Is Relevance Irrelevant? (9 June 2021)

Description

Should every information systems research paper be relevant to practice? Does research need to be relevant in the first place? And if relevance is relevant, how should we engage with practitioners about our research? We discuss relevance of information systems research, how the field’s view of relevance may have changed and what researchers might do if they wish to be relevant to practice.

Episode Reading List

  • Parker, G., Van Alstyne, M., & Jiang, X. (2017). Platform Ecosystems: How Developers Invert the Firm. MIS Quarterly, 41(1), 255-266.
  • Eisenmann, T., Parker, G., & Van Alstyne, M. (2011). Platform Envelopment. Strategic Management Journal, 32(12), 1270-1285.
  • Kitchens, B., Johnson, S. L., & Gray, P. H. (2020). Understanding Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles: The Impact of Social Media on Diversification and Partisan Shifts in News Consumption. MIS Quarterly, 44(4), 1619-1649.
  • Kahlen, M., Ketter, W., & van Dalen, J. (2018). Electric Vehicle Virtual Power Plant Dilemma: Grid Balancing Versus Customer Mobility. Production and Operations Management, 27(11), 2054-2070.
  • Abbasi, A., Dobolyi, D., Vance, A., & Zahedi, F. M. (2021). The Phishing Funnel Model: A Design Artifact to Predict User Susceptibility to Phishing Websites. Information Systems Research, 32, https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2020.0973
  • Tan, B., Pan, S. L., Chen, W., & Lihua, H. (2020). Organizational Sensemaking in ERP Implementation: The Influence of Sensemaking Structure. MIS Quarterly, 44(4), 1773-1809.
  • Sykes, T. A. (2020). Enterprise System Implementation and Employee Job Outcomes: Understanding the Role of Formal and Informal Support Structures Using the Job Strain Model. MIS Quarterly, 44(4), 2055-2086.
  • King, J. L., & Kraemer, K. L. (2019). Policy: An Information Systems Frontier. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 20(6), 842-847.
  • Lyytinen, K., Baskerville, R., Iivari, J., & Te’Eni, D. (2007). Why the Old World Cannot Publish? Overcoming Challenges in Publishing High-Impact IS Research. European Journal of Information Systems, 16(4), 317-326.
  • Salge, C. A. D. L., & Berente, N. (2017). Is That Social Bot Behaving Unethically? Communications of the ACM, 60(9), 29-31.
  • Berente, N., Lyytinen, K., Yoo, Y., & Maurer, C. (2019). Institutional Logics and Pluralistic Responses to Enterprise System Implementation: A Qualitative Meta-Analysis. MIS Quarterly, 43(3), 873-902.
  • Berente, N., Seidel, S., & Safadi, H. (2019). Data-Driven Computationally-Intensive Theory Development. Information Systems Research, 30(1), 50-64.
  • zur Muehlen, M., & Recker, J. (2008). How Much Language is Enough? Theoretical and Practical Use of the Business Process Modeling Notation. In M. Léonard & Z. Bellahsène (Eds.), Advanced Information Systems Engineering – CAiSE 2008 (pp. 465-479). Springer.
  • Recker, J., Indulska, M., & Green, P. (2007). Extending Representational Analysis: BPMN User and Developer Perspectives. In G. Alonso, P. Dadam, & M. Rosemann (Eds.), Business Process Management – BPM2007 (Vol. 4714, pp. 384-399). Springer.
  • Malinova, M., & Mendling, J. (2021). Cognitive Diagram Understanding and Task Performance in Systems Analysis and Design. MIS Quarterly, 45, https://doi.org/10.25300/MISQ/2022/15262.
  • Seidel, S., Recker, J., & vom Brocke, J. (2013). Sensemaking and Sustainable Practicing: Functional Affordances of Information Systems in Green Transformations. MIS Quarterly, 37(4), 1275-1299.
  • Schmiedel, T., Recker, J., & vom Brocke, J. (2020). The Relation between BPM Culture, BPM Methods, and Process Performance: Evidence from Quantitative Field Studies. Information & Management, 57(2), 103175.
  • Rosemann, M., & Vessey, I. (2008). Toward Improving the Relevance of IS Research to Practice: The Role of Applicability Checks. MIS Quarterly, 32(1), 1-22.

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