[AISWorld] Most Influential Information Systems Papers

Sun Jul 17 03:17:40 EDT 2016

On Michael's comments:

1. Are MIS students getting jobs by MIS research? Well, they are training
on IT technologies like ERPs, BI/BA, Networking, A&D, DB/DW and so on
(based on USA and Canada IT annual salary reports by states) but for MIS
research results are scarce evidence. A few MIS PhD industry-based job
offerings are also seen in the market.

2) MIS textbooks are rather based on SwE or CSc achievements!

So, the big problem here is that we need more IT technical research
oriented people controlling the top journals. There are a negative bias on
such a control by reference disciplines trained people.

Great MIS researchers in the past were either former trained in engineering
areas or in social sciences but with a humble sense of reporting results in
natural way.

Top research is flawed. A single example: most top research stream at
present on strategic planning indicates necessity of simulation research
tools (and multi-agent simulation systems are been present from the 90's!).

Tops journals lacks of IT trained people at present, and again: we are
ignoring the most relevant and important IT asset on present:  data centers!

My 2-cent contribution from 30 years teaching IT courses from the
transition from mainframes/minicomputers to the first Apple II pcs!

Manuel Mora
ACM Senior Member
On Jul 17, 2016 3:37 AM, "Michael Myers" <m.myers at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> I don't disagree that our research could be more relevant than it is now,
> but I think some balance should be brought back to the discussion. Just two
> points:
>
> 1. The curriculum and the textbooks that we use to teach our students are
> based on IS research. Almost all of our IS students that graduate are
> getting jobs these days, in fact we can't produce enough here in New
> Zealand. Does that indicate that our research is irrelevant to industry and
> that we are not providing value to the taxpayer? I don't think so.
>
> 2. Most patients do not understand the language of medical research. Does
> that mean that medical research has no value ? Of course not! I don't think
> we should expect practitioners and the general public - most of whom have
> not had any research training - to understand the language of research.
>
> I still agree that we could be more relevant than we are now, but let's
> keep things in perspective :)
>
> Best wishes
>
> Michael
>
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> From: AISWorld <aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org> on behalf of Land,F <
> F.Land at lse.ac.uk>
> Sent: Saturday, 16 July 2016 4:06 a.m.
> To: 'Niels Bjørn-Andersen'; Samir       Chatterjee; ISWorld
> Subject: [FORGED] Re: [AISWorld] Most Influential Information Systems
> Papers
>
> Dear Samir
>
> Some of us have been questioning the value of IS research for some time.
> It gets even worse: the language we use, even for potentially valuable
> research, is foreign to most practitioners.
> Can the younger generation save IS?
> Frank Land
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AISWorld [mailto:aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Niels Bjørn-Andersen
> Sent: 11 July 2016 20:08
> To: Samir Chatterjee; ISWorld
> Subject: Re: [AISWorld] Most Influential Information Systems Papers
>
> Dear Samir,
>
>
>
> I share your concern about the real impact of our IS research
>
> Too much is only published for citations by our mutual admiration club,
> and we would all have a very hard time to argue why taxpayers or students
> should spend money on that. Why should they feed us, if we don't provide
> value?
>
>
>
> Look to the UK Research Assessment, where 20% is impact on society or real
> organizations in 2014. I am prepared to bet my pension that this figure
> will increase in UK, and that it will come to other countries. And how many
> of us have something to show for that?
>
>
>
> I think it is a brilliant idea to post 'success stories' on a web-page -
> at least as inspiration for the rest of us.
>
>
>
> Best
>
> Niels
>
> Professor Niels Bjørn-Andersen
> Department  of IT Management
> Copenhagen Business School
> Howitzvej 60,room 3.09
> 2000 Frederiksberg
> Danmark
> nba at cbs.dk<mailto:nba at cbs.dk>
> office phone: (+45) 38 15 44 44
> mobile phone: (+45) 24 79 43 07
> Skype: Niels.Bjorn.Andersen
>
> http://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-and-centres/department-of-it-management/staff/nbaitm
>
> Danish Digital Champion to the EU appointed by Danish government.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AISWorld [mailto:aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of
> Samir Chatterjee
> Sent: 10. juli 2016 21:08
> To: ISWorld <AISWorld at lists.aisnet.org>
> Subject: [AISWorld] Most Influential Information Systems Papers
>
>
>
> Hello All,
>
>
>
> In our IS community we periodically tend to talk about elite journals by
> name (such as MISQ, ISR, JMIA or JAIS etc) and get bogged down by which
> journal gets into FT 45 or not. Very seldom do we take the time to actually
> discuss what papers/content published in these journals actually have an
> influence. When I talk about influence, I mean not only high citations
> (researchers are referring the work) but also real-world impact which is
> something that was actually built, implemented and even commercialized for
> societal benefit. While we tend to have high citation papers in our field
> but IS suffers in the latter. For example I am aware of highly influential
> work by Jay Nunamaker on GDSS which actually saw the light of day as real
> people used those group systems.
>
>
>
> I will admit that I am a computer scientist who accidentally became an IS
> professor. But honestly I see our field as obsessed about journal prestige
> but very little attention is paid to what work has actually benefitted
> mankind.
>
>
>
> I did a quick search about influential papers in CS and found some highly
> interesting work cited.
>
>
>
> 1.Claude Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" has over
> 63,000 citation and is the basis of all communication systems in use today.
>
>
>
> 2. S Brin, L Page. The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search
> Engine <http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?cid=6538>. in Proc.
> of 7th International WWW Conference, 1998 Has over 3623 citations and is of
> course the basis of Google search engine that has changed the world forever.
>
>
>
> 3. R Rivest, A Shamir, L Adleman. A Method for Obtaining Digital
> Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems <
> http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?cid=10320>. Communications of
> the ACM, 1978 Has over 3175 citations and is the foundation RSA technology
> which is now used extensively in S/MIME, and TLS and other network security
> protocols.
>
>
>
> These are a few sample examples. There are many others..
>
>
>
> So here is what I propose. Please send me a cited paper and tell me why
> you feel the paper is infuential for IS community. I will start a Wikipedia
> page and add those influential papers to the site so that future IS
> researchers have a must read set of articles.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Samir
>
>
>
> --
>
> Dr. Samir Chatterjee
>
> Professor
>
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>
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