Welcome to the ISWorld Ph.D. Page

This page is a modest attempt to put together online resources of particular use to current or prospective Ph.D. students in information systems. We are hopeful that this page will be useful to any prospective or current doctoral students. Feel free to review this information and let us know if there is anything else that you think may be useful to others.

Getting Into a Program

»Why get a Ph.D.
»Top 10 Questions to Ask When Selecting a Program
»I.S. PhD Programs

»How to be a good graduate student
»Answers to Doctoral Students' Frequently Asked Questions
»10 Mistakes Doctoral Students Make in Managing their Program
»Managing the Relationship with your Advisor
»A Rough Model for Success in Doctoral Study
How Am I Doing? Checklist for Doctoral Students at Various Stages of Their Program
»Web Grad Student Resources
»The IS faculty directory
»Join: ISWorld List

Research Frameworks

»R. Agarwal - Doctoral Research in IS
»K. Lyytinen - Seminar in MIS
»M. Avital- Doctoral Seminar in MIS
»G. Marakas - Introduction to Behavior Research in Information Systems
»V. Grover - Classical and Theoretical Foundations if IS

Research Methods

»A. Lee - Research Methods (1997- Montreal)
»R. Hirschheim - Case Research Methods
»H. Lucas - Information Systems Research Methodologies
»B. Gallier - Information Systems Research Methodologies
»D. Straub - Experimental Design (for password access to the readings, e-mail Detmar Straub at: dstraub@gsu.edu)
»D. Straub - Quantitative Methods (for password access to the readings, e-mail Detmar Straub at: dstraub@gsu.edu)
»V. Grover - Seminar on Research Methods

Philosophy of Science

»R. Hirschheim - Philosophy of Science

Critical Analysis

»R. Hirschheim - Critical Analysis

IT Management Issues and Concepts

»M. Subramani - Organization Theory and Research in Information Systems
»B. Wheeler & S. Jarvenpaa - Information Systems and Concepts

The e-World

»J. Bailey & S. Faraj - Research Seminar on e-commerce and Supply Chain Management
»B. Gibson - Dynamic Decision Making in Electronic Environments

»PhD Consortium Keynoters
»IS Epistemology
»Exemplary Works on Information Systems Research

The Journals and Literature

MISQ | ISR | JAIS | JMIS | CAIS

»Other IS Journals
»Journal Rankings

Working Papers

»Find working papers
»MISRC Working Paper Series
»Journal Table of Contents Postings

»ICIS [2005 - Las Vegas] [2005 Consortium]
»AMCIS [2005 - Omaha] [2005 Consortium]
»2005 ECIS Regensburg
»Others
»Conference Paper Calls
»Journal and Book Chapter Paper Calls

»Advice on Research and Writing
»Publishing "Theory" Papers
»MISQ Review Process
»Paper Types at MISQ
»Citation Styles for eMedia
»Elements of Style
»Considerations in Responding to Reviewers and Thesis Advisers

The Dissertation

»The "How to" Book
»ACM/ICIS Dissertation Contest
»IS Dissertation Database

Proposal Writing

»A Short Course
»Writing from the Winner's Circle
»NSF's CIS Directorate

»Texts: [StafSoft ]
»Statistics on the Web
»Statistics Advisory

Research Methods

»Qualitative Research
»Survey Research
»Research Tasks
»EndNote - Bibliographic Database
»ProCite - Bibliographic Database

»Reviewing a Paper for Publication
»Desirable Reviewer Behaviors

»PhD Interview Guide
»Placement Service
»IS Faculty Salary Survey
»Job Postings

»Professional Ethics
»Case Study: 1st Year Faculty
»Association for Information Systems
»Association for Computing Machinery
»INFORMS
»The Phd Project

»Researching Information Systems and Computing, a new book by Briony Oates
»Hart, Chris (1999) Doing a Literature Review : Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination. Sage.
»Hart, Chris (2001). Doing a Literature Search : A Comprehensive Guide for the Social Sciences. Sage.