[AISWorld] JSIS Best Paper Award for 2014: winning papers currently freely available

[Galliers, Robert]

JSIS Best Paper Award for 2014

Building on JSIS's long tradition of publishing excellent articles that deal with the often vexed and complex strategic issues associated with the integration and management of information systems in and between organizations, the editors and publishers are pleased to announce the winners and runners up of the JSIS Best Paper Award for 2014. These papers are currently freely available for download at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-journal-of-strategic-information-systems/news/.


Read the best JSIS paper of 2014:

Case studies and generalization in information systems research: A critical realist perspective<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0963868713000620%20>
Volume 23, Issue 2, June 2014, Pages 174-186
Eric W. K. Tsang

JSIS is agnostic when it comes to the research methods that are used in the articles we publish. Having said that, many of our authors apply a case study approach, given that they delve deeply into key strategic issues faced by organizations as they aim to harness modern information technologies. The winning paper deals with a key strategic issue for IS researchers in terms of making theoretical and empirical generalizations from their findings – arguing that critical realism provides a means of case finding generalization.

Read the runner up:

Modern information technology in an old workforce: Toward a strategic research agenda<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0963868714000432>
Volume 23, Issue 4, December 2014, Pages 284-304
Stefan Tams, Varun Grovera, Jason Thatcher

The runner up contribution considers an emerging issue central to the harnessing of IT in work life in this day and age, namely the confluence of two growing trends concerned with increasing dependence on an aging workforce in many Western economies together with dependence on increasingly complex and powerful information and communication technologies. The paper argues for more research on age-related impacts, leading to the provision of a research agenda that deals with these issues.


Congratulations to the authors of these two outstanding papers.