Associate Professor Yenni Tim

Associate Professor Yenni Tim

Associate Professor

PhD Information Systems, UNSW Sydney | Master of Science, National University of Singapore

Business School
School of Information Systems and Technology Management

Dr. Yenni Tim, an Associate Professor at the School of Information Systems and Technology Management, UNSW Business School, specialises in addressing complex challenges at the nexus of digital capacity, resilience, and societal progress.

Her research program informs the effective design and implementation of digital technologies, particularly in the face of technological, organisational, and societal shocks, with an aim of advancing resilient and sustainable development. Yenni’s extensive field work and design research projects have addressed a range of practical challenges, including leveraging digital technologies for pandemic and disaster response, overcoming digital disadvantages, enhancing environmental sustainability, addressing digital shocks, and mitigating social exclusions.

Yenni received the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Early Career Award, the Association's highest distinction for emerging scholars. She serves as an Associate Editor for the Information Systems Journal (since 2020) and the European Journal of Information Systems (since 2023), and a Managing Editor for the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (since 2019). 

In November 2019, Yenni founded the UNSW Sandbox Program (unsw.to/sandbox), an initiative that empowers partnerships among industry practitioners, academics, and university students to co-design solutions for contemporary challenges. Within four years, the Sandbox Program has evolved into a platform for large-scale tripartite collaboration, leading to impactful outcomes across education, research, and social impact. 

Furthering this initiative, Yenni established the Global Sandbox Alliance in November 2023 to foster strategic partnerships between academic institutions, businesses, and community organisations worldwide, through the establishment of Sandbox Programs in leading universities globally. This Alliance, which welcomed the University of Toronto as its inaugural institutional member, aims to connect academics, practitioners, and university students across the globe to achieve shared goals in education, research, and social engagement.

