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Subject: [AISWorld] CFP - META-RESEARCH TRACK - AMCIS 2020
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 15:45:08 -0500
From: Michael Cuellar <mcuellar(a)georgiasouthern.edu>
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CALL FOR PAPERS: AMCIS 2020 August 12-16 Salt Lake City, Utah, USA –
Track in META-RESEARCH IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS
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IMPORTANT DATES
- January 6: Submission system Opens
- February 28 | 5:00 pm MST: Paper submission deadline
- April 15 | Authors notified of decisions
- April 22 | 5:00 pm MST: Camera Ready papers are due
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TRACK DESCRIPTION
Following on the success of this track in 2018 and 2019 this track
serves as the primary point of contribution and subsequent publication
of innovative meta-research articles. Meta-research (research on
research) is a venerable and valuable research stream within Information
Systems. Meta-research is the discussion that goes on between IS
scholars on issues surrounding the production of IS research. It
includes such areas as discussions of the structure and development of
the field, the core and boundaries of the field, field legitimacy,
scholar/department/journal/ country ranking methods, discussions of
research culture and practices, methods of evaluation of scholarship,
literature reviews and research commentaries.
The purpose of the track includes showcasing unique and leading edge
empirical, theoretical, and commentary papers in the area of
meta-research. Typically, there has not been a good location for these
types of papers within the structure of the usual tracks provided. This
track provides a welcoming space for such papers.
There are several minitracks within this track:
Minitrack 1: General Topics in IS Meta-Research
Minitrack Chair: Hirotoshi Takeda (hirotoshi.takeda(a)maine.edu)
IS Research is a diverse field, whether it be qualitative or
quantitative, drawing from many theories, methodologies, and uses in
society. Meta-research aims to improve and evaluate research. In this
track, we will accept papers that conduct research on understanding or
evaluating other IS research. This mini-track will serve as a place
where authors can submit their work that may not precisely fit into
other meta-research mini-tracks.
Topics covered in this mini-track might include:
- Core and Boundaries of the Information Systems Field
- Field legitimacy and place within academia
- Methods of evaluating scholarship, tenure and promotion practices e.g
Cuellar (2016), Dennis (2006)
- Scholar/department/journal/ country ranking methods, e.g. Lowry et al
(2007; 2004)
- Research Culture and Practices e.g. Lyttinen (2007)
- Social Capital in IS
Minitrack 2: Research Commentaries/Literature Reviews in IS
Minitrack Co-Chairs:
Gaurav Bansal (bansalg(a)uwgb.edu)
Donald Heath (heathd(a)uwosh.edu)
As information Systems matures as a discipline, there is a need to
conduct and publish research on meta-analysis to synthesize the findings
and to identify the potential research gaps and future research agenda.
Such meta-analysis can help identify critical research gaps and help us
identify the questions that have been answered, and also the ones that
still remain unanswered. The meta-analysis also helps the body of
evidence to determine the contextual factors and enhance our
understanding of how and when they work. Such contextual knowledge can
help us understand the contextual features associated with our theories
and help identify what planned intervention is likely to be most
powerful. Such meta-analysis will help contextualize our findings, and
It will help fine-tune our research questions and will help provide more
meaningful guidance to practitioners. Thus, this minitrack is focusing
on inviting papers that provide theory-based, literature-based, or
quantitative analysis based meta-analysis based on IS research.
Minitrack 3: Reconciling Related Theories
Minitrack Chair: Eleanor Wynn (eleanorwynn3(a)gmail.com)
The Information Systems field has enjoyed an abundance of relevant
theory, partly because its academic culture arises from multiple
disciplines, including social sciences and management, and partly
because the publication structure affords the rise of new outlets. This
diversity of outlets continually brings in new theoretical material.
