2009 Awards for Excellence

Citation

(2009), "2009 Awards for Excellence", Journal of Systems and Information Technology, Vol. 11 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/jsit.2009.36511daa.002

2009 Awards for Excellence

Article Type: Awards for Excellence From: Journal of Systems and Information Technology, Volume 11, Issue 4

The following article was selected for this year's Outstanding Paper Award for

"Clinical usefulness of hand-held wireless technology in healthcare: a cross-national study of Australia and India''

Raj Gururajan

Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Business, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

Mohammed Quaddus

Graduate School of Business, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia

Jun Xu

Graduate College of Management, Southern Cross University, Tweed Heads, Australia

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to investigate the drivers and inhibitors of clinical usefulness of hand-held wireless technology in the healthcare domain in Australia and India. Because of cultural differences in these two countries the paper also attempts to show how a cross-national study of this nature can be carefully designed and undertaken to produce useful results.Design/methodology/approach – A mixed-method research design was used in the study. First, a qualitative approach was used to develop the list of drivers and inhibitors in Australia and India via interviews and a research model was developed. This was then followed by a quantitative approach where a questionnaire was developed and distributed to 300 health professionals each in both Australia and India. The collected data were analysed using a combination of optimal scaling and partial least squares (PLS) techniques.Findings – The result of the study was very interesting. The PLS application to the raw data did not support any of the hypotheses. As the study was cross-national an optimal scaling procedure was used to standardize the data and then PLS used again. It was then revealed that for Australia inhibitors significantly influence the clinical usefulness of hand-held wireless technology while the drivers do not. However, for India the drivers significantly influence the clinical usefulness but the inhibitors do not. Possible reasons for such contrasting results are highlighted in the paper.Research limitations/implications – The sample size, although appropriate for the tools used, was a bit on the low side. The study did not follow up with representative respondents from Australia and India to get a deeper understanding of the results.Originality/value – The study is original in the way the research model was developed from ground up. The approach can be used for similar research. The study also makes an original contribution in terms of designing an appropriate research approach for cross-national study and how various data analyses tools can be used effectively for meaningful outcomes.Keywords Australia, Communication technologies, Health services, India, Optimization techniques, Wirelesswww.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/13287260810876902

This article originally appeared in Volume 10 Number 1, 2008, pp. 72-85, Journal of Systems and Information Technology

The following articles were selected for this year's Highly Commended Award

"The influence of strategy-making types on IT alignment in SMEs''

Michael Kyobe

This article originally appeared in Volume 10 Number 1, 2008, Journal of Systems and Information Technology

"Information systems and ecological sustainability''

Adela J.W. Chen

Marie-Claude Boudreau

Richard T. Watson

This article originally appeared in Volume 10 Number 1, 2008, Journal of Systems and Information Technology