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CALL FOR PAPERS: AMCIS 2019 August 15-17 Cancun Mexico –
Track in META-RESEARCH IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS
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IMPORTANT DATES
- January 7: Submission system opens
- March 1 | 10:00 am PST: Paper submission deadline
- April 15 | Authors notified of decisions
- April 24 | 11:59 pm PST: Camera Ready papers are due
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TRACK DESCRIPTION
Following on the success of this track in 2018, 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 three mini-tracks within this track:
Minitrack 1: General Topics in IS Meta-Research
Minitrack Chair: Michael Cuellar,
mcuellar@georgiasouthern.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)
- Research commentaries- discussions of the state of the art and
where we need to go in research e.g. Orlikowki and Iacono (2001).
Minitrack 2: Literature Reviews in IS
Minitrack Chair: Hirotoshi Takeda,
hirotoshi.takeda@maine.edu
<mailto:hirotoshi.takeda@maine.edu>
As the Information Systems (IS) discipline makes intellectual
contributions to the academic research field, we need to organize
and reflect on this research in an organized fashion.
Understanding specific contributions to particular areas of the IS
field is an important meta-research exercise.
With all the knowledge that is being created in the IS field,
there is a need to synthesize and organize the existing research
in IS. Literature reviews play the important role of getting a
snap-shot look at what we know, how we know it, and who made the
contributions. Literature also play the important role of
providing a basis from where we can start and identify areas of
research that are in need of our researchers’ attention.
The importance of this activity is seen in the publication of
literature review papers in journals. However, traditionally there
has been a lack of venue for these papers. This minitrack was
proposed to address this need. This minitrack will be the basis
for IS researcher to conduct literature review papers and use at
the AMCIS conference as a base for feedback and development of the
literature review.
Minitrack 3: Adoption of novel theories into IS
Minitrack Co-Chairs: Michael Cuellar,
mcuellar@georgiasouthern.edu
Duane Truex,
dtruex@gsu.edu
As the Information Systems (IS) discipline as an applied
discipline drawing from fields as diverse as engineering, computer
science, psychology, sociology and management has historically
brought new and novel theories and metatheories into the field
from those various disciplines. Understanding how those theories
and metatheories have been utilized in which particular areas of
the IS field is an important meta-research exercise.
With these novel theories being introduced into Information
Systems, it is important to recognize that we need to properly
appropriate them into the field. We must first use them
appropriately as developed by the source field and then expand and
enhance those theories and meta-theories to account for
information systems phenomena (Holmström and Truex 2011).
This mini-track seeks to provide a venue to discuss how novel
theories should be introduced and appropriated into the
information systems field.
Minitrack 4: Social Capital in the IS Community
Minitrack Co-Chairs: Michael Chau,
mchau@business.hku.hk
Jennifer Xu,
JXU@bentley.edu
Information Systems (IS) has made significant progress in
accumulating social capital, in addition to intellectual capital,
as an academic discipline. Such social capital can be evidenced
through various forms of connections and collaboration among
scholars such as working in the same institution, co-authorship,
advisor-student relationship, conference co-organization,
committee co-membership, and editorial board co-membership. These
social interactions weave scholars into a complex social network
in which knowledge is generated, exchanged, and updated. It is
important to understand how the social ties are formed and
maintained, how social capital influences the creation of
knowledge in the field, and the development of the IS discipline
in general. This mini-track aims to solicit papers that are
related to such topics as social network analysis and
visualization of the IS scholar collaboration network, the
interplay between social capital and intellectual capital in IS,
and the social identify of the IS discipline.
This mini-track aims to solicit papers that are related to some of
the following important topics:
- Social network analysis on the IS scholar collaboration network;
- Measuring social capital in the IS scholar collaboration
network;
- IS scholar social network visualization;
- The relationship between co-authorship and other social ties;
- The past, present and future of social capital development in
IS;
- Identifying sub-communities in the IS discipline;
- The social identify of the IS discipline;
- The social capital of IS scholars outside the IS community.
Track Co-Chairs:
Hirotoshi Takeda,
University of Southern Maine,
takeda@maine.edu <mailto:takeda@maine.edu>
Michael Cuellar,
Georgia Southern University,
mcuellar@georgiasouthern.edu
<mailto:mcuellar@georgiasouthern.edu>
Duane Truex,
Georgia State University,
Dtruex@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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