Abstract
Imagine yourself spending years conducting a research project and having it published as an article in a refereed journal, only to see a plagiarized copy of the article later published in another journal. Then imagine yourself being left to fight for your rights alone, and eventually finding out that it would be very difficult to hold the plagiarist accountable for what he or she did. The recent decision by the Association of Information Systems to create a standing committee on member misconduct suggests that while this type of situation may sound outrageous, it is likely to become uncomfortably frequent in the information systems research community if proper measures are not taken by a community-backed organization. In this article, we discuss factors that can drive plagiarism, as well as potential measures to prevent it. Our goal is to discuss alternative ways in which plagiarism can be prevented and dealt with when it arises. We hope to start a debate that provides the basis on which broader mechanisms to deal with plagiarism can be established, which we envision as being associated with and complementary to the committee created by the Association for Information Systems.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 511-532 |
| Journal | MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2003 |
Research Keywords
- Committees
- Community
- Ethics
- Information systems research
- Plagiarism
Publisher's Copyright Statement
- COPYRIGHT TERMS OF DEPOSITED FINAL PUBLISHED VERSION FILE: Kock, N., & Davison, R. (2003). Dealing with plagiarism in the information systems research community: A look at factors that drive plagiarism and ways to address them. MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems, 27(4), 511-532. https://misq.umn.edu/dealing-with-plagarism-in-the-information-systems-research-community-a-look-at-factors-that-drive-plagarism-and-ways-to-address-them.html
- Copyright © 2019 by the Management Information Systems Research Center (MISRC) of the University of Minnesota. Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and full citation on the first page. Copyright for components of this work owned by others than the MISRC must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, to post on servers, or to redistribute to lists requires prior specific permission and possibly a fee. Request permission to publish from: MIS Quarterly; Carlson School of Management; University of Minnesota; 321 19th Ave. So.; Minneapolis, MN 55455. ISSN: 0276-7783.