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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - AIS LEO Award, Association for Information Systems
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS)

Overview

Elena Karahanna is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research spans various areas within social sciences, particularly intersecting with technology and healthcare.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences

Within these, their subfields of study focus on:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Applied Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Communication

Karahanna's primary research topics cover several multidisciplinary areas:

  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Knowledge Management and Sharing
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
  • Machine Learning in Healthcare
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications

Their recent papers include:

  • "Connecting Systems, Data, and People: A Multidisciplinary Research Roadmap for Chronic Disease Management" (2020, MIS Quarterly)
  • "Chatbot use cases in the Covid-19 public health response" (2022, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association)
  • "Peer Privacy Concern: Conceptualization and Measurement" (2022, MIS Quarterly)
  • "Algorithmic Processes of Social Alertness and Social Transmission: How Bots Disseminate Information on Twitter" (2022, MIS Quarterly)
  • "A Randomized Field Experiment to Explore the Impact of Herding Cues as Catalysts for Adoption" (2022, MIS Quarterly)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Karahanna are:

  • Jennifer L. Claggett
  • Indranil R. Bardhan
  • Hsinchun Chen
  • Parham Amiri
  • Nan Zhang

Key venues where Karahanna has published include:

  • MIS Quarterly
  • Information Systems Research
  • Journal of Management Information Systems
  • Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
  • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management

Recognition of Karahanna's contributions to their field includes receiving the AIS LEO Award from the Association for Information Systems in 2020 and being named a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Trust and TAM in online shopping: an integrated model

    David Gefen;Elena Karahanna;Detmar W. Straub

  • Time flies when you're having fun: cognitive absorption and beliefs about information technology usage 1

    Ritu Agarwal;Elena Karahanna

  • Information technology adoption across time: a cross-sectional comparison of pre-adoption and post-adoption beliefs

    Elena Karahanna;Detmar W. Straub;Norman L. Chervany

  • The psychological origins of perceived usefulness and ease-of-use

    Elena Karahanna;Detmar W. Straub

  • The role of espoused national cultural values in technology acceptance

    Mark Srite;Elena Karahanna

  • Inexperience and experience with online stores: the importance of TAM and trust

    D. Gefen;E. Karahanna;D.W. Straub

  • Shackled to the status quo: the inhibiting effects of incumbent system habit, switching costs, and inertia on new system acceptance

    Greta L. Polites;Elena Karahanna

  • Toward a Theory-Based Measurement of Culture

    Detmar W. Straub;Karen D. Loch;J. Roberto Evaristo;Elena Karahanna

  • Levels of Culture and Individual Behavior: An Investigative Perspective

    Elena Karahanna;J. Roberto Evaristo;Mark Srite

  • Antecedents of IS Strategic Alignment: A Nomological Network

    David S. Preston;Elena Karahanna

  • Knowledge Worker Communications and Recipient Availability: Toward a Task Closure Explanation of Media Choice

    Detmar Straub;Elena Karahanna

  • The Needs–Affordances–Features Perspective for the Use of Social Media

    Elena Karahanna;Sean Xin Xu;Yan Xu;Nan Zhang

  • The relative advantage of electronic channels: a multidimensional view

    Vivek Choudhury;Elena Karahanna

  • The future of technology and marketing: a multidisciplinary perspective

    Dhruv Grewal;John Hulland;Praveen K. Kopalle;Elena Karahanna

  • Reconceptualizing compatability beliefs in technology acceptance research

    Elena Karahanna;Ritu Agarwal;Corey M. Angst

  • The Effect of Social Capital of the Relationship Between the CIO and Top Management Team on Firm Performance

    Elena Karahanna;David S. Preston

  • E-Mail and V-Mail Usage: Generalizing Across Technologies

    Elena Karahanna;Moez Limayem

  • Online Recommendation Systems in a B2C E-Commerce Context: A Review and Future Directions

    Seth Siyuan Li;Elena Karahanna

  • Life Interrupted: The Effects of Technology-Mediated Work Interruptions on Work and Nonwork Outcomes

    Adela J. Chen;Elena Karahanna

  • The embeddedness of information systems habits in organizational and individual level routines: development and disruption

    Greta L. Polites;Elena Karahanna

  • Causal explanation in the coordinating process: a critical realist case study of federated IT governance structures

    Clay K. Williams;Elena Karahanna

Frequent Co-Authors

Joey F. George
Joey F. George Iowa State University
Praveen K. Kopalle
Praveen K. Kopalle Dartmouth College

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