About this journal

The European Journal of Information Systems provides a distinctive European perspective on the theory and practice of information systems for a global audience. We encourage first-rate articles that provide a critical view on information technology – its effects, development, implementation, strategy, management and policy.

Manuscript Genres

EJIS categorizes papers according to the genre of research. More detail about these genres can be found in earlier EJIS editorials (Te'Eni et al., 2015; Rowe, 2012; Rowe, 2014).

Please note, authors will be able to indicate manuscript genre on step two of the submission form under "Section". Step one of the submission form will ask for an article type — used for indexing purposes — and authors should select the closest match.

1. Literature review
   A literature review ‘synthesizes past knowledge on a topic or domain of interest, identifies important biases and knowledge gaps in the literature, and proposes corresponding future research directions’ (Rowe, 2014, p. 243). Researchers need to have a good conceptual framework or theory that they will use as an analytical lens to study a set of carefully selected papers (Rowe, 2014).
2. Theory development
   EJIS, as a European journal, accepts pure theory papers. We need theory to guide our reflections and endeavours. A good theory paper rests on arguments that build on the literature. However, unlike the first genre, these articles do not need to have a comprehensive literature review. The act of being reflexively critical is essential and is a distinguishing feature of this genre (Te'Eni et al., 2015).
3. Empirical research
   This genre includes papers that provide empirical data. However, these papers must also provide a theoretical contribution. Apart from ‘ethnographies and narratives’ which are singled out at EJIS as a separate genre, all other genres based on an analysis of empirical data fall under the ‘empirical research’ category. This category includes all types of empirical research strategies such as qualitative, quantitative and design science research (Te'Eni et al., 2015).
4. Ethnographies and narratives
   Of the many streams of empirical research, we distinguish ethnographies and narratives (Rowe, 2012). This genre responds to the need to better understand what people really do, how intentions develop, and how people take stances or make compromises. Using ethnographic fieldwork, the researcher not only gains an in-depth understanding of the actors’ viewpoints. but also of the broad context within which they act (Te'Eni et al., 2015).
5. Research essay
   Research essays usually relate to research methods, research practice or research philosophy.
6. Clinical IS Research
   The Clinical IS Research genre provides opportunities for practitioner-researchers working in practice to offer their experiences and insights as contributions to the body of information systems knowledge. As such work is interventionist, it is necessarily empirical, and should be based on sound qualitative, quantitative, and/or design science research methods. Papers need to describe the authors’ experience, explain in which organizational context this experience took place, and specify by which methodology the evidence and conclusions were established.
7. Issues and opinions
   An ‘Issues and Opinions’ paper generally addresses an institutional problem or a disciplinary challenge or opportunity. This genre involves the articulation of a well-developed position statement concerning emerging, paradoxical, or controversial research issues.
8. Response
   This genre is simply a response to a paper previously published in EJIS, of any genre. For example, an empirical response paper might replicate a previous study with a different method but come up with contradictory findings.

References

ROWE F (2012) Toward a richer diversity of genres in information systems research: New categorization and guidelines. European Journal of Information Systems 21(5), 469-478.

ROWE F (2014) What literature review is not: Diversity, boundaries and recommendations. European Journal of Information Systems 23(3), 241-255.

TE'ENI D, ROWE F, ÅGERFALK PJ and LEE JS (2015) Publishing and getting published in EJIS: Marshaling contributions for a diversity of genres. European Journal of Information Systems 24(6), 559-568.

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Editor-in-Chief

Kieran Conboy , University of Galway, Ireland ( email)
artificial intelligence; analytics; control theory; large scale development; temporality; time
[preferred: qualitative methods]

Editor

Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen , Aalto University, School of Business, Finland ( email)
applications of AI; business models; business value of ICT; consumer use of ICT; digital innovations; digital platforms; ICT enabled services
[preferred: qualitative methods]

Managing Editor

Blair Wang , University of Galway, Ireland
critical theory, digital nomadism, philosophy

