The Scholarly Divide: Insights from the AIS Well-being Project

Ryan T. Wright; Carol Saunders; Atreyi Kankanhalli; Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen; Saonee Sarker; Edgar A. Whitley; Helle Zinner Henriksen

doi:10.17705/1CAIS.05237

The Scholarly Divide: Insights from the AIS Well-being Project

Ryan T. Wright, Carol Saunders, Atreyi Kankanhalli, Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen, Saonee Sarker, Edgar A. Whitley, Helle Zinner Henriksen

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This article provides an overview of the findings from the Information Systems (IS) Well-Being Project that was started in the fall of 2020. There were two goals of this project: 1) to understand the physical, mental, social, and financial well-being of IS academics during the COVID-19 pandemic, and 2) to theorize the downstream effects of the pandemic on the health of the IS research ecosystem. This investigation surfaced a troubling phenomenon that we coined “the IS scholarly divide”. This editorial develops the theoretical underpinnings for the scholarly divide and posits the taxonomy of the divide. Finally, we explore the effects and forward some possible remedies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	777-797
Number of pages	21
Journal	Communications of the Association for Information Systems
Volume	52
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.05237
Publication status	Published - 2023

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Information Studies

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AIS
Covid Pandemic
Digital Divide
Faculty Well-Being
Scholarly Divide
Well-Being

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