TY - JOUR
T1 - The credibility crisis in IS
T2 - A global stakeholder perspective
AU - Looney, Clayton Arlen
AU - Firth, David
AU - Koch, Hope
AU - Cecez-Kecmanovic, Dubravka
AU - Hsieh, J. J.Po An
AU - Soh, Christina
AU - Valacich, Joseph S.
AU - Whitley, Edgar A.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The field of information systems (IS) faces a credibility crisis, which threatens its stature as a highly-respected academic discipline (Firth, King, Koch, Looney, Pavlou, and Trauth, 2011; Winter and Butler, 2011; among others). This article summarizes a panel discussion at the ICIS 2011 Conference, where a group of distinguished IS professors offered their unique perspectives on the challenges, origins, and solutions related to the global credibility crisis in IS. Using stakeholder theory as an organizing framework, the panel session identifies the key stakeholders influencing the credibility of the IS discipline, as well as the challenges and opportunities facing IS programs worldwide.
AB - The field of information systems (IS) faces a credibility crisis, which threatens its stature as a highly-respected academic discipline (Firth, King, Koch, Looney, Pavlou, and Trauth, 2011; Winter and Butler, 2011; among others). This article summarizes a panel discussion at the ICIS 2011 Conference, where a group of distinguished IS professors offered their unique perspectives on the challenges, origins, and solutions related to the global credibility crisis in IS. Using stakeholder theory as an organizing framework, the panel session identifies the key stakeholders influencing the credibility of the IS discipline, as well as the challenges and opportunities facing IS programs worldwide.
KW - Credibility crisis
KW - Education
KW - Enrollment
KW - Future of information systems
KW - Practice
KW - Research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84898422284&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.17705/1cais.03461
DO - 10.17705/1cais.03461
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84898422284
SN - 1529-3181
VL - 34
SP - 1175
EP - 1189
JO - Communications of the Association for Information Systems
JF - Communications of the Association for Information Systems
IS - 1
M1 - 61
ER -