Description

Jan is annoyed. He received reviews and of course they were critical of his work. But what makes a good review? When do reviews stop being helpful? And do we need a new reviewing culture? Nick and Jan suggest we do.

Episode Reading List

• Weber, R. (2002). Editor’s Comments: Retrospection: The MIS Quarterly’s Review Processes: 1995-2001. MIS Quarterly, 26(2), v-xi.
• Saunders, C. (2005). Editor’s Comments: Looking for Diamond Cutters. MIS Quarterly, 29(1), iii-viii.
• Gray, P., Lyytinen, K., Saunders, C., Willcocks, L. P., Watson, R. T., & Zwass, V. (2006). How Shall We Manage Our Journals in the Future? A Discussion of Richard T. Watson’s Proposals at ICIS 2004. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 18(14), 2-41.
• Straub, D. W. (2008). Editor’s Comments: Type II Reviewing Errors and the Search for Exciting Papers. MIS Quarterly, 32(2), v-x.
• DeLone, W. H., & McLean, E. R. (1992). Information Systems Success: The Quest for the Dependent Variable. Information Systems Research, 3(1), 60-95.
• Rai, A. (2016). Editor’s Comments: Writing a Virtuous Review. MIS Quarterly, 40(3), iii-x.
• Whitley, E. A. (2018). Fish Stocks, Grazing Land, and Reviewers: Exploring the Usefulness of the Tragedy of the Commons for Understanding the Reviewer Resource Problem. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 42(26), 630-635.
• Recker, J. (2020). Reflections of a Retiring Editor-in-Chief. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 46(32), 751-761.

Since airing the episode, we were made aware of two papers that speak to the role of a journal editor:

• Sarker, S., Agarwal, R., Goes, P., Gregor, S., Henfridsson, O., Saunders, C., and Tan, B. (2015). Roles and Responsibilities of a Senior Editor. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 16(9), i-xx.
• Tarafdar, M., and Davison, R. M. (2021). The associate editor and senior editor roles in premier IS journals. Information Systems Journal, doi:10.1111/isj.12332.