1. RECRUITMENT Moving from Good to Great Scholarship

2. Objective of this Session What are the strategic choices we can make in our recruitment to help shape the department? What are the obstacles in the way? 2

3. Current Situation Research performance has been excellent Existing research areas are relevant IS in healthcare, E-Commerce, Social computing, Service systems innovation, Information management, Economics of IS Existing Staff Bottom-heavy pipeline Hiring based on methodological expertise – economics, behavioural, technical 3

4. Where Do We Want to be? What does our department want to achieve? Our research should serve a higher purpose, should be more integrated, coherent and impactful Impactful on the human condition Serve the collective interest, rather than individual Not just understand and explain, but also question the status quo! Impactful on scholarship Continue to focus on concrete phenomena, develop middle range theories But use them to explore bigger questions e.g. Barney’s resource-based theory was prompted by his questioning “Why do some firms outperform others?” but also on “What causes inequality in society?” 4

5. How Do We Get There? Recruitment of good scholars who can: Improve integration and coherence in our research with a realignment around the human condition Improving work, commerce, health, education Rather than moving from one technological phenomenon to another, and applying methodological expertise to those phenomena, we should focus on specific and meaningful verticals Increase our multi-disciplinary collaboration With our CS colleagues, but also psychology, sociology, management Accelerate our progress toward meaningful impact Guide us in developing thought leadership Tie together our developments within research areas 5

6. How Do We Get There? Coordination of recruitment between CS and IS departments Joint appointment and selection of faculty who believe in doing research that serve the higher purpose Recruitment of more teaching faculty who can: Provide teaching leadership and complement research in improving education Partnering National Institute of Education Allow us to offer students a better learning experience Reduced class size and greater industry relevance 6

7. Challenges Scholars who believes in doing impactful research are still very few Salary not competitive vis-à-vis Biz School or SMU Computing School is a deterrence to some Senior and good people are less likely to move 7