Diamond Mining or Coal Mining? Which Reviewing Industry Are We In?

Author List: Straub, Detmar W.;

MIS Quarterly, 2009, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page iii-viii.

This article discusses the state of the management and information science field. The predispositions that editors bring to the review of manuscripts written for publication in this journal are analyzed to provide some information on the state of the field. The tendency of information science editors to focus on the methodology of papers submitted for review while ignoring the ideas that the authors put forward is criticized.

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