Different IS Research Communities: Are They Competitors, Complements, or Ignoring Each Other?

Claudia Loebbecke, University of Cologne
David Feeny, University of Oxford
Peter Weill, MIT
Matthias Jarke, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology
Ajit Kambil, Accenture and Babson College
Erastos Filos, DG-Information Society, European Commission

Abstract

The paper is based on an ICIS 2002 panel on the role of four different IS Research communities with regard to topic choice, project/study acquisition, research strategy, respondents and site access, and expected, measurable outcome and dissemination channel. Although differences are clear and although a probably healthy degree of competition among the communities cannot be denied, at the end all panelists expressed the need for more complementarity and thus cooperation among the different communities.

Recommended Citation

Loebbecke, Claudia; Feeny, David; Weill, Peter; Jarke, Matthias; Kambil, Ajit; and Filos, Erastos (2003) "Different IS Research Communities: Are They Competitors, Complements, or Ignoring Each Other?," The Communications of the Association for Information Systems: Vol. 11, Article 37.
Available at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol11/iss1/37