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MIS741 – Ethics of Digital Transformation
Trimester 1, 2020
Assessment 1 (individual): Part A Report (Research) 40%, Part B Video Recording 10%
DUE DATE AND TIME:    Week 9, Monday 11 May 2020, 11:59PM (Deakin policy
means that submissions 12:00 AM onwards are 1 day late) PERCENTAGE OF FINAL GRADE:    50% (Part A = 40%, Part B = 10%)
Learning Outcome Details
    Unit Learning Outcome (ULO)
    Graduate Learning Outcome (GLO)
    ULO 1: Justify resolutions to ethical dilemmas faced by IS professionals resulting from competing personal, organisational and client interests using ethical theories and frameworks.
    GLO1: Discipline‐specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO8: Global Citizenship
    ULO 2: Present convincing resolutions to ethical dilemmas in written and oral form.
    GLO2: Communication
    ULO3: Apply digital technologies effectively to support researching, analysing and presenting complex information relating to information systems contexts.
    GLO1: Discipline‐specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO3: Digital literacy
Assessment Feedback
Students who submit their work by the due date will receive their marks and feedback on CloudDeakin by Friday 29 May 2020, 5:30PM. Students who use the 1‐5 day late penalty period (see Notes section) will receive their marks and feedback 1‐5 days later (respectively).
Extensions
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Deakin's Bachelor of Commerce and MBA are internationally
EPAS accredited
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Deakin Business School is accredited by
AACSB

and
EQUIS
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)No extensions will be considered unless a written request is submitted to and approved by the Unit Chair before the due date and time. Extensions will only be considered if a draft assignment is
attached with your request for an extension, which shows progress has been made, and documentary evidence for the extension. Applications after this date will not be accepted, and submissions after the due date/time without an approved extension will be considered late.
Extensions are only granted in extreme circumstances, such as ongoing health, personal hardship or work‐related problems. Temporary illnesses, normal work pressures, multiple assignments due at the same time, failure to keep backups, technology failure, etc are not reasons for an extension.
Description / Requirements
This is an individual assignment where you will synthesise research sources on the following digital transformation topic, and then produce a Research Report using the Ethical Decision‐Making Framework introduced in topic 2 and an associated Video Recording:
Synthesis the extent research evidence shows that consumers/citizens do or do not know the level of their privacy loss
isks when using social media, and what this implies could be future privacy issues for consumers/citizens if cu
ent privacy levels continue.
Research the topic
The report is not about your personal moral views about the digital transformation topic. Instead, research the topic by finding and synthesising credible academic resources sources (e.g. journal articles, PhD theses, conference papers, credible research studies) and industry sources (e.g. industry research reports from companies like Gartner Group, reports from relevant professional bodies, etc). Quality and credible resource sources are those reporting empirical research (e.g. experiments, surveys, case studies) about the topic (not opinions of the authors), or reporting on the evidence about the topic from the perspective of a variety of stakeholder types.
The research you undertake should enable you to determine the answers to all the questions (directly or indirectly) in the Ethical Decision‐Making Framework about how various stakeholders in the topic 2 framework may be affected by the digital transformation topic. The report should not consider short‐term issues (e.g. immediate profits), but rather the medium to long‐term (e.g. 10‐50 year) implications of the digital transformation on all stakeholders. Research sources can therefore include evidence of past digital transformation issues, and used to justify how stakeholders might be affected in future if the topic is not addressed by digital transformation professionals. Research sources should be quality, which means “older” research is acceptable when combined with recent research sources, but not low quality research sources. Evidence of GLO8 Global Citizenship will include the quality of the research, and how well the framework is used, to justify the topic.
You must ensure that your research and analysis of the topic has balanced/even coverage of the perspective of all stakeholder types in the topic 2 framework. A focus on organisation stakeholders (e.g. shareholders, staff, immediate clients) is not balanced. Similarly, balanced research and analysis will include equal coverage of the risks and benefits (not just benefits) relating to the topic for each stakeholder type from the topic 2 framework. As required by the ACS Code of Professional Conduct, the most important stakeholder group is “the public”, not organisation stakeholders, and consideration of all the risks for the public. For this reason, a report with an unbalanced focus on organisational stakeholders and benefits will not receive a good result in this assignment, because it does not demonstrate good understanding of GLO8 Global Citizenship. A balanced analysis and
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Deakin Business School is accredited by
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eport on multiple stakeholder types, and benefits versus risks, will also result in a more convincing justification (GLO2 Communication) of how the ethics of digital transformation can be improved.
GLO3 Digital Literacy will be assessed on how well you have used digital literacy skills to research and analysis the topic. Evidence of digital literacy with regards to research will be shown by submitting full‐text copies of your research sources in PDF format, so ensure all sources are downloaded. This means there must be a PDF file for each reference in the reference list of the
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eport. You are
not

