[AISWorld] JAIS Best Paper Winners 2022

[Leidner, Dorothy]

The Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2022 Best Paper Award and Best Paper Honorable Mention Awards.

The best paper winner for 2022 is “In the Backrooms of Data Science” (https://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol23/iss1/8/) by Elena Parmiggiani, Thomas Osterlie, and Petter Almklov, all from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.  This paper challenges the notion of data as preexisting and stable objects waiting to be analyzed and focuses on the backend work involved in finding and preparing the data for analysis.  Using a longitudinal study of data management in the oil and gas industry, the authors demonstrate how constantly changing work practices make data management highly unstable with a consequence that the work practices must take into account what data is possible to access as well as the future potential uses of the data.

Two papers received the best paper honorable mention award. The first “Does it Pay to Have CIOs on the Board? Creating Value by Appointing C-Level IT Executives to the Board of Directors” (https://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol23/iss4/6/) by Nikhil Bandodkar and Varun Grover examines the value impacts of having c-level information technology experts on the board of directors.  The study finds that for firms facing IT-related contextual conditions such director appointments are followed by a positive share price reaction and better firm performance in the long term.

The second paper receiving a best paper honorable mention award is “On the Design of and Interaction with Conversational Agents: An Organizing and Assessing Review of Human-Computer Interaction Research” by Stephan Diederich, Alfred Benedikt Brendel, Stefan Morana, and Lutz Kolbe.
(https://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol23/iss1/9/) In this review/theory article, the authors organize and synthesize the vast body of research on conversational agents.  The authors then provide an agenda for conversational agent research in IS, suggesting 6 research avenues and 16 directions for research.  With already 1,165 downloads, this paper was among the most highly downloaded JAIS papers in 2022.

Congratulations to the authors of these fine papers and many thanks to the hard working senior editors, associate and reviewers who helped shape these papers into their publishable form.

Dorothy Leidner


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Dorothy E. Leidner, PhD Drhc
Leslie H. Goldberg Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Professor of Business Ethics
The University of Virginia
Editor-in Chief, Journal of the Association for Information Systems
LEO and Fellow of the Association for Information Systems
dorothy at virginia.edu<mailto:dorothy at virginia.edu>
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