Perception gaps between IS academics and IS practitioners: an exploratory study

Authors:
Sooun Lee;Seokha Koh;David Yen;Hung-Lian Tang
Affiliations:
DSC/MIS, Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration, Miami University, Oxford, OH;Department of MIS, Chungbuk National University, Chungbuk, South Korea;DSC/MIS, Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration, Miami University, Oxford, OH;Finance and Computer Information Systems, College of Business, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
Venue:
Information and Management
Year:
2002

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Abstract

It has long been recognized that there are significant perception gaps between information systems (IS) academics and IS practitioners with regards to the required IS knowledge/skills to perform their professional jobs successfully. Unfortunately, there is no consensus about which knowledge/skills are more important in the IS profession. With the rapidly changing IS technology and IS industry, a study was urgently needed to find and understand the gaps between these two groups. We report here on a study to measure the gap.