Research Methodologies in MIS: An Update

Abstract

This article presents trends in published MIS research for an 11 year period, 1993-2003. It is an update of a previous article in CAIS (Volume 11, Article 16) that covered the period 1993-1997. All of the articles in seven mainstream MIS journals were examined in terms of subjects researched and methodologies employed to conduct research. Recent trends are presented and compared to those of the earlier study. The results clearly indicate the focus of efforts of researchers on information system usage and information systems resource management. The survey methodology still appeals to many researchers but increases in the use of mathematical models and laboratory experiments is an indication that the field is attaining maturity by using more rigorous research methods.

Citation classics published in knowledge management journals. Part I: articles and their characteristics

“…Note that up to three research methods and up to three topics per article were recorded because a single study may employ several research techniques and pursue multiple purposes simultaneously. This approach is commonly used in scientometrics (Palvia et al, 2004;Palvia, Pinjani and Sibley, 2007;Serenko, Cocosila and Turel, 2008).…”

A profile of information systems research published in Information & Management

“…Three types of analyses have been reported in the literature when examining past research: research topics and themes [1,6,7,9,18], research methodologies [5,10,12,15,16], productive authors and universities [2,11,14]. In the same vein, this article analyzes publication trends in Information and Management and has a few objectives: 4. to identify the most applied research methodologies and their trends; 5. to identify best practices, by examining the subject areas and methodologies preference of the most productive authors.…”

Exploring the management information systems discipline: a scientometric study of ICIS, PACIS and ASAC

“…The value of scientometrics has been already recognized in MIS (Straub 2006), and numerous projects have been conducted (Vessey et al 2002;Lowry et al 2007) with most analyzing the articles published in a select set of leading journals (Palvia et al 2003(Palvia et al , 2004. Recently, some researchers also started exploring the body of knowledge in conference proceedings (Chan et al 2006;Xu and Chau 2006;McLaren and Mills 2008).…”