Abstract
Drawing data from the Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS), we build a profile of Mediterranean information systems (IS) research and compare the emerging research landscape with recent reviews in European and international contexts. We report on research topics addressed, research methodologies employed, local empirical contexts and the composition of the related community of authors. On the basis of this data, we problematize on the meaningfulness and nature of a regional profile for IS research. Together with the six papers selected for this special issue, we aspire to contribute to the broader discourse on the diversity of IS research orientation, methodologies and agendas across different parts of the world.
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The authors wish to acknowledge the valuable insights and support of EJIS Editors, Hans van der Heijden, Richard Baskerville and Frantz Rowe in particular. We would also like to recognize the excellent collaboration with the reviewers and the authors of the special issue. For the reconstruction of the MCIS context, we have had valuable exchanges with several colleagues. We owe special thanks (in alphabetical order) to Mohktar Amami, Chrisanthi Avgerou, Izak Benbasat, Gian Marco Campagnolo, Georgios Doukidis, Phillip Ein-Dor, Gianni Jacuzzi, Angelika Kokkinaki, Giovan Francesco Lanzara, Claudia Loebbecke, Marco de Marco, Antony Stylianou and Dov Te’eni. Special credit is owed to the Ph.D. candidates of the ELTRUN research group in our department who tackled competently the demanding task of preparing the data set of the MCIS conference proceedings. Last but not least, we would like to acknowledge – post-mortem – Claudio Ciborra, who drew attention to the issue of a regional research outlook and inspired efforts to bring together people engaging in IS research in the Mediterranean region.
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Pouloudi, N., Poulymenakou, A. & Pramatari, K. A profile of information systems research in the Mediterranean region. Eur J Inf Syst 21, 345–357 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1057/ejis.2012.31
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