Machine learning in information systems - a bibliographic review and open research issues
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are currently hot topics in industry and business practice, while management-oriented research disciplines seem reluctant to adopt these sophisticated data analytics methods as research instruments. Even the Information Systems (IS) discipline with its close connections to Computer Science seems to be conservative when conducting empirical research endeavors. To assess the magnitude of the problem and to understand its causes, we conducted a bibliographic review on publications in high-level IS journals. We reviewed 1,838 articles that matched corresponding keyword-queries in journals from the AIS senior scholar basket, Electronic Markets and Decision Support Systems (Ranked B). In addition, we conducted a survey among IS researchers (N = 110). Based on the findings from our sample we evaluate different potential causes that could explain why ML methods are rather underrepresented in top-tier journals and discuss how the IS discipline could successfully incorporate ML methods in research undertakings.
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| Author: | Benjamin M. Abdel-KarimORCiDGND, Nicolas PfeufferORCiDGND, Oliver HinzORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-750823 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-021-00459-2 |
| ISSN: | 1422-8890 |
| Parent Title (English): | Electronic markets |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Place of publication: | Berlin ; Heidelberg |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2021/04/20 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2021/04/20 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2023/10/13 |
| Tag: | Artificial intelligence; Information systems; Machine learning |
| Volume: | 31 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Page Number: | 28 |
| First Page: | 643 |
| Last Page: | 670 |
| Note: | Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 516360221 |
| Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke |
| JEL-Classification: | C Mathematical and Quantitative Methods / C8 Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs |
| L Industrial Organization / L1 Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
