[AISWorld] Influential IS Papers Discourse - Part 3 Nominate papers
Samir Chatterjee
profsamir1 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 11:15:52 EDT 2016
Dear Manuel,
I suggest that you write a clear article that critiques what literature
IS/IT DSR has missed based on strong arguments and submit that article for
peer review. I do not think that throwing our a few topics here and there
and saying MIT does it makes a very strong argument. In fact we are
deviating from the main focus, that is, can we find a set of articles
written by IS researchers that has had influence?
Many here know that I have been a champion of DSR. However I am also a big
fan of good solid behavioral work. My next door office neighbor in
Claremont is Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Many of you will recognize him
as the inventor of "flow". His book and his papers on that topic has nearly
15,000 citations, flow is the basis of several positive psychology based
startup companies, Mike has appeared nearly on all TV stations (CNN, BBC)
and of course has a fascinating talk at TED. Now that I call impact and
influence. So while design science research can lead to interesting
artifacts that can become commercialized and help society so too can
behavioral work.
My main goal is very simple. Let us stop talking about so called elite
journals in MIS by name. Let us focus on content and good work. Let us give
our next generation of students and scholars something exciting to look
forward to. Let us collectively create a list of articles that IS community
can say "Look we have also had some real world impact".
Researchers have said we have theory fetish in IS. Some have said you have
to write your paper in a scripted way otherwise it will not be accepted in
MISQ or ISR. That has to stop. Enough is enough. Let us focus on good
research, that practitioners can use as well as academics can use. A
culture has emerged in IS community that has not been very healthy. It has
helped a few but as is clearly seen through this board and discussions, a
vast majority of researchers are frustrated by the status quo. Again I
encourage all senior editors of our journals to think hard and look at what
papers are being published and how many of them really has an impact?
I am receiving many nominations. At this time the review panel is being
expanded. AIS has come forth to help us with this initiative. A colleague
of mine said that I have become the Bernie Sanders of IS, ie I have started
a revolution. I didn't intend to. But let this revolution not die.
Cheers
Samir
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 7:20 AM, <mmora at securenym.net> wrote:
> Samir, I agree with you on the notion of we need to frame our own IS/IT
> discipline, but my critique is that tracked roots in DSR by you and others
> were biased on missed core literature from the strong related CSc and SwE
> disciplines, but do utilize from other discipline of references. Economy
> Nobel awarded and co-founder of AI discipline's ideas, of course, are
> totally mandatory in DSR, but these are non-unique ones. Newell's work (a
> colleague from Prof. H.A. Simon)had also relevant work like the symbolic
> hypotheses as fundamental premise for designing any intelligent system. On
> the idea on MIS/IT is an area jointly focused on people, process and
> technology (that it is true), my critique is a poor engineering inclusion,
> so my previous email that you likely missed on the need of learning of:
> Engineering Systems area, as an evolution of Systems Engineering. It is
> being promoted by MIT (also pioneers in Systems Engineering discipline in
> the world. So, the bias in MIS is still in the new DSR stream. Manuel (my
> name is not Manual, please observe it).
>
> PD. I copy again the official definitions on ES and SE from the MIT
> website:
>
> What is the difference between “engineering systems” and “systems
> engineering”?
>
> “Engineering systems” can refer to a field of scholarship that includes
> systems engineering, which is an engineering discipline that considers
> multiple complex factors in an effort to create and implement successful
> systems. Engineering systems approaches encompass an even broader set of
> disciplines, focusing on social, environmental, technological, and
> political contexts.
>
>
>
>
> Manual, I hear what you say however engineering and computer science are
> very well established disciplines. When we started the discourse on Design
> Science Research, we wanted to make sure that we as IS community can
> distinguish what we do from pure CS or Engineering. After all the nexus of
> DSR comes from Herb Simon's seminal work, emphasizing design. It is obvious
> that certain engineering theory or hard core technical CS work will not be
> referenced in DSR specially in the IS context. We as a community should
> promote problem solving but the source of our problems comes from the
> intersection of technology, people and organization. That's what
> distinguishes us. In fact I strongly suggest all senior editors in IS to
> ask for "what problem did you solve?" in their journal submissions. This
> can strengthen our field and showing evidence of value becomes easier. DSR
> is meant to do that as a research method.
