-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] MIS Quarterly Announcement: Best Paper of 2007 Datum: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:26:06 -0500 Von: Jan DeGross degro003@umn.edu Antwort an: Jan DeGross degro003@umn.edu An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org
It is with great pleasure that MIS Quarterly announces the winner of its 2007 Best Paper Award. This year the award goes to Andrew Burton-Jones of the University of British Columbia and Michael Gallivan of Georgia State University for their paper entitled: “Toward a Deeper Understanding of System Usage in Organizations: A Multilevel Perspective,” published in Volume 31, No. 4, pp. 657-679.
An official presentation of the award will be made at a ceremony to take place at ICIS 2008 in Paris.
The IS community may be interested in knowing about the process used to determine MISQ’s award. The process involved two stages, the first being a nominating stage and the second being a decision stage. In the first stage, Senior Editors (SEs) of MISQ carefully read all papers published in the journal during the calendar year 2007. They then indicated, in writing, their top choice and commented on both that paper and other papers that were most worthy of the award. These responses were accumulated and then shared with all other members of the SE Board. The second stage involved a re-reading and assessment of those papers that had received a first place nod by at least one of the SEs. These five papers became the finalists for the award. SEs then rank-ordered all five papers, with a 1.0 score going to the first place paper, a .8 score going to the second place paper, etc. The highest vote-getter was then designated as the winner. To ensure fairness, SEs who had a conflict of interest with any of the authors published in 2007 recused themselves from the process.
Detmar Straub Editor-in-Chief, MIS Quarterly
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