permitted to use books, electronic books (due to copyright restrictions), videos, audio,
etc
for your resource sources. Only articles or reports which can be submitted as a PDF

file.
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The Deakin Li
ary has full‐text versions of journal articles and conference papers, and these are almost always available in PDF format. Download the PDF version and read the article/paper in that form. For industry reports, these are typically provided in PDF format as well. If an industry report is only available as a webpage, then use the “print‐to‐PDF” option in your web
owser.
See the Submission instructions section for details on how to name each research source’s PDF file.
If you use a software product like Endnote to store the details about each research source, and to create your citations and reference list (see below), then submit this with your report as evidence of the GLO Digital Literacy capabilities. Using such software is optional, but highly recommended.
Create a research synthesis matrix for the topic
You will analyse and synthesise the research sources into a research synthesis matrix (e.g. a Word or Excel document), which can have a column for each stakeholder type. You will know when you have identified a good research source, if it considers multiple stakeholder types (or has multiple columns in the matrix). Resource sources which consider organisation stakeholders only, and also benefits relating to the topic only, should be avoided/minimised for your research synthesis.
The following shows an example extract of a research synthesis matrix with a single column (or theme) for the research topic: What impact does the differences in definitions in research articles about small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have for understanding the best way to help SMEs adopt digital transformation tools successfully? This topic is not relevant to this assignment.
    Source number: Author, year, ‘title’
    SME definition theme – revenue
    Source 1: Lee, S, Park, SB & Lim, GG 2013 'Using balanced scorecards fo
the evaluation of “Software‐as‐a‐service”'
    Does not state any maximum revenue
to be an SME
    Source 2: Zhang, M, Sarker, S & Sarker, S 2013 'Drivers and export performance impacts of IT capability in ‘born‐global’ firms: a cross‐
national study'
    Does not state any maximum revenue to be an SME
    Source 3: Alonso‐Mendo, F, Fitzgerald, G & Frias‐Martinez, E 2009 'Understanding web site redesigns in small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs): a U.K.‐based study on the applicability of e‐commerce
Stage Models'
    Organisations with revenue < 50 million. Does not distinguish SMEs on revenue
    Source 4: Bidan, M, Rowe, F & Truex, D 2012 'An empirical study of IS
architectures in French SMEs: integration approaches'
    Does not state any maximum revenue
to be an SME
    Source 5: Levenburg, NM & Klein, HA 2006 'Delivering customer services
online: identifying best practices of medium‐sized enterprises'
    Does not state any maximum revenue
to be an SME
    Source 6: Bergeron, F, Raymond, L & Rivard, S 2004 'Ideal patterns of
strategic alignment and business performance'
    Organisations with sales < 50 million.
Does not distinguish SMEs on sales.
    Sources 7‐20
    
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It is unclear from existing research whether differences in revenue of SMEs has an impact on their ability to adopt IS. This is because most studies (
Bidan
et al. 2012; Lee et al. 2013;
Levenburg
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evenue to be an
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differentiate SME sizes on the basis of revenue. Only two studies, by contrast, stated that
organisations
must have less than 50 million Euros in revenue (Alonso‐
Mendo
et al. 2009, p268) or Canadian dollars in sales (Bergeron et al.
2004, p1007) to be considered an SME, but neither article differentiates SMEs on the basis of revenue or sales. The fact that most studies did not state the maximum revenue to be an SME, or differentiate SMEs based on revenue, may be due to limitations of
the definition of SMEs used or cited in the studies. It was therefore not possible to identify the extent to which revenue affects if/how SMEs adopt IS, or what revenue‐related support that different types of SMEs may need.
)You will use the matrix document to write a completely separate report document (i.e. Word file). The following is an example paragraph written about the theme/column by finding similarities and differences among the research sources, which would be written in the report document.
GLO3 Digital Literacy will be assessed on how well you evidence that you have used digital literacy skills to research and analysis the topic. This will involve using a digital tool to create the research synthesis matrix, which could be a spreadsheet, Word document, etc. You will be assessed on how well you have used the digital tool to analyse the research sources.
The matrix will be submitted as a separate file, and the report will be a different file. You do not put the matrix (or table) in the report document. The matrix is used to synthesise the similarities and differences among the research sources. The outcome of the synthesis, in paragraph form, will go in the report. The report and matrix are different, and therefore will be submitted as