Senior Editors

Margunn Aanestad , University of Oslo, Norway
IS implementation, data-driven organizations, artificial intelligence, digital platforms, data governance, sustainability transitions, healthcare, public sector [preferred: qualitative studies]
Jose Benitez, Kent State University, USA
business value of IT; digital transformation; IT and mergers and acquisitions; IT-enabled organizational capabilities; IT impact on the workplace
[preferred: quantitative research methods, mixed-methods]
Alexander Benlian , Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
algorithmic management; dark and bright sides of IT adoption and use; digital business models and IT entrepreneurship; digital nudging (human-computer interaction)
Edward Bernroider, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria
IT governance, risk and compliance; IT project management; IT control; IT audits and appraisals; information security management; digital resilience; IT decisions and investment justification
Lemuria Carter, University of Sydney Business School, Australia
digital government; technology adoption; information privacy; digital inclusion IS for sustainability
[preferred: quantitative, survey-based research, experiments]
Michelle Carter, University of Manchester, UK
Leona Chandra Kruse, University of Agder, Norway
hybrid physical-digital design, digital and immersive experience, affective computing, agentic and AI-based information systems, aesthetics and digital innovation
[preferred: design principles, design research, mixed method research, and clinical research]
Jyoti Choudrie, University of Hertfordshire, UK
adoption, use and diffusion of ICT; digital inclusion; older adults and innovative technologies; information security; digital/ e-government; e-commerce; human computer interaction evaluation; ICT based organisational change; online social networks; artificial intelligence and social aspects; e-health; business value of IT
[preferred: qualitative methods; quantitative SEM approaches]
Crispin Coombs , Loughborough University, UK
artificial intelligence; automation; IS benefits realisation; IS implementation; robotics
[preferred: qualitative methods]
Robert Gleasure, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
crowdfunding; crowdsourcing; design science; neuroIS
Tabitha James , Virginia Tech., USA
online social networks; privacy & security; wearables & fitness technologies
Sirkka Jarvenpaa , University of Texas at Austin, USA
algorithmic decision making; collaboration; digital entrepreneurship; experiments; innovation; inter-organizational; virtual work
[preferred: qualitative methods]
Allen C Johnston , The University of Alabama, USA
deterrence; it adoption; information security; persuasive communications; privacy protection motivation; experimental design; mixed method design
Iris Junglas , College of Charleston, USA
IS methodology; IS philosophy; business analytics; technology innovation
Sabine Matook , University of Queensland, Australia
agile ISD; agile methods; IT artefacts; IT project management; relationship science; social media; case study
Patrick Mikalef , NTNU, Norway
artificial intelligence; business value of IT; dynamic capabilities; information systems strategy
[preferred: quantitative; fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis]
Ojelanki Ngwenyama , Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada; University of Cape Town, South Africa
digitalization; implementation management; philosophy
[preferred: critical social science]
Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson , Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
cyber-security; data analytics; data science; decision support & expert systems; ICT for development
Nancy Pouloudi, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
IS and organizational change; IS adoption and post-adoption challenges; stakeholder analysis; IS in the healthcare domain
[preferred: qualitative methods]
Shirish C Srivastava , HEC Paris, France
e-government and IT in public sector; services offshoring and outsourcing; technology enabled innovation, collaboration and opensource software;
technology in emerging economies
Paul Tallon , Loyola University, USA
business value of IT; IT strategy; information governance; strategic IS; strategic management of IS/IT; structural equation modelling (SEM)
Tuure Tuunanen , University of Jyväskylä, Finland
cyber physical services; cybernization; cybernized services; design science research; digital innovations; digital services; digitalization; IS development; service science
[preferred: design science research; qualitative methods]
Xiaofeng Wang , University of Bolzano, Italy
agile methods; agile project management; digital entrepreneurship; innovation
[preferred: qualitative methods]

