Chitu Okoli

SKEMA Business School, Management of Projects, Information Systems and Supply Chains, Faculty Member

Concordia University (Canada), Supply Chain and Business Technology Management, Faculty Member

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* Research: Open content, theory-building with literature reviews.* Teaching: Business intelligence, management of information systems, literature review methodology, database management, website development* BS in computer science, and MS and PhD in information systems, from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA* I've worked as a professor (research and teaching), computer systems analyst, managing databases and networks, programming websites and business software for small organizations.* I've worked as a human resources administrator handling all aspects of HR for a small employment agency.

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Definitional and Expositional Definitions: The Bare Minimum of Theory and the Systematization of Literature Reviews

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019

Developing Theory With Theoretical Concept Reviews

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019

In this article, we intersect the research streams on conducting better literature reviews and on... more In this article, we intersect the research streams on conducting better literature reviews and on building better theory to present detailed guidelines for developing theory using theoretical concept reviews, literature reviews that present the elements of theory from primary studies. We distinguish three different kinds of theoretical concept reviews: topical for scoping out a theoretical landscape, propositional for arguing a new theoretical model, and confirmatory for testing a theory. We provide specific guidance on how to search for, extract and synthesize the elements of theory using theoretical concept synthesis, as well as other appropriate techniques. We discuss how to develop a theoretical contribution and then present applications of these guidelines for literature reviews of various scales of breadth.

Beyond Open Source Software: An Introduction to Researching Open Content

Abstract: The same open source philosophy that has been traditionally applied to software develop... more Abstract: The same open source philosophy that has been traditionally applied to software development can be applied to the collaborative creation of non-software information products, such as books, music and video. Such products are generically referred to as open content or free cultural works. Due largely to the success of large projects such as Wikipedia and the Creative Commons, open content has gained increasing attention not only in the popular media, but also in scholarly research. It is important to rigorously investigate the ...

Inductive, Abductive and Deductive Theorising

International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy

Ecological Approach to User Sensemaking of Technology

Technology appears to have various intended and unintended consequences for organizations, and th... more Technology appears to have various intended and unintended consequences for organizations, and this is partly due to different understandings people have about the technology. Over two decades of sensemaking research examines various social and cognitive processes through which people understand organizational phenomena and attach meaning to them. However, the role of the IT artifact in shaping the user understandings and bringing the consequences has been marginally addressed. This study proposes an ecological approach to technology sensemaking that focuses on the relation between user perception of technology and the technological features to which they adapt. Moreover, it advances research and practice by providing the novel conceptual and analytical tools to examine the role of the IT artifact in technological phenomenon. To empirically illustrate the proposed approach and suggested methodology, we report the initial findings of a pilot study on students using Moodle at a North ...

Inductive, Abductive and Deductive Theorizing

Social Science Research Network, 2021

Considering the very broad range of approaches to theorizing, it is challenging to try to encompa... more Considering the very broad range of approaches to theorizing, it is challenging to try to encompass them all at once. Indeed, most theory-building guides focus on theorizing within established paradigms, such as positivism or interpretivism. To provide a comprehensive perspective, we develop a unified framework that spans multiple research epistemologies by discussing theory-building from the perspective of inductive, abductive, and deductive theorizing. Based on this framework, we present a simple way of thinking of theoretical contribution as development towards increasing maturity of theory. This theorizing framework is sufficiently general to apply to any social science study that aims to build theory, whether empirical or conceptual. Moreover, the principles of theory building are sufficiently general that they are readily applicable to a wide range of social sciences.

Creating Rich and Representative Personas by Discovering Affordances

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2019

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