Expectations of completing PhDs for job readiness are increasing. Information Systems (IS) PhDs f... more Expectations of completing PhDs for job readiness are increasing. Information Systems (IS) PhDs face the additional challenge of appreciating the multidisciplinary and multi-paradigmatic diversity of the discipline, demanding a breadth of knowledge beyond that expected in many other disciplines. Further, PhD students in Australian universities are constrained to a 3+ year enrolment, as compared for example, to the more common 4 and 5 year enrolments in North American universities. These demands require that IS PhD students in Australia be discriminating in their choice of activities during enrolment. With the aim of maximizing the value of the PhD experience, this study explores synergy between research and teaching. More specifically, this research-in-progress (RIP) paper reports a programme design for training PhD students, through involvement as supervisors of coursework Masters students’ research projects.
There has been a long-running discourse in the information systems literature around the business... more There has been a long-running discourse in the information systems literature around the business value of IT (BVIT). Researchers have adopted a myriad of conceptual, theoretical and analytical approaches to evaluating the tangible and intangible measures of BVIT. Little research however, has explored richer theoretical explanations of the dynamic nature of the BVIT processes in contemporary dynamic business environments. To address this gap, this research in progress seeks to explore how BVIT is created as a bottom-up emergent process. In pursuit of such understanding, this research embraces complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory to develop a bottom-up conceptual model of BVIT. The agent-based modelling (ABM) technique is introduced as an analytical tool for computationally representing and examining the CAS model of BVIT. Operationalization of the CAS model and ABM modelling will be demonstrated through a theory building exercise.
Expectations of completing PhDs for job readiness are increasing. Information Systems (IS) PhDs f... more Expectations of completing PhDs for job readiness are increasing. Information Systems (IS) PhDs face the additional challenge of appreciating the multidisciplinary and multi-paradigmatic diversity of the discipline, demanding a breadth of knowledge beyond that expected in many other disciplines. Further, PhD students in Australian universities are constrained to a 3+ year enrolment, as compared for example, to the more common 4 and 5 year enrolments in North American universities. These demands require that IS PhD students in Australia be discriminating in their choice of activities during enrolment. With the aim of maximizing the value of the PhD experience, this study explores synergy between research and teaching. More specifically, this research-in-progress (RIP) paper reports a programme design for training PhD students, through involvement as supervisors of coursework Masters students’ research projects.
There has been a long-running discourse in the information systems literature around the business... more There has been a long-running discourse in the information systems literature around the business value of IT (BVIT). Researchers have adopted a myriad of conceptual, theoretical and analytical approaches to evaluating the tangible and intangible measures of BVIT. Little research however, has explored richer theoretical explanations of the dynamic nature of the BVIT processes in contemporary dynamic business environments. To address this gap, this research in progress seeks to explore how BVIT is created as a bottom-up emergent process. In pursuit of such understanding, this research embraces complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory to develop a bottom-up conceptual model of BVIT. The agent-based modelling (ABM) technique is introduced as an analytical tool for computationally representing and examining the CAS model of BVIT. Operationalization of the CAS model and ABM modelling will be demonstrated through a theory building exercise.
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