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Biography

I have moved 31 times and am so glad to finally be home (for good). I am married to Nicole Knight (from Orem) and we have four beautiful daughters. I do gymnastics, statistics, and help startups get off the ground. My research interests include human computer interaction (particularly augmented reality and wearables), human robot interaction, and many other things...

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, Information Systems, Case Western Reserve University, 2012
• Bachelor of Science, Information Systems, Brigham Young University, 2008
• Masters of Information Systems Management, Information Systems, Brigham Young University, 2008

Selected Publications

• "Demystifying Prediction in Mediation Research and the Use of Specific Indirect Effects and Indirect Effect Sizes", Partial least squares path modeling: Basic concepts, methodological issues, and applications, H. Latan, J. F. Hair, & R. Noonan, 2023
• "How Certain Robot Attributes Influence Human-to-Robot Social and Emotional Bonds", HICSS, 2023
• "Team Building with Video Games: Explaining Team Performance with Flow Theory", 2021
• "Can User Interface Design Choices Alter Perceptions of Time Passage?", 2021
• "Evasive entrepreneurship: Circumventing and exploiting institutional impediments for new profit opportunity in an emerging market", Edition 2, Volume 16, Pages e0247012, Plos one, 2021
• "Leveraging STARA competencies and green creativity to boost green organisational innovative evidence: A praxis for sustainable development", Business Strategy and the Environment, 2021
• "Opportunities for Information Systems Scholars to Help Address Global Crises", 2021
• "Responsible innovation in organisations--unpacking the effects of leader trustworthiness and organizational culture on employee creativity", Pages 1--31, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 2021
• "State anxiety moderates the association between motivations and excessive smartphone use", Edition 4, Volume 40, Pages 1937--1945, Current Psychology, 2021
• "Task-Adherence: An Agentic Perspective of Task-focused Dedication in an Interrupting Work Environment", Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, 2021
• "The Predictive Influences of Team Creativity, Creativity Willingness, Creative Ideation, and Leader Openness on Exploratory Innovation", Pages 135--154, The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Innovation, 2021
• "Team Design Thinking, Product Innovativeness, and the Moderating Role of Problem Unfamiliarity", Journal of Product Innovation Management, Edition 4, Volume 37, Pages 297--323, 2020
• "Technological turbulence and greening of team creativity, product innovation, and human resource management: Implications for sustainability", Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 244, 2020
• "Why is bribery pervasive among firms in sub-Saharan African countries? Multi-industry empirical evidence of organizational isomorphism", Journal of Business Research, Volume 108, Pages 92-104, 2020
• "A Framework of Affordances for Virtually Assisted Activities", Journal of Management Information Systems, Edition 3, Volume 36, Pages 683-729, 2019
• "In Extremis Leadership: A Study of the Effects in Different Contexts.", American Journal of Management, 2019
• "Practice motivated research: Application of an evidence-informed prognostic model in vocational rehabilitation to increase the chance of employment at closure", Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, Edition 2, Volume 50, Pages 219--242, 2019
• "Visual storytelling for improving the comprehension and utility in disseminating information systems research: Evidence from a quasi-experiment", Information Systems Journal, Edition 6, Volume 29, Pages 1153-1177, 2019
• "The relationship between academic stress and adolescents’ problematic smartphone usage", Addiction Research and Theory, Edition 2, Volume 27, Pages 162-169, 2019
• "The longitudinal association between passive social networking site usage and depressive symptoms: The mediating role of envy and moderating role of life satisfaction", Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, Edition 3, Volume 38, Pages 181-199, 2019
• "A storyteller's guide to problem-based learning for information systems management education", Information Systems Journal, 2019
• "Practice motivated research: Application of an evidence-informed prognostic model in vocational rehabilitation to increase the chance of employment at closure", Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, Edition 2, Volume 50, Pages 219-242, 2019
• "State anxiety moderates the association between motivations and excessive smartphone use", Current Psychology, 2019
• "The relationship between perceived stress and problematic social networking site use among Chinese college students", Journal of Behavioral Addictions, Edition 2, Volume 8, Pages 306-317, 2019
• "“Thank you, siri”: Politeness and intelligent digital assistants", 25th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2019, 2019
• "The Reciprocal Relationship Between Passive Social Networking Site (SNS) Usage and Users’ Subjective Well-Being", Social Science Computer Review, Edition 5, Volume 36, Pages 511-522, 2018
• "Innovation among different classes of software development organizations", Information Systems Journal, Edition 5, Volume 28, Pages 849-878, 2018
