Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Member Misconduct to the AIS Council

Joey F. George; Cynthia Beath; Robert Davison; Jon Heales; Malcolm Munro

doi:10.17705/1CAIS.01102

Author(s)

Joey F. George
Cynthia Beath
Robert Davison
Jon Heales
Malcolm Munro

Related Research Unit(s)

Department of Information Systems

Detail(s)

Original language	English
Article number	2
Pages (from-to)	54-78
Journal / Publication	Communications of the Association for Information Systems
Volume	11
Online published	Jan 2003
Publication status	Published - 2003

Link(s)

DOI	DOI https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.01102 Final Published version
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Abstract

This article contains the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Member Misconduct which was presented to the AIS Council at its meeting on December 15, 2002 in Barcelona, Spain. The committee was established in response to an inquiry on plagiarism that was placed before the Council. The report includes an overview of the literature on plagiarism, the views of eight editors of IS journals, and guidelines for dealing with the issue. The Committee makes four recommendations: 1. Creation of a new standing committee of the AIS Council to deal with member misconduct. 2. A pledge of originality for every paper submitted to AIS for publication 3. A change in the way members are dismissed from AIS so it becomes the responsibility of Council 4. A member poll to determine what is considered acceptable behavior as the first step in creating an AIS code of ethics. © 2003 by the Association for Information Systems.