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View article: Validity in Design Science
Validity in Design Science Open
Researchers must ensure that the claims about the knowledge produced by their work are valid. However, validity is neither well-understood nor consistently established in design science, which involves the development and evaluation of art…
View article: VALIDITY IN DESIGN SCIENCE
VALIDITY IN DESIGN SCIENCE Open
Researchers must ensure that the claims about the knowledge produced by their work are valid. However, validity is neither well-understood nor consistently established in design science, which involves the development and evaluation of art…
View article: Socio-environmental modeling shows physics-like confidence with water modeling surpassing it in numerical claims
Socio-environmental modeling shows physics-like confidence with water modeling surpassing it in numerical claims Open
Several modern scientific fields rely on computationally intensive mathematical models to study uncertain, complex socio-environmental phenomena such as the spread of a virus, climate change, or the water cycle. However, the degree of epis…
View article: VALIDITY IN DESIGN SCIENCE
VALIDITY IN DESIGN SCIENCE Open
View article: Integrating LLMs and Psychometrics: Global Construct Validity
Integrating LLMs and Psychometrics: Global Construct Validity Open
View article: Software Development and Modeling in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Manifesto
Software Development and Modeling in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Manifesto Open
View article: Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy
Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy Open
Transformative artificially intelligent tools, such as ChatGPT, designed to generate sophisticated text indistinguishable from that produced by a human, are applicable across a wide range of contexts. The technology presents opportunities …
View article: IC-Behavior: An interdisciplinary taxonomy of behaviors
IC-Behavior: An interdisciplinary taxonomy of behaviors Open
Academic disciplines are often organized according to the behaviors they examine. While most research on a behavior tends to exist within one discipline, some behaviors are examined by multiple disciplines. Better understanding of behavior…
View article: Editorial: Semantic Algorithms in the Assessment of Attitudes and Personality
Editorial: Semantic Algorithms in the Assessment of Attitudes and Personality Open
The methodological tools available for psychological and organizational assessment are rapidly advancing through natural language processing (NLP). Computerized analyses of texts are increasingly available as extensions of traditional psyc…
View article: Editorial: Semantic Algorithms in the Assessment of Attitudes and Personality
Editorial: Semantic Algorithms in the Assessment of Attitudes and Personality Open
The methodological tools available for psychological and organizational assessment are rapidly advancing through natural language processing (NLP). Computerized analyses of texts are increasingly available as extensions of traditional psyc…
View article: Why Use Automated Machine Learning?
Why Use Automated Machine Learning? Open
Machine learning is involved in search, translation, detecting depression, likelihood of college dropout, finding lost children, and to sell all kinds of products. While barely beyond its inception, the current machine learning revolution …
View article: Culture Blind Leadership Research: How Semantically Determined Survey Data May Fail to Detect Cultural Differences
Culture Blind Leadership Research: How Semantically Determined Survey Data May Fail to Detect Cultural Differences Open
Likert scale surveys are frequently used in cross-cultural studies on leadership. Recent publications using digital text algorithms raise doubt about the source of variation in statistics from such studies to the extent that they are seman…
View article: The Priest, the Sex Worker, and the CEO: Measuring Motivation by Job Type
The Priest, the Sex Worker, and the CEO: Measuring Motivation by Job Type Open
This study uses latent semantic analysis (LSA) to explore how prevalent measures of motivation are interpreted across very diverse job types. Building on the Semantic Theory of Survey Response (STSR), we calculate "semantic compliance" as …
View article: Trust and Distrust as Artifacts of Language: A Latent Semantic Approach to Studying Their Linguistic Correlates
Trust and Distrust as Artifacts of Language: A Latent Semantic Approach to Studying Their Linguistic Correlates Open
Trust and distrust are crucial aspects of human interaction that determine the nature of many organizational and business contexts. Because of socialization-borne familiarity that people feel about others, trust and distrust can influence …
View article: Culture Blind Leadership Research: How Semantically Determined Survey Data May Fail to Detect Cultural Differences
Culture Blind Leadership Research: How Semantically Determined Survey Data May Fail to Detect Cultural Differences Open
Likert scale surveys are frequently used in cross-cultural studies on leadership. Recent publications using digital text algorithms raise doubt about the source of variation in statistics from such studies to the extent that they are seman…
View article: The Priest, the Sex Worker, and the CEO: Measuring Motivation by Job Type
The Priest, the Sex Worker, and the CEO: Measuring Motivation by Job Type Open
This study uses latent semantic analysis (LSA) to explore how prevalent measures of motivation are interpreted across very diverse job types. Building on the Semantic Theory of Survey Response (STSR), we calculate "semantic compliance" as …
