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Does Nick really know what he is talking about? Time to find out. We play a trivia quiz with fifteen questions about information systems research. Nick has an audience joker, a telephone joker, and a 50:50 joker -and he needs all of them to make it through the levels. How well do you know the field? Tune in to find out, or play our game for yourself. The questions are posted below.
Play the game for yourself:
Round 1
Question: Which three journals were added when the AIS Senior Scholars expanded the old Basket of Eight into the 11-journal premier list in 2023?
A. DSS, I&M, and I&O
B. DSS, ISJ, and JSIS
C. CAIS, I&M, and IT&P
D. DSS, JIT, and I&O
Round 2
Question: In Fred Davis’s 1989 TAM paper, which two beliefs are the famous core constructs?
A. Trust and enjoyment
B. Performance expectancy and effort expectancy
C. Perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use
D. Social influence and facilitating conditions
Round 3
Question: Which paper introduced UTAUT?
A. Venkatesh & Davis, 2000, Management Science
B. Davis, 1989, MIS Quarterly
C. Venkatesh et al., 2003, MIS Quarterly
D. Venkatesh, Thong, & Xu, 2012, MIS Quarterly
Round 4
Question: The original DeLone and McLean paper, “Information Systems Success: The Quest for the Dependent Variable,” appeared in which year?
A. 1988
B. 1990
C. 1992
D. 2003
Round 5
Question: Which paper is generally credited with introducing Action Design Research (ADR) into the IS mainstream?
A. Hevner et al. (2004), MISQ
B. Sein et al. (2011), MISQ
C. Gregor & Hevner (2013), MISQ
D. Peffers et al. (2007), JMIS
Round 6
Question: Which paper is the 2017 MISQ piece on platform ecosystems with the subtitle-like claim “How Developers Invert the Firm”?
A. Parker, Van Alstyne, & Jiang
B. Constantinides, Henfridsson, & Parker
C. Eisenmann, Parker, & Van Alstyne
D. Ghazawneh & Henfridsson
Round 7
Question: Which paper is the most impactful technostress article in Information Systems research?
A. Tarafdar et al. (2007), JMIS, The impact of technostress on role stress and productivity
B. Ragu-Nathan et al. (2008), ISR, The consequences of technostress for end users in organizations
C. Tarafdar et al. (2010), JMIS, Impact of technostress on end-user satisfaction and performance
D. Tarafdar, Pullins, & Ragu-Nathan (2015), ISJ, Technostress: negative effect on performance and possible mitigations
Round 8
Question: As of March 2026, which of the following papers has the highest Google Scholar citation count?
A. Venkatesh et al. (2003) UTAUT
B. Yoo, Henfridsson, & Lyytinen (2010) The New Organizing Logic
C. Hevner et al. (2004) Design Science in Information Systems Research
D. Davenport (1993) Process innovation: reengineering work through information technology
Round 9
Question: In digital-platform research, the phrase “boundary resources model” is most closely associated with which paper?
A. Ghazawneh & Henfridsson (2013), ISJ
B. Constantinides, Henfridsson, & Parker (2018), ISR
C. Parker, Van Alstyne, & Jiang (2017), MISQ
D. Yoo, Henfridsson, & Lyytinen (2010), ISR
Round 10
Question: In IS economics / IT business value research, which paper is the classic article on information worker productivity?
A. Brynjolfsson & Hitt, 1996, MISQ
B. Aral, Brynjolfsson, & Van Alstyne, 2012, ISR
C. Aral & Weill, 2007, Org. Science
D. Brynjolfsson, Rock, & Syverson, 2017, NBER
Level 11
Question: In Feldman and Pentland’s routines work, which pairing is correct?
A. Ostensive = abstract pattern or idea of the routine; Performative = specific enactments by specific people at specific times and places
B. Ostensive = formal SOP; Performative = deviations from the SOP
C. Ostensive = managerial intention; Performative = worker resistance
D. Ostensive = organizational memory; Performative = organizational forgetting
Level 12
Question: Which statement best captures Paul Leonardi’s (2013) position on sociomateriality?
A. Materiality and human interpretation are always inseparable, so affordances and constraints cannot be analytically distinguished from materiality.
B. Materiality exists independently of people, but affordances and constraints do not; they arise in relation to human goals.
C. Sociomateriality should only be grounded in agential realism, not critical realism.
D. The social and the material are separable in theory, but not in empirical research.
Level 13
Question: The 2010 ISR research commentary “Digital Infrastructures: The Missing IS Research Agenda” is associated with which set of authors?
A. Yoo, Henfridsson, and Lyytinen
B. Tilson, Lyytinen, and Sørensen
C. Hanseth, Monteiro, and Hatling
D. Eaton, Elaluf-Calderwood, Sorensen, and Yoo.
Level 14
Question: Which paper examined whether participation in the gig economy is associated with entrepreneurial activity, and who are its authors?
A. Burtch, Carnahan, and Greenwood (2018), Management Science
B. Greenwood, Agarwal, Agarwal, and Gopal (2019), Organization Science
C. Burtch, Ghose, and Wattal (2013), Information Systems Research
D. Greenwood and Wattal (2017), MIS Quarterly
Level 15
Question: In Kellogg, Valentine, and Christin’s “Algorithms at Work: The New Contested Terrain of Control” framework, which set correctly names the six mechanisms of algorithmic control?
A. Restricting, recommending, recording, rating, replacing, rewarding
B. Ranking, routing, recording, rewarding, reviewing, removing
C. Restricting, routing, reviewing, ranking, replacing, rewarding
D. Recommending, recording, rating, regulating, replacing, remunerating