Every contribution can be interesting but not all of them are (12 May 2021)

Description

Nick and Jan discuss what contributions are, how they can be composed, and which contributions are interesting – and whether they need to be interesting in the first place.

Episode Reading List

  • Simon, H. A. (1969). Administrative Behavior: a Study of Decision-Making Processes in Administrative Organization. 2nd edition, The Free Press.
  • Kahneman, D. (2012). Thinking, Fast and Slow. Penguin.
  • Greenwood, B. N., & Wattal, S. (2017). Show Me the Way to Go Home: An Empirical Investigation of Ride-Sharing and Alcohol Related Motor Vehicle Fatalities. MIS Quarterly, 41(1), 163-187.
  • Davis, M. S. (1971). That’s Interesting: Towards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of Phenomenology. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 1(4), 309-344.
  • da Cunha, J. V. (2013). A Dramaturgical Model of the Production of Performance Data. MIS Quarterly, 37(3), 723-748.
  • Kaplan, A. (1998/1964). The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioral Science. Transaction Publishers.
  • Lakatos, I. (1970). Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programs. In I. Lakatos & A. Musgrave (Eds.), Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge (pp. 91-132). Cambridge University Press.
  • Farjoun, M. (2010). Beyond Dualism: Stability and Change As a Duality. Academy of Management Review, 35(2), 202-225.
  • Vaast, E., & Pinsonneault, A. (2021). When Digital Technologies Enable and Threaten Occupational Identity: The Delicate Balancing Act of Data Scientists. MIS Quarterly, 45, In Press.
  • Berente, N., Gu, B., Recker, J., Santhanam, R. (2021). Managing AI. MIS Quarterly, 45, forthcoming.
  • Turing, A. M. (1950). Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind, 59(236), 433-460.
  • McCorduck, P. (2004). Machines Who Think (2nd ed.). Taylor & Francis.
  • Watson, R. T., Boudreau, M.-C., & Chen, A. J. (2010). Information Systems and Environmentally Sustainable Development: Energy Informatics and New Directions for the IS Community. MIS Quarterly, 34(1), 23-38.
  • Nambisan, S. (2017). Digital Entrepreneurship: Toward a Digital Technology Perspective of Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 41(6), 1029-1055.
  • Zeiss, R., Ixmeier, A., Recker, J., & Kranz, J. (2021). Mobilising Information Systems Scholarship For a Circular Economy: Review, Synthesis, and Directions For Future Research. Information Systems Journal, 31(1), 148-183.
  • Leonardi, P. M. (2011). When Flexible Routines Meet Flexible Technologies: Affordance, Constraint, and the Imbrication of Human and Material Agencies. MIS Quarterly, 35(1), 147-167.
  • Leonard-Barton, D. (1988). Implementation as Mutual Adaptation of Technology and Organization. Research Policy, 17(5), 251-267.
  • Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory. Oxford University Press.

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