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How many conferences does a global community need

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Welcome, AI Reviewer Two

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The dawn of the age of autonomous scholarship

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Summertime, revision time

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What is the difference between advisors and mentors?

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How to pick the perfect conference location

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The AI Slop Tsunami

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Why you should put pictures of your reviewers next to your computer when you're writing

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Glaser, Strauss, Charmaz, Nelson, Claude.ai? When digital nomads use generative AI to build grounded theories for the Journal of Information Technology

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In three years, we won't be revising our papers anymore

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Who wants to be a this IS research expert? Jan's turn

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Who wants to be a this IS research expert?

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Do you prefer a prestigious or a rigorous journal?

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If you're not using ChatGPT to cheat in research, you're not going with the times

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The definitive guide to ranking IS journals

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Nick and Jan reporting live from the International Conference on Information Systems

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Doing research on prime ministers

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Managing academics is like herding cats

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When you watch Tik Tok, your maturity in the academic enterprise is zero

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Data is the fuel that sets innovation on fire

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If you're writing a paper about AI you are not allowed to talk about AI

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Nick's rules for a good PhD education

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Should all qualitative researchers use LLMs?

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Cognitive conflict, courage, humility, and respect: Ingredients for a productive academic discourse

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Elitism, conflicts of interest, and collusion in the information systems field?

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The great debate

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Ask us anything - Part Two

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Ask us anything – Part one

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Are digital technologies helping to green our planet?

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How to be an editor 101, or: how to get away with bad paper decisions

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If it feels like a shortcut, it's probably a shortcut.

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New theories or new scripts for the digital age?

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Let's all cheer for the Journal of the Association for Information Systems

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The five best episodes to get you started with this podcast

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Is hunting journal articles making us miss the boat of big ideas?

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Stop having your paper rejected for lack of fit

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Awards under the Christmas Tree

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What do practitioners want from us?

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You just did a bad job doing qualitative research

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Have we lost our ability to create big impact?

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Can you publish papers on digital technology in Academy of Management Review?

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Journal editorials that are must-reads for every IS scholar

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Why you should never write a conceptual paper

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Orthogonal testing planes and electricity in the kitchen

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The three most useless slides in conference presentations

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How to do a literature review

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Did we learn anything?

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Behavioral research is alive and well … online

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Generalization or generalizability, that is the question

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The Elon Musk of Information Systems

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Winning the citation game

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The blank page problem

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What is so special about special issues?

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Every study is a case study

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Navigating the jagged frontier of computing

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Professional athletes make better scientists

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Your best course of action is to cheat and put your name on every paper

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Trailblazers, innovators, and elegant scholars

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The songs by Lady Gaga will be forgotten

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Who would think Management Science is Not a Top Information Systems Journal?

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Jan does not research ChatGPT but that does not mean no one should.

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Disclaimer: ChatGPT produced this episode.

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Reference disciplines, IT managers, and Taylor Swift

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We like big books and we cannot lie

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Anything qualitative researchers write has been said before

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I know that you HARKed last summer

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Shiny new ideas for the next decade

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Remember we were in a pandemic?

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You think you have a lot on your plate?

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Never create a journal unless it is JMIS

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The Big Five Theories from the Last Millennium

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Nick, man of the people

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What's been done, what's been found, and what it means

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Being an institutional custodian of our field

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Power, politics, and the senior scholar list of premier journals

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Our bag of tricks for getting published

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Four golden rules

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There is so much great research out there

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Philosophy, again

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Causality Meets Diversity

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We might just be better than Bourdieu

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Talking Data Privacy and Governance

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Writing papers on how to write papers

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Design science dysfunctions

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The worst things editors can do

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Journals are like newspapers except that they're not

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Engagement, relevance, and beautiful artifacts

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The Crossover

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The one where Nick explains how to do computationally intensive theory construction

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Why we love what we do

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Resilience is key

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When your audience is full of jerks

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Getting things done

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Pragmatism, Baby!

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No-one is writing books anymore

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Humblebragging and click-bait research

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Welcome to the Oscars

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Naughty grounded theory

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Jan is a hipster and survey research is dead

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When our journals were almost empty