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HICSS-53 2020 Mini-track
Knowing What We Know: Theory, Meta-analysis, and Review
(Organizational Systems and Technology track)
The “Knowing What We Know: Theory and Review” mini-track invites
submissions that pursue approaches, methods and conceptual papers
which will advance the IS field ability to “know what it knows”.
Our ability to understand, integrate and synthesize the
exponentially growing body of scientific literature in the social
sciences is hampered by both structural and social problems. These
include a lack of standardization for concepts and constructs
across the fields and a lack of infrastructure and powerful search
and integration tools which would enable researchers to perform
meta-theorization. The aim of this mini-track is to engage with
the type of disciplinary infrastructures other fields have
successfully progressed (e.g. metaBUS, the Human Behavior Project,
Medline and the Biological Science Database) that will enable IS
to better know what we know.
Research over the last decades has emphasized theory development
in IS and other social and behavioral science disciplines. The
resulting proliferation of theories and constructs has numerous
redundancies, which can be revealed through review,
meta-theorization/meta-analysis, and interrogation of the theory
discourse. Theory ontologies would benefit the disciplines by
identifying what we can now research given what we already know.
Theory synthesis or integration will inform social and behavioral
sciences research with a better understanding of fundamental
theories across disciplinary boundaries, help organize our
theories to be accessible to practice, and increase our
understanding of the philosophical commitments represented in
their contextualization and use.
The scope of the papers for the mini-track is quite broad,
including for example, the development of theory ontologies,
approaches to theory integration, introducing tools that support
cataloging and synthesizing our discipline’s conceptual
infrastructure, and meta-analytic/review approaches to building
cumulative theory. We also welcome approaches to the local
contextualization of theory where insight is gained into valuable
distinctions.
Toward these ends, topics of interest in this mini-track include:
1. Approaches to theory meta-analysis, integration or aggregation
of social and behavioral science theories, including tools that
support / implement such approaches;
2. The theoretical ties between different disciplines (e.g.
healthcare and IS, and sustainability science and IS, energy
informatics), or parallel the trends in theorizing the same
phenomenon;
3. Research on ontologies, taxonomies, frameworks, and
categorizations of constructs and variables used in system science
theories;
4. Conceptual papers on an Social Science Infrastructure that
would support social sciences
5. Techniques for the extraction of constructs and relationships
from published papers
6. The use of natural language processing, data mining, and
predictive analytics to better understand and interrogate
theories;
7. Discussion of the roles of theories used to explain, approaches
used to predict (e.g. neural nets and big data), and of theories
of understanding;
8. Exploration of the dependencies of constructs and variables;
9. Exploration of the boundaries of theory “domains.”
Prospective authors are advised that the track does not look for
topical literature reviews if these are not illustrations of
approaches to meta-theoretical integration. Such literature
reviews are best submitted to one of the conference’s topical
tracks.
This mini-track also has an associated ISWorld website devoted to
theories used in IS research
(
http://istheory.byu.edu/wiki/Main_Page) — which won the 2005
AISWorldNet Challenge Award for the best website based on
AISWorldNet user voting. We intend to uphold this high standard
and advance the website further by increasing the synergy between
mini-track outcomes and website content.
For further conference details, schedules and submission
guidelines please see:
http://www.hicss.org/
We hope to see you on Maui January 2020!
Mini-track Co-Chairs:
Dirk S. Hovorka, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Sydney Business School
University of Sydney
New South Wales, AU
dirk.hovorka@sydney.edu.au<mailto:dirk.hovorka@sydney.edu.au>
Benjamin Mueller, PhD.
Associate Professor
University of Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
benjamin.mueller@unil.ch<file:///E:/HICSS%202019/benjamin.mueller@unil.ch>
Kai R. Larsen. PhD
Associate Professor
Leeds School of Business
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado
kai.larsen@colorado.edu<mailto:kai.larsen@colorado.edu>
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Dirk S. Hovorka
Associate Professor
University of Sydney
NSW, 2006 AU
T +61 2 9351 2949
Senior Editor: Journal of the Association of Information Systems
(JAIS)
2018 BGS Professor of the Year
http://sydney.edu.au/business/staff/dirkho<https://webmail.sydney.edu.au/owa/redir.aspx?C=ih8ggEa0AvdCkhgiAZ4-qvl2q3lNSZ3RGfXpphUpWUR02iAlS8DTCA..&URL=http%3a%2f%2fsydney.edu.au%2fbusiness%2fstaff%2fdirkho>
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