Programming for Qualitative Data Analysis: Towards a YAML Workflow

Information Systems (IS) researchers undertaking qualitative research are increasingly proficient with programming techniques. They are also increasingly endeavouring towards openness and transparency, in light of the Open Science movement; and they are increasingly receptive towards alternative and emerging qualitative techniques. In light of these considerations, this paper introduces a “YAML Workflow for Qualitative Data Analysis”. In this workflow, qualitative data analysis is seen as a form of data modelling, thus leveraging techniques from the domain of data modelling such as boundary objects like class diagrams and tools such as integrated development environments. Further, this workflow entails the use of programming languages like Python, by which data can be manipulated, queried, and summarised (e.g., in table-like overviews). Importantly, this workflow is entirely driven by plain-text files that can be tracked with a version control system like Git. Overall, this workflow supports the innovative directions towards