Introducing a new genre for EJIS

Abstract

In this editorial I want to introduce a new manuscript genre for EJIS. This new genre is called “Clinical IS Research” and adds to the existing set of genres that was introduced some years ago (Te’eni et al., 2015). The addition of this new genre follows the publication of the first issue of EJIS this year which was a special issue entitled “Clinical Research from Information Systems Practice”. The editors of this special issue define clinical IS research as “a research genre that generates knowledge from, and establishes the effectiveness of, practitioner-researcher interventions in achieving desired outcomes in information systems development, use, and management practice contexts” (Baskerville et al., 2023, p. 2). The editors say that their goal is “to move practitionerresearchers within the Information Systems discipline from being commentators and consumers of Information Systems research to having an active voice in producing research to inspire others within the field (Baskerville et al., 2023, p. 8). I agree entirely with this goal. I believe that we, as IS scholars, need to engage with practitioners more effectively. One way of doing this is to encourage practitioners who have the required research training to contribute their knowledge and expertise to our academic journals. This new genre on clinical IS research is described on the EJIS website as follows: