/desautels/taxonomy/term/812/all en /desautels/channels/news/ai-can-create-ghostbots-mimic-lost-loved-ones-should-it-357579 <p>Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to create chatbots that mimic a specific human being – even if that human being is no longer with us. An AI companion that mimics lost loved ones could help people process grief and ease the loneliness that comes with the loss, says<strong> <a href="/desautels/emmanuelle-vaast">Emmanuelle Vaast</a></strong>, Professor of Information Systems and Associate Dean of Research at Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Desautels. But these ‘ghostbots’ should be approached with caution.</p> Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:27:21 +0000 arsh.prakash@mcgill.ca 1193130 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/mcgill-desautels-professors-and-lecturers-recognized-faculty-awards-357438 <p>Across programs and subject areas, the Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Desautels Faculty of Management recognizes the vital role that research, teaching, service and media engagement play in enriching the student experience and inspiring the next generation of leaders through the annual Faculty Awards. This year we recognize the following outstanding members of our faculty:</p> <p><strong>Research</strong></p> Fri, 24 May 2024 16:33:56 +0000 arsh.prakash@mcgill.ca 1183993 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/mcgill-desautels-bcom-wins-mccais-undergraduate-research-award-2024-357152 <p>Bachelor of Commerce student <strong>Nikki Tye</strong> is the recipient of the Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Collaborative for AI & Society (McCAIS)’s Undergraduate Research Award (McURA) for Summer 2024. The $8,700 award, aimed at promoting interdisciplinary AI research in society, recognizes Nikki's project on "Protecting the Amazon Forest from Illegal Activity through Image Recognition and Operations Research: A Partnership with JungleKeepers and Peruvian Indigenous Communities."</p> Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:51:24 +0000 arsh.prakash@mcgill.ca 1140475 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/2023-sshrc-insight-development-grants-356629 <h4><b>Congratulations to the Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Desautels professors who received 2023 SSHRC Insight Grants.</b></h4> <hr /> <p>The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) is the federal research funding agency that promotes and supports research and training in the humanities and social sciences.</p> <p> </p> Mon, 08 Apr 2024 15:04:00 +0000 john.sawaya@mcgill.ca 1099155 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/mcgill-desautels-faculty-members-and-researchers-celebrated-bravo-gala-356258 <p> </p> <p>Æ»¹ûÒùÔº hosted its annual Bravo Gala on Thursday, March 21, which honours its faculty members and researchers who have won special awards, memberships and prizes over the past year. Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Desautels is proud to announce 14 of its faculty amongst the distinguished honourees this year. Congratulations to our deserving laureates! Full list below.<br /> #Bravo2024</p> <p>· <a href="/desautels/genevieve-bassellier"><strong>Geneviève Bassellier</strong></a>, Best AMCIS Emergent Research Forum Paper, Americas Conference on Information Systems</p> Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:55:09 +0000 arsh.prakash@mcgill.ca 1063860 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/emmanuelle-vaast-professor-information-systems-winner-ais-fellow-award-353800 <p><img alt="Emmanuelle Vaast" src="/desautels/files/desautels/styles/medium_focal__220_x_220_/public/emmanuelle-vaast-400x600.jpg?itok=i1MJP94I" style="width:220px; height:220px; float:left" title="Emmanuelle Vaast" /></p> Wed, 20 Dec 2023 17:44:14 +0000 john.sawaya@mcgill.ca 640556 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/delve-are-digital-tech-workers-coding-themselves-out-existence-emmanuelle-vaast-and-alain-348923 <p>What if just doing your job causes you to lose your job? New technologies have constantly replaced old technologies for hundreds of years, but new digital technologies, namely artificial intelligence and other data-driven technologies, are doing more than replacing old tech—they’re replacing the people who create those technologies in the first place.