This presentation will be organized in two parts. In the first half hour, Peter Seddon will discuss the structures of two types of paper typically found in leading IS journals such as MIS Quarterly: theory testing and theory building. The discussion will cover the typical content of each section in such papers, and in particular, explain why these sections need to be included in the paper. The goal here will also be to explain why theory plays such a critical role in typical top US IS journal papers. In the hour that follows, Peter Seddon will illustrate the recommendations from the first half hour by showing how they were actually handled in a recent theory-testing paper he published in MIS Quarterly (see reference below). The presentation here will focus not on the arguments or conclusions in paper itself (though these will inevitably be discussed), but on the structure of the paper that assisted in its ultimate acceptance for publication.
Reference
Seddon, P.B., Calvert, C. and Yang, S., "A multiproject model of key factors affecting organizational benefits from enterprise systems", MIS Quarterly, (32) 2, June 2010, pp.305-328
Peter B. Seddon is an associate professor in the Department of Information Systems at The University of Melbourne, Australia. His major research interests are in the areas of evaluating information-systems success, packaged enterprise application software, IT management, IT outsourcing, business intelligence, and accounting information systems. Dr Seddon has published over 80 papers in journals and conferences, including in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, The European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, and Communications of the Association for Information Systems. He is currently an elected representative for the Asia-Pacific region on the AIS Council (the global association for Information Systems academics) and Program Co-Chair for PACIS 2011. During 2005-2008, Dr Seddon was a Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly.
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