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{"title":"Materialising Design Fictions: Exploring Music Memorabilia in a Metaverse Environment","authors":"M. Lycett,&nbsp;M. Cundle,&nbsp;L. Grasso,&nbsp;K. Meechao,&nbsp;A. Reppel","doi":"10.1111/isj.12600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12600","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper addresses the challenge posed by the high cost and extensive time commitment required for Metaverse platform development by proposing an innovative, process-centric methodology. Traditional approaches to creating such platforms are hindered by both limited expertise and significant resource investments, exposing substantial development risks. Here we use Design Fictions to construct a low-cost, low-effort Minimum Viable Product for archives, record labels, publishers, and private collections. In identifying our key learnings, our research advances a coherent four-stage process model comprising of conceptualisation, realisation, materialisation, and evaluation. The model delineates the critical activities required at each stage, offering practitioners a structured yet flexible framework that bridges the gap between initial concept development and full-scale system implementation. By prioritising Design Fictions as a means of early-stage prototyping, we encourage a more agile and responsive exploration of ‘provocations of the future’, thus minimising risks while refining the understanding of business and user needs alongside technological possibilities and constraints. In doing so, we expedite the identification of vital design insights and provide practical guidance for those striving to harness the potential of emerging Metaverse technologies within a sustainable and economically viable framework.</p>","PeriodicalId":48049,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems Journal","volume":"35 6","pages":"1662-1678"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/isj.12600","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145272861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Essential Validation Criteria for Rigorous Covariance-Based Structural Equation Modelling","authors":"James E. Gaskin,&nbsp;Paul Benjamin Lowry,&nbsp;Warren Rosengren,&nbsp;P. Thomas Fife","doi":"10.1111/isj.12598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12598","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Covariance-based structural equation modelling (CB-SEM) is a robust analytical technique for validating complex measurements and theoretical models. Despite criticisms regarding overfitting, misspecification and sample size limitations, SEM remains invaluable for rigorous theoretical model testing when applied correctly. This Methods Article aims to streamline the extensive SEM criteria into essential considerations segmented across three critical stages: data preparation, measurement validation and structural modelling. This provides scholars with a comprehensive guide tailored to meet the stringent requirements of top-tier scientific journals. We outline data design considerations, progress through key SEM processes, and conclude with guidelines for testing specific hypotheses. We also illuminate relevant validation criteria for each stage, forming a foundational framework for rigorous SEM analysis. Neglecting any of these criteria can trigger irreversible analytical errors. We provide examples of how missing some criteria can drastically change results. We also demonstrate an ongoing issue with inadequate reporting of these criteria in IS journals, exacerbating these issues. Currently, SEM instruction is dispersed across numerous books and articles across different fields and decades, often with complex explanations. Our principal contribution is consolidating a comprehensive set of validation criteria into an articulated guide for scholars not yet proficient in SEM. However, this is not a step-by-step walkthrough for advanced SEM users. We advocate for a structured, transparent reporting system for these criteria, shifting the responsibility for methodological clarity onto the author and facilitating a more precise understanding for readers. Our recommendations aim to enhance the integrity of SEM applications in research by elevating reporting standards.</p>","PeriodicalId":48049,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems Journal","volume":"35 6","pages":"1630-1661"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/isj.12598","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145272980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An AI-Assisted Framework for Improving Innovativeness in Small Businesses: A Human–AI Collaboration Perspective","authors":"Kristijan Mirkovski,&nbsp;Pete Williams,&nbsp;Libo Liu,&nbsp;Hao Liu,&nbsp;Marta Indulska","doi":"10.1111/isj.12597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12597","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 <b>Innovation</b> is crucial for small businesses to remain competitive and adaptable in dynamic markets. Recent advancements in AI, particularly machine learning and natural language processing, offer promising tools for enhancing product innovation. However, small businesses often face significant challenges in adopting AI due to limited financial resources, data infrastructure, technical expertise, operational and cultural barriers. This paper presents a novel and holistic human–AI-assisted product innovation (HAIAPI) framework designed to address these challenges by integrating an advanced large language model approach across four key stages of the product innovation process: (1) AI-augmented problem articulation, (2) human expert problem selection, (3) AI-augmented solution generation and (4) human expert solution selection. Through an in-depth case study of an Australian e-retailer, this paper provides practical insights into how AI can enhance problem articulation and solution generation, while human expertise ensures relevant problem and solution selection. The detailed instructions on implementing this framework, including Generative Pre-Trained Transformers prompts, for small businesses are supported by a comprehensive resource toolkit and checklist detailing necessary financial, technical and human resources. Last, three key principles of human–AI collaboration are synthesised, offering further actionable strategies for small business managers/owners looking to effectively integrate AI into their product innovation processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48049,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems Journal","volume":"35 6","pages":"1603-1629"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/isj.12597","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145272639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In Pursuit of Agility: How to Transform Your Organisation's IT Project Selection Process","authors":"Adrian van Raay,&nbsp;Vanessa Cooper,&nbsp;Rohan Sharp,&nbsp;Sophia Duan,&nbsp;Martin Dick","doi":"10.1111/isj.12599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12599","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To remain competitive, many organisations are undertaking agile transformations in pursuit of agility. Information technology (IT) plays a pivotal role in supporting organisational agility; thus, it is essential that organisations select the right IT projects in a timely manner to deliver. In practice, though, organisations have struggled with effective decision-making in the IT planning process, especially in competitive environments where there is a need for agile decisions. To guide organisations on how they can transform their IT project selection (ITPS) process to become more agile, we examine two large and well-established Australian organisations and their digital-only subsidiaries launched as agile organisations in start-up style. We explain how the parent companies conduct ITPS and contrast this with the digital-only subsidiaries, highlighting the strengths and challenges each approach presents for agility. We provide an ITPS agility framework that identifies five dimensions that can enable or inhibit agility. These are: <i>ITPS funding approach</i>, <i>number of ITPS decision-makers</i>, <i>granularity of ITPS work-packages</i>, <i>frequency of ITPS process</i> and <i>duration of ITPS process</i>. Our findings indicate that the traditional approach that the parent organisations have taken with these ITPS dimensions has inhibited agility, whereas the ITPS dimensions have been configured to enable agility in their digital-only subsidiaries. We recommend that those responsible for agile transformations of ITPS within their organisations fund teams instead of projects, delegate ITPS decision-making authority, make faster and more frequent ITPS decisions about work-packages that are smaller in scope, and use agility in the right places, as ITPS does not always need to be agile.</p>","PeriodicalId":48049,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems Journal","volume":"35 6","pages":"1582-1602"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/isj.12599","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145272969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Accelerating Digital Service Innovation in a Post-COVID Era: Key Recommendations for Healthcare Managers","authors":"Kirsti Askedal,&nbsp;Geir Inge Hausvik,&nbsp;Arve Vesterfjell","doi":"10.1111/isj.12596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12596","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Healthcare organisations stand at a critical juncture, facing pressing challenges such as constrained budgets, growing demands, workforce shortages and heightened public expectations. Now, more than ever, there is a dire need for innovative solutions. Digital service innovation holds immense promise, offering the potential to improve health outcomes, reduce costs, enhance service quality and elevate patient experiences. However, the adoption of these innovations has been slow. The COVID-19 pandemic served as a catalyst, dramatically accelerating the implementation of digital innovations in healthcare organisations. This rapid transformation was a necessary response to unprecedented conditions. However, there are concerns that the momentum gained during the pandemic is waning, with innovation rates slipping back to pre-pandemic levels. This paper argues that we must harness the lessons learned from the pandemic to sustain and increase the pace of innovation, addressing healthcare organisations' urgent challenges. It aims to provide practical insights for healthcare managers at various organisational levels, drawing from a compelling case study of digital service innovation during the COVID-19 pandemic at a Norwegian hospital. Here, practitioners will find six actionable recommendations designed to inspire and empower them to drive innovation in a post-pandemic era. By embracing these insights, healthcare managers can lead their organisations toward a more resilient, efficient and patient-centric future. Now is the time to build on the strides made during the pandemic and transform the healthcare landscape for the better.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48049,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems Journal","volume":"35 6","pages":"1565-1581"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145271976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unpacking the Regulatory Ambiguity Mechanism: Implications for Industry-Level Digital Transformation","authors":"Karin Väyrynen,&nbsp;Arto Lanamäki,&nbsp;Sari Laari-Salmela,&nbsp;Netta Iivari,&nbsp;Marianne Kinnula","doi":"10.1111/isj.12595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12595","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The relationship between digital transformation and regulation is complex and bidirectional: regulation both drives and responds to changes in the technology landscape. Moreover, regulatory efforts to shape industry-level digital transformation often produce unwanted outcomes. Existing theories are insufficient for examining this complex relationship between regulation and digital transformation. Our case study of the Finnish taxi industry illustrates these complexities. The industry underwent a legal reform intended to legalise Uber-type solutions while restricting certain other solutions. By drawing on the notion of regulatory ambiguity and mechanism-based explanation, we show how ambiguity arises from the imprecise regulation in connection with conflicting regulation and technological uncertainties. We model the regulatory ambiguity mechanism consisting of the interconnected elements that, by affecting each other and working together, drive unintended