<DIV>One piece of evidence to support the message below, which my graduate students are exposed to as an example of a great evolution from two presentations at a top conference (ICIS) to one paper at a top journal JAIS) is:</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>ICIS 2003:</STRONG> Guy Gable, Darshana Sedera, and Taizan Chan, <B><FONT size=2><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold>E</FONT></FONT><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold>NTERPRISE </FONT></FONT><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold>S</FONT></FONT><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold>YSTEMS </FONT></FONT><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold>S</FONT></FONT><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold>UCCESS</FONT></FONT><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold>: A M</FONT></FONT><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold>EASUREMENT </FONT></FONT><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold>M</FONT></FONT><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold><FONT face=TimesNewRoman,Bold>ODEL</FONT></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>ICIS 2004:</STRONG> Darshana Sedera and Guy Gable, <B><FONT size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">A F</FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">ACTOR AND </FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">S</FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">TRUCTURAL </FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">E</FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">QUATION </FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">A</FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">NALYSIS OF THE </FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2>E</FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">NTERPRISE </FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">S</FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">YSTEMS </FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">S</FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">UCCESS </FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">M</FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5 face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2>EASUREMENT</FONT> </FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">M</FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman">ODEL</FONT></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>JAIS 2008: </STRONG> Guy Gable, Darshana Sedera, and Taizan Chan, Re-conceptualizing Information System Success: The IS-Impact Measurement Model</DIV>
<DIV><B> </B><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: "Dennis, Alan R." <ardennis@indiana.edu><BR>Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 21:03<BR>Subject: Re: [AISWorld] Plagiarism and "Self-Plagiarism"<BR>To: "'Galletta, Dennis'" <galletta@katz.pitt.edu>, Steven Alter <alter@usfca.edu>, "aisworld@lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld@lists.aisnet.org><BR><BR>> Let me commend Steve and Dennis for good points, and second them.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> 1. Self-plagiarism should be <BR>> dropped from our vocabulary.<BR>> <BR>> 2. We should ensure there is <BR>> no double publication of the same manuscript, but we should <BR>> *encourage* journal publication of conference papers with <BR>> disclosure of their provenance. To go the way of <BR>> management and only publish weaker papers or just abstracts at <BR>> conferences seems a step backwards in this era of rapid <BR>> knowledge creation.<BR>> <BR>> 3. We should *encourage* the <BR>> re-use portions of text from one's own manuscripts in other <BR>> manuscripts for the same reasons we encourage systems developers <BR>> to re-use portions of code from one program in another: object <BR>> reuse is more efficient and reliable than writing new material, <BR>> and it enables authors to spend time on higher-value activities <BR>> than writing prose.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Alan<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> ===========================================<BR>> <BR>> Alan Dennis<BR>> <BR>> Professor and John T. Chambers Chair of Internet Systems<BR>> <BR>> Co-Director, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics<BR>> <BR>> Co-Founder and SVP for Research, Courseload Inc.