Information Systems Journals Research Articles

The impact of missing or incorrect addresses

The impact of missing or incorrect addresses

Journal copyright restrictions and actual open access availability: a study of articles published in eight top information systems journals (2010–2014)

Most scholarly journals have explicit copyright restrictions for authors outlining how published articles, or earlier manuscript versions of such articles, may be distributed on the open web. Empirical research on the development of open access (OA) is still scarce and methodologically fragmented, and research on the relationship between journal copyright restrictions and actual free online availability is non-existent. In this study the free availability of articles published in eight top journals within the field of Information Systems (IS) is analyzed by observing the availability of all articles published in the journals during 2010---2014 (1515 articles in total) through the use of Google and Google Scholar. The web locations and document versions of retrieved articles for up to three OA copies per published article were categorized manually. The web findings were contrasted to journal copyright information and augmented with citation data for each article. Around 60 % of all published articles were found to have an OA copy available. The findings suggest that copyright restrictions weakly regulate actual author-side dissemination practice. The use of academic social networks (ASNs) for enabling online availability of research publications has grown increasingly popular, an avenue of research dissemination that most of the studied journal copyright agreements failed to explicitly accommodate.

A decade plus long introspection of research published in Information & Management

It is insightful for a leading publication in information systems like Information & Management to conduct a deep introspection of what it publishes and how it has evolved over the years. It informs all constituencies: readers, authors, reviewers and editors in future research efforts. Information & Management (I&M for short) is one of the oldest journals in the information systems field and has been continuously regarded as a top journal with high quality publications. The purpose of this study is to conduct a detailed examination of the research I&M has published in a 10+ year period from 2004 to 2014. Specifically, we consider four dimensions of research: topics, research methodologies, research models, and paradigmatic research approaches. Patterns and trends for these four dimensions are presented in order to provide an in-depth examination. For benchmark purposes, we compare our results to a major US-based journal: the MIS Quarterly (MISQ) and a major European journal: the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS).

Characteristics of IT artifacts: a systems thinking‐based framework for delineating and theorizing IT artifacts

AbstractThe information technology artifact (ITA) has been suggested as the core of information systems (IS) research, and the research community has been encouraged to deeply engage with the ITA. Various studies highlight, however, that the ITA continues to receive only limited attention and thus, little foundation exists for IS researchers to delineate and theorize about the ITAs studied. In this paper, we develop a framework that can be utilized as a language for articulating and theorizing the ITA in IS research. Our framework builds on the multi‐faceted theoretical paradigm of systems thinking from which we derive several concepts and appropriate them to the context at hand, resulting in a seven‐dimensional framework of characteristics for ITAs. In a literature survey of research on enterprise systems and enterprise resource planning systems in top IS journals, we show how ITA characteristics are currently included to present details of the relevant ITA instance and identify theoretical relationships between ITA characteristics and outcomes. We conclude the study by demonstrating the use of the ITA framework for delineating and theorizing the ITA in IS research.

Perspectives on Past and Future AIS Research as the Journal of Information Systems Turns Thirty

ABSTRACT This paper complements a panel session pertaining to past and future AIS research that was held during the 2015 American Accounting Association Annual Meeting. There are two main parts to this commentary. First, using text mining techniques on AIS article abstracts for the period 1986–2014, we identify the top research themes across three leading AIS journals (Journal of Information Systems, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, and Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting). We chart the usage of these themes over time and discuss their shifting popularity. Second, we speculate on the future of AIS research and identify a series of broad research streams that may garner greater importance over the next 30 years. A host of broad research questions accompany the discussion of emerging and anticipated research streams in order to motivate and guide future research.

Predicting meeting participants’ note-taking from previously uttered dialogue acts

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a new supervised machine learning study on the prediction of meeting participant’s personal note-taking from spoken dialogue acts uttered shortly before writing. Design/methodology/approach This novel approach of providing cues for finding important meeting events that would be worth recording in a meeting summary looks at temporal overlaps of multiple people’s note-taking. This research uses data of 124 meetings taken from the AMI meeting corpus. Findings The results show that several machine learning methods that the authors compared were able to classify the data significantly better than a random approach. The best model, decision trees with feature selection, achieved 70 per cent accuracy for the binary distinction writing for any number of participants simultaneously or no writing, whereas the performance for a more fine-grained distinction of the number of participants taking notes showed only about 30 per cent accuracy. Research limitations/implications The findings suggest that meeting participants take personal notes in accordance with the utterance of previously uttered speech acts, particularly dialogue acts about disfluencies and assessments appear to influence the note-taking activities. However, further research is necessary to examine other domains and to determine in what way this behaviour is helpful as a feature source for automatic meeting summarisation, which is useful for more efficiently satisfying people’s information needs about meeting contents. Practical implications The reader of an Information Systems (IS) journal would be interested in this paper because the work described and the findings gained could lead to the development of novel information systems that facilitate the work for businesses and individuals. Innovative meeting capture and retrieval applications, satisfying automatic summaries of important meeting points and sophisticated note-taking tools that suggest content automatically could make people’s daily lives more convenient in the future. Social implications There are wider implications in terms of productivity and efficiency. Business value is increased for the organisation, as human knowledge is built more or less automatically. There are also cognitive and social implications for individuals and possibly an impact on the society as a whole. It is also important for globalisation, social media and mobile devices. Originality/value The topic is new and original, as there has not been much research on it yet. Similar work was carried out recently (Murray, 2015; Bothin and Clough 2014). This is why it is relevant to an IS journal and interesting for the reader. In particular, dialogue acts about disfluencies and assessments appear to influence the note-taking activities. This behaviour is helpful as a feature source for automatic meeting summarisation, which is useful for more efficiently satisfying people’s information needs about meeting contents.

