Information Systems Research on the Global Playing Field: Balancing the Universal and the Local

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1. It is usually a mistake to overgeneralize about the IS field. Many alternatives to the quantitative studies based frequently on surveys and experiments are to be found in the IS literature and while some may share these assumptions of searching for unchanging universal truths, others are looking to discover mechanisms within complex and highly embedded specific circumstances.

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Fred Niederman

Fred Niederman serves as Shaughnessy Endowed Professor at Saint Louis University. He was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems in 2020. He serves as editor in chief for Communications of AIS. His work on the co-evolution of IT worker skills and generations of technology platforms has been recognized as a ‘publication of the year’ by AIS in 2015 and inaugural Communications of AIS, Paul Gray thought-provoking paper of the year in 2014. His areas of research interest include: IS personnel, IS project management, and philosophy of science applied to IS. He has served as senior editor for Journal of AIS and Project Management Journal. He has served as program chair for ICIS (2010) and as a member of the doctoral consortium faculty members (2018). He recently finished serving as chair for the special interest group on MIS in ACM (2017–2021). He is recognized as a member of the “circle of compadres” for the KMPG PhD Project.

Alexandre Reis Graeml

Alexandre Reis Graeml is a Full Professor at the Graduate School of Applied Computing (PPGCA) and the Graduate School of Business (PPGA) at UTFPR, in Brazil. His research interests involve the impact of IT on organizations and society, adoption, acceptance and appropriation of information systems, collective intelligence, and knowledge management. He has been the President of the Association for Information Systems LACAIS chapter (Latin America and the Caribbean) and a senior or associate editor for leading journals in the Information Systems field.

Guillermo Rodriguez Abitia

Guillermo Rodriguez Abitia obtained, as a Fulbright scholar, a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Arlington. He serves as Editorial Board member for Communications of the AIS, the Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, and the Latin American and Caribbean Journal of the AIS (RELCASI), having helped to found the latter. His research interests include innovation and digital transformation, IT and education, and cross-cultural issues of IT. He has been an active participant and board member in academic and professional associations such as AIS, having served there as a council member, and he has been recognized with the Sandra Slaughter Service award, and as a distinguished member Cum Laude. He has just been elected as Vice President for Conferences of the AIS. He recently joined the Raymond A. Mason School of Business of the College of William & Mary as a Clinical Associate Professor in the Operations and Information Systems Management Area.