[AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2019 Track in Meta-Research in Information Systems

[Michael Cuellar]

CALL FOR PAPERS: AMCIS 2019 August 15-17 Cancun Mexico –

Track in META-RESEARCH IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS

https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/submissions/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-21 <https://amcis2019.aisconferences.org/submissions/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-21>
 

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IMPORTANT DATES
- January 7:   Submission system Opens

- March 1 | 10:00 am PST: Paper submission deadline
- April 15 |  Authors notified of decisions
- April 24 |  11:59 pm PST: Camera Ready papers are due

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TRACK DESCRIPTION
Following on the success of this track in 2018, this track serves as the primary point of contribution and subsequent publication of innovative meta-research articles. Meta-research (research on research) is a venerable and valuable research stream within Information Systems. Meta-research is the discussion that goes on between IS scholars on issues surrounding the production of IS research.  It includes such areas as discussions of the structure and development of the field, the core and boundaries of the field, field legitimacy, scholar/department/journal/ country ranking methods, discussions of research culture and practices, methods of evaluation of scholarship, literature reviews and research commentaries.
The purpose of the track includes showcasing unique and leading edge empirical, theoretical, and commentary papers in the area of meta-research. Typically, there has not been a good location for these types of papers within the structure of the usual tracks provided.  This track provides a welcoming space for such papers.

There are three mini-tracks within this track:

Minitrack 1: General Topics in IS Meta-Research

Minitrack Chair: Michael Cuellar, mcuellar at georgiasouthern.edu

IS Research is a diverse field, whether it be qualitative or quantitative, drawing from many theories, methodologies, and uses in society. Meta-research aims to improve and evaluate research. In this track, we will accept papers that conduct research on understanding or evaluating other IS research. This mini-track will serve as a place where authors can submit their work that may not precisely fit into other meta-research mini-tracks.

Topics covered in this mini-track might include:

-        Core and Boundaries of the Information Systems Field

-        Field legitimacy and place within academia

-        Methods of evaluating scholarship, tenure and promotion practices e.g Cuellar (2016), Dennis (2006)

-        Scholar/department/journal/ country ranking methods, e.g. Lowry et al (2007; 2004)

-        Research Culture and Practices e.g. Lyttinen (2007)

-        Research commentaries- discussions of the state of the art and where we need to go in research e.g. Orlikowki and Iacono (2001).

Minitrack 2: Literature Reviews in IS

Minitrack Chair: Hirotoshi Takeda, hirotoshi.takeda at maine.edu <mailto:hirotoshi.takeda at maine.edu>
As the Information Systems (IS) discipline makes intellectual contributions to the academic research field, we need to organize and reflect on this research in an organized fashion. Understanding specific contributions to particular areas of the IS field is an important meta-research exercise.

With all the knowledge that is being created in the IS field, there is a need to synthesize and organize the existing research in IS. Literature reviews play the important role of getting a snap-shot look at what we know, how we know it, and who made the contributions. Literature also play the important role of providing a basis from where we can start and identify areas of research that are in need of our researchers’ attention.

The importance of this activity is seen in the publication of literature review papers in journals. However, traditionally there has been a lack of venue for these papers. This minitrack was proposed to address this need. This minitrack will be the basis for IS researcher to conduct literature review papers and use at the AMCIS conference as a base for feedback and development of the literature review.

Minitrack 3: Adoption of novel theories into IS

Minitrack Co-Chairs:         Michael Cuellar, mcuellar at georgiasouthern.edu
Duane Truex, dtruex at gsu.edu
As the Information Systems (IS) discipline as an applied discipline drawing from fields as diverse as engineering, computer science, psychology, sociology and management has historically brought new and novel theories and metatheories into the field from those various disciplines. Understanding how those theories and metatheories have been utilized in which particular areas of the IS field is an important meta-research exercise.

With these novel theories being introduced into Information Systems, it is important to recognize that we need to properly appropriate them into the field. We must first use them appropriately as developed by the source field and then expand and enhance those theories and meta-theories to account for information systems phenomena (Holmström and Truex 2011).

This mini-track seeks to provide a venue to discuss how novel theories should be introduced and appropriated into the information systems field. 

Minitrack 4: Social Capital in the IS Community

Minitrack Co-Chairs:         Michael Chau, mchau at business.hku.hk
Jennifer Xu, JXU at bentley.edu
Information Systems (IS) has made significant progress in accumulating social capital, in addition to intellectual capital, as an academic discipline. Such social capital can be evidenced through various forms of connections and collaboration among scholars such as working in the same institution, co-authorship, advisor-student relationship, conference co-organization, committee co-membership, and editorial board co-membership. These social interactions weave scholars into a complex social network in which knowledge is generated, exchanged, and updated. It is important to understand how the social ties are formed and maintained, how social capital influences the creation of knowledge in the field, and the development of the IS discipline in general. This mini-track aims to solicit papers that are related to such topics as social network analysis and visualization of the IS scholar collaboration network, the interplay between social capital and intellectual capital in IS, and the social identify of the IS discipline.

This mini-track aims to solicit papers that are related to some of the following important topics:

- Social network analysis on the IS scholar collaboration network;
- Measuring social capital in the IS scholar collaboration network;
- IS scholar social network visualization;
- The relationship between co-authorship and other social ties;
- The past, present and future of social capital development in IS;
- Identifying sub-communities in the IS discipline;
- The social identify of the IS discipline;
- The social capital of IS scholars outside the IS community.

Track Co-Chairs:

Hirotoshi Takeda,

University of Southern Maine, 

takeda at maine.edu <mailto:takeda at maine.edu>
 

Michael Cuellar,

Georgia Southern University, 

mcuellar at georgiasouthern.edu <mailto:mcuellar at georgiasouthern.edu>
 

Duane Truex,

Georgia State University, 

Dtruex at gsu.edu <mailto:Dtruex at gsu.edu>
 

References

 

Cuellar, M. J., Takeda, H., Vidgen, R., and Truex III, D. P. 2016. "Ideational Influence, Connectedness, and Venue Representation: Making an Assessment of Scholarly Capital," Journal of the Association for Information Systems (17:1), pp. 1-28.

Dennis, A. R., Valacich, J. S., Fuller, M. A., and Schneider, C. 2006. "Research Standards for Promotion and Tenure in Information Systems," MIS Quarterly (30:1), pp. 1-12.

Holmström, J., and Truex, D. 2011. "Dropping Your Tools: Exploring When and How Theories Can Serve as Blinders in Is Research," Communications of the AIS (28:1), pp. article 19, 28 pgs.

Lowry, P. B., Karuga, G. G., and Richardson, V. J. 2007. "Assessing Leading Institutions, Faculty, and Articles in Premier Information Systems Research Journals," Communications of the Association for Information Systems (20), pp. 142-203.

Lowry, P. B., Romans, D., and Curtis, A. 2004. "Global Journal Prestige and Supporting Disciplines: A Scientometric Study of Information Systems Journals," Journal of the Association of Information Systems (5:2), pp. 29-77.

Lyytinen, K., Baskerville, R., Iivari, J., and Te'eni, D. 2007. "Why the Old World Cannot Publish? Overcoming Challenges in Publishing High-Impact Is Research," European Journal of Information Systems (16), pp. 317-326.

Orlikowski, W. J., and Iacono, C. S. 2001. "Research Commentary: Desperately Seeking the "IT" in IT Research--a Call to Theorizing the IT Artifact," Information Systems Research (12:2), pp. 121-134.