numerical examples, considering various cases. The region wise development of the groundwater mound indicates that the effect of heterogeneity becomes significant for small time duration whereas for long time it becomes insignificant. This result can have application in land reclamation problems...

2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2014

In this study, we present preliminary results from case research at a global IT firm with demonst... more In this study, we present preliminary results from case research at a global IT firm with demonstrable success in the strategic use of social media. From the theoretical underpinnings of interest-based homophily, action theory, and social movement theory, we propose a conceptual framework and analytics to consider the question "how can organizations motivate strategic directed action from participants within social media to accomplish organizational goals?" We discuss the theories of interest-based homophilies to identify and explain how organizations can develop information based analytics appropriate to motivate strategic action in social media using similar approaches to those utilized by social movement and social movement framing. There has been little theorizing on the nature and structuration of social media from which appropriate directed action can be strategically conceptualized. This paper presents novel theoretical foundations from which to understand social media and develop effective strategies to advance organizational interests.