However, the discipline has also entertained overlapping theories within
the domains of hermeneutics and social construction, each with its own
vocabulary. We seek papers that compare constructs across different
metatheoretical bases. Topics might include:
- comparative vocabularies and semantic boundary-creation
- direct applicability to analysis of data (of any kind, be it survey,
text, observational)
- identification of overlaps and contradictions
- patterns of exclusion of related theory
- notions of the social, of the technical, and of the combination
- perceived trends and recurrences
- current relevance to emergent problems like platforms and infrastructuring
Minitrack 4: Decolonizing Ontologies, Networking Philosophies
Minitrack Chair: Bruce Janz (bruce.janz(a)ucf.edu)
In this mini-track, we are looking for papers that rethink the
relationship between information and cultural or emplaced philosophies,
that is, philosophy which acknowledges its debts and duties to its
places of formation while recognizing its place in larger networks of
thought. Philosophy’s approach to information has been dominated by
philosophies of information (accounts of ontologies and structures of
information flow), but have inadequately interrogated philosophy as
information, that is, as networks and flows of thought and cognitive
processes. The reasons for this are clear – philosophy’s self-conception
is as something that rises above its modes and conditions of production
and audiences. This is changing as Western philosophy realizes that
philosophies rooted in non-Western places and queer, non-white,
non-male, and/or disabled experiences might create significant new
concepts. Information science can learn from this realization – what
does it look like to take indigenous, African, Asian and other
ontologies seriously as models of knowledge production, authorization,
and transfer? Topics might include:
- Scholars such as Eduardo Kohn, Eduardo Vivieros de Castro, Philippe
Descola, Sylvia Wynter, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Achille Mbembe, Rosi
Braidotti, Tim Ingold, Tobie Nathan, Isabelle Stengers, Edouard
Glissant, Francisco Varela, Humberto Maturana, Ernst von Glasersfeld
- Enactivist (4E) cognitive science as a model for cultural thinking and
for understanding information
- Cultural forms as philosophy and as information networks: Ubuntu,
palavers, translocality, cannibal metaphysics, biopower
Track Co-Chairs:
Michael Cuellar,
Georgia Southern University,
mcuellar(a)georgiasouthern.edu <mailto:mcuellar@georgiasouthern.edu>
Duane Truex,
Georgia State University,
Dtruex(a)gsu.edu <mailto:Dtruex@gsu.edu>
References
Cuellar, M. J., Takeda, H., Vidgen, R., and Truex III, D. P. 2016.
"Ideational Influence, Connectedness, and Venue Representation: Making
an Assessment of Scholarly Capital," Journal of the Association for
Information Systems (17:1), pp. 1-28.
Dennis, A. R., Valacich, J. S., Fuller, M. A., and Schneider, C. 2006.
"Research Standards for Promotion and Tenure in Information Systems,"
MIS Quarterly (30:1), pp. 1-12.
Holmström, J., and Truex, D. 2011. "Dropping Your Tools: Exploring When
and How Theories Can Serve as Blinders in Is Research," Communications
of the AIS (28:1), pp. article 19, 28 pgs.
Lowry, P. B., Karuga, G. G., and Richardson, V. J. 2007. "Assessing
Leading Institutions, Faculty, and Articles in Premier Information
Systems Research Journals," Communications of the Association for
Information Systems (20), pp. 142-203.
Lowry, P. B., Romans, D., and Curtis, A. 2004. "Global Journal Prestige
and Supporting Disciplines: A Scientometric Study of Information Systems
Journals," Journal of the Association of Information Systems (5:2), pp.
29-77.
Lyytinen, K., Baskerville, R., Iivari, J., and Te'eni, D. 2007. "Why the
Old World Cannot Publish? Overcoming Challenges in Publishing
High-Impact Is Research," European Journal of Information Systems (16),
pp. 317-326.
Orlikowski, W. J., and Iacono, C. S. 2001. "Research Commentary:
Desperately Seeking the "IT" in IT Research--a Call to Theorizing the IT
Artifact," Information Systems Research (12:2), pp. 121-134.
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Michael Cuellar, PhD, PMP
Associate Professor, Enterprise Systems and Analytics
Georgia Southern University
Parker College of Business
Enterprise Systems and Analytics Department
PO Box 7998
Statesboro, GA 30460-7998
email: mcuellar(a)georgiasouthern.edu
phone: (404)-405-4510
Editor-In-Chief Journal of the Southern AIS
Senior Editor, JISE
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