Associate Editors

Aleksi Aaltonen , Temple University, USA
Chon Abraham, The College of William & Mary, USA
cybersecurity risk management; grounded theory; IS implementation; IS and organizational change; IS in the healthcare domain; security
Abayomi Baiyere, Queen’s University, Canada
Jessica Braojos , University of Granada, Spain
Shalini Chandra , S P Jain School of Global Management, Singapore
technology enabled innovation; new collaborative technologies; adoption and acceptance of new technologies; dark side of technology; trust
[preferred: survey-based research; mixed methods]
Cecil Eng Huang Chua , Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA
projects; software development; behavior control theory
[preferred: qualitative research; group-level research]
Regina Connolly , Dublin City University, Ireland
trust in digital innovation; information privacy; digital surveillance; gender, societal implications, digital entrepreneurship
[preferred: qualitative methods]
Karlene Cousins, Florida International University, USA
remote/virtual work; adoption, use, and impacts of emerging technology; cryptocurrency and blockchain adoption and use; IS in the healthcare domain; IS legislation and regulation
[preferred: qualitative research; grounded theory]
Kevin Craig , Auburn University, USA
blockchain; identity theory; resistance to technology
[preferred: quantitative methods]
Pratim Datta, Kent State University, USA
Paul Di Gangi , University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
information security; crowdsourcing; gig economy; online communities
[preferred: mixed-methods design, survey-based research, structural equation modeling]
Anna Essén , House of Innovation, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
digital health care; digital health platforms; organizational blindness/ignoring; digital infrastructures;
[preferred: qualitative research]
Emma Forsgren , University of Leeds, UK
activity theory; collaboration; digital platforms; digital transformation; knowledge work; social media
[preferred: qualitative methods]
Kazem Haki , Geneva School of Business Administration (HES-SO, HEG Genève), Switzerland
digital platforms; platform ecosystems; enterprise architecture; complex adaptive systems
[preferred: qualitative research; agent-based modeling and simulation]
Irina Heimbach , WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany
artificial intelligence; decision support; human-computer interaction; chatbots; digital business; digital services; e-commerce; information privacy
[preferred: econometrics, experiments]
Eli Hustad , University of Agder, Norway
Ashish K Jha, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Ireland
social media; artificial intelligence; digital platforms; fake news; user generated content
[preferred: quantitative research]
Stan Karanasios , The University of Queensland, Australia
Hanna Krasnova , Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Germany; University of Potsdam, Germany
social media, human-computer interaction, privacy, well-being, gender, culture, societal implications
[preferred: quantitative and qualitative research methods, e.g. structural equation modeling, grounded theory]
Christiane Lehrer, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
IS for sustainability; circular economy; consumer use of ICT; human-computer interaction
[preferred: qualitative methods]
Carmen Leong , University of New South Wales, Australia
digital platforms and ecosystem, digital activism, digital inclusion, social implications of technology
[preferred: qualitative methods, action design research]
Gloria Liu, Massey University, New Zealand
technology project management, digital innovation, digital business
[preferred methods: case studies; quantitative survey method]
Peter Meso , Florida Gulf Coast University, USA
digital transformation; analytics & data management; IS Architecting; ICT4D
[preferred: quantitative research]
Jyoti Mishra , University of Leeds, UK
circular economy; green IT; information sharing in inter-organisation; sustainability and ICT; technology use in organisations
[preferred: qualitative methods]
Mareike Möhlmann , Bentley University, USA
future of work, managing AI, human-AI interaction, digital platforms
[preferred: qualitative research, grounded theory, case study]
Rohit Nishant , Universite Laval, Canada
artificial intelligence; green IT/IS; digital sustainability; business value of IT; emerging technologies
[preferred: quantitative research]
Joseph Nwankpa, Miami University, USA
Chitu Okoli , SKEMA Business School, France
explainable artificial intelligence; interpretable machine learning; business analytics; data visualization; data science; literature review methodology
[preferred methods: machine learning; statistics; mixed quantitative-qualitative; critical realism; literature review; Delphi method]
Mahya Ostovar , University of Galway, Ireland
online activism, online labor platforms, future of work, online identity, process and practice theory
[preferred: qualitative methods]
Elena Parmiggiani , Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
digital transformation, data work, data governance, data science and AI in practice, algorithmic knowing, digital platform ecosystems, IS for sustainability
[preferred: qualitative methods]
Esko Penttinen, Aalto University School of Business, Finland
organizational implementation of AI, digital transformation, cognitive automation, technical debt
[preferred: qualitative methods]
PK Senyo , University of Southampton, UK
AI, fintech, financial inclusion, ICT4D, platform ecosystems
[preferred: qualitative research]
Anuragini Shirish , IMT Business School, France
digital workplace; humanistic implications of technology; digital health and wellbeing; fake news; virtual teams; technostress and coping; technology adoption and use; AI-human interaction; design thinking; legal and policy issues
[preferred methods: quantitative survey method; qualitative interviews and focus groups; mixed methods]
Wael Soliman , University of Agder, Norway
Matthias Söllner , University of Kassel, Germany
trust; technology-mediated learning; design science research; smart personal assistants; hybrid intelligence
[preferred: design science research; quantitative methods]
Yenni Tim , University of New South Wales, Australia
action design research; digital resilience; digital social innovation
[preferred: design science; qualitative research]
Xinwei Wang, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Michael Wessel , Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany & Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
artificial intelligence; digital business; digital entrepreneurship; digital platforms; digital services; e-commerce; platform governance
[preferred: quantitative methods]
Manuel Wiesche , TU Dortmund, Germany
IT workforce, platform ecosystems, digital service innovation
[preferred: grounded theory methodology, case studies]
Gamel Wiredu , Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, Ghana
digital innovation; mobile platforms; strategic information systems; systems development; ubiquitous computing; virtual teams
[preferred: qualitative methods]
Xiao Xiao , Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
digital innovation, digital entrepreneurship, sports digitalization, contextualized theorization
[preferred: qualitative method, mixed-method]
Jonathan Hua Ye , University of Oklahoma, USA
digital innovation, crowdsourcing, digital business models
[preferred: quantitative research: survey, archival data analysis]
Efpraxia Zamani , Durham University Business School, UK
implications of IT, technology and inequalities, post-adoption behaviour, remote work
[preferred: qualitative research]
Aljona Zorina , IESEG School of Management, France
digital innovation online communities, distributed organizing, digital organizing, decentralized collectives, IT in crisis, monitoring, digital visibility, [preferred: qualitative methods; theory and review]

Editors Emeriti

Pär J. Ågerfalk , Uppsala University, Sweden
Richard Baskerville, Georgia State University, USA
Michael D. Myers, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Frantz Rowe, University of Nantes, France
Dov Te’eni, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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