changes in the technology landscape. We theorise regulatory ambiguity as a condition that emerges when regulations are imprecise, inconsistent, or evolving. This ambiguity shapes the technology landscape and related industry-specific practices, impacting digital transformation. Our research contributes to the literature on digital transformation and on the regulation of technology. We identify and analyse the regulatory ambiguity mechanism, providing information systems (IS) researchers with a novel framework to examine the role of regulation in digital transformation. We also conceptualise regulatory impact as a lens for future IS research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48049,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems Journal","volume":"35 6","pages":"1528-1564"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/isj.12595","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145272668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Deployment of AI to Infer Employee Skills: Insights From Johnson & Johnson's Digital-First Workforce Initiative","authors":"Olgerta Tona,&nbsp;Dorothy E. Leidner,&nbsp;Nick van der Meulen,&nbsp;Barbara Wixom,&nbsp;Juliana Nunes,&nbsp;Doug Shagam","doi":"10.1111/isj.12594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12594","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To embark on a digital transformation journey, organisations should prepare and adapt their workforce to meet the continuous need for skill adjustments. This paper reports insights from the journey of one organisation—Johnson &amp; Johnson—that developed an employee skills inference platform based on artificial intelligence with the objective of creating a digital-first workforce capable of thriving amid the new reality of continuous digital innovation. We describe the challenges J&amp;J faced during the deployment of the platform and the activities they undertook in response to these challenges. Based on that, we identify three organisational practices critical for the successful deployment of AI: blueprinting the future workforce, managing ethical data work across borders, and compensating for AI blind spots. From Johnson &amp; Johnson's experience, we derive several important lessons for other organisations interested in using AI to develop a digital-first workforce.</p>","PeriodicalId":48049,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems Journal","volume":"35 6","pages":"1516-1527"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/isj.12594","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145271905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Future (As a Focus) of IS Research","authors":"Robert M. Davison,&nbsp;Gerhard Schwabe","doi":"10.1111/isj.12591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12591","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;This editorial functions as a call to action. At the ISJ, we are open to studies that address the future and thus welcome submissions. The future can take three roles in IS research: It can be an object of research, a purpose of research, and an implication of research.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the future is an object of research, then we are striving to predict or envision the future. The answers to our future-oriented questions may be tentatively affirmative but to a rather restricted degree. At the turn of the last century, we saw many predictions: In 1991, Mark Weiser (&lt;span&gt;1991&lt;/span&gt;) predicted that ubiquitous computing would shape the 21st century. His prediction was based on emerging technologies and became a reality to a large extent. Malone et al. (&lt;span&gt;1987&lt;/span&gt;) predicted a world with more markets and larger organisations based on the projected reduction of transaction costs. This prediction was based on transaction cost theory and turned out to be correct. More recent predictions are based on data. For example, Frey and Osborne (&lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;) used data from O*NET and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics to predict which jobs are endangered by digitalization. A fourth line uses semi-structured approaches to speculate about the future systematically. For example, Hovorka and Mueller (&lt;span&gt;2025&lt;/span&gt;) explore what the future may be like in 2043. This is, of course, a speculation, but it is an informed speculation that extrapolates from what we know today. It involves a form of disciplined what-if analysis combined with imagination (Weick &lt;span&gt;1989&lt;/span&gt;). They foresee a world where digital technologies are normal rather than exceptional, and indeed where technology is so embedded into who people are that those same people might be better described as cyborgs. Technology is likely to be integrated into many aspects of our life, and yet that integration is likely to be so seamless that we may not even notice it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The most interesting predictions are based on theory. Theories that involve a temporal dimension are particularly well-suited to these predictions. For instance, Punctuated Equilibrium Theory (PET) is intrinsically interesting because it was developed in the 1970s (Eldredge and Gould &lt;span&gt;1972&lt;/span&gt;) as a way of explaining events that had taken place some 66 million years previously, namely the Chicxulub asteroid impact that precipitated the end of the realm of the terrestrial dinosaurs (and the later rise of the mammals), as evidenced in the geologic and fossil records with iridium deposits and tektites (LaPalma et al. &lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;). We cannot be 100% certain that the theoretical explanation is accurate, but it is plausible. Can PET also help us to predict the future? We are not suggesting anything as remote as 66 million years into the future: it's too far away to be able to collect data or even to speculate anything with respect to humankind, but it could provide a good basis for shorter term predictions, for instance","PeriodicalId":48049,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems Journal","volume":"35 6","pages":"1513-1515"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/isj.12591","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145272693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digital