Practitioner-Oriented Research

Track Description
Delivering research that is relevant to practice should be one of the key missions of academics. The increasing attention to “impact” in universities around the globe is a testament to the importance of our ability to influence management. This track contributes to this mission by welcoming submissions of practitioner-oriented IS research on topics that are highly relevant and useful to current IS executives, and the future IS leaders currently enrolled in our undergraduate and master’s courses.

Practitioner-based research bridges academic theory and practice, introduces researchers to state-of-the-art techniques and topics from industry, introduces managers to useful research, and brings coherence to the problems both face. The pressure to achieve methodological distinction and theoretical contribution often result in very current practice-based topics being passed over by researchers, perhaps because the topics are not mature enough, or are not conducive to theorizing as so little is known. These are precisely the reasons that, practitioner-based research can play a tremendous role in helping establish and lay the foundations of a research domain while providing insights into an emerging topic.

Track Co-Chairs
Iris Junglas, Ph.D., College of Charleston
Ravi Mahamuni, Ph.D., TCS Research
Gabriele Piccoli, Ph.D., Louisiana State University
Sujeet K. Sharma, Ph.D., Indian Institute of Management Nagpur