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Explore factors impacting MIS research & how teaching & service affect productivity. Survey instrument development.
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The Balance between Teaching and Research: The Development of a Survey Instrument to Assess Factors that Affect MIS Research Rich McCarthy – Quinnipiac University, George Claffey – Central Connecticut State University, Bruce White – Quinnipiac University McCarthy/Claffey/White
Overview of the Study • Prolific authors were surveyed using a qualitative questionnaire for the purpose of obtaining data on the factors that motivate their research. This study reports upon the completion of a pilot study in the development of a quantitative research instrument to evaluate the factors that affect MIS research. McCarthy/Claffey/White
Academic Life • A balance between teaching, research and service. • What should this balance be? • What minimums should there be for research for promotion and tenure? • What motivates IS research? McCarthy/Claffey/White
Study • To understand IS research, the authors: • Did a comprehensive study of research motivational factors in other disciplines • Did a pilot evaluation of prolific authors in IS • This led to the development of a survey instrument which will be used in follow-up studies. McCarthy/Claffey/White
Literature Review • We studied: • Communications Journals where we saw that top ranked programs were consistently the most productive in terms of publications. • Marital and Family Therapy journals • Transportation • Business communications McCarthy/Claffey/White
Writing habits • Blaszczynski’s study of business education researchers using a 17-item questionnaire covering topics such as writing habits, writing fulfillment, writing strategies, and advice to researchers was the initial basis for identifying factors that affect MIS research. • It was felt that the topics were broad enough to have applicability to the field of management information systems. • Open-ended questions modified to be applied to MIS McCarthy/Claffey/White
Premier MIS journals • We selected five journals to focus on for our study. Previous journals and citation studies suggested that these journals are considered “premier” MIS journals. • These are given on the next slide McCarthy/Claffey/White
Premier MIS journals • Information & Management January, 1996- October, 2001 Vol. 30-38 • Information Systems Research March, 1996 – December, 2001 Vol. 7-12 • Journal of Management Information Systems Summer, 1996 – Spring 2001 Vol. 13-17 • Management Science January, 1996 – December, 2001 Vol. 42-47 • MIS Quarterly March 1, 1996 – December 1, 2001 Vol. 20-25 McCarthy/Claffey/White
Articles and Authors McCarthy/Claffey/White
Prolific Authors: • There were 213 authors who published three or more times in the journals reviewed. • 71 of these authors came from 13 universities (see next chart) McCarthy/Claffey/White
Schools with most prolific authors McCarthy/Claffey/White
Study - continued • The 213 authors were selected as the sample population for the qualitative analysis based upon their authorship in these top-ranked MIS journals. The questionnaire was distributed via email. This resulted in 38 responses (a response rate of 18%). The qualitative data within the thirty-eight responses was then analyzed to determine the factors that would be used to analyze MIS research. McCarthy/Claffey/White
How Often do they write (an example of a quantitative question)? McCarthy/Claffey/White
Factors: • Based upon our analysis of the responses we have identified the following factors that affect MIS research: • Experience • Teaching load • Teaching recognition • Serving as an editor • Serving as a dissertation advisor/committee member • Frequency of research • Service requirements • Location McCarthy/Claffey/White
Future Study • We will construct a quantitative survey based upon these factors to test their relationship to MIS research productivity. In addition, the survey will also include a continuation of the research into the area of idea generation. McCarthy/Claffey/White
Future Study - continued • This paper presents the initial step in a research study intended to empirically identify factors that affect MIS research. The authors will develop a research model based upon the results of the pilot survey and validate that model by surveying a wide audience of MIS authors. The survey will consist of research factors identified as a result of this pilot and codified on a Likert scale. McCarthy/Claffey/White
Questions? McCarthy/Claffey/White