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Dear Colleagues,
We now have a dozen+ faculty colleagues on the team. At this point
we are opening the project up to PhD students in their third+
year. Should be a wonderful learning experience. We will close
team enrollment in three days.
If you have colleagues interested in literature reviews, latent
measurement models, qualitative research, or who love to organize
stuff, please forward.
Background and data: after 40 years of quantitative construct
research in IS, it time to examine our favorite antecedents. There
are several construct taxonomies in existence, but construct
taxonomies cannot reveal the true molar nature of what exists. The
Human Behavior Project at the University of Colorado has collected
more than 17,000 items from 1981-2016 published in three of the
top journals in the discipline. While this project does not focus
on qualitative or design science research, it will draw on both of
these traditions to analyze our quantitative items.
Why: we believe these items represent a unique lens into a popular
form of research in the discipline, and an opportunity to
understand better what is theorized to exist and how these
“atomic” pieces fit together. We will build an ontology -- a
specification of what entities exists in the world, e.g., people,
technologies, groups, etc., coupled with a hierarchical taxonomy
of items that purport to measure some attributes of these
entities. By organizing these, we will enable better selection of
items for construct creation, construct testing, historical
analysis, content validity evaluations, and algorithmic analysis.
After publication(s), all data from the project will be released
to the discipline to enable unanticipated work to take place.
The team: we expect to gather a large and diverse set of
researchers from across the IS discipline to join in a massively
collaborative project. The goal is not only to produce the item
ontology but to collectively find or build the technologies that
would enable such a task. Think of it as a contribution to Team
Science as well as an attempt to examine a critical tool of our
discipline. Regardless of the methodological background,
outside-the-box thinkers should be able to contribute and take
leadership positions for specific products and serve as the first
author for such work.
When: We will engage in a one month enrollment period (5/21/2019 –
6/20/2019), before scheduling a call among those interested. If
appropriate, AMCIS may serve as a first face-to-face meeting of
part of the team.
How: Fill out this 1-minute
survey
<http://leeds.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3UdOWzWMNxR2B7v>
to be on the initial email. If you are too excited to stop there,
send Kai an email directly at
kai.larsen@colorado.edu.
Kai ☺
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Kai R. Larsen
[Leeds
<https://www.colorado.edu/business/kai-r-larsen>][ResearchGate
<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kai_Larsen>][LinkedIn
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kai-r-larsen-4413a01>]
Associate Professor, Information
Analytics
<https://www.colorado.edu/business/academic-programs/undergraduate-programs/management-entrepreneurship/information-analytics-track>,
Leeds School of Business
<https://www.colorado.edu/business/>
Associate Professor (courtesy), Information
Science
<https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/infoscience>,
CMCI
<https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/>
Research Advisor, Gallup
<http://www.gallup.com/>
Fellow, Institute of Behavioral
Science
<https://behavioralscience.colorado.edu/>
Director, Human Behavior Project
<http://www.theorizeit.org/>
University of Colorado
<http://www.colorado.edu/>
995 Regent Dr.
Boulder, CO 80309
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