“…When we review the history of IS research, we have a substantial amount of research examining the role of IT and its impact on individuals, organizations, and societies. For example, Lorin Hitt (Wu, Hitt, & Lou, 2017;Wu, Jin, & Hitt, 2014) and Erik Brynjolfsson (Brynjolfsson, Rock, & Syverson, 2017) have undertaken a series of studies on how IT investments affect firm performance and organizational structures. As IT has evolved from mainframes to PCs to big data, IS research has naturally evolved to study the impact of these new generations of IT.…”