[AISWorld] Call for Nominations: Debate Section Editor for the Communication of the Association for Information Systems

[Recker, Jan]

Dear colleagues,

The Communications of the Association for Information Systems is an AIS flagship journal with a mission to foster the free flow of ideas within the Information Systems (IS) community; its emphasis is on originality, importance, and cogency of ideas; it is also a vehicle for cases, survey articles, tutorials, and other materials of general interest to the IS community. Communications of the Association for Information Systems is a classical, reviewed outlet for research with every intention of being equal to the best in the field; with a mission to support a healthy, and disciplinary community based on lively debate and exchange.

One key feature of Communications of the Association for Information Systems has been a standing Debate section<https://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/debate.pdf> that publishes issues, opinions and dialogue on timely topics of relevance to the global community in every volume. In the past, the Communications of the Association for Information Systems published debates on topics such as the Value of IS research, Open Access publishing, IS as a Science, or Peer Reviewing.

The term of Karlheinz Kautz as Debate Section editor of the Communications of the Association for Information Systems expires December 31, 2018.
We are therefore seeking nominations for a new section editor.  All AIS members are invited to nominate candidate(s).  Self-nominations are encouraged. Please submit nominations with a brief statement of the candidate's qualifications to the Editor-in-Chief at caiseditorinchief at gmail.com<mailto:caiseditorinchief at gmail.com> no later than November 15, 2018. Further information about the journal can be obtained on the journal's home page: http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais.

The role of the Debate section editor will be to seek, solicit, and receive manuscripts and in collaboration with the author(s) to facilitate the development of debate contributions. On the basis of an original standpoint paper (of about maximum 10000 words length) typically between five to six (academic) colleagues are invited by the section editor based on the authors' suggestions or chosen by the editor to provide their rejoinder position (of about 3000 words length) in a timely manner to an agreed deadline. The authors of the original manuscript then have the opportunity for a rejoinder to the rejoinders as a preliminary final word. All this will be published in one package.  In case specific colleagues' work is addressed in a viewpoint these colleagues are of course invited to respond before the whole package is published.
The role of the section editor will also include to work on further digital formats, which subsequently will allow the community to extend the debate through the AIS or CAIS web sites beyond the original publications possibly in a more interactive manner.

Qualifications for the new Debate Section Editor include

-          a good and well-established standing reputation in the IS community with a wide network of colleagues in all AIS regions, at different stages of their career and with different approaches to IS research.

-          having general insights and an appreciation for the breadth of our discipline is beneficial.

-          having an inclusive approach while not shying away from giving controversial topics and critical thinking a public forum.

-          Responsibilities for taking care that the natural disagreements in a debate are presented in a fair and respectful manner

-          Showing appropriate steadiness and patience in the pursuit of a debate process. Collaboration is a key qualification in this respect.

We look forward to hearing from you about suitable candidates. Any question, please feel free to contact me directly.

Prof. Dr. Jan Recker | Chair for Information Systems and Systems Development
Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences | University of Cologne
www.janrecker.com<http://www.janrecker.com/> | http://scientific-research-in-is.org/
Phone: +49 221 470 5397 | Email: jan.recker at wiso.uni-koeln.de<mailto:j.recker at qut.edu.au>