• "The moderating effect of benevolence on the impact of organisational culture on employee creativity", Journal of Business Research, Volume 90, Pages 334-346, 2018
• "Successful System-use: It’s not just who you are, but what you do", AIS Transactions on HCI, 2018
• "The relationship between academic stress and adolescents’ problematic smartphone usage", Addiction Research and Theory, 2018
• "The Reciprocal Relationship Between Passive Social Networking Site (SNS) Usage and Users’ Subjective Well-Being", Social Science Computer Review, 2017
• "The Mediating Roles of Upward Social Comparison and Self-Esteem and the Moderating Role of Social Comparison Orientation in the Association between Social Networking Site Usage and Subjective Well-Being", Frontiers in Psychology, Edition 771, Volume 8, 2017
• "The Higher-Ed Organizational-Scholar Tension: How Scholarship Compatibility and the Alignment of Organizational and Faculty Skills, Values and Support Affects Scholar’s Performance and Well-Being", Frontiers in Psychology, Edition 450, Volume 8, 2017
• "Time-Chunking and Hyper-Refocusing in a Digitally-Enabled Workplace: Six Forms of Knowledge Workers", Frontiers in Psychology, Edition 1627, Volume 7, 2016
• "The role of stress and motivation in problematic smartphone use among college students", Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 53, Pages 181-188, 2015
• "Predicting Social Networking Site (SNS) use: Personality, attitudes, motivation and Internet self-efficacy", Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 80, Pages 119–124, 2015
• "Toward a Generalizable Sociomaterial Inquiry: A Computational Approach for Zooming In and Out of Sociomaterial Routines", MIS Quarterly, 2014
• "Putting the Fun in Functionality: Appropriation, Ownership and Pride", Advances in Consumer Research, 2014
• "Evaluating journal quality and the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Senior Scholars’ journal basket via bibliometric measures: Do expert journal assessments add value?", MIS Quarterly, 2013
• "Gaskination’s statwiki", Stats Tools Package, 2012
• "Stats tools package", Provo, Utah, 2012
• "Structural equation modeling", Gaskination's StatWiki. http://statwiki. kolobkreations. com, 2012
• "Taking ‘fun and games’ seriously: Proposing the hedonic-motivation system adoption model (HMSAM)", Edition 11, Volume 14, Pages 617--671, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 2012
• "Validity master", Stats Tools Package. http://statwiki. kolobkreations. com, 2012
• "Video Game Design in the MBA Curriculum: An Experiential Learning Approach for Teaching Design Thinking", Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2011
• "Design DNA Sequencing: A Set of Methodological Artifacts for Sequencing Socio-technical Design Routines", International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2010
• "Proposing the Hedonic Affect Model (HAM) to Explain how Stimuli and Performance Expectations Predict Affect in Individual and Group Hedonic Systems Use", Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) ICIS Theory Development Workshop, 2008
• "Innovation Among Different Classes of Software Development Organizations", Information Systems Journal
• "Coordinating Interdependencies in Online Communities: A Study of an Open Source Software Project", Information Systems Research
• "Application of Expectancy Violations Theory to Communication with and Judgments about Embodied Agents during a Decision-Making Task", International Journal of Human Computer Studies
• "Leveraging Multimedia to Advance Science by Disseminating a Greater Variety of Scholarly Contributions in More Accessible Formats", Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Association for Information Systems
• "Leveraging Multimedia to Advance Science by Disseminating a Greater Variety of Scholarly Contributions in More Accessible Formats", Journal for the Association of Information Systems
• "Proposing the Multi-Motive Information Systems Continuance Model (MISC) to Better Explain End-User System Evaluations and Continuance Intentions", Journal of the Association for Information Systems
• "I’m Proud of It: Consumer Technology Appropriation and Psychological Ownership", Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice
• "Early versus Late Adoption of Radical Information Technology Innovations across Software Development Organizations", Information Systems Journal
• "The Effects of Social Networking Site (SNS) Use on Chinese College Students’ Friendships and Well-Being", Computers in Human Behavior
• "Partial Least Squares (PLS) Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) for Building and Testing Behavioral Causal Theory: When to Choose It and How to Use It", IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Edition 2, Volume 57
• "Proposing the hedonic-motivation system adoption model (HMSAM) to increase understanding of adoption of hedonically motivated systems", Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS)

Awards

• AIS Outstanding Contribution to IS Education, Association for Information Systems, 2018
• NSF Grant ($400,000.00), National Science Foundation, 2011
• Best Paper at ICIS 2011, 2011
• NSF Grant ($250,000.00), National Science Foundation, 2009

Languages

• Malay

BYU Citizenship

• MISM PhD Prep — Program Chair/Coordinator — June 2012

Professional Citizenship

• Frontiers in Psychology, Editor, Associate Editor, January 2015
• Founder of StatWiki in, Other, April 2011
• Founder of Gaskination's YouTube Statistics in, Other, September 2010