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Professors Nick Berente from the University of Notre Dame and Jan Recker from the University of Hamburg talk about current and persistent topics in information systems research, a field that...
We have Daniel Schlagwein on the show, who is what Germans call a "Tausendsassa:" He is both a practitioner and researcher of digital nomadi...
Jan is annoyed because he needs to revise his papers and respond to his reviewers. Why can't ChatGPT or Claude do this for him? Why aren't w...
Does Jan really know what he is talking about? Like we did with Nick last time, we play another round of trivia questions about information...
Does Nick really know what he is talking about? Time to find out. We play a trivia quiz with fifteen questions about information systems res...
Journals play an important role for academics. They disseminate new knowledge and separate good from bad research. They also signal competen...
Let's say we are unethical people, trying to get ahead in academia and gain accolades for the sake of promotion and income and so forth. In...
In 2026, everything is different. AI is scaling both research and publishing productivity. Impact factors no longer matter. Big name journal...
As usual in the final episode of the year, we hand out three awards for what we think are some of the finest pieces of information systems s...
It only took us five years but we finally got Stefan Seidel on the podcast. We have been talking about him and his scholarship for a while....
Some academics go into the office every day; some are rarely ever seen on campus. Is one way better than the other? Who better to ask than t...
A key problem in empirically oriented research, especially inductive and abductive work, is figuring out which theoretical lens or scaffold...
Most think that algorithms are the modern root cause of innovations. But Marta Stelmaszak says not only are organizations today powered by d...
When we discuss artificial intelligence, what metaphors do we use to illustrate what we mean? Is artificial intelligence some sort of robot—...
We are together in South Bend and teach a class to PhD students in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. Our join...
One of the big topics at the AOM 2025 conference this summer was the use of large language models in the research process, especially in qua...
A new season of podcast episodes is starting and what better place to kick it off as the world's largest business and management conference....
Is there collusion in our field? Do we have elites running wild, making sure that their work gets published whilst the rest of us struggles...
Which research methods are better, quantitative or qualitative? What is more important, getting a richer picture of what goes on in organiza...
We continue with our special "Ask us anything" episode to celebrate the centenary of the This IS Research podcast. This time, we handle ques...
We have an anniversary to celebrate: one hundred episodes of the This IS Research podcast. We mark the occasion by answering questions we re...
In 2010, the Association for Information Systems formed a special interest group (SIGGreen) to nurture an international community of academi...
Jason Thatcher is back on the show and he is bringing decades of experiences as a journal editor. So we decided we play a game of round robi...
Is it okay to use large language models in the research process? For what task, exactly, and to automate the task or to augment the research...
Is there a formula for doing and publishing research on digital phenomena? And if so, it is the same formula as the scripts for IS papers of...
Our field of information systems is in the fortunate position that we have our own independent and self-governed association (we have more t...
Nick is traveling, Jan is sick - no time to produce a new episode in time. But fear not, we still have a giant archive of episodes that you...
Is the journal publishing process and the "game" around journal publishing forcing us to give up on big ideas and instead work on small idea...
One of the main reasons article submissions get desk-rejected by journals is for lack of fit. But what does that actually mean? And how can...
Look at what Santa dropped when he came down the chimney last night. A bunch of valuable ThisISResearch Best paper Awards! As we do at the e...
What do academics have to offer that practitioners do not already have? They have the data academics want. They can analyse it by themselves...
You set up an assumption, you have a theory, you analyze your data, and you show that the assumption does not hold. Doing good qualitative r...
Did you know there is someone who published a MIS Quarterly paper in its inaugural issue in 1977 and has another one forthcoming in 2024? Ha...
We continue our discussion around theorizing about digital phenomena and publishing conceptual papers. Today, we are joined by Robert Gregor...
Editorials are spaces in journals where the key stewards of the field leave advice for others about what type of research the journals they...
Conceptual papers that offer new theories are hard to write and even harder to publish. You do not have empirical data to back up your argum...
Did you know that when you spend time on an online platform, you could be experiencing between six to eight different experimental treatment...
We are back with the usual dose of fortnightly folksy academic wisdom sprinkled in with some serious and substantive conversations. We kick...
Many people think of summer as the best time to read. On the beach, on the airplane to a vacation, in between semesters… Sounds like a perfe...
Time to reflect a bit. After our conversations with three excellent but very different IS researchers, we sit down and ponder the lessons we...
Behavioral research is alive and well ... online Some time ago, we wondered whether survey research is dead. Today, we speak with Jason That...
Shaila Miranda is with us today. She has done some amazing theory construct research using computational methods before this was really an a...
According to the internet, Elon Musk is often praised for his visionary mindset, innovation, risk-taking attitude, and energy. Jan vom Brock...
In science, citations are used to give credit to sources that are relevant to the topic that is being discussed where the citation appears....
Research is a conversation. Every scholar must become a professional writer. But how do we learn these things? Most graduate school programs...
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 iss...
Jan has a boy crush on IS Econ researchers while Nick thinks they reduce all phenomena to regressions. Time to put both myths – and a few ot...
Generative AI is the biggest tech issue of our time. We might be witnessing history in the making. At least, so says Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, wh...
Trivia question: which information systems scholar was a division one tennis professional and has an award-winning MIS Quarterly paper to he...
One of the biggest cases of academic misconduct in recent times has been the case involving Francesca Gino, Dan Ariely, and Max Bazerman. Is...
As the year draws to a close, it is time for us to revisit some of the best IS scholarship that got published this year. Yes, time for the 3...