Group Support Systems: New Perspectives
Group Support Systems: New Perspectives
1001 Unanswered research questions in GSS
Journal of Management Information Systems
Lessons from a dozen years of group support systems research: a discussion of lab and field findings
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: Information technology and its organizational impact
Element finding: the impact of a group support system on a crucial phase of sense making
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Navigation in information-intensive environments
Views from the field on mentoring and roles of effective networks for minority IT doctoral students
SIGMIS CPR '03 Proceedings of the 2003 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research: Freedom in Philadelphia--leveraging differences and diversity in the IT workforce
Communications of the ACM - E-services: a cornucopia of digital offerings ushers in the next Net-based evolution
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Much attention has been focused on creating diversity in research in the Information Systems (IS) discipline (DeSanctis, 1993; King, 1993; Benbasat and Weber, 1996; Robey, 1996). However, ethnic diversity among the IS faculty has not been a primary research focus. African-, Hispanic- and Native-Americans represent only 4.9% of the more than 24,000 business school professors and only 2.8% of the more than 2,000 Information Systems professors. Many universities attribute this nominal minority representation to the difficulty in finding qualified, tenurable faculty members from these ethnic groups.We replicate the research of Hammond (1995) using the survey and commenter features of a group support system, GroupSystems. In particular, we explore cultural issues that may contribute to the small number of African- and Hispanic-Americans who pursue doctoral degrees in information systems/technology (IS/IT). Our results confirmed some of the cultural differences found in earlier research-such as social isolation and lack of minority faculty mentors. Our results also identified family responsibilities and the need to give back to ethnic communities as important cultural issues affecting minorities' IS/IT doctoral students.