[AISWorld] Influential IS Papers Discourse - Part 3 Nominate papers

mmora at securenym.net mmora at securenym.net
Fri Aug 5 05:17:29 EDT 2016


Dear Samir, at the end, of course, I recognize totally your leadership in
DSR like a co-editor of the prestigious book Springer series on such a
topic. Also, by fostering the research in this stream. On it, my kind and
humble petition is to open and foster the engineering-based ones from very
related disciplines for MIS: software engineering, systems engineering,
and taking the AI design issues also. Special issues in such topics and a
co-edited book on it is welcome! Ok thanks really for starting this
important academic discussion on DSR. Best congratulations for your
successful career (I read your CV and it is really of highest quality
level). Manuel

PS It is not a excuse, but for researchers living in a developing country
(any from Latin American or Asia or Afica) and doing research in our
discipline MIS which is totally elitist, to have some international
activity is practically impossible, even for researchers that gained their
PhD in top universities in well-developed economies. I have a Mexican
colleague graduated from CMU that try to publish a paper on strategic
issues as product of his 1-year research stay in sabbatical year in a top
USA university and co-authored by a top senior Professor from this
university (at California state) and the paper was rejected several times!
 We aspire to have in all 30-year academic life at most 15-25 JCRs. So my
beliefs on some bias to reject automatically papers in MIS discipline that
report research results obtained from non well-developed countries. Well,
I did all my studies in Mexico, and my country is far away of the
international rankings in high-tech projects. Well, my EngD is from UNAM
ranked worldwide at #160 in Computer Sciences so I understand my status
quo in the MIS research discipline. Anyway, I try to do my best effort!
Cheers from Germany in my last day of research stay!

PS.2 If you return to India, and try to get published in top journals,
maybe you will be rejected also ! This is the core point here also
discussed in this discussion.


On Wed, August 3, 2016 10:15 am, Samir Chatterjee wrote:
> 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”?
>>
>> œEngineering 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> ----
>>> ---
>>>
>>>
>>>> Dennis F. Galletta                 Professor of Business
>>>> Administration
>>>> University of Pittsburgh               and Director, Katz Doctoral
>>>> Program
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>>>> Business
>>>> Phone +1 412-648-1699                 Pittsburgh,  PA
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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
>>>>> 130 East 9th Street,  Claremont, CA 91711
>>>>> (P) 909-607-4651; (cell) 909-730-8898
>>>>> profsamir1 at gmail.com
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>>> University
>>> 130 East 9th Street, Claremont,  CA 91711
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> Claremont Graduate University
> 130 East 9th Street, Claremont, CA 91711
> (P) 909-607-4651; (cell) 909-730-8898
> profsamir1 at gmail.com http://sites.cgu.edu/chatterjees/
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