NEVER CREATE A JOURNAL UNLESS IT IS JMIS (31 May 2023)

Description

We have a very special guest, Vladimir Zwass, who is both the founding and current editor-in-chief of the Journal of Management Information Systems. He founded the journal in 1984 and he has been the only editor-in-chief ever since. Also, he has no intention of handing the reins to anyone else soon. We discuss what sets JMIS apart from the other top journals in our field, what the IS world looked like at the time when the journal was founded, and whether our discipline has moved into a better space since those early days (spoiler alert: yes, it has).

Episode Reading List

  • Zhang, P. (2015). The IS History Initiative: Looking Forward by Looking Back. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 36(24), 477-514.
  • Banville, C., & Landry, M. (1989). Can the Field of MIS be Disciplined? Communications of the ACM, 32(1), 48-60.
  • Weber, R. (2006). Like Ships Passing in the Night: The Debate on the Core of the Information Systems Discipline. In J. L. King & K. Lyytinen (Eds.), Information Systems: The State of the Field (pp. 292-299). John Wiley & Sons.
  • Kuhn, T. S. (1996). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (3rd ed.). University of Chicago Press.
  • Arnott, R., Arrow, K., Atkinson, A., & Drèze, J. (Eds.). (1994). Public Economies: Selected Papers by William Vickrey. Cambridge University Press.
  • Machlup, F. (1984). The Study of Information: Interdisciplinary Messages. Wiley.
  • Nunamaker Jr, J. F. (1971). A Methodology for the Design and Optimization of Information Processing Systems. In Proceedings of the May 18-20, 1971, Spring Joint Computer Conference (pp. 283-294). ACM.
  • Berente, N., Salge, C. A. D. L., Mallampalli, V. K. T., & Park, K. (2022). Rethinking Project Escalation: An Institutional Perspective on the Persistence of Failing Large-Scale Information System Projects. Journal of Management Information Systems, 39(3), 640-672.
  • Zwass, V. (2023). Editorial Introduction. Journal of Management Information Systems, 40(1), 1-2.
  • Hevner, A. R., March, S. T., Park, J., & Ram, S. (2004). Design Science in Information Systems Research. MIS Quarterly, 28(1), 75-105.
  • Nunamaker Jr, J. F., Applegate, L. M., & Konsynski, B. R. (1987). Facilitating Group Creativity: Experience with a Group Decision Support System. Journal of Management Information Systems, 3(4), 5-19.
  • Peffers, K., Tuunanen, T., Rothenberger, M. A., & Chatterjee, S. (2007). A Design Science Research Methodology for Information Systems Research. Journal of Management Information Systems, 24(3), 45-77.
  • Simon, H. A. (1996). The Sciences of the Artificial (3rd edition). MIT Press.
  • Seymour, M., Lovallo, D., Riemer, K., Dennis, A. R., & Yuan, L. (2023). AI with a Human Face. Harvard Business Review, 101(2), 49-54.
  • Saunders, C., Chau, M., Mills, A., Pries-Heje, J., & Urquhart, C. (2020). Senior Scholars Journal Review Quality Survey. Association for Information Systems. https://aisnet.org/page/SeniorScholarSurvey.
  • Gray, P., Lyytinen, K., Saunders, C., Willcocks, L. P., Watson, R. T., & Zwass, V. (2006). How Shall We Manage Our Journals in the Future?  A Discussion of Richard T. Watson’s Proposals at ICIS 2004. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 18(14), 2-41.

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