Toward a richer diversity of genres in information systems research: new categorization and guidelines

European Journal of Information Systems (2012) 21, 469–478. doi:10.1057/ejis.2012.38 In this editorial I would like to make a general and effective call for more diversity in information systems research genres. This is a general call that goes beyond a particular journal and attempts to provide some practical guidelines. One can be sympathetic to the vision of opening up to a new wider set of research and presentation genres such as the one developed in my former editorials (Rowe, 2010, 2011), but without some guidelines this call for increasing diversity in IS research genres might hang fire. In other words, to encourage potential authors to be more confident in these endeavors, we need to indicate which lampposts might be worth approaching when building their research. Journals play an important institutional role in signaling and promoting certain categories of research. Hence, the two objectives of this editorial are as follows: