AIS Impact Award

AIS recognizes the impact of information systems research beyond academia. Impactful research is rewarding and the ability to be impactful is attracting talent to the discipline. Within and beyond our own community, multiple initiatives seek to encourage us to pursue research with societal and economic value. Increasingly, however, impact is also a hallmark of research excellence in the view of accreditation, evaluation, and funding programs, making impact and individuals with impactful research a valuable resource to any institution.

The AIS Impact Award recognizes information systems research with proven impact on practice in business and society. Therefore, the key criterion for this Award is the provision of evidence that research outputs (papers) have led to outcomes and actual impact.

The assessment of the academic quality of the work is considered secondary to the degree to which it has had impact. Awardees can be individuals or groups of collaborating researchers. The award ceremony will be conducted at the International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS).