Course Description:
The objective of this course is to give students an overview of research on information systems and management (or IS research for short). Many information systems/technologies deployed in organizations once were considered having strong implications to performance and competitive advantage improvement. In recent years, as information systems/technologies become ubiquitous (not scare), an infrastructure (not proprietary), and a commodity, they become operational and strategic necessity. IS research focuses on the effective and efficient development, deployment, and utilization of information systems/technologies by individuals, groups, organizations, or society for the improvement of economic and social welfare.

In this course, we will cover a broad range of topics related to information systems and management as well as research methods commonly employed in IS research (e.g., survey, experiment, analytical modeling, design science, etc.). Most articles discussed in class are published in top-tier IS journals. Besides some lectures by the instructor and guest lecturers, the rest of this course will be conducted mainly in the paper-presentation-and-critic format. Through reading and presenting assigned papers, students are expected to gain understanding on contemporary IS research and establish appropriate perception about what research is. On the contrary, through paper discussions and critics, students are expected to improve their critical and logical thinking and to develop their competence of identifying and justifying interesting research topics, all of which are essential research capabilities that doctoral students need to learn.

Important IS-related Journals:
• MIS Quarterly (MISQ)
• Information Systems Research (ISR)
• Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS)
• Journal of AIS (JAIS)
• European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS)
• Information Systems Journal (ISJ)
• Decision Support Systems
• Information & Management
• INFORMS Journal of Computing
• Management Science
• Decision Sciences
• ACM Transactions and Periodicals (e.g., ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, ACM Transactions on the Web, Communications of the ACM, etc.)
• IEEE Transactions (e.g., IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, IEEE Computer, IEEE Intelligent Systems, etc.)

Important IS Conferences:
• International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
• Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS)
• European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)
• Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)