Information Systems Research and Relevance

Relevance in Information Systems Research: An Empirical Analysis

The importance of instilling relevance for IT executives in IS research has been stressed by a number of scholars for the long term survival and growth of the IS discipline. Though there have been extended deliberations on the subject, to our knowledge, there has been no empirical analysis to examine the relevance of current IS research. In this study, we analyze the relevance of the 388 publis...

Relevance Feedback Information Systems

All the tools and techniques we have detailed so far assume that the user “knows” how to formulate her queries/preferences Although with traditional DB’s and a few attributes this might be a reasonable assumption, when we consider many attributes/features it is not clear how a user might guess the right combination of weights How can one define the 64 weights for a color-based search using the ...

Structuration Theory in Information Systems Research: Relevance and Rigour from a Pluralist Research Approach

This paper reflects on the theoretical aspects of an earlier ontological study. The study was a single case which explored the use of an agricultural decision support system by women cotton growers in the Australian cotton industry and the effect of its use on their farm management roles on family cotton farms. The study was informed through a multi-paradigmatic conceptual framework with struct...

Philosophical foundations and research relevance: issues for information research

Information Systems Management Issues : Reporting and Relevance

Reports of key information systems issues have been published over the last two decades in many journals. Leading IS journals (e.g., MIS Quarterly, Information & Management, among others) have published key IS management issue reports every three or four years over the last 15 years, and will probably continue to provide such reports in the future. Although these reports claim to provide decisi...