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MIS Quarterly Call for Papers: Next-Generation Information
Systems Theories
Editors: Andrew Burton Jones (University of Queensland;
abj@business.uq.edu.au); Brian Butler (University of Maryland;
bsbutler@umd.edu); Susan Scott (London School of Economics;
S.V.Scott@lse.ac.uk); and Sean Xin Xu (Tsinghua University;
xuxin@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn)
Submission Deadline: Extended Abstracts due November 15, 2018;
Full Paper submissions due April 1, 2019
Focus and Motivation of the Special Issue: As a research field
evolves, it is important to periodically take stock and reflect on
how its core theoretical ideas are developing and be open to
radical innovation. Do existing theoretical ideas need
significant revision? Should well-known ideas be dropped? Are
new ideas required? Have important ideas been forgotten? Are
opportunities for new ideas not being taken because of academic
silos or a failure to adopt innovative models of enquiry? This
special issue provides an opportunity to take stock and reflect on
theoretical progress in Information Systems and forge exciting new
theoretical avenues for the future.
Now is a particularly opportune time for the Information Systems
field to take stock of its theoretical progress and develop
next-generation IS theories. We are witnissing fundamental
changes in the field’s core phenomena as well as major changes in
ur data, methods, and categories of knowledge. This Special Issue
offers an opportunity to energize the best theoretical minds in
the field to see if we can lay the foundations for a new
generation of research.
This will be the second MIS Quarterly special issue devoted to
theory papers. (In March 1999, MIS Quarterly issued a Call for
Submissions for a Special Issue on Redefining the Organizational
Roles of Information Technology in the Information Age. The issue
was motivated by transformations occurring throughout the 1990s.
The papers for that Special Issue appeared in the September 2002
(Volume 26, Number 3) and June 2003 (Volume 27, Number 2)
issues.) As a result, this special issue represents an
opportunity for MISQ to publish not only the best theoretical
work, but also the best of the theory paper genre.
While not wishing to limit the structure of papers submitted to
the special issue, we suggest three examples that might work for
many authors:
1. Pure theory papers: Papers that provide a detailed review
of theory in a focal domain but where the new theoretical
contribution departs from the prior literature and the focus is on
the new theory being generated.
2. Review-oriented theory papers: Papers that provide a very
detailed review of theory in a focal domain and where the new
theoretical contribution stems from the authors’ synthesis of that
review (e.g., through its critique or reformulation).
3. Empirically enhanced theory papers: Papers that focus on
the generation of new theory but where data plays an important
developmental, illustrative or justificatory role.
To view the full call for papers, including information on the
Special Issue Editorial Board, the process and time lines for
submissions, and key dates, go to the MIS Quarterly’s home page at
https://misq.org
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