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What is Research Relevance

Chapter 315
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
Research in applied fields like IS has to be responsive to the needs of business and industry to make it useful and practicable for them. There are four dimensions of relevance in research which deal with the content and style of research articles. For an article to be relevant it must not only be interesting, applicable and current to the needs of the practitioners but should also be written in an accessible and simple style.
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Information Systems Research Relevance
Shirish C. Srivastava (National University of Singapore, Singapore) and Thompson S.H. Teo (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.ch315
Abstract
Though there have been extended deliberations for making information systems (IS) research more relevant1 and useful for IS executives, to our knowledge, there has been no empirical study which examines the extent of relevance in the current IS research. In this chapter, we analyze the topical relevance of 388 published academic articles in the three top IS journals: MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Information Systems Research (ISR), and Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), for a 5 year period from 2000-2004. We do this by examining their fit with the key issues for information technology (IT) executives identified by the latest Society for Information Management (SIM) survey. Based on our results, we make recommendations for making IS research more meaningful for practitioners.
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