-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] MIS Quarterly Call for Papers: Next-Generation Information Systems Theories Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 10:49:40 -0500 From: Jan DeGross degro003@umn.edu To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

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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