Welcome to listen to the world's leading information systems researcher, Professor Viswanath Venkatesh from the USA. Prof. Venkatesh will deliver a talk titled "Contextualization and Scientific Contributions." at the FHDi Talk on 13 February at 16:00. The event will be in English.
The event will be held in Agora, Mattilanniemi. The event will also be streamed via Zoom (a link will be provided after registration). Coffee will be served after the talk. ☕
"Contextualization and Scientific Contributions"
Due to the ever-changing technology landscape, researchers constantly face new phenomena tied to digitalizationthat must be understood. To address this challenge, building on calls for contextualization, this presentationsdiscusses ideas about contextualization and presents guidance within four general research steps—defining the problem, anchoring to prior research, seeking novelty, and reporting practices—in order to achieve rigorous contextualization. In doing this, the basic idea of scientific contribution is expanded from (a) the typical contribution of theory to the phenomenon to (b) include the less common contribution to theory, especially reference discipline theory, thus creating for the opportunity researchers to overcome the challenges of making a contribution to understanding of phenomena to include a cumulative tradition that can make contributions to theories as well.
Prof. Viswanath Venkatesh, who completed his PhD at the University of Minnesota, is an Eminent Scholar and Verizon Chair at the Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists, both in terms of premier journal publications and citation impact (e.g., Clarivate, Thomson Reuters’ highlycited.com, Emerald Citations, SSRN, PLoS Biology), with a recent career ranking of 355th (out of ~9 million scientists in all scientific fields) and 1st in information systems. His research focuses on understanding the diffusion of technologies in organizations and society. His work has appeared in leading journals in human-computer interaction, information systems, organizational behavior, psychology, marketing, medical informatics, and operations management, and included best paper awards (e.g., Academy of Management Journal). His works have been cited over 207,000 times (Google Scholar) and about 70,000 times (Web of Science), with an h-index of 97 and i-10 index of 159, with 23 papers being cited over 1,000 times per Google Scholar. He has served in editorial roles in various journals. He is a Fellow of the AIS and the Information Systems Society, INFORMS.
