Editorial: An Ontology of E-Commerce - Mapping a Relevant Corpus of Knowledge

Paz, Ariel I. La; Ramaprasad, Arkalgud; Syn, Thant; Vásquez, Jonathan

doi:10.4067/s0718-18762015000200001

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“…A detailed description of ontological meta‐analysis and synthesis is provided by Ramaprasad and Syn (), and the application of the method to analyse the literature in a domain by Cameron, Ramaprasad, and Syn (). It has been used to study a corpus of research on eCommerce (La Paz, Ramaprasad, Syn, & Vasquez, ), national health care policies (Ramaprasad, Win, Syn, Beydoun, & Dawson, ), and other domains.…”

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Twenty‐five years of the Information Systems Journal: A bibliometric and ontological overview

Paz

Merigó

Powell

et al. 2019

Information Systems Journal

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The Information Systems Journal (ISJ) published its first issue in 1991, and in 2015, the journal celebrated its 25th anniversary. This study presents an overview of the leading research trends in the papers that the journal has published during its first quarter of a century via a bibliometric and ontological analysis. From a bibliometric perspective, the analysis considers the publication and citation structure of the journal. The study then develops a graphical analysis of the bibliographic material by using visualization of similarities software that employs bibliographic coupling and cocitation analysis. The work produces an ontological framework of impact and analyses the journal papers to assess qualitatively ISJ's impact. The results indicate that the journal has grown significantly over time and is now recognized as one of the leading journals in information systems. Yet challenges remain if the journal is to meet its aims in impacting and setting the agenda for the development of the Information Systems field.

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Section: Bibliometric and Ontological Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Twenty‐five years of the Information Systems Journal: A bibliometric and ontological overview

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Merigó

Powell

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Information Systems Journal

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“…The framework is then applied to the domain knowledge and revised through abstraction processes iteratively until the framework converges on the domain statement (Ramaprasad and Syn, 2014a, b). The method has been used to systematically and systemically study the state-of-the-research or-practice of various domains including mobile health or mHealth (Cameron et al , 2017), e-commerce (La Paz et al , 2015), eGovernment (Ramaprasad et al , 2015), and national healthcare policies of Australia, China, and India (Dai et al , 2016; Sastry et al , 2017; Ramaprasad et al , 2016). In this paper, we apply it to analyze the state-of-the-research of megaprojects.…”

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Megaprojects – symbolic and sublime: an ontological review

Syn¹,

Ramaprasad

2019

IJMPB

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Purpose Megaprojects are symbolic milestones of human history. Most megaprojects are one-of-a-kind endeavors to which traditional project management principles are neither applicable nor suitable, rendering the holistic study of megaprojects especially difficult. There is no systemic framework that can help systematically assess and guide megaprojects and megaproject research. In the absence of such a framework there is a significant risk of bias in planning the projects and the topics researched. The purpose of this paper is to present an ontological framework of megaprojects and discuss how it can help analyze individual megaprojects and synthesize the corpus of megaproject research. Design/methodology/approach An ontology framework of megaproject is developed by deconstructing the symbolism and purpose of megaprojects into respective dimensions and their categories. The ontological framework is then used to map the extent literature on megaproject to identify the dominant themes and gaps in the state-of-the-research. Findings The megaproject research has predominantly focused on select stakeholders (builders, governments, and communities), translation stages (implementation and conceptualization), and sublime (mostly economic). Other aspects of megaprojects have received little or no attention. Originality/value The paper presents an ontological framework to holistically capture the symbolism and sublime of megaprojects. The framework is complete, expansive, and grounded, yet simple, parsimonious, and innovative. It is a tool for decision makers more than a formal ontology readable by machines.

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“…Assessing the gaps between these states can help public health planners, policymakers, and regulators design strategies to bridge the gaps through research and implementation. These frameworks have been used to study knowledge sharing in project management (Ramaprasad and Prakash 2009; Syn and Ramaprasad 2019), cultural heritage (Yaco and Ramaprasad 2019), health behavior (Win et al 2019), key performance indicators for emergency departments (Nunez et al 2018), e‐health applications (Cameron et al 2017), national health programs (Ramaprasad et al 2016), and e‐commerce applications (La Paz et al 2015).…”

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Local Air Quality Issues and Research Priorities Through the Lenses of Chilean Experts: An Ontological Analysis

Manzano

Jacóme

Syn

et al. 2020

Integr Envir Assess & Manag

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Air pollution problems can be large, complex, and ill-structured. They can vary from location to location and combine many complex components: urban expansion, increasing vehicles and industrial emissions, biomass burning, geographic and meteorological conditions, cultural aspects, and economic effects. However, the existing research, accumulated knowledge, and local research priorities are spread over many disciplines and lack a systematic mapping to help manage and develop new strategies for researchers and policy makers. Ontological analysis can be used as a tool to capture this complexity through simple natural-language descriptions and a structured terminology. We describe the development of an ontological framework for "Air Quality Management in Chile" and its application to evaluate the current state of the research. The process was based on focus groups and validated by a panel of multidisciplinary experts. We used the developed framework to highlight the topics that have been heavily emphasized, lightly emphasized, or overlooked in the Chilean research. The framework developed can help researchers, practitioners, and policy makers systematically navigate the domain and provide the opportunity to correct blind spots by enabling more informed hypotheses that deal with air quality issues at a national level. We believe that applying this same process to different countries will yield different results (due to differences in local knowledge and experience). The framework presented could be used to evaluate other important stakeholders (government, media, NGOs, etc.), which will provide a complete picture of how local societies deal with air quality issues at different levels. Additionally, local government institutions will benefit from this analysis by improving funding allocation and opening new research opportunities to improve the distribution of the local body of knowledge.

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Editorial: An Ontology of E-Commerce - Mapping a Relevant Corpus of Knowledge

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Twenty‐five years of the Information Systems Journal: A bibliometric and ontological overview

Twenty‐five years of the Information Systems Journal: A bibliometric and ontological overview

Megaprojects – symbolic and sublime: an ontological review

Local Air Quality Issues and Research Priorities Through the Lenses of Chilean Experts: An Ontological Analysis

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