Careers on the Line (28 April 2021)

Description

Jan and Nick are still processing what they learned from Brian and Wil. Both gave advice to young researchers, but Jan and Nick are not sure they agree, so they end up constructing their own advice for how to build a career in information systems research.

In the episode, we mention a few exemplary scholars, among others, Dick Boland, Ron Weber, Suprateek Sarker, Michael Rosemann, Eric Walden, Paul Leonardi, Shirley Gregor, Andrew Pettigrew, and Izak Benbasat.

Episode Reading List

  • Nelson, R. R., & Winter, S. G. (1982). An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. Harvard University Press.
  • Habermas, J. (1984). Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society. Heinemann.
  • Giddens, A. (1984). The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration. University of California Press.
  • Weber, R. (1997). Ontological Foundations of Information Systems. Coopers & Lybrand.
  • Berlin, I. (1953). The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
  • Sarker, S., Xiao, X., Beaulieu, T., & Lee, A. S. (2018). Learning from First-Generation Qualitative Approaches in the IS Discipline: An Evolutionary View and Some Implications for Authors and Evaluators (PART 1/2). Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 19(8), 752-774.
  • Leonardi, P. M., & Barley, S. R. (2008). Materiality and Change: Challenges to Building Better Theory about Technology and Organizing. Information and Organization, 18(3), 159-176.
  • Orlikowski, W. J., & Scott, S. V. (2008). Sociomateriality: Challenging the Separation of Technology, Work and Organization. Academy of Management Annals, 2(1), 433-474.
  • Leonardi, P. M. (2011). When Flexible Routines Meet Flexible Technologies: Affordance, Constraint, and the Imbrication of Human and Material Agencies. MIS Quarterly, 35(1), 147-167.
  • Aral, S., Dellarocas, C., & Godes, D. (2013). Social Media and Business Transformation: A Framework for Research. Information Systems Research, 24(1), 3-13.
  • Yoo, Y., Henfridsson, O., & Lyytinen, K. (2010). The New Organizing Logic of Digital Innovation: An Agenda for Information Systems Research. Information Systems Research, 21(4), 724-735.
  • Gregor, S. (2006). The Nature of Theory in Information Systems. MIS Quarterly, 30(3), 611-642.
  • Seidel, S., Berente, N., Debortoli, S., & Srinivasan, N. (2016). Tweeting Like Taylor Swift? Affordances, Status Production, and Online Platforms. 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Kuaui, Hawaii.
  • Berthon, P., Pitt, L., Ewing, M., & Carr, C. L. (2002). Potential Research Space in MIS: A Framework for Envisioning and Evaluating Research Replication, Extension and Generation. Information Systems Research, 13(4), 416-427.
  • Burton-Jones, A. (2009). Minimizing Method Bias Through Programmatic Research. MIS Quarterly, 33(3), 445-471.
  • Huff, A. S. (1998). Writing for Scholarly Publication. Sage.

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