The captions for Fig. 3C and D were reversed in the original version. This has now been updated (see below).

In a recent article in Information Systems Research, Pinsonneault et al. (1999) present a thorough and compelling summary of theoretical factors that act to enhance and impair productivity in electronic brainstorming (EBS) groups as contrasted with traditional verbal brainstorming groups and nominal group brainstorming. They assume that all theoretical factors are equally important and remain c...

Article history: Received 8 November 2010 Received in revised form 21 November 2010 Accepted 21 November 2010 Available online 17 December 2010 Information Systems (IS) publications that use interviews for data generation tend to provide very little insight into the research process andvery few rely on a carefully chosenandwell-articulated interviewing method. Given the wide variety of intervie...

Information Systems research has proposed a range of knowledge elicitation and requirements analysis techniques, few of which apply specific strategies for eliciting implicit knowledge from participants. This paper demonstrates a methodology for eliciting tacit knowledge from the spoken discourse of organisational participants through directed interviews. It argues that Polanyi’s (1966:4) widel...

The issue of ‘transforming Research into Practice’ is not new to the discipline of Information Systems and has generated much interest over the years. In this paper we propose to examine the transfer of research knowledge and research skills from Academic supervisors to undergraduate students. This study will focus on the transfer process occurring during the students’ final year whilst underta...