</p> Mon, 03 Jul 2023 15:28:02 +0000 angela.l.williams@mcgill.ca 107830 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/professors-vaast-and-pinsonneault-awarded-2021-sshrc-insight-grant-332077 <p><big><a href="/desautels/emmanuelle-vaast"><strong>Emmanuelle Vaast</strong></a>, Professor of Information Systems and <a href="/desautels/alain-pinsonneault"><strong>Alain Pinsonneault</strong></a>, Professor of Information Systems, awarded 2021 SSHRC Insight Grant</big></p> Thu, 22 Jul 2021 19:17:30 +0000 angela.l.williams@mcgill.ca 80977 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/seat-table-and-room-their-own-interconnected-processes-social-media-use-intersection-gender-and-326255 <p><strong>Author: <a href="/desautels/emmanuelle-vaast">Emmanuelle Vaast</a></strong><br /> <br /> <strong>Publication:</strong> <em>Organization Studies</em>, Forthcoming<br /> <br /> <strong>Abstract:</strong></p> Fri, 13 Nov 2020 17:20:39 +0000 julie.lapalme@affiliate.mcgill.ca 76596 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/influence-social-media-286006 <p>The <em>Globe and Mail</em> recently featured the research of Desautels Professors <a href="/desautels/emmanuelle-vaast"><strong>Emmanuelle Vaast</strong></a> and <a href="/desautels/liette-lapointe"><strong>Liette Lapointe</strong></a> that explored the power of social media to propel meaningful social movements.</p> <p>Using the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as a case study, they analyzed the surge of Tweets that followed to illustrate how social media can effectively rally individuals around a shared cause.</p> Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:00:50 +0000 julie.lapalme@mcgill.ca 68527 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/twitter-use-during-gulf-oil-spill-283968 <p>Social media has become a part of everyday life. We enjoy the contact Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc., provide with friends and family, and, indeed, the world.</p> <p>Sometimes we gripe about the downsides of the technology. People say it’s a time suck. There’s fake news. It’s hard to trust what you see.</p> Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:05:39 +0000 julie.lapalme@mcgill.ca 68255 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/desautels-event-highlights-innovative-research-and-recognizes-scholars-339659 <p>On Friday, May 13, members of the Desautels Faculty of Management gathered to celebrate the innovative and impactful research conducted by its scholars. </p> <p>Fifteen professors were on hand to deliver two-minute presentations of their most interesting and research.</p> <p>Before jumping into the presentations, Dean <a href="/desautels/yolande-e-chan">Yolande Chan</a> took the time to highlight this year's Desautels Faculty Scholar awardees. Congratulations to this year's awardees!</p> Fri, 20 May 2022 19:17:35 +0000 angela.l.williams@mcgill.ca 87333 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/delve-occupational-evolution-or-extinction-334297 <p>Despite being essential in organizations across sectors, data scientists wrestle with the implications of writing the code that will replace their own jobs. New research by Desautels Professors <a href="/desautels/emmanuelle-vaast">Emmanuelle Vaast </a>& <a href="/desautels/alain-pinsonneault">Alain Pinsonneault </a>analyzes six years of what data scientists have been saying about their occupational identity and its interlinked evolution to new digital technologies. </p> Wed, 20 Oct 2021 19:24:01 +0000 angela.l.williams@mcgill.ca 81344 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/theorizing-process-dynamics-directed-graphs-diachronic-analysis-digital-trace-data-326250 <p><strong>Authors:</strong> B. Pentland, <strong><a href="/desautels/emmanuelle-vaast">Emmanuelle Vaast</a></strong> and J. Ryan Wolf<br /> <br /> <strong>Publication: </strong><em>MIS Quarterly</em>, Forthcoming<br /> <br /> <strong>Abstract:</strong></p> <p>The growing availability of digital trace data has generated unprecedented opportunities for analyzing, explaining, and predicting the dynamics of process change. While research on process organization studies theorizes about process and change, and research on process mining rigorously measures and models business processes, there has so far been limited research that measures and theorizes about process dynamics. This gap represents an opportunity for new Information Systems (IS) research. This research note lays the foundation for such an endeavor by demonstrating the use of process mining for diachronic analysis of process dynamics. We detail the definitions, assumptions, and mechanics of an approach that is based on representing processes as weighted, directed graphs. Using this representation, we offer a precise definition of process dynamics that focuses attention on describing and measuring changes in process structure over time. We analyze process structure over two years at four dermatology clinics. Our analysis reveals process changes that were invisible to the medical staff in the clinics. This approach offers empirical insights that are relevant to many theoretical perspectives on process dynamics.</p> <p> Fri, 13 Nov 2020 16:54:05 +0000 julie.lapalme@affiliate.mcgill.ca 76593 at /desautels /desautels/channels/news/unveiling-relevance-academic-research-practice-based-view-326249 <p><strong>Authors: </strong>M. Marabelli, and <strong><a href="/desautels/emmanuelle-vaast">Emmanuelle Vaast</a></strong><br /> <br /> <strong>Publication:</strong> <em>Information and Organization</em>, Volume 30, Issue 3, September 2020, 100314<br /> <br /> <strong>Abstract:</strong></p> Fri, 13 Nov 2020 16:44:36 +0000 julie.lapalme@affiliate.mcgill.ca 76592 at /desautels