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Professors Nick Berente from the University of Notre Dame and Jan Recker from the University of Hamburg talk about current and persistent topics in information systems research, a field that explores how digital technologies change business and society. You can find papers and other materials we...
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If you’re writing a paper about AI you are not allowed to talk about AI
When we discuss artificial intelligence, what metaphors do we use to illustrate what we mean? Is artificial intelligence some sort of robot—like Ultro...
Nick’s rules for a good PhD education
We are together in South Bend and teach a class to PhD students in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. Our joint teaching...
Should all qualitative researchers use LLMs?
One of the big topics at the conference this summer was the use of large language models in the research process, especially in qualitative studies....
Cognitive conflict, courage, humility, and respect: Ingredients for a productive academic discourse
A new season of podcast episodes is starting and what better place to kick it off as the world’s largest business and management conference. We are re...
Elitism, conflicts of interest, and collusion in the information systems field?
Is there collusion in our field? Do we have elites running wild, making sure that their work gets published whilst the rest of us struggles to find ro...
The great debate
Which research methods are better, quantitative or qualitative? What is more important, getting a richer picture of what goes on in organizations, or...
Ask us anything - Part Two
We continue with our special “Ask us anything” episode to celebrate the centenary of the This IS Research podcast. This time, we handle questions such...
Ask us anything – Part one
We have an anniversary to celebrate: one hundred episodes of the This IS Research podcast. We mark the occasion by answering questions we received fro...
Are digital technologies helping to green our planet?
In 2010, the Association for Information Systems formed a special interest group () to nurture an international community of academics that study the...
How to be an editor 101, or: how to get away with bad paper decisions
is back on the show and he is bringing decades of experiences as a journal editor. So we decided we play a game of round robin where each of us is gi...
If it feels like a shortcut, it’s probably a shortcut.
Is it okay to use large language models in the research process? For what task, exactly, and to automate the task or to augment the researcher? In thi...
New theories or new scripts for the digital age?
Is there a formula for doing and publishing research on digital phenomena? And if so, it is the same formula as the scripts for IS papers of the past,...
Let’s all cheer for the Journal of the Association for Information Systems
Our field of information systems is in the fortunate position that we have our own independent and self-governed association (we have more than one, i...
The five best episodes to get you started with this podcast
Nick is traveling, Jan is sick - no time to produce a new episode in time. But fear not, we still have a giant archive of episodes that you may have f...
Is hunting journal articles making us miss the boat of big ideas?
Is the journal publishing process and the “game” around journal publishing forcing us to give up on big ideas and instead work on small ideas about tr...
Stop having your paper rejected for lack of fit
One of the main reasons article submissions get desk-rejected by journals is for lack of fit. But what does that actually mean? And how can we figure...
Awards under the Christmas Tree
Look at what Santa dropped when he came down the chimney last night. A bunch of valuable ThisISResearch Best paper Awards! As we do at the end of ever...
What do practitioners want from us?
What do academics have to offer that practitioners do not already have? They have the data academics want. They can analyse it by themselves, sometime...
You just did a bad job doing qualitative research
You set up an assumption, you have a theory, you analyze your data, and you show that the assumption does not hold. Doing good qualitative research is...
Have we lost our ability to create big impact?
Did you know there is someone who published a MIS Quarterly paper in its inaugural issue in 1977 and has another one forthcoming in 2024? Hard to fath...
Can you publish papers on digital technology in Academy of Management Review?
We continue our discussion around theorizing about digital phenomena and publishing conceptual papers. Today, we are joined by , who has published sev...
Journal editorials that are must-reads for every IS scholar
Editorials are spaces in journals where the key stewards of the field leave advice for others about what type of research the journals they lead are l...
Why you should never write a conceptual paper
Conceptual papers that offer new theories are hard to write and even harder to publish. You do not have empirical data to back up your arguments, whic...
Orthogonal testing planes and electricity in the kitchen
Did you know that when you spend time on an online platform, you could be experiencing between six to eight different experimental treatments that ste...
The three most useless slides in conference presentations
We are back with the usual dose of fortnightly folksy academic wisdom sprinkled in with some serious and substantive conversations. We kick this new s...
How to do a literature review
Many people think of summer as the best time to read. On the beach, on the airplane to a vacation, in between semesters… Sounds like a perfect time to...
Did we learn anything?
Time to reflect a bit. After our conversations with three excellent but very different IS researchers, we sit down and ponder the lessons we learnt fr...
Behavioral research is alive and well … online
Behavioral research is alive and well ... online Some time ago, we wondered whether survey research is dead. Today, we speak with , who argues the exa...
Generalization or generalizability, that is the question
is with us today. She has done some amazing theory construct research using computational methods before this was really an accepted thing. We discuss...
The Elon Musk of Information Systems
According to the internet, Elon Musk is often praised for his visionary mindset, innovation, risk-taking attitude, and energy. is just like that, we...
Winning the citation game
In science, citations are used to give credit to sources that are relevant to the topic that is being discussed where the citation appears. They are...
The blank page problem
Research is a conversation. Every scholar must become a professional writer. But how do we learn these things? Most graduate school programs do not in...
What is so special about special issues?
The thing is, special issues are special. Hence the name. But what is it that makes them special? We look at some of the hottest special issues out th...
Every study is a case study
Jan has a boy crush on IS Econ researchers while Nick thinks they reduce all phenomena to regressions. Time to put both myths – and a few others – to...
Navigating the jagged frontier of computing
Generative AI is the biggest tech issue of our time. We might be witnessing history in the making. At least, so says , who is not only but also has b...
Professional athletes make better scientists
Trivia question: which information systems scholar was a division one tennis professional and has an award-winning MIS Quarterly paper to her name? Of...
Your best course of action is to cheat and put your name on every paper
One of the biggest cases of academic misconduct in recent times has been the case involving Francesca Gino, Dan Ariely, and Max Bazerman. Is there any...
Trailblazers, innovators, and elegant scholars
As the year draws to a close, it is time for us to revisit some of the best IS scholarship that got published this year. Yes, time for the 3rd annual...
The songs by Lady Gaga will be forgotten
What is so special about digital technology? Is digital innovation about architecture or is it about data? We talk with the enigmatic – truly one of...
Who would think Management Science is Not a Top Information Systems Journal?
Nick and Jan venture into new publishing territory. We talk with the fabulous , one of the information systems department editors at , about journal p...