Guest Editors' Introduction

Chih-Ping Wei, Patrick Y.K. Chau, Han Zhang
2011 Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems  
The Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), sponsored by the Association for Information Systems (AIS), is the premier annual information systems conference in the region. It aims to provide a high quality forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange research findings and practices on key issues in information systems and management. PACIS 2010 was held in Taipei, Taiwan in July 2010 and its theme is "Service Science in Information Systems Research." In response to the
more » ... nsition of the global economy from the manufacturing to service-dominated economy, service science is emerging as a new and exciting paradigm. It represents a melding of information technology with an understanding of business processes and human behaviors for improving service operations, delivery, innovation, and ultimate values to customers. At the emerging stage of service science, it is essential for information systems (IS) researchers and practitioners to help shape what service science is by fusing IS research into inquiries of service science. Meanwhile, the service-centric view of service science may open up exciting opportunities and unique challenges to IS research. Hence, PACIS 2010 aims to facilitate the dialogues among IS professionals in academic and industries to exchange insights on issues related to service science in IS research as well as IS research to service science. The papers accepted by PACIS 2010 address issues specific to the conference theme as well as general IS research, which covers a broad range of empirical, managerial, technical, and economic aspects of IS research. This special issue contains three research articles from PACIS 2010. These papers were selected, extended, further reviewed and revised from those presented at PACIS 2010. The special issue begins with a paper that examines wikis in the context of collaborative learning project teams. Koh and Lim, in their paper "Effectiveness of Wikis for Team Projects in Edu-1 Wei et al.: Guest Editors' Introduction
doi:10.17705/1pais.03300 fatcat:rtymvlzs6zblfcqi6l4e6ekj44