This paper is an outcome of a panel discussion that was held during the 2005 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). The panel, titled, “IS Research that Really Matters: Beyond the IS Rigor Relevance Debate,” was organized to foster a discussion on conducting IS research that is significant, in terms of impact, and responsible to the needs of stakeholders. To this end, panel mem...

Evaluation of research artefacts (such as models, frameworks and methodologies) is essential to determine their quality and demonstrate worth. However, in the IQ research domain there is no existing standard set of criteria available for researchers to use to evaluate their IQ artefacts. This paper therefore describes our experience of selecting and synthesizing a set of evaluation criteria use...

We are living in the era of fast information growth when we are hardly able to selforientate in the volume of information surrounding us and manage it. In the situation of huge information overflow that we are experiencing already now and will be experiencing sharply in the future we are trying to better understand how to treat information around us looking for new methods of organizing new inf...

The thesis of this study is to propose an extended methodology for laboratory based Information Retrieval evaluation under incomplete relevance assessments. This new methodology aims to identify potential uncertainty during system comparison that may result from incompleteness. The adoption of this methodology is advantageous, because the detection of epistemic uncertainty – the amount of knowl...

This paper presents a conceptual model of information behaviour. The model is part of the Search Situation Transition method schema. The method schema is developed to discover and analyse interplay between phenomena traditionally analysed as factors influencing either information retrieval or information seeking. In this paper the focus is on the model's five main categories: the work task, the...

IS research can serve two goals: improve practice or make a research contribution. Since the early days of the Information Systems (IS) discipline, researchers have criticized the limited practical relevance of their work. In the case of research contributions, new research typically builds on important prior research. This study investigates the phenomenon of research importance in IS, using c...

Research on ethical and moral issues in information systems is increasingly recognized as legitimate and important. It raises a number of problems, however, that are often difficult for IS scholars to recognize and address. This paper therefore aims to provide guidance for IS scholars interested in undertaking or evaluating ethics-related research. The guidance is given in the form of questions...

We investigate the changes in the value relevance of accounting information among Chinese firms over the past two decades, during which accounting reforms are launched to provide decision makers with increased disclosure and higher quality financial information. We also investigate the factors that differentiate firms showing significant value relevance improvement from firms showing little imp...

Information technology is changing rapidly. However, existing technology acceptance models do not consider the impact of changes on individual acceptance of information technology. This paper introduces the construct of technology change and integrates current technology acceptance models with social psychology theories of attitude change to propose a theory of technology acceptance under condi...

By bringing together science studies, information science and ethnographic fieldwork in interdisciplinary research the author argues for the relevance of ethnographic practices when studying information systems as infrastructures of communication. Ethnographic fieldwork focuses attention on fringes and materialities of infrastructures and renders the researcher able to read the invisible layers...