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AACSB, AOM, AIS, and others: Shared framework on research impact

  • 1.  AACSB, AOM, AIS, and others: Shared framework on research impact

    Posted 4 days ago

    Dear all 

    Many of us care deeply about making an impact through our research but recognize that academic incentives often get in the way. 

    I'm writing to update you on a collective effort to address this problem, and to pay thanks to the AACSB and AOM for kicking it off. 

    Please get involved in this initiative as it unfolds. Together we can all change the system for the better. 

    Andrew 

    New Research Impact Framework for Business Schools

    18 months ago, the AACSB invited the Association for Information Systems and other leading scholarly societies to join a taskforce to define, measure, and encourage business school research impact. Taskforce members included:  

    • AACSB International 
    • Academy of International Business 
    • Academy of Management 
    • American Accounting Association 
    • American Marketing Association 
    • Asia Academy of Management 
    • Association for Information Systems 
    • European Accounting Association 
    • Journal of Operations Management 
    • Production and Operations Management Society

     

    AIS is delighted to announce an exciting output from this taskforce: AACSB's new Research Impact Framework: https://www.aacsb.edu/educators/global-research-impact/research-impact-framework

     For IS scholars in business schools, the framework should help you to assess the research impact of your business school and plan for greater impact over time, tailored to your school's context.

     We believe the framework could be particularly helpful for scholars working in Dean's offices or other university administrative roles, but it could also help any IS researcher interested in pursuing greater research impact. It could also be very helpful to discuss in PhD programs. 

     Each of the fields involved conveyed important insights for the framework, such as the spiral model from AIS (Rosemann et al. 2026). We thank all IS scholars who have pushed for greater impact over many decades, and we promote this new framework in their honour.

     Sincerely

    AIS Presidents (Dorothy Leidner, Andrew Burton-Jones, and Jan vom Brocke) and Michael Rosemann (VP Strategic Partnerships)

     

    For further reading, see:



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    Andrew Burton-Jones
    The University of Queensland
    Brisbane
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