MISQ, Inc. or an Online Collective? Is There a Journal Personality and What it Means for Authors

摘要

This editorial takes what I trust will be the controversial position that journals do not have a singular perspective on what should be published, and instead represent loosely formed collectives of individuals with varying motives and interests. Analogously, they are not corporate hierarchies as in MISQ, Inc., but rather Theory Y-styled collectives of scholars. I offer suggestions for what such a perspective means to individual authors who interact with the editorial staff. One useful outcome of proposing such an idea is to open a dialogue within the IS community on the implications of journals as loose collectives.