Qualitative Paper Development Workshop

In the last 15 years, more qualitative papers have been published in the Information Systems (IS) senior scholar basket of journals. However, publishing qualitative studies remains challenging. In particular, early-career academics often struggle to publish their qualitative papers in top IS journals.

This workshop is designed to help early career academics and PhD students working on qualitative papers relating to technology and organisation studies across the IS, strategy and organisation behaviour domains, to develop their journal articles for submission to a top IS journal.

Early career researchers and PhD students who are in the final stages of their PhD (data collected and analysed) will be in best position to benefit from this workshop.

The team of six mentors have extensive experience publishing qualitative articles in, and serving in editorial roles for, top IS journals.

Guest mentors

• Professor Suzanne Rivard, HEC Montreal (Canada)
  Senior Editor, Journal of Strategic Information Systems
  Former Senior Editor, MIS Quarterly
  
  
• Professor Suprateek Sarker, University of Virginia (USA)
  Immediate Past President
  Former Editor-in-Chief, Journal of AIS
  
  
• Andrew Burton-Jones, The University of Queensland (Australia)
  Editor-in-Chief, MIS Quarterly

University of Auckland mentors

• Professor Michael Myers
  Former AIS President
  Editor-in-Chief, European Journal of Information Systems
  
  
• Professor Ilan Oshri
  Senior Editor, Journal of Information Technology
  
  
• Professor Julia Kotlarsky
  Senior Editor, Journal of Information Technology

• Three-day event from 4-6 October 2022.
• Interactive sessions, discussions and ‘sprint’ writing sessions facilitated by the mentors.
• Designed to allow time for feedback, discussions and writing, and informal interactions with the mentors.
• The workshop is limited to 18 participants (3 per mentor)

Before the event

Interested participants must submit a paper to be allocated to a mentor, who will review and provide feedback. In addition, each participant will review and provide feedback on one paper within their ‘working group’.

During the event

Participants will be working in small groups, based on topic proximity, guided by a mentor.

There will be three points of feedback:

• At the beginning of the workshop, based on the submitted paper
• After the first day
• At the end of the workshop

Participants will need to make significant progress during the workshop, as part of the time will be allocated to writing and further refinement of ideas (we have coined this approach ‘sprint writing’).

There will be a formal plenary sessions each day. The rest of the time, the participants will be working closely with mentors on improving ideas and re-writing their papers.

In-between ‘sprint writing’ sessions, mentors will run interactive ‘clinics’ within their working groups that will be dedicated to specific issues identified during the writing process and will be relevant to all/most group members.

During the afternoon coffee break, mentors will discuss issues that their groups are facing and agree whether a plenary cross-group ‘clinic’ is needed at the end of the day.

Two social dinners will give opportunities for interactions between participants and mentors (in particular with mentors from other work group).

To ensure participants are fully committed and able to make significant progress preparing their paper for a journal submission during the workshop, participants should submit:

1. A draft of the paper, at least 70% complete (i.e. some sections may be more developed than others, but overall, 70% of the paper is written) (deadline 1 September 2022).
   
   Suggested structure for your submission:
   A title and 200 word abstract
   ½ page on the practical motivation for your work
   1 page on problematization of the existing knowledge that leads to your RQ
   2 pages on the specific qualitative approach you use, including data collection and analysis
   1 page on upfront theory
   1 page on the case highlighting what is revelatory about your case – in other words, why should we be excited about your case?
   1 page on empirical findings
   1 page on theoretical contributions you seek to offer
   ½ page on practical and design implications (if any)
   
   
2. A short letter explaining what journal(s) you are targeting with the paper, and the main challenges you face with the current version. If the paper was previously submitted to a conference (i.e. International Conference on Information Systems), please include the review packet from the conference.

We will be reviewing submissions as we receive them and very likely be making acceptance decisions for submissions that met the requirements to help applicants who need to book travel well in advance. Please email your submission to j.kotlarsky@auckland.ac.nz with email subject “Submission for Qualitative Paper Development Workshop”.

If accepted, we will email you the link to pay registration fees.

• PhD students: NZ$450
• Academics: NZ$600

University of Auckland Business School
Auckland
New Zealand

About the Business School

Auckland offers a variety of accommodation at
a range of budgets, including hotels, hostels and AirBnB.

It is highly recommended to book accommodation well in advance. 

Auckland accommodation information

If you are interested in participating in this workshop, you can register your interest in the link below. We will do our best to keep you informed about number of places left.