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Research in the Attention Economy
Business & Information Systems Engineering ( IF 7.4 ) Pub Date : 2020-02-14 , DOI: 10.1007/s12599-020-00631-6 Oliver Hinz , Wil M. P. van der Aalst , Christof Weinhardt
Business & Information Systems Engineering ( IF 7.4 ) Pub Date : 2020-02-14 , DOI: 10.1007/s12599-020-00631-6 Oliver Hinz , Wil M. P. van der Aalst , Christof Weinhardt
‘‘We are living in exponential times’’ is a commonly used saying to express the dramatic changes due to digitalization. For sure, this saying also applies to research and research publications. For researchers in Business and Information Systems Engineering, the ‘‘International Conference on Information Systems’’ (ICIS) is certainly one of the largest and probably also as the most prestigious gathering of information systems academics and researchoriented practitioners in the world. ICIS 2019, which was held in Germany for the first time, was a stunning success. The community has to thank the Conference Chairs Jane Fedorowicz and Helmut Krcmar, their Program Co-Chairs Wai Fong Boh, Jan Marco Leimeister and Sunil Wattal, and many, many more for organizing an impressing and inspiring conference. ICIS 2019, in Munich, came with an ‘‘all-time high everywhere: number of submissions, number of participants, conference innovations such as different formats, adjunct workshops, industry sponsoring etc.’’ (Quote: Jan Marco Leimeister). To be more specific, ICIS 2019 counted a total of 1548 submissions (almost 10% more submissions than in the previous year 2018: 1411 submissions), from which 420 papers were accepted for presentation. Broken down to the individual countries participating in ICIS 2019 it is notable that the German community submitted and presented the highest number of papers (* 120 papers accepted), followed by USA (* 80 papers accepted) and China (* 40 papers accepted). To handle the huge volume of papers and information, 76 Track Chairs recruited a total of 706 Associate Editors, who again enlisted 2409 reviewers to conduct over 3700 reviews. Altogether, ICIS 2019 was a huge success, giving researchers from all over the world the opportunity to present their latest research to the international Information Systems (IS) community. However, due to the high volume of contributions, it was hard for participants to keep track of all 420 papers plus a plethora of contributions discussed in adjunct workshops. In general, it is getting increasingly harder to follow all the different research developments and to consider all the latest insights that researchers all over the world generate. Neighboring disciplines face the same challenge: In the Management discipline, for instance, more than 10,000 scholars, authors, students and practitioners gather in annual meetings (e.g., AoM) to connect and explore ideas about management and organizational scholarship. Against this background, one can certainly argue that we are doing research in an ‘‘attention economy’’. The concept of the attention economy (Simon 1969) suggests that a world rich in information leads to a scarcity of whatever that information consumes, in this case, the attention of peer researchers. Therefore, attention and the information that demands our attention need to be managed efficiently to avoid information overload (Davenport and O. Hinz (&) Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Goethe University Frankfurt, Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 4, 60323 Frankfurt am Main, Germany e-mail: ohinz@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de
更新日期：2020-02-14
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