MIS Quarterly Awards Recipients

The Davis-Dickson Impact Award is named in honor of Professors Gordon Davis and Gary Dickson for their central roles in founding and leading MISQ for many years. This award recognizes a paper published one decade ago that is deemed to have significant and sustained scholarly impact and a real or potential impact beyond academia.

2023
The Generative Mechanisms of Digital Infrastructure Evolution
Ola Henfridsson and Bendik Bygstad
Volume 35, Issue 3, 2013. 

2022
When Flexible Routines Meet Flexible Technologies: Affordance, Constraint, and the Imbrication of Human and Material Agencies
Paul M. Leonardi
Volume 35, Issue 1, 2011.
For an MISQ Insider interview with author Paul Leonardi, click this link. 

2021
Information Privacy Research: An Interdisciplinary Review
H. Jeff Smith, Tamara Dinev, and Heng Xu
Volume 35, Issue 4, 2011.
Accompanying Guest Editorial can be found here. 

This is awarded based upon recommendations from the editorial board and editor-in-chief analysis and selection.

2022
Algorithmic Processes of Social Alertness and Social Transmission: How Bots Disseminate Information on Twitter
Carolina Alves de Lima Salge, Elena Karahanna, and Jason Bennett Thatcher
Volume 46, Issue 1, 2022. DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2021/15598

2021
Is AI Ground Truth Really True? The Dangers of Training and Evaluating AI Tools Based on Experts’ Know-What
Sarah Lebovitz, Natalia Levina, and Hila Lifshitz-Assaf
Volume 45, Issue 3b. DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2021/16564

2020
Understanding Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles: The Impact of Social Media on Diversification and Partisan Shifts in News Consumption
Brent Kitchens, Steven L. Johnson, and Peter Gray
Volume 44, Issue 4. DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2020/16371

2019
Expecting the Unexpected: Effects of Data Collection Design Choices on the Quality of Crowdsourced User-Generated Content
Roman Lukyanenko, Jeffrey Parsons, Yolanda F. Wiersma, and Mahed Maddah
Volume 43, Issue 2. DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2019/14439

2018
Beyond the Privacy Paradox: Objective Versus Relative Risk in Privacy Decision Making
Idris Adjerid, Eyal Peer, and Alessandro Acquisti
Volume 42, Issue 2. DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2018/14316

2017
Platform Ecosystems: How Developers Invert the Firm
Geoffrey Parker, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Xiaoyue Xiang
Volume 41, Issue 1. DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2017/41.1.13

2016
Digital Action Repertoires and Transforming a Social Movement Organization
Lisen Selander and Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa
Volume 40, Issue 2.

2015
Vocal Minority and Silent Majority: How Do Online Ratings Reflect Population Perceptions of Quality?
Guodong (Gordon) Gao, Brad N. Greenwood, Ritu Agarwal, and Jeffrey S. McCullough
Volume 39, Issue 3.

2014
Internet’s Dirty Secret: Assessing the Impact of Online Intermediaries on HIV Transmission
Jason Chan and Anindya Ghose
Volume 38, Issue 3.

2013
Impact of Wikipedia on Market Information Environment: Evidence on Management Disclosure and Investor Reaction
Sean Xin Xu and Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang
Volume 37, Issue 4.

2012
Shackled to the Status Quo: The Inhibiting Effects of Incumbent System Habit, Switching Costs, and Inertia on New System Acceptance
Greta Polites and Elena Karahanna
Volume 36, Issue 1.

2011
When Flexible Routines Meet Flexible Technologies: Affordance, Constraint, and the Imbrication of Human and Material Agencies
Paul M. Leonardi
Volume 35, Issue 1.

2010
Detecting Fake Websites: The Contribution of Statistical Learning Theory
Ahmed Abbasi, Zhu Zhang, David Zimbra, Hsinchun Chen, and Jay F. Nunamaker Jr.
Volume 34, Issue 3.

2009
Exploring Human Images in Website Design: A Multi-Method Approach
Dianne Cyr, Milena Head, Hector Larios, and Bing Pan
Volume 33, Issue 3.

2008
Media, Tasks, and Communication Processes: A Theory of Media Synchronicity
Alan R. Dennis, Robert M. Fuller, and Joseph S. Valacich
Volume 32, Issue 3.

2007
Toward a Deeper Understanding of System Usage in Organizations: A Multilevel Perspective
Andrew Burton-Jones and Michael J. Gallivan
Volume 31, Issue 4.

2006
Industry-Wide Information Systems Standardization as Collective Action: The Case of the U.S. Residential Mortgage Industry
M. Lynne Markus, Charles W. Steinfield, Rolf T. Wigand, and Gabe Minton
Volume 30, Special Issue, August 2006

2005
A Multilevel Model of Resistance to Information Technology Implementation
Liette Lapointe and Suzanne Rivard
Volume 29, Issue 3.

2004
Innovating Mindfully with Information Technology
E. Burton Swanson and Neil C. Ramiller
Volume 28, Issue 4.

2003
Reconceptualizing Users as Social Actors in Information Systems Research
Roberta Lamb and Rob Kling
Volume 27, Issue 2.

2002
Review: Power and Information Technology Research: A Metatriangulation Review
Jon (Sean) Jasperson, Traci A. Carte, Carol S. Saunders, Brian S. Butler, Henry J. P. Croes, and Weijun Zheng
Volume 26, Issue 4.

2001
Review: A Cognitive-Affective Model of Organizational Communication for Designing IT
Dov Te’eni
Volume 25, Issue 2.

2000
Technology Adaptation: The Case of a Computer-Supported Inter-Organizational Virtual Team
Ann Majchrzak, Ronald E. Rice, Arvind Malhotra, Nelson King, and Sulin Ba
Volume 24, Issue 4.

1999
A Set of Principles for Conducting and Evaluating Interpretive Field Studies in Information Systems
Heinz K. Klein and Michael D. Myers
Volume 23, Issue 1.

1998
The Merchant of Prato — Revisited: Toward a Third Rationality of Information Systems
Kuldeep Kumar, Han G. van Dissel, and Paola Bielli
Volume 22, Issue 2.

1997
Communication Richness in Electronic Mail: Critical Social Theory and the Contextuality of Meaning
Ojelanki K. Ngwenyama and Allen S. Lee
Volume 21, Issue 2.

1996
Productivity, Business Profitability, and Consumer Surplus: Three Different Measures of Information Technology Value
Lorin M. Hitt and Erik Brynjolfsson
Volume 20, Issue 2.

Papers of the Year for 1995
Business Value of Information Technology: A Study of Electronic Data Interchange
Tridas Mukhopadhyay, Sunder Kekre, and Suresh Kalathur
Volume 19, Issue 2.
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The Use of Information Technology to Enhance Management School Education: A Theoretical View
Dorothy E. Leidner and Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa
Volume 19, Issue 3.

1994
Computerized Loan Origination Systems
Christopher M. Hess and Chris F. Kemerer
Volume 18, Issue 3. 

1993
CASE Tools as Organizational Change: Investigating Incremental and Radical Changes in Systems Development
Wanda J. Orlikowski
Volume 17, Issue 3.