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Track Co-Chairs
Ray Hackney (MMU Business School, UK)
Zahir Irani (Brunel University, UK)
Description
This track is intended to
explore new grounds through providing for the presentation of new and
exciting IS research that is applied, real, and/or applicable and has the
potential of developing into valuable new streams of research.
IS research, pushed by technological, social, and economic change,
frequently addresses new questions and problems, however, the short
conference format and the keen competition for acceptance together make it
difficult for papers that break entirely new ground to be accepted at major
conferences such as ICIS. In this track we encourage the introduction of
research in distinctly new directions by evaluating submissions more heavily
on novelty, importance, reality, applicability, and the value of a potential
stream of research to business and society.
Research submitted to this track should clearly break new ground in terms of
research problems, theory, method, or other substantial characteristics.
Authors submitting to this track should make explicit arguments in the paper
for, where applicable, the research's novelty, importance, reality,
applicability, and potential value as a stream of research. This track is
therefore the natural home for late breaking submissions that push
boundaries and explore new areas.
Research submitted to this track might, for example
- Use a
review of practitioner literature to introduce a new IS problem and
propose a research agenda.
- Use a
collection of small case studies that culminate into taxonomies that
support the development of research propositions for further study.
- Raise
problems that practicing managers think are not being adequately addressed
by IS research.
- Propose
new theory, based on ‘solid’ argument and literature.
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Demonstrate the efficiency of a practical method for the management of an
IS problem that is not suggested by the prevailing stream of IS research.
- Introduce
results or argument that challenge well accepted conclusions in IS
research.
Challenge the status quo that introduces new research problems, methods,
and solutions of potential value to research and/or practice. The papers
could be empirical, theoretical, essays, short reviews, or agendas.
Associate Editors (A-Z)
Reviewers (A-Z)
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