Transformation: Quo Vadit?","authors":"Lauri Wessel,&nbsp;Elaine Mosconi,&nbsp;Marta Indulska,&nbsp;Abayomi Baiyere","doi":"10.1111/isj.12578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12578","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Digital transformation (DT) has become an important theme in information systems (IS) and adjacent fields (Carroll et al. &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;; Hanelt et al. &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;; Kraus et al. &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;; Piccoli, Grover, and Rodriguez &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;; Schallmo et al. &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;; Van Veldhoven and Vanthienen &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;; Verhoef et al. &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;; Vial &lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;). This is of course unsurprising given the widespread interest in how digital technologies occasion change in markets, societies at large, and the political landscape (Bareikytė et al. &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;; Cowburn &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;; Davidson et al. &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;; Faik, Barrett, and Oborn &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;; Majchrzak, Markus, and Wareham &lt;span&gt;2016&lt;/span&gt;; Tana, Breidbach, and Burton-Jones &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;). Coming to terms with these changes, their outcomes, and unintended consequences is, therefore, both important and timely. However, fully understanding these phenomena questions extant theories (Nambisan et al. &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;; Yoo &lt;span&gt;2013&lt;/span&gt;; Yoo, Henfridsson, and Lyytinen &lt;span&gt;2010&lt;/span&gt;; Yoo et al. &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;) and warrants us to pause and more carefully consider how IS as a field has tackled ‘DT’ and what challenges this entails (see also, Markus and Rowe &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This special issue comes down to two motivations that made us organise and call for papers. One motivation is rooted in the abovementioned observations that cumulatively point to the diverse reverberations that digital technologies have across levels, processes, and actors altogether raising important questions for scholarship about DT (Baiyere et al. &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;; Yoo, Henfridsson, and Lyytinen &lt;span&gt;2010&lt;/span&gt;; Yoo et al. &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;). We, as a field, need to reflect on the implications of the assumptions shaping the narratives around DT. For example, DT has become shorthand for “change” driven by digital technology (see also, Markus &lt;span&gt;2004&lt;/span&gt;). Further, DT has also been discussed as being desirable to contemporary organisations, which implies that the discussion exhibits a favourability bias (Davidsson &lt;span&gt;2015&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;). Revisiting underlying assumptions is important to avoid perceptions of DT as, for example, a ‘misnomer’ (Kane &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;). Put differently, revisiting these assumptions was one key aspect that we had in mind when we were working on the call for papers for this special issue, which emphasises ‘frontiers’ in research about DT. We wanted our special issue to foreground shifting baselines (Davison and Tarafdar &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;) where phenomena related to DT gradually overflow our conventional concepts and models and call for novel conceptualizations (Mousavi Baygi, Introna, and Hultin &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;). We sensed a need for studies and theorising that developed our understanding of DT in terms of its contents, levels of analysis, and processes that would contribute to widening our conceptu","PeriodicalId":48049,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems Journal","volume":"35 4","pages":"1294-1308"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/isj.12578","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144273390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Boundary Spanning and Practical Impact in IS Research: A Bourdieusian Analysis","authors":"Stephen McCarthy,&nbsp;Hendrik Scholta,&nbsp;Geir Inge Hausvik,&nbsp;Peter André Busch","doi":"10.1111/isj.12577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12577","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Information systems (IS) research often seeks to deliver practical impact in addition to the traditional requirement for theoretical contribution. While an admirable goal, it is nevertheless a challenging prospect, as key questions remain around how best to facilitate a relationship between IS academic and practitioner communities. To explore this issue, we analyse multi-case study data from interviews with 24 IS practitioner doctorates, industry contact points, and senior IS academics who sought to create a joint field between academia and practice during their research. Our findings reveal several boundary spanning activities needed to traverse field boundaries and maintain the joint field's existence across the stages of proof-of-concept, proof-of-value, and proof-of-use. Building on insights from the work of Pierre Bourdieu, we further discuss how IS practitioner doctorates operationalised <i>capital</i>, <i>doxa</i>, and <i>habitus</i> to achieve varying degrees of practical impact in their work. Action-oriented recommendations are presented to support practical impact going forward including creolised messages and the mobilisation of capital to change inter-field relationships. By adapting Bourdieu's Theory of Practice to the engaged scholarship discourse in IS, we contribute new insights into how the academia-practice gap might be addressed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48049,"journal":{"name":"Information Systems Journal","volume":"35 4","pages":"1257-1284"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/isj.12577","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144273219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}