TY - GEN
T1 - An exploration of the real or imagined consequences of information systems research for practice
AU - Avison, David
AU - Gregor, Shirley
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - In this paper we attempt to assess the impact of IS research on practice. It is important to show a positive impact, if we can, so that academia, prospective students and the outside world more generally sees that the IS discipline has made a positive and major impact on organizations, people and society. Our research fills a gap as there has been little or no work to date that systematically assesses the effective relevance of IS research to practice. We find that the use of bibliometric indicators to trace the flow of ideas from research published in our top journals to practitioner journals does not detect any strong link between IS research and practice. We suggest several alternative means of assessing effective, rather than imagined, relevance and also consider how more effective diffusion of our IS research might be encouraged.
AB - In this paper we attempt to assess the impact of IS research on practice. It is important to show a positive impact, if we can, so that academia, prospective students and the outside world more generally sees that the IS discipline has made a positive and major impact on organizations, people and society. Our research fills a gap as there has been little or no work to date that systematically assesses the effective relevance of IS research to practice. We find that the use of bibliometric indicators to trace the flow of ideas from research published in our top journals to practitioner journals does not detect any strong link between IS research and practice. We suggest several alternative means of assessing effective, rather than imagined, relevance and also consider how more effective diffusion of our IS research might be encouraged.
KW - Bibliometric indicators
KW - Impact
KW - Information systems
KW - Practice
KW - Research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84870703741&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9788861293915
T3 - 17th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2009
BT - 17th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2009
T2 - 17th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2009
Y2 - 8 June 2009 through 10 June 2009
ER -