THE IMPACT OF IS RESEARCH: IS IT ENOUGH? HOW DO WE EXPAND? HOW DO WE DOCUMENT?

Presenter Information

Fred Niderman, Shaughnessy Professor of Decision Science and Management Information Systems, St. Louis UniversityFollow
Burt Swanson, Professor Recalled in Information Systems,University of California, Los AngelesFollow
Kevin Crowston, Program Director, US National Science Foundation & Distinguished Professor of Information Science, Syracuse UniversityFollow
Helmut Krcmar, Dean Faculty Computer Science and Professor of Information Systems with a joint appointment to the Business School at Technische Universität MünchenFollow
Philip Powell, Pro Vice-Master (Enterprise and Innovation) and Executive Dean Birkbeck, University of LondonFollow

Start Date

12-17-2013

Description

Questions about the value of research, particularly in business and IS, have come to the foreground in recent days. Business schools are facing new reporting requirements related to the impact of research (AACSB International, 2008). National research funding has been revised, for example in Great Britain, to shift emphasis toward citations and other indicators of impact (Powell and Woerndl, 2008). The intrinsic and philosophical basis for IS research is being scrutinized (still? again?) (Hassan, in press).

Recommended Citation

Niderman, Fred; Swanson, Burt; Crowston, Kevin; Krcmar, Helmut; and Powell, Philip, "THE IMPACT OF IS RESEARCH: IS IT ENOUGH? HOW DO WE EXPAND? HOW DO WE DOCUMENT?" (2013). ICIS 2013 Proceedings. 1.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2013/proceedings/SeniorScholars/1