The Scholarly Divide: Insights from the AIS Well-being Project

Authors

Ryan T. Wright, McIntire School of Commerce University of VirginiaFollow
Carol Saunders, Department of Management University of Central Florida University of Pretoria South Africa
Saonee Sarker, Department of Informatics Lund University Sweden
Atreyi Kankanhalli, Department of Information Systems and Analytics School of Computing National University of Singapore
Edgar A. Whitley, Department of Management London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom
Virpi K. Tuunainen, Aalto University School of Business Aalto University Finland
Helle Z. Henriksen, Department of Digitalization Copenhagen Business School Denmark

Abstract

This article provides an overview of the findings from the Information Systems (IS) Well-Being Project that was started in the fall of 2020. There were two goals of this project: 1) to understand the physical, mental, social, and financial well-being of IS academics during the COVID-19 pandemic, and 2) to theorize the downstream effects of the pandemic on the health of the IS research ecosystem. This investigation surfaced a troubling phenomenon that we coined “the IS scholarly divide”. This editorial develops the theoretical underpinnings for the scholarly divide and posits the taxonomy of the divide. Finally, we explore the effects and forward some possible remedies.

DOI

10.17705/1CAIS.05237

Recommended Citation

Wright, R. T., Saunders, C., Sarker, S., Kankanhalli, A., Whitley, E. A., Tuunainen, V. K., & Henriksen, H. Z. (2023). The Scholarly Divide: Insights from the AIS Well-being Project. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 52, 777-797. https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.05237