DISCLAIMER: CHATGPT PRODUCED THIS EPISODE. (25 October 2023)

Description

Or maybe it did not. Who knows? ChatGPT is here for the world to see and not even our podcast can avoid talking about it. All the firms we know have long started exploring ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies. Will generative AI also change the academic enterprise? Some suggest it already has. We think we are at the cusp of changes, both in degree and in kind. ChatGPT may help people get started and may even alleviate some of the laborious research tasks but at the end of the day, the academic profession is a person-centric profession built around individual expertise, trust, and honesty of knowledgeable academics. You cannot automate that.

Episode Reading List

  • Susarla, A., Gopal, R., Thatcher, J. B., & Sarker, S. (2023). The Janus Effect of Generative AI: Charting the Path for Responsible Conduct of Scholarly Activities in Information Systems. Information Systems Research, 34(2), 399-408.
  • Flyvbjerg, B., & Gardner, D. (2023). How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything in Between. Crown Currency.
  • Wang, Y.-Y., Guo, C., Susarla, A., & Sambamurthy, V. (2021). Online to Offline: The Impact of Social Media on Offline Sales in the Automobile Industry. Information Systems Research, 32(2), 582-604.
  • Weber, R. (2003). Editor’s Comments: The Problem of the Problem. MIS Quarterly, 27(1), iii-ix.
  • Bockelmann, T., Werder, K., Recker, J., Lehmann, J., & Bendig, D. (2023). Configuring Alliance Portfolios for Digital Innovation. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, forthcoming.
  • Xu, H., Zhang, N., & Zhou, L. (2020). Validity Concerns in Research Using Organic Data. Journal of Management, 46(7), 1257-1274.
  • Indulska, M., Hovorka, D. S., & Recker, J. (2012). Quantitative Approaches to Content Analysis: Identifying Conceptual Drift Across Publication Outlets. European Journal of Information Systems, 21(1), 49-69.
  • Nordling, L. (2023). How ChatGPT is Transforming the Postdoc Experience. Nature, 622, 655-657.
  • Bosco, F. A., Uggerslev, K. L., & Steel, P. (2017). MetaBUS as a Vehicle for Facilitating Meta-Analysis. Human Resource Management Review, 27(1), 237-254.
  • Li, J., Larsen, K. R. T., & Abbasi, A. (2020). TheoryOn: A Design Framework and System for Unlocking Behavioral Knowledge Through Ontology Learning. MIS Quarterly, 44(4), 1733-1772.
  • Smith, A. E., & Humphreys, M. S. (2006). Evaluation of Unsupervised Semantic Mapping of Natural Language with Leximancer Concept Mapping. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 38(2), 262-279.

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