MIS Quarterly, 2009, Volume 33,
Issue 4, Page iii-vii.
The article discusses research papers in top journals that introduce innovative, breakthrough ideas. Although not all papers can achieve such heights, they can exhibit clear progress in that direction by manifesting certain traits. The author cites as examples one paper on Web site design that argues hedonic factors play a role in the process, and another on the impact of common method variance that identifies the problem with common methods bias, and presents a way to test for it. Over the long term, innovative papers tend to garner large numbers of citations.
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