WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT SPECIAL ISSUES? (3 April 2024)

Description

The thing is, special issues are special. Hence the name. But what is it that makes them special? We look at some of the hottest special issues out there for information systems researchers and we discuss three key aspects of special issues – topical fit, competition, and process – that provide both advantages and disadvantages to researchers thinking about submitting to them. And for some weird reason we end up discussing our experiences at doctoral and junior faculty consortia and why everyone should attend them, always.

Episode Reading List

  • Recker, J., Zeiss, R., & Mueller, M. (2024). iRepair or I Repair? A Dialectical Process Analysis of Control Enactment on the iPhone Repair Aftermarket. MIS Quarterly, 48(1), 321-346.
  • Lindberg, A., Schecter, A., Berente, N., Hennel, P., & Lyytinen, K. (2024). The Entrainment of Task Allocation and Release Cycles in Open Source Software Development. MIS Quarterly, 48(1), 67-94.
  • Abbasi, A., Greenwood, B. N., Mazmanian, M., Miranda, S. M., & Seamans, R. (2024). Call for Papers: Special Issue – The Institutional Press in the Digital Age. MIS Quarterly, https://misq.umn.edu/call_for_papers/institutional-press.
  • Seamans, R., & Zhu, F. (2014). Responses to Entry in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers. Management Science, 60(2), 476-493.
  • Berente, N., Hansen, S., Pike, J. C., & Bateman, P. J. (2011). Arguing the Value of Virtual Worlds: Patterns of Discursive Sensemaking of an Innovative Technology. MIS Quarterly, 35(3), 685-709.
  • Seidel, S., Recker, J., & vom Brocke, J. (2013). Sensemaking and Sustainable Practicing: Functional Affordances of Information Systems in Green Transformations. MIS Quarterly, 37(4), 1275-1299.
  • von Briel, F., Davidsson, P., & Recker, J. (2018). Digital Technologies as External Enablers of New Venture Creation in the IT Hardware Sector. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 42(1), 47-69.
  • Indulska, M., Hovorka, D. S., & Recker, J. (2012). Quantitative Approaches to Content Analysis: Identifying Conceptual Drift Across Publication Outlets. European Journal of Information Systems, 21(1), 49-69.
  • Berente, N., Gu, B., Recker, J., & Santhanam, R. (2021). Managing Artificial Intelligence. MIS Quarterly, 45(3), 1433-1450.
  • Raisch, S., Gregory, R. W., Leavitt, K., Minbaeva, D., Murray, A., Nahrgang, J. D., & Zavyalova, A. (2024). Call for Papers: Academy of Management Review Special Topic Forum “Artificial Intelligence in Management”. Academy of Management Review, https://aom.org/events/event-detail/2024/10/01/higher-logic-calendar/amr-special-topic-forum-artificial-intelligence-in-management.
  • Jia, N., Lakhani, K. R., Seamans, R., Tucci, C. L., & Vanneste, B. S. (2024). Call for Papers for a Special Issue: “Strategy and Artificial Intelligence”. Strategic Management Journal, https://tinyurl.com/5n84ey69.
  • Sturm, T., Gerlach, J. P., Pumplun, L., Mesbah, N., Peters, F., Tauchert, C., Nan, N., & Buxmann, P. (2021). Coordinating Human and Machine Learning for Effective Organizational Learning. MIS Quarterly, 45(3), 1581-1602.
  • Benbasat, I., & Zmud, R. W. (2003). The Identity Crisis Within The IS Discipline: Defining and Communicating The Discipline’s Core Properties. MIS Quarterly, 27(2), 183-194.
  • Recker, J. (2014). There and Back Again: The Journey To Becoming an IS Professor. ICIS DC Keynote, https://www.slideshare.net/janrecker/icis-2014-dc-keynote-jan-recker.
  • Lee, J., & Berente, N. (2012). Digital Innovation and the Division of Innovative Labor: Digital Controls in the Automotive Industry. Organization Science, 23(5), 1428-1447.

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