Location
2085, Level 2, Quadrangle Building E15
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Davison RM; Marabelli M; Tim Y; Beath C, 2023, 'The practitioner perspective', Information Systems Journal, 33, pp. 1455 - 1458, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/isj.12461
    Journal articles | 2023
    Dias M; Pan SL; Tim Y; Land L, 2023, 'Managing historical conditions in information systems strategizing: An imprinting perspective', Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2023.101787
    Journal articles | 2023
    Dias M; Pan SL; Tim Y; Land L, 2023, 'Managing historical conditions in information systems strategizing: An imprinting perspective', The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 32, pp. 101794 - 101794, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2023.101794
    Journal articles | 2023
    Tim Y; Chiew TK; Lim HM; Teo CH; Ng CJ, 2023, 'Design process knowledge for crisis-driven information systems solutions: Insights on building digital resilience from an action design research study', Information Systems Journal, 33, pp. 1343 - 1369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/isj.12457
    Journal articles | 2023
    Tim Y; Leidner DE, 2023, 'Digital Resilience: A Conceptual Framework for Information Systems Research', Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 24, pp. 1184 - 1198, http://dx.doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00842
    Journal articles | 2022
    Pan SL; Carter L; Tim Y; Sandeep MS, 2022, 'Digital sustainability, climate change, and information systems solutions: Opportunities for future research', International Journal of Information Management, 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102444
    Journal articles | 2022
    Tamm T; Hallikainen P; Tim Y, 2022, 'Creative analytics: Towards data-inspired creative decisions', Information Systems Journal, 32, pp. 729 - 753, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/isj.12369
    Journal articles | 2021
    Tim Y; Cui L; Sheng Z, 2021, 'Digital resilience: How rural communities leapfrogged into sustainable development', Information Systems Journal, 31, pp. 323 - 345, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/isj.12312
    Journal articles | 2020
    Tim Y; Hallikainen P; Pan S; Tamm T, 2020, 'Actualizing business analytics for organizational transformation: A case study of Rovio Entertainment', European Journal of Operational Research, 281, pp. 642 - 655, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.11.074
    Journal articles | 2020
    Tim Y; Ouyang T; Zeng D, 2020, 'Back to the future: Actualizing technology affordances to transform Emperor Qin's terracotta warriors Museum', Information and Management, 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2020.103271
    Journal articles | 2020
    Zeng D; Tim Y; Yu J; Liu W, 2020, 'Actualizing big data analytics for smart cities: A cascading affordance study', International Journal of Information Management, 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102156
    Journal articles | 2018
    Tim Y; Pan SL; Bahri S; Fauzi A, 2018, 'Digitally enabled affordances for community-driven environmental movement in rural Malaysia', Information Systems Journal, 28, pp. 48 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/isj.12140
    Journal articles | 2017
    Tim Y; Pan SL; Bahri S; Fauzi A, 2017, 'Digitally enabled crime-fighting communities: Harnessing the boundary spanning competence of social media for civic engagement', Information and Management, 54, pp. 177 - 188, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2016.05.006
    Journal articles | 2017
    Tim Y; Pan SL; Ractham P; Kaewkitipong L, 2017, 'Digitally enabled disaster response: the emergence of social media as boundary objects in a flooding disaster', Information Systems Journal, 27, pp. 197 - 232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/isj.12114
  • Conference Papers | 2022
    Zhang X; Pan S; Tim Y; Jiang VZ, 2022, 'Designing a Virtual Reality Video for Disability Inclusion: An Action Design Research', in ICIS 2022 Proceedings, Copenhagen, presented at International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Copenhagen, 09 December 2022 - 14 December 2022, https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2022/digit_nxt_gen/digit_nxt_gen/3
    Conference Papers | 2020
    Dias M; Pan S; Tim Y; Land L, 2020, 'Digital imprinting: The role of history in digital strategising at a predigital organisation', in Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Information Systems (IS) for the Future, PACIS 2020, Dubai, UAE, presented at 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Information Systems (IS) for the Future, PACIS 2020, Dubai, UAE, 20 June 2020 - 24 June 2020, https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2020/67/
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Dias M; Pan S; Tim Y, 2019, 'Knowledge Embodiment of Human and Machine Interactions: Robotic Process Automation at the Finland Government', in Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2019), Association for Information Systems (AIS), Stockholm and Uppsala, Sweden, pp. 11 - 11, presented at The 27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2019), Stockholm and Uppsala, Sweden, 08 June 2019 - 14 June 2019, https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2019_rip/18/
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Tim Y; Pan SL; Cui L, 2018, 'Alibaba’s Digital Enablement Strategies in Rural China', in ICIS 2017: Transforming Society with Digital Innovation
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Tim Y; Pan SL; Cui L, 2018, 'Alibaba’s Digital Enablement Strategies in Rural China', in ICIS 2017: Transforming Society with Digital Innovation
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Tim Y; Pan SL; Ouyang T, 2018, 'Museum in the Age of Digital Transformation', in Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2018), Association for Information Systems (AIS), Yokohama, Japan, presented at The 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2018), Yokohama, Japan, 26 June 2018 - 28 June 2018, https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2018/102/
    Conference Papers | 2017
    Tim Y; Pan SL; Cui L, 2017, 'Alibaba’s Digital Enablement Strategies in Rural China', in Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS2017), Association for Information Systems, Seoul, South Korea, presented at The 38th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS2017), Seoul, South Korea, 10 December 2017 - 13 December 2017, http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/PracticeOriented/Presentations/6/
    Conference Papers | 2014
    Tim Y; Pan SL; Bahri S; Khan AFA, 2014, 'Social Media as Boundary Objects: A Case of Digitalized Civic Engagement in Malaysia', in Proceeding of the 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2014), Auckland, New Zealand, presented at The 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2014), Auckland, New Zealand, 08 December 2014 - 10 December 2014, http://hdl.handle.net/10292/8105
    Conference Papers | 2014
    Wang J; Tim Y; Wong WF; Ong ZL; Sun Z; Li HH, 2014, 'A coherent hybrid SRAM and STT-RAM L1 cache architecture for shared memory multicores', in Proceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC, pp. 610 - 615, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ASPDAC.2014.6742958
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Tim Y; Yang L; Pan SL; Kaewkitipong L; Ractham P, 2013, 'The emergence of social media as boundary objects in crisis response: A collective action perspective', in International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2013): Reshaping Society Through Information Systems Design, pp. 3882 - 3893
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Wang J; Tim Y; Wong WF; Li HH, 2013, 'A practical low-power memristor-based analog neural branch predictor', in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, pp. 175 - 180, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISLPED.2013.6629290

My Research Supervision

  • Digital Sustainability 
  • Resilient Strategy for the Future of Work (completed)

My Teaching

Current Courses Taught