MISRC Working Paper Series Offers a Glimpse of Carlson School IS Faculty Research

Internet Enhances Exchange of Current Research

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The MIS Research Center's Working Paper series, over the course of the last five years, has become an important repository for the pre-publication research of Carlson School faculty in the Information and Decision Sciences Department. MIS Director, Rob Kauffman, comments: "When I first came to the Carlson School in 1994, I saw that there was an opportunity to build the MISRC's Working Paper series into a shared resource for the academic community within the Carlson School, as well as to showcase our research for the national and international audience. Recently, MISRC Assistant Director and I ran a few numbers to gauge the growth of our working paper series, and we were pleased to see that faculty and doctoral participation and contributions have grown substantially."

The following graph illustrates the growth in contributions.



These developments reflect well on the research productivity of the Information and Decision Sciences faculty and its doctoral students, and the Carlson School as a whole. Kauffman continues: "I'm always pleased and surprised when I travel to conferences and other universities in the United States, and faculty and doctoral students there tell me how innovative our IS and e-commerce research is. They tell me that the MISRC's Working Paper website is a frequent stopping place in their search for current research to inform their own work. In fact, on a recent trip to National Sun Yat-Sen University in Kaohsiun, Taiwan, I was interested to learn that doctoral students there knew a lot about our pre-publication research work, major research topics, and ongoing projects."