Perspectives on Past and Future AIS Research as the Journal of Information Systems Turns Thirty

This paper complements a panel session pertaining to past and future AIS research that was held during the 2015 American Accounting Association annual meeting. There are two main parts to this commentary. First, using text mining techniques on AIS article abstracts for the period 1986-2014, we identify the top research themes across three leading AIS journals (Journal of Information Systems, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, and Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting). We chart the usage of these themes over time and discuss their shifting popularity. Second, we speculate on the future of AIS research and identify a series of broad research streams that may garner greater importance over the next 30 years. A host of broad research questions accompany the discussion of emerging and anticipated research streams in order to motivate and guide future research.

TheJournal of Information Systemsat Thirty

The<i>Journal of Information Systems</i>at Thirty

Thirty Years of theJournal of Information Systems:Reflections of a Prodigal Son

ABSTRACTThis paper presents some personal reflections on the 30-year history of the Journal of Information Systems. I give some historical context that provides a basis for understanding how the Journal has evolved. I also identify some of the Journal's major achievements that are good reasons for celebration. Finally, I suggest some areas for development in terms of future research that might be published in the Journal.

Computer Systems Usage and Competitive Profitability

(1993). Computer Systems Usage and Competitive Profitability. Journal of Computer Information Systems: Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 67-72.

Faculty Usage of Management Information Systems Journals: A Survey

Faculty Usage of Management Information Systems Journals: A Survey

Theory in North American Information Systems Research: A Culturomic Analysis

Since its inception, North American information systems (IS) research has relied on a broad and varied collection of theories. The core of this theoretical landscape is an important determinant of the IS research community’s identity, and, as such, researchers have discussed it extensively in recent years. Nevertheless, we know few concrete facts about the composition, consistency, or evolution of this theoretical core over time. Using a set of 318 theories in conjunction with n-gram analyses, we address these issues empirically by computationally analyzing the complete text of every research paper published in three leading North American IS journals over a 24-year period. In examining these 2,215 papers and more than 3.54 billion n-gram records, we identify the theories that constitute the overall core of North American IS research and provide insights into the evolution of that core. We further identify and quantify the nature of theoretical pluralism in North American IS research and examine the evolution of the theoretical density of IS research studies over time. Finally, our results shed light on the patterns of theory co-occurrence in North American IS research studies and demonstrate how such information can facilitate increasingly imperative efforts aimed at theory consolidation and generalization.

Theory in North American Information Systems Research: A Culturomic Analysis

Since its inception, North American information systems (IS) research has relied on a broad and varied collection of theories. The core of this theoretical landscape is an important determinant of the IS research community’s identity, and, as such, researchers have discussed it extensively in recent years. Nevertheless, we know few concrete facts about the composition, consistency, or evolution of this theoretical core over time. Using a set of 318 theories in conjunction with n-gram analyses, we address these issues empirically by computationally analyzing the complete text of every research paper published in three leading North American IS journals over a 24-year period. In examining these 2,215 papers and more than 3.54 billion n-gram records, we identify the theories that constitute the overall core of North American IS research and provide insights into the evolution of that core. We further identify and quantify the nature of theoretical pluralism in North American IS research and examine the evolution of the theoretical density of IS research studies over time. Finally, our results shed light on the patterns of theory co-occurrence in North American IS research studies and demonstrate how such information can facilitate increasingly imperative efforts aimed at theory consolidation and generalization.

Key Authors in Business and Management Education Research

Previous studies of author productivity in business and management education (BME) research have focused on single disciplinary areas, and even single journals. This study is the first to examine the productivity of BME scholars across multiple disciplinary areas (accounting, economics, finance, information systems, management, marketing, and supply chain/operations management). We analyzed a pool of 17 BME journals, comprising the top ten journals in the overall field with the highest hg index, and including the top three journals in accounting and information systems, and the top two in each of the other disciplinary areas. This allowed us to develop a database comprising a ten-year period of analysis (2005-2014), totaling 4,464 articles and 9,617 article co-authors. We then identified the 7,210 unique authors in this pool and ranked their productivity to create a “Top 100 Key Authors” list. Each of the top 99 authors had five or more unweighted articles in our database. To curb the number of authors vy...

