About this podcast
Professors Nick Berente from the University of Notre Dame and Jan Recker from the University of Hamburg talk about current and persistent topics in information systems research, a field that explores how digital technologies change business and society.
You can find papers and other materials we discuss in each episode at http://www.janrecker.com/this-is-research-podcast/.
Episodes
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- Master and Apprentice · 57 minThe relationship between doctoral students and professors is very important—and very long. In fact, it may well be one of the longest, most personal, and most intensive…
- How do I know what I think until I see what I say? · 50 minCan you still tell which text parts you have written versus which have been generated by a generative AI tool? The lines seem to be blurring, and the question is what this…
- How many conferences does a global community need · 50 minHow many conferences does a global community need? Jan and Nick admittedly know only little about all the different IS research initiatives happening all over the planet. Time to…
- Welcome, AI Reviewer Two · 50 minWe all know about the infamous reviewer two. They are late with their reviews, read our paper only halfway, unduly criticize our work, and make us cite their own mediocre work…
- The dawn of the age of autonomous scholarship · 42 minIn information systems, we saw the rise of qualitative scholarship in the 1990s. In the 2000s, we saw the rise of analytics in research, fueled by the emergence of big data. In…
- Summertime, revision time · 46 minWhile Jan vacated his desk and took some weeks off in the summer, Nick has been busy working on paper revisions. Time to figure out how to handle the review and process. When is…
- What is the difference between advisors and mentors? · 57 minWe have TC Eley IV on the show, a freshly minted assistant professor that just completed his PhD program. He is starting a new mentorship program for the AOM CTO Division, which…
- How to pick the perfect conference location · 48 minThe Academy of Management has just moved the next AOM conferences outside of the United States. The Association for Information Systems has been rotating the International…
- The AI Slop Tsunami · 49 minDo you think AI will have an impact on science? You are wrong. It will not–it already does. The annual International Conference on Information Systems received over 1,000 more…
- Why you should put pictures of your reviewers next to your computer when you're writing · 50 minWe devote enormous time and effort to developing a research idea, crafting a research design, executing a study, and then writing and polishing a paper – only to then find out…
- Glaser, Strauss, Charmaz, Nelson, Claude.ai? When digital nomads use generative AI to build grounded theories for the Journal of Information Technology · 54 minWe have Daniel Schlagwein on the show, who is what Germans call a "Tausendsassa:" He is both a practitioner and researcher of digital nomadism, the editor-in-chief of the Journal…
- In three years, we won't be revising our papers anymore · 46 minJan is annoyed because he needs to revise his papers and respond to his reviewers. Why can't ChatGPT or Claude do this for him? Why aren't we doing this already? So we start to…
- Who wants to be a this IS research expert? Jan's turn · 33 minDoes Jan really know what he is talking about? Like we did with Nick last time, we play another round of trivia questions about information systems research – but now Nick is the…
- Who wants to be a this IS research expert? · 42 minDoes Nick really know what he is talking about? Time to find out. We play a trivia quiz with fifteen questions about information systems research. Nick has an audience joker, a…
- Do you prefer a prestigious or a rigorous journal? · 46 minJournals play an important role for academics. They disseminate new knowledge and separate good from bad research. They also signal competencies, reputation, and standing…
- If you're not using ChatGPT to cheat in research, you're not going with the times · 47 minLet's say we are unethical people, trying to get ahead in academia and gain accolades for the sake of promotion and income and so forth. In an age where artificial intelligence…
- The definitive guide to ranking IS journals · 45 minIn 2026, everything is different. AI is scaling both research and publishing productivity. Impact factors no longer matter. Big name journal publishers launch offspring journals…
- Nick and Jan reporting live from the International Conference on Information Systems · 54 minAs usual in the final episode of the year, we hand out three awards for what we think are some of the finest pieces of information systems scholarship produced this year. Except…
- Doing research on prime ministers · 54 minIt only took us five years but we finally got Stefan Seidel on the podcast. We have been talking about him and his scholarship for a while. Today we finally get to ask him about…
- Managing academics is like herding cats · 51 minSome academics go into the office every day; some are rarely ever seen on campus. Is one way better than the other? Who better to ask than the brilliant Ella Hafermalz who spent…
