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Subject:	[AISWorld] AMCIS 2013 CFP: Mini-track on Paradigmatic Diversity in IS Studies and its Implications for Research Quality
Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:33:42 -0600
From:	Ruba A. <raljafari@gmail.com>
To:	aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

19^th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2013)

Chicago Illinois, USA

15-17 August 2013

Mini-Track: Paradigmatic Diversity in IS Studies and its Implications for Research Quality

Track: Research Methods

Description:

The IS community has become more receptive to multiple research approaches after such seminal works  as Allen Lee’s (1999) essay on integrating positivist and interpretive approaches and Minger’s (2001) emphasis on the value of the plurality of paradigms.  While all IS researchers share the intent to conduct high quality research, what exactly constitutes high quality research is not without controversy.  Determining research quality can vary greatly based on the ontological and epistemological assumptions of the perspective (Burrell and Morgan 1979) and IS research best practices and standards are still being debated (Straub and Ang 2011). This increased diversity and lack of shared perspectives on quality represents a risk to the IS field.  Research that represents a contribution to the IS field is subject to the risk of inappropriate rejection (essentially a type II error) if reviewers apply an inappropriate standard to determine the quality of the research.   The IS field which is still struggling for identify, risks not publishing research contributions or missing out if the research is published under a different discipline.

 

The need to examine and debate what constitutes research quality and best practice, particularly across approaches, motivates this mini-track.  This mini-track intends to foster discussion related to difficult and controversial issues related to determining research quality. We encourage authors to submit conceptual or empirical research related to a wide variety of related issues.  These issues can be conceptual in nature such as how to integrate interpretivist and positivist approaches or detailed methodological discussions such as the recent exploration into the appropriateness of formative and reflective constructs in quantitative modeling.  We encourage any submission that fosters discussion and understandings of research quality, best practices and appropriate use of methods.

General Examples of Relevant Topics:

• Assessment of research rigor in IS.
• The evolution of evaluative criteria in different IS research paradigms.
• Level of consensus on research quality standards across different IS paradigms.
• Agreement and disagreement of best practice in different circumstances
• Authors’ responsibilities for providing guidance on how to judge research quality.
• Ontological positioning and its implications for reviewing and publishing IS research.

Important Dates:

January 4, 2013: Paper submissions open on Bepress

February 22, 2013: Deadline for paper submissions at 11:59 p.m. CST

April 17, 2013: Notification of paper acceptance

May 9, 2013: Camera-ready copy due

Instructions for authors can be found at AMCIS website: http://amcis2013.aisnet.org

 

Mini-Track Chair: Dr. Kerry W. Ward, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

Email: kwward@unomaha.edu

Mini-Track Co-chair: Ruba Aljafari, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Email: raljafari@unomaha.edu

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