Editorial [International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management v. 7, n.º 1, 2019]

Abstract

[Excerpt] The mission of the IJISPM - International Journal of Information Systems and Project Managementis the dissemination of new scientific knowledge on information systems management and project management, encouraging further progress in theory and practice. It is our great pleasure to bring you the first number of the seventh volume of IJISPM. In this issue readers will find important contributions on research and practice in IS, shadow IT, project management practice, and project resilience. The first article is the viewpoint of João Álvaro Carvalho and has the title “Research and practice in IS: insights from medicine that might contribute to overcoming the relevance deficit in the IS domain”. The article focus on the relationship between Information Systems (IS)research and IS professional practice. The author shares the view of those that consider that the IS domain encompasses both, an academic facet and a practical facet. The two facets areinterdependent and demand forms of collaboration between academics and practitioners that are only perceptible within an overarching view of scientific knowledge and of its production and use. The article aims at proposing such view. A main feature of the proposed view is that it involves distinguishing among different types of scientific knowledge and different modes of doing research. In particular, it involves emphasizing a form of research that is overlooked in IS –clinical research. Insights from the medicine domain are used to illustrate the place of clinical research and its role in connecting researchers and practitioners. [...]