>
>
>
> On Wed, August 3, 2016 6:12 am, Dennis, Alan R. wrote:
> > I agree that media coverage is an indication that the research has
> > reached the common masses, but I don't think it means it is important.
> > It means it has entertainment value. A few of my articles have gotten
> > media coverage over the years but nothing comes close to 200+ Web, print,
> > radio and TV stories on the Computers and Human Behavior article that
> > Taylor Wells and I published that looked at email and voicemail for
> > romantic communication. Interesting... yes. Important ... not so much.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: AISWorld [mailto:aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of
> > MurphJen at aol.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 3:39 PM
> > To: profsamir1 at gmail.com; galletta at katz.pitt.edu
> > Cc: aisworld at lists.aisnet.org
> > Subject: Re: [AISWorld] Influential IS Papers Discourse - Part 3 Nominate
> > papers
> >
> > my only comment on media coverage is that it can be biased by a good PR
> > person at the university, by that I mean that a good PR person can push
> > out media releases and such that will get a person interviewed. As an
> > example we have a good a PR person and I typically do a couple of
> > interviews a month on my research or on topics of interest. A little
> > side note is that I did over 100 interviews during the Fukushima nuclear
> > disaster, none tied to my research but all based on my knowledge. I
> > don't count that. On the other hand a student and I did a paper on how
> > to identify victims of human sex trafficking using online advertising and
> > have been interview a few times on it, this would count but I'm not sure
> > it reflects influence but rather an interest in the topic. This is very
> > true for IS security researchers, we have the most interesting research
> > for media coverage....murray jennex
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 8/2/2016 10:52:33 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> > profsamir1 at gmail.com writes:
> >
> > Dear Dennis, Bill & Manual,
> >
> >
> > I agree with Dennis that media coverage is a testimony that the
> > work/research has permeated to the common masses, hence it is probably
> > valuable to society.
> >
> > Manual, I hear what you say however engineering and computer science are
> > very well established disciplines. When we started the discourse on
> > Design Science Research, we wanted to make sure that we as IS community
> > can distinguish what we do from pure CS or Engineering. After all the
> > nexus of DSR comes from Herb Simon's seminal work, emphasizing design.
> > It is obvious that certain engineering theory or hard core technical CS
> > work will not be referenced in DSR specially in the IS context. We as a
> > community should promote problem solving but the source of our problems
> > comes from the intersection of technology, people and organization.
> > That's what distinguishes us. In fact I strongly suggest all senior
> > editors in IS to ask for "what problem did you solve?" in their journal
> > submissions. This can strengthen our field and showing evidence of value
> > becomes easier. DSR is meant to do that as a research method.
> >
> > Bill, you have a point. I have asked for papers since we know that
> > journal and conference articles are peer reviewed. But you can also
> > propose a book that you think has had influence. There are many other
> > artifacts that have influence but without "peer" review it is difficult
> > to weed out which is good and which is not. For example, someone may
> > write a blog or a newspaper column that actually may be read by more IS
> > folks than some journal papers. But one could argue that this is his/her
> > opinion. We live and work in a system of "peer review". So as long as
> > your work or artifact has been evaluated by others, please go ahead and
> > submit your nomination.
> >
> > Sincerely
> > Samir
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 6:18 PM, Galletta, Dennis
> > <galletta at katz.pitt.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >> This is quite interesting. At the risk of beating this to death, as
> >> some academics do, I think one additional measure should be added: Some
> >>
> > measure
> >> of media coverage. If the media cares about it, then it seems to add to
> >>
> > the
> >> evidence of importance. It could work into your last two measures in
> >> some way.