Country Trends and Scholarly Collaboration in the ICT4D Research Community 2000–2013: A Single Journal Study

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to explore the country productivity, collaboration behaviour and citation impact of ICT4D researchers by examining all 378 articles published in the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC) over a 14‐year period. Data were collected from the Inspec database. The most active countries and regions were identified by analysing the author affiliation details. The contributions of developing countries were compared to developed countries. The trend in the EJISDC is towards collaborative research involving 250 (66.14%) articles with multiple authors and 128 (33.86%) articles with single authors. Articles by authors from the same institution accounted for 32.01% of jointly authored articles. National or domestic collaboration accounted for 173 (45.77%) articles and international collaboration accounted for 77 (20.37%) articles. Of the 69 countries represented in the EJISDC, 51 countries collaborated globally. Regional distribution of authors showed that Africa had the strongest representation, followed by Asia and North America. Between 17.83% and 20.87% of developing countries contributed articles to the EJISDC. The results of the study show that for this journal, single‐authored articles are cited more often than multi‐authored articles in Google Scholar.

Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (2000 – 2013): A Bibliometric Study

AbstractA systematic analysis was performed of 378 articles published in the 59 volumes of the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC) in the period 2000 to 2013. The aim of the study was to create a bibliometric profile of the journal by investigating variables such as the article productivity, Web citations and non‐Web citations, authorship patterns, background of the authors, institutional collaboration, degree of collaboration, as well as most productive authors and institutions together with their countries and regional affiliations. This study used the bibliographic database Inspec as a data collection source. Results of the study reveal that the average number of articles per year was 27 and the average length of an article 16.24 pages. The reference list analysis showed that most authors cite print resources, with 81.89% non‐Web references compared to 18.11% Web references. A total of 697 authors contributed to this journal, with an average of 2.16 authors per article. An overwhelming 86.51% of the authors are from a university background. The journal displays a collaborative authorship pattern with 250 (66.14%) articles that were co‐authored, compared to 128 (33.86%) that were single authored.

UTILIZAÇÃO DE TEORIAS EM PESQUISAS NA ÁREA DE ADMINISTRAÇÃO DA INFORMAÇÃO NO BRASIL: REFLEXÕES INICIAIS

Theories have multiple roles in a field of knowledge, from the understanding of the causes of a phenomenon to the prevision of its behavior. Thus, analyzing the use and the role of theories in an area of knowledge is a way to understand its genesis and to discuss points to be explored. The objective of this paper is to analyze the use of theories in Information Systems (IS) research in terms of frequency and diversity. We analyzed all papers published in RESI and JISTEM, the two main IS journals in Brazil, from their founding (2002/2004) to 2014, comprising 396 articles. The Gregor taxonomy for analyzing theories (2006) was used; this taxonomy considers different roles of theories, such as analyzing, explanation, prediction, explanation/prediction, design and action. A group of 32 articles cited 18 different theories and each theory was cited by up to two articles. These results were compared with the research of Lim et al. (2009), which identified the most commonly used theories in MIS Quarterly and Information System Research journals: 70% of the 386 analyzed articles employed at least one theory, and the 10 most cited theories are present in 90% of the articles. A much smaller number of papers in national journals use theories (5.3%) and a lower number of different theories are used (18) compared to the papers in American journals (70% and 154). Even considering the differences among the journals, the lower use of theories in Brazilian IS research gives cause for concern.

ANALISIS HUBUNGAN ANTARA ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING DENGAN EFEKTIVITAS PENGENDALIAN INTERNAL PADA SEKTOR PERBANKAN

Development of information technology in the sector of accounting has been think out an integrated system called Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). In Indonesia, this system has been adopted by some commercial banks. This paper discusses the relationship between ERP with the effectiveness of internal controls through the case study on the banking sector. This is done because of the discovery of the problem regarding the number of cases of fraud and bank percing caused by weak internal controls, although some banks have implemented ERP that one of the benefits is to increase the effectiveness of internal control. The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence related to previous studies that comes from the journal of information systems and accounting journals related to ERP implementation and internal controls. Data collection method in this paper is the study of the documentation from the accounting literature and information systems. From the analysis, there are five factors that play a role similar in the success of the implementation of the ERP system and increase the effectiveness of internal controls. The solution to overcome the problem of internal controls in the banking sector which is using the five critical success factors above coupled with the strengthening of the role of the Internal Audit Unit. The final conclusion is that the factor of leadership support, employees, business processes, employee education, corporate management, and strengthening the role of Internal Audit can improve the effectiveness of internal control of a bank that has implemented ERP.

Editorial

Editorial

Innovation research in information systems: A commentary on contemporary trends and issues

There is a need to unify the different strands of innovation research in information systems (IS) literature. We analyze 113 articles published over the past 15 years in top 10 IS journals. We classify the literature by (a) using the overall process spectrum of conceptualization from its innovation to its diffusion and (b) using the various theories of innovation referred to and validated in the articles. We identify that innovation diffusion theory is the most popular theory used by researchers. We conclude that future research must focus on the conceptualization and the generation phase of innovation through exploratory or empirical studies.