Interview with Bob Galliers

Interview with Bob Galliers, Provost at Bentley University, Waltham, MA – USA.
Appointed to his current post in 2002, Bob Galliers came to Bentley from the London School of Economics, where he was Professor of Information Systems and Research Director in the Department of Information Systems. Before joining LSE, he served as Lucas Professor of Business [...]

Methodspace: Connecting the Research Community

This new site may be of interest to you: www.methodspace.com. It is a venue to share and discuss research ideas:

Methodspace: Connecting the research community

New social network aims to bring together practical support in research methods

Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (26 March 2009)—SAGE, the world’s leading independent academic publisher has today [...]

Future Stars – Jeff Cummings

Year of the PhD program:
I will be finishing up my second year in the program here at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
Explain your background which has led you to the PhD program.
I received both my undergraduate and graduate degree at Texas Tech University. While there, I had contemplated the idea of [...]

Qualitative Research in IS?

NSF released a report from the workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research, and it contains some ideas on promising areas of research in law, anthropology, political science, and sociology. We use qualitative research methods as well; what are our promising areas of research? I’m interested to hear your thoughts. I’m also interested in [...]

Strengthsfinder

I’ve recently been going through a book based on Gallup data on identifying individual strengths and putting them to work in your career.  It was very interesting to see what kinds of roles and tasks are suited for different individuals, as well as the process (psychometric, cluster analysis, etc.) Gallup went through to identify these [...]

Some Thoughts for Dissertation Writing

I’ve been reading Hart’s book, Doing a Literature Review, for class and he mentioned interesting points that I wanted to share. He stresses the importance of scholarship in writing. According to Hart, “There is, however, a difference between producing a piece of competent research and a piece of research that demonstrates scholarship,” (p. 8). Integration, [...]