[AISWorld] CfP: Knowing What We Know: Theory, Meta-analysis and Review -- HICSS 2020

[Dirk Hovorka]

Colleagues,



Please consider submitting to the following mini-track to be held at *HICSS-53* (January 8-10, 2020) at the Grand Wailea, Maui, Hawaii!



Mahalo!



HICSS-53 2020 Mini-track

Knowing What We Know: Theory, Meta-analysis and Review

(Organizational Systems and Technology track)


The “Knowing What We Know: Theory and Review” mini-track invites submissions that pursue approaches, methods, tools, and conceptual papers which will advance the IS field’s ability to “know what it knows”. Our ability to understand, integrate and synthesize the exponentially growing body of scientific literature in the social sciences is hampered by both structural and social issues. These include a lack of standardization for concepts and constructs across the sub-fields and a lack of infrastructure and powerful search and integration tools which would enable researchers to perform meta-theorization. The aim of this mini-track is to engage with the type of disciplinary infrastructures other fields have successfully progressed (e.g. metaBUS, the Human Behavior Project, Medline and the Biological Science Database) that will enable IS to better know what we know.



Research over the last decades has emphasized theory development in IS and other social and behavioral science disciplines. The resulting proliferation of theories and constructs has numerous redundancies, which can be revealed through review, meta-theorization/meta-analysis, and interrogation of the theory discourse. Theory ontologies would benefit the disciplines by identifying what we can now research given what we already know. Theory synthesis or integration will inform social and behavioral sciences research with a better understanding of fundamental theories across disciplinary boundaries, help organize our theories to be accessible to practice, and increase our understanding of the philosophical commitments represented in their contextualization and use.



The scope of the papers for the mini-track is quite broad, including for example, the development of theory ontologies, approaches to theory integration, introducing tools that support cataloguing and synthesizing our discipline’s conceptual infrastructure, and meta-analytic/review approaches to building cumulative theory. We also welcome approaches to the local contextualization of theory where insight is gained into valuable distinctions.



Toward these ends, topics of interest in this mini-track include:

1.    Approaches to theory meta-analysis, integration or aggregation of social and behavioral science theories, including tools that support / implement such approaches;

2.    The theoretical ties between different disciplines (e.g. healthcare and IS, and sustainability science and IS, energy informatics), or parallel the trends in theorizing the same phenomenon;

3.    Research on ontologies, taxonomies, frameworks, and categorizations of constructs and variables used in system science theories;

4.    Conceptual papers on an Social Science Infrastructure that would support social sciences

5.    Techniques for the extraction of constructs and relationships from published papers

6.    The use of natural language processing, data mining, and predictive analytics to better understand and interrogate theories;

7.    Discussion of the roles of theories used to explain, approaches used to predict (e.g. neural nets and big data), and of theories of understanding;

8.    Exploration of the dependencies of constructs and variables;

9.    Exploration of the boundaries of theory “domains.”



Prospective authors are advised that the track does not look for topical literature reviews if these are not illustrations of approaches to meta-theoretical integration. Such literature reviews are best submitted to one of the conference’s topical tracks.



This mini-track also has an associated ISWorld website devoted to theories used in IS research (http://istheory.byu.edu/wiki/Main_Page) — which won the 2005 AISWorldNet Challenge Award for the best website based on AISWorldNet user voting. We intend to uphold this high standard and advance the website further by increasing the synergy between mini-track outcomes and website content.



For further conference details, schedules and submission guidelines please see:
http://www.hicss.org/

We hope to see you on Maui January 2020!

Mini-track Co-Chairs:

Dirk S. Hovorka, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
University of Sydney Business School

University of Sydney
New South Wales, AU
dirk.hovorka at sydney.edu.au<mailto:dirk.hovorka at sydney.edu.au>



Benjamin Mueller, PhD.

Associate Professor

University of Lucerne

Lucerne, Switzerland

benjamin.mueller at unil.ch<file:///E:/HICSS%202019/benjamin.mueller@unil.ch>



Kai R. Larsen. PhD

Associate Professor

Leeds School of Business

University of Colorado

Boulder, Colorado

kai.larsen at colorado.edu<mailto:kai.larsen at colorado.edu>







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Dirk S. Hovorka

Associate Professor

Senior Editor: Journal of the Association of Information Systems

Associate Editor: Communications of the Association of Information Systems

BGS Professor of the Year 2018

University of Sydney

NSW, 2006 AU

T +61 2 9351 2949

http://sydney.edu.au/business/staff/dirkho