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Rosemann, Michael and Recker, Jan C. ORCID: 0000-0002-2072-5792 (2009). Rigour versus Relevance Revisited : Evidence from IS Conference Reviewing Practice. In: Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Information Systems ; Melbourne ; 02 – 04 December, pp. 257-266.

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Abstract

A commonly held belief in the IS discipline is that rigour and relevance are contrary to each other and that addressing both is virtually impossible. It is also believed widely that the editorial practices of our premier conferences and journals over-emphasise rigour on the cost of relevance. However, while these two topics have been filled with numerous subjective discussions, more solid evidence into the true relationship between rigour and relevance and the impact of conference editors on this relationship is still outstanding. This paper contributes to this debate by deriving empirical evidence from a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the characteristics of the submissions and the reviewing practices of three recent IS conferences. It provides first insights into the actual relationship between rigour and relevance and into the role conference chairs play in balancing rigour and relevance. Besides the outcomes that the current set of evaluation criteria does not provide a straight forward proxy for relevance to practitioners, the paper offers two main contributions. First, empirical insights are provided that rigour and relevance do in fact not have to be mutually exclusive. Second, the editorial practices at conferences are skewed towards rigorous papers rather than relevant papers.

Item Type:	Book Section, Proceedings Item or annotation in a legal commentary
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Rosemann, Michael UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Recker, Jan C. UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-2072-5792
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-89145
Subjects:	Data processing Computer science Management and auxiliary services
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Rigour English HERN English Academic research English Relevance English
Faculty:	Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences > Cologne Institute for Information Systems (CIIS)
Language:	English
Date:	December 2009
Related URLs:	Organisation
Event Type:	Conference
Refereed:	Yes
Page Range:	pp. 257-266
Title of Book:	Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Information Systems ; Melbourne ; 02 – 04 December
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/8914