> >>
> >> I have heard some of Erik Brynjolffsson's work described on NPR. I
> >>
> > thought
> >> of this mainly because of a few very short news articles from two or
> > three
> >> of my experiments in the past, but just look at the scale of Erik's
> >> coverage! I did a couple of radio interviews on some local stations and
> >> some excerpts related to a story of this new thing called the Web on All
> >> Things Considered on NPR back in 1997 or 1998, and even that
> >> was pretty exciting. I have also seen news reports that relate to work
> by
> >> Carol Saunders as well. I'm sure many other IS professors have been
> >> in the
> > news,
> >> too.
> >>
> >> Maybe longer into the future, we should consider measures of popular
> >>
> > media
> >> like books and movies. For instance, A Beautiful Mind, a movie that was
> >> based on Nash (2001) and, of course, recently the Theory of Everything
> >> (Hawking). Maybe we will see a movie about UTAUT someday,
> >> however, having four authors make it more difficult!
> >>
> >> DG
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: AISWorld [mailto:aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf
> >> Of mmora at securenym.net
> >> Sent: Monday, August 1, 2016 7:52 PM
> >> To: Samir Chatterjee <profsamir1 at gmail.com>
> >> Cc: ISWorld <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [AISWorld] Influential IS Papers Discourse - Part 3
> >> Nominate papers
> >>
> >>
> >> Well, an additional evidence on strong bias on our disclipine,
> >> despite
> > the
> >> good wishes, on design research stream: axiomatic design theory (Suh,
> >> 1990), from MIT, widely used in several engineering fields, including
> >> software engineering, has been ignored in MIS. This is a problem. Bias
> > is a
> >> strong dominant force in our discipline. This book (Suh, 1990) qualifies
> >> totally the asked metrics but it has been missed in Design Research in
> >>
> > MIS.
> >
> >> Manuel Mora / UAA, Mexico
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, July 28, 2016 1:23 pm, Samir Chatterjee wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear Colleagues,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> A small ad hoc panel comprising of IS scholars from all continents
> >>> have come together to further this important discussion about
> >>> influence of IS research. Together we have come up with a way to
> >>> value the impact or influence. The attached PDF file shows the metric
> >>> but I am also providing it below.
> >>>
> >>> We encourage all of you to nominate papers that you think has had
> >>> tremendous impact or influence to field and society. In order to
> >>> manage this process and also in lieu of the time and effort that
> >>> might be required to handle this nomination, please adhere to the
> >>> following
> >> rule:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> 1. Send us a soft copy of the paper (PDF preferred).
> >>> 2. Fill up the influence metric table as shown.
> >>> 3. You can self nominate your own paper(s) but no one author can
> >>> nominate more than 5 of his/her own paper. 4. You must write a 100
> >>> word explanation of why this paper that you nominated is worthy of
> >> consideration.
> >>>
> >>> Academic Metrics
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Number of Citations
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 1 (1-100); 2 (100 – 1000); 3 (1000+)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Number of Years since publication
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Perceived quality of the journal/conference
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 1 (low)’ 2 (medium); 3 (high)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> External grants funding the research
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> NSF or NIH or DARPA or EU or other private
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Other disciplines using the idea in the research
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Yes (1); No (0)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Industry/Practice Metrics
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Patents issued or filed
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Yes (1); No (0)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Actual intervention in field or site (Action Research or Design
> >>> research)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Yes (1); No (0)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Commercialization of idea into product/service
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Yes (1); No (0)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Startups created based on the idea
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Yes (1); No (0)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Influence on Society (qualitative or subjective data)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Benefit of research to scientific community
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 1 (low); 2 (medium); 3 (high)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Benefit of research to society at large
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 1 (low); 2 (medium); 3 (high)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 100 word explanation of why this paper is worthy of consideration
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The panel consist of Prof. Robert M Davison, Prof. Murray Jennex,
> >>>
> > Prof.
> >
> >>> Niels
> >>> Bjørn-Andersen, Prof. Steven B Sawyer, Prof. Juhani Iivari and
> >>> Prof.
> >>> Samir
> >>> Chatterjee.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Sincerely,
> >>> Samir
> >>> --
> >>> Dr. Samir Chatterjee
> >>> Professor
> >>> School of Information Systems & Technology Claremont Graduate
> >>> University
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