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

Fri Aug 5 05:27:14 EDT 2016

Just a note on a sector we don't often refer to.  We discuss the academic world of researchers and the practitioner world of doers, but rarely refer to the hugely influential world of the consultants - probably employing a significant proportion of ICT people world wide.
Frank Land

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My two cents to the discussion on strategy

1. This kind of discussions (e.g. relevance vs. rigor) have been seen in this list many times in the last 15 years. It does not seem that they have generated any change. Something else, besides discussions, is, most probably, needed.

2. Michael Polanyi, in his essay "The republic of science", available at https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/9780262690201_sch_0001.pdf,
has shown that integration of different branches  of science happens through scientists working in the middle, e.g. physical chemistry and chemical physics. This is how Science achieves full integrity. Using the same idea, most probably, the only efficient way of integrating research and practice in a discipline like IS might be through people working in the middle, i.e. both in research and practice.

3. The gap, which seems to exist between research and practice in IS, thus could be explained by the layer of people working in the middle being too thin to create a solid bridge. We have a kind of no-man's land with occasional intruders from both sides. An obvious solution
(strategy) here is to make this layer thicker.

4. I doubt that practitioners have much of motivation to partly move to IS research. It does not seem there is a place for them. Either such a motivation is created, or more researchers need to start practicing in a serious way - putting their "skin in the game".

5. A good news for researchers is that they do not need to leave their universities to make such a move :-). A university, IMHO, is a modern organization with a lot of IT and organizational problems of the same kind as any other large organization. There is plenty of areas to apply or create new theories there. I have joined the academic world several years ago, but I still find it fascinating to observe its functioning. 
IMHO, there is plenty to do in practicing theories, including the ones that remains on the periphery of the main stream, like VSM (Viable System Model).

Hope this is a good suggestions for a strategy.

Cheers

Ilia

P.S. For those who are interested, this is an example of applying VSM to a pure academic activity: 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290392463_Towards_Process_Improvement_for_Case_Management_An_Outline_Based_on_Viable_System_Model_and_an_Example_of_Organizing_Scientific_Events

On 2016-08-02 2:44 PM, Prashant Palvia wrote:
> Dear Samir,
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> While your effort is worthwhile and appreciated, it may be jumping the
> gun.  I am afraid many authors will not respond and you will be deluged by
> self-serving responses.
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> I suggest that we reflect on this issue and develop an appropriate strategy.
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> Best regards,
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> Prashant
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> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Samir Chatterjee <profsamir1 at gmail.com>
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>> Dear Colleagues,
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>> 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.
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>> 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:
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>> 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.
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>> Academic Metrics
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>> Number of Citations
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>> 1 (1-100); 2 (100 – 1000); 3 (1000+)
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>> Number of Years since publication
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>> Perceived quality of the journal/conference
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>> 1 (low)’ 2 (medium); 3 (high)
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>> External grants funding the research
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>> NSF or NIH or DARPA or EU or other private
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>> Other disciplines using the idea in the research
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>> Yes (1); No (0)
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>> Industry/Practice Metrics
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>> Patents issued or filed
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>> Yes (1); No (0)
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>> Actual intervention in field or site (Action Research or Design research)
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>> Yes (1); No (0)
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>> Commercialization of idea into product/service
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>> Yes (1); No (0)
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>> Startups created based on the idea
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>> Yes (1); No (0)
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>> Influence on Society (qualitative or subjective data)
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>> Benefit of research to scientific community
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>> 1 (low); 2 (medium); 3 (high)
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>> Benefit of research to society at large
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>> 1 (low); 2 (medium); 3 (high)
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>> 100 word explanation of why this paper is worthy of consideration
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>> 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.
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>> Sincerely,
>> Samir
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>> Professor
>> School of Information Systems & Technology
>> Claremont Graduate University
>> 130 East 9th Street, Claremont, CA 91711
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>> profsamir1 at gmail.com
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