The dawn of the age of autonomous scholarship
In information systems, we saw the rise of qualitative scholarship in the 1990s. In the 2000s, we saw the rise of analytics in research, fue...
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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...
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20 of 123 episodesSummertime, revision time
While Jan vacated his desk and took some weeks off in the summer, Nick has been busy working on paper revisions. Time to figure out how to h...
What is the difference between advisors and mentors?
We have TC Eley IV on the show, a freshly minted assistant professor that just completed his PhD program. He is starting a new mentorship pr...
How to pick the perfect conference location
The Academy of Management has just moved the next AOM conferences outside of the United States. The Association for Information Systems has...
The AI Slop Tsunami
Do you think AI will have an impact on science? You are wrong. It will not–it already does. The annual International Conference on Informati...
Why you should put pictures of your reviewers next to your computer when you're writing
We devote enormous time and effort to developing a research idea, crafting a research design, executing a study, and then writing and polish...
Glaser, Strauss, Charmaz, Nelson, Claude.ai? When digital nomads use generative AI to build grounded theories for the Journal of Information Technology
We have Daniel Schlagwein on the show, who is what Germans call a "Tausendsassa:" He is both a practitioner and researcher of digital nomadi...
In three years, we won't be revising our papers anymore
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...
Who wants to be a this IS research expert? Jan's turn
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...
Who wants to be a this IS research expert?
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...
Do you prefer a prestigious or a rigorous journal?
Journals play an important role for academics. They disseminate new knowledge and separate good from bad research. They also signal competen...
If you're not using ChatGPT to cheat in research, you're not going with the times
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...
The definitive guide to ranking IS journals
In 2026, everything is different. AI is scaling both research and publishing productivity. Impact factors no longer matter. Big name journal...
Nick and Jan reporting live from the International Conference on Information Systems
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...
Doing research on prime ministers
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....
Managing academics is like herding cats
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...
When you watch Tik Tok, your maturity in the academic enterprise is zero
A key problem in empirically oriented research, especially inductive and abductive work, is figuring out which theoretical lens or scaffold...
Data is the fuel that sets innovation on fire
Most think that algorithms are the modern root cause of innovations. But Marta Stelmaszak says not only are organizations today powered by d...
If you're writing a paper about AI you are not allowed to talk about AI
When we discuss artificial intelligence, what metaphors do we use to illustrate what we mean? Is artificial intelligence some sort of robot—...
Nick's rules for a good PhD education
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...