<BR>> <BR>> Publisher, MIS Quarterly Executive<BR>> <BR>> Kelley School of Business, Indiana University<BR>> <BR>> www.kelley.iu.edu/ardennis<http://www.kelley.iu.edu/ardennis><BR>> <BR>> ===========================================<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> From: aisworld-bounces@lists.aisnet.org [mailto:aisworld-<BR>> bounces@lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of Galletta, Dennis<BR>> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 10:23 PM<BR>> To: Steven Alter; aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<BR>> Subject: Re: [AISWorld] Plagiarism and "Self-Plagiarism"<BR>> <BR>> Steve raised many good points. However, unlike Steve, I don't <BR>> care what we settle on for a name; I am most concerned with <BR>> policy. I hope we can settle on a reasonable policy, or <BR>> conferences will fail to attract the best work of authors. If <BR>> they do, however, continue to attract good work, then journals <BR>> will have fewer papers submitted because of prohibitions we are <BR>> discussing.<BR>> These policies are usually aimed at those "evildoers" who are <BR>> trying to recycle their own work with little-to-no additional <BR>> effort. However, let's focus for at least a few moments on what <BR>> many of us have been taught as mainstream: those of us wishing <BR>> to present at a conference first to gather comments for eventual <BR>> journal publication. Editors of elite MIS journals have even <BR>> expressed the desire to have submissions that are more "mature;" <BR>> presentations at conferences were evidence of this maturity. <BR>> Claudia raised this first and I've been waiting in vain to hear <BR>> a "good news" answer to her question.<BR>> <BR>> Further, in computer science, as Claudia stated, conference <BR>> publications are counted as the most valuable publications. At <BR>> my school, conference papers do not count at all. So if the <BR>> conference is essentially going to become a dead end for many <BR>> papers, what is the motivation for any of us to ever submit to <BR>> another conference?<BR>> <BR>> Let's be practical about this: Many of us do empirical work, <BR>> presenting and testing research models. If our model and sample <BR>> are reasonable, do we need to change them by 30% just to change <BR>> them? Note that we also should be economical regarding <BR>> participant time. Do we really need to gather 30% more data just <BR>> to make a greater proportion of the paper unique or to make it <BR>> sound 30% different?<BR>> <BR>> We just had a couple hundred authors present papers at ICIS last <BR>> week with only 5 minutes for questions and answers given space <BR>> limitations at the convention center. Based on only a small <BR>> number of comments, it will be difficult for many authors to <BR>> generate 30% differentiation for submission to journals. In a <BR>> case of my own, we received exactly two comments and one was <BR>> just a question for clarification. So how are we supposed to <BR>> come up with 30% new content under policy that did not exist <BR>> before the conference?<BR>> <BR>> So either we need to recognize conference publications or allow <BR>> very similar versions of previously-accepted conference papers <BR>> to be submitted to journals. I'm not arguing that we should have <BR>> it both ways, but likewise, we should at least have it ONE way. <BR>> Interestingly, those in HCI in the computer science/psychology <BR>> area DO have it both ways-they have an elite publication but can <BR>> still publish a full-length version in a journal. I'm speaking <BR>> of the ACM SIG-CHI Conference, a top outlet for papers in <BR>> Computer-Human Interaction, where the papers are commonly six-<BR>> pagers and then published in full-length later in a top journal <BR>> such as HCI or IJHCS.<BR>> <BR>> The only way I can think of to resolve this is to return to the <BR>> practice of only publishing abstracts or very short versions of <BR>> ICIS papers. This will enable our conferences and journals to <BR>> survive and provide a viable strategy for non-evildoers in the <BR>> mainstream to do one or more local presentations then go to a <BR>> conference, then move to journal submission.<BR>> <BR>> It is likely that I speak for us all: I do not want to spend <BR>> valuable time traveling to expensive conferences only to see <BR>> second-rate presentations while authors save their best work for <BR>> journal submission.<BR>> <BR>> DG<BR>> <BR>> -----------------------------------------------------------------<BR>> -----------<BR>> Dennis F. <BR>> Galletta Professor of Business Administration<BR>> University of <BR>> Pittsburgh and Director, Katz Doctoral Program<BR>> 282a Mervis <BR>> Hall Katz Graduate School of Business<BR>> Phone +1 412-648-<BR>> 1699 Pittsburgh, PA 15260<BR>> E-mail: galletta <BR>> @ Fax +1 412-648-1693<BR>> <BR>> katz.pitt.edu homepage: www.pitt.edu/~galletta<http://www.pitt.edu/~galletta><BR>> -----------------------------------------------------------------<BR>> -----------<BR>> <BR>> From: aisworld-bounces@lists.aisnet.org<mailto:aisworld-<BR>> bounces@lists.aisnet.org> [mailto:aisworld-<BR>> bounces@lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of Steven Alter<BR>> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 7:53 PM<BR>> To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org<mailto:aisworld@lists.aisnet.org><BR>> Subject: Re: [AISWorld] Plagiarism and "Self-Plagiarism"<BR>> <BR>> </DIV>