Management Information Systems a model of mis, Leading Research, and Research Trends

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In late 1980s, the range of topics studied in this area expanded to the area of adaptive technology required for team work include new types of issues such as research on the social context cues when using email in an organization (Kiesler, Sara & Sproull, Lee, 1986. Reducing social context cues: Electronic mail in organizational communication. Management Science)

In 1994, Dr. Pamela Samuelson’s paper Copyright’s Fair use Doctrine and Digital Data appeared in Communications of the ACM. In this paper, Samuelson defines four factors that are considered when determining whether a copyright infringement has taken place.

In 1996, the term “social informatics” first came into popular use in North America, and both integrated and built on bodies of research that were previously known by labels such as "computers and society," "social impacts of computing," "social issues of computing," "social analysis of computing," and "behavioral information systems" (Kling, Rob. 1999. What is Social Informatics and Why Does it Matter?). 

In 1998, the paper “Trust in global virtual teams” (Jarvenpaa, S., Knoll K., Leidner, D, 1998) appeared in Journal of MIS. Seventy-five teams, consisting of members in different countries, are studied to explore the antecedents of trust in a global virtual team setting. A research model for explaining trust in global virtual teams is then advanced.

In 2001, Samuelson, P. published an article regarding the intellectual property in an open information environment (Toward a New Politics of Intellectual Property, Communications of the ACM, 44(3) 2001). This shows that the SI research community has put their interest into this topic.

Trend of Social Informatics in MIS

As there are many new areas where IT plays a central role, such as distance education, knowledge management, the formation of online support groups, efforts to support "virtual teams" in organizations, and e-commerce, the future of SI research certainly continues as one of the most important domain in MIS. In other words, information-related policy and social research will only grow as technology becomes more pervasive in our society.

We used five keywords to try and trend the activity of SI in research: IT and Organization Behavior, IT Policy, Online Instruction, Diffusion of IT, and Technology Acceptance Model. From the graphs we can see that SI began growing in mid 1970s with the steady research on IT policy. Online Instruction and e-learning related research has become an increasingly important area within the SI field as computers, the Internet and the World Wide Web have become an integral part of life in the Western world.

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Gordon B. Davis

Honeywell Professor of Management Information Systems and

Endowed chair of the Carlson School of Management

University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Internationally known as one of the principal founder of the academic field of information systems

One of the founders of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) and the Association for Information Systems (AIS)

Executive Editor of MIS Quarterly

EDUCATION

Ph.D. – Business Administration, Stanford University, 1959
M.B.A. – Business Administration, Stanford University, 1957
B.S. – Political Science & Accounting, Idaho State University, 1955

AWARDS

AIS Leo Award Winners (2000)
AIS Fellow Award Winners (2000)
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Honorary doctorates by the University of Zurich and the University of Lyon III

RESEARCH INTERESTS

MIS planning, information requirements determination, management of knowledge work, conceptual foundations for information systems

KEY PUBLICATIONS

Davis, G. (1974;1985). Management Information Systems: Conceptual Foundations, Structure, and Development, McGraw-Hill.	(Speculated)
Davis, G. and S. Hamilton. (1993). Managing Information: How Information Systems Impact Organizational Strategy, Business One Irwin.	(Speculated)
Davis, GB. (1982). Strategies for Information Requirements Determination. IBM Systems Journal 21 (1): 4-30.

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