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Title

ACIS 2007 panel report: lack of relevance in IS research

Author(s)

Recker, Jan;  Young, Raymond;  Darroch, Fiona;  Marshall, Peter;  McKay, Judy

Abstract

Relevance of IS research to practitioners has been one of the most fervently debated meta discussions in the IS discipline. To address the concern of lack of relevance, an IS relevance index was suggested in 2005 and used in an exploratory study using two years of conference review data. This paper reports on a 2007 panel presented at the Australasian Conference on Information Systems, which explored the idea of this IS relevance index and discussed openly the issue of lack of relevance in conducting, evaluating and presenting IS research. This paper first introduces the debate and the concept of an IS relevance index. Next, viewpoints of individual panel members are presented and finally the subsequent panel discussion is summarized.

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies

Source

Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 24, article no. 18 (Feb 2009), pp. 303-314

Publication year

2009

FOR Code(s)

0806 Information Systems;  080699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified

Keyword(s)

Academic rigour;  Information systems;  IS scholarship;  Relevance;  Research measures;  Research quality assessment;  Research Quality Framework

Publisher

Association for Information Systems

ISSN

1529-3181

Publisher URL

http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol24/iss1/18/

Copyright

Copyright © 2009 by the Association for Information Systems.

Peer reviewed