Defining MIS : An Evolutionary Perspective

1. Defining MIS : An Evolutionary Perspective

2. Outline • Introduction • Background • Methodology • Analysis • Limitations and Discussion

3. Introduction • Evolution of MIS - Amalgamation of Disciplines - Consistent changes to the pillars - Origins of MIS and Scholars • Evolutionary approach.

4. Background • Errors of Inclusion and Exclusion (Benbasat and Zmud 2003). • Deviation from the IT Artifact (Orlikowski and Iacano 2001). • Considerable diversity in topics (Vessey et al 2002).

5. Previous Years’ Work • Subdomain definitions • Most have highlighted key researchers • Other systematic examinations in recent years

6. Methodology • H-Index Analysis • Publish or Perish and Google Scholar • 1970 - 2010 • Top Paper Analysis • Same data as H-Index Analysis • Keyword and Topic Analysis • JMIS, MISQ and ISR • 1990 – 2010 • Nine Pillars

7. H-Index Analysis • 297 Researchers • 125 MIS researchers, as defined by Hsinchun Chen • 172 Reference Discipline researchers as defined by past projects and our own research • H-Index data from Google Scholar via Publish or Perish • Data entered into SQL database • Custom web application (Researcher Researcher) to determine H-Index for five year time slices between 1970 and 2011

8. Researcher Researcher Demo

9. Paper Citation Analysis • Same dataset used for h-index analysis • 74,253 unique papers • Extracted top 10 papers for each time slice

10. Keyword Analysis • 1,765 papers from MISQ, JMIS, and ISR from ‘90 – ‘11 • 15,044 total Keywords • 5,699 unique keywords • 2,473 keywords after removing corrupt data, generic terms and combining similar terms (e.g., HCI and CHI)

11. Keyword Analysis • Key Word Collection - Articles between 1990-2010. • Data Preparation • Classification (Round 1) • Pillar Adjustments • Classification (Round 2) • Cross Checking • Analysis

12. Representative Keywords

13. Limitations

14. Limitations - Journals

15. Limitations - Authors VS

16. Limitations - Industry

17. Analysis & Results

18. Time Slice Results

19. * H-Index reflects only papers written during this time period

20. * H-Index reflects only papers written during this time period

21. * H-Index reflects only papers written during this time period

22. * H-Index reflects only papers written during this time period

23. * H-Index reflects only papers written during this time period AI (17%) Behavioral (14%) Communication (10%) Database (4%) Econometrics (8%) Commerce (2%) Operations (18%) Policy (7%) Systems Analysis and Design (19%)

24. * H-Index reflects only papers written during this time period AI (13%) -4% Behavioral (13%) -1% Communication (13%) +3% Database (3%) -1% Econometrics (9%) +1% Commerce (4%) + 2% Operations (18%) Policy (9%) +2% Systems Analysis and Design (18%) -1%

25. * H-Index reflects only papers written during this time period AI (12%) -1% Behavioral (20%) +7% Communication (12%) -1% Database (3%) Econometrics (11%) +2% Commerce (8%) + 4% Operations (15%) -3% Policy (6%) -3% Systems Analysis and Design (14%) -4%

26. * H-Index reflects only papers written during this time period AI (16%) +4% Behavioral (16%) -4% Communication (7%) -5% Database (2%) -1% Econometrics (13%) +2% Commerce (13%) + 5% Operations (13%) -2% Policy (10%) +4% Systems Analysis and Design (11%) -3%

27. Results Over Time

28. Top Authors by h-index Reference Disciplines MIS Hsinchun Chen 57 Andrew B. Whinston 56 Ronald E. Rice 55 IzakBenbasat 54 Jay Nunamaker 51 Herbert Simon 103 Deborah Estrin 92 John McCarthy 89 David Clark 88 Peter Chen 82

29. MIS Authors

30. Reference Authors

36. Discussion

37. Evolution of MIS

38. Evolving Definition of MIS Focus on the IT? Focus on information?

39. The Future of MIS