View article: Advancing Meta-Analysis With Knowledge-Management Platforms: Using metaBUS in Psychology
Advancing Meta-Analysis With Knowledge-Management Platforms: Using metaBUS in Psychology Open
In this article, we provide a review of research-curation and knowledge-management efforts that may be leveraged to advance research and education in psychological science. After reviewing the approaches and content of other efforts, we fo…
View article: "Understanding the Elephant: The Discourse Approach to Boundary Identification and Corpus Construction for Theory Review Articles"
"Understanding the Elephant: The Discourse Approach to Boundary Identification and Corpus Construction for Theory Review Articles" Open
The goal of a review article is to present the current state of knowledge in a research area. Two important initial steps in writing a review article are boundary identification (identifying a body of potentially relevant past research) an…
View article: Introduction to the Minitrack on Knowing What We Know: Theory, Meta-analysis, and Review
Introduction to the Minitrack on Knowing What We Know: Theory, Meta-analysis, and Review Open
This minitrack is interested in papers that pursue approaches, methods and conceptual papers which will advance the IS field ability to "know what it knows".Our ability to understand, integrate and synthesize the exponentially growing body…
View article: Semantic algorithms can detect how media language shapes survey responses in organizational behaviour
Semantic algorithms can detect how media language shapes survey responses in organizational behaviour Open
Research on sensemaking in organisations and on linguistic relativity suggests that speakers of the same language may use this language in different ways to construct social realities at work. We apply a semantic theory of survey response …
View article: Semantic Algorithms Can Detect How Media Language Shapes Survey Responses in Organizational Behaviour
Semantic Algorithms Can Detect How Media Language Shapes Survey Responses in Organizational Behaviour Open
Research on sensemaking in organisations and on linguistic relativity suggests that speakers of the same language mayusethis language in different ways to construct social realities at work. We apply a semantic theory of survey response (S…
View article: The failing measurement of attitudes: How semantic determinants of individual survey responses come to replace measures of attitude strength
The failing measurement of attitudes: How semantic determinants of individual survey responses come to replace measures of attitude strength Open
View article: Respondent Robotics: Simulating Responses to Likert-Scale Survey Items
Respondent Robotics: Simulating Responses to Likert-Scale Survey Items Open
The semantic theory of survey responses (STSR) proposes that the prime source of statistical covariance in survey data is the degree of semantic similarity (overlap of meaning) among the items of the survey. Because semantic structures are…
View article: Literature Reviews in IS Research: What Can Be Learnt from the Past and Other Fields?
Literature Reviews in IS Research: What Can Be Learnt from the Past and Other Fields? Open
Literature reviews (LRs) are recognized for their increasing impact in the information systems literature. Methodologists have drawn attention to the question of how we can leverage the value of LRs to preserve and generate knowledge. The …
View article: Introduction to Theory and Information Systems Minitrack
Introduction to Theory and Information Systems Minitrack Open
View article: A Guide to Text Analysis with Latent Semantic Analysis in R with Annotated Code Studying Online Reviews and the Stack Exchange Community
A Guide to Text Analysis with Latent Semantic Analysis in R with Annotated Code Studying Online Reviews and the Stack Exchange Community Open
In this guide, we introduce researchers in the behavioral sciences in general and MIS in particular to text analysis as done with latent semantic analysis (LSA). The guide contains hands-on annotated code samples in R that walk the reader …
View article: Integrating Scientific Research: Theory and Design of Discovering Similar Constructs
Integrating Scientific Research: Theory and Design of Discovering Similar Constructs Open
Assessing the similarity of proposed theoretical constructs to each other and those previously known and studied is imperative in theoretical research. In this paper we turn to theories of similarity judgement from cognitive psychology for…
View article: Modes of Theory Integration
Modes of Theory Integration Open
IS, among other social sciences, have moved from a relative paucity of theories about social phenomenon to a a state of multiple, overlapping, and overly narrow theories. We offer three Modes for theory Integration that will enable researc…
View article: Respondent Robotics: Simulating Responses to Likert-Scale Survey Items
Respondent Robotics: Simulating Responses to Likert-Scale Survey Items Open
The semantic theory of survey responses (STSR) proposes that the prime source of statistical covariance in survey data is the degree of semantic similarity (overlap of meaning) among the items of the survey. Because semantic structures are…
View article: A new approach to psychological measures in leadership research
A new approach to psychological measures in leadership research Open
Is survey data a source of new information, or could surveys just be begging their questions? The authors of this opinion piece suspect that survey data in leadership research do not reflect attitudes to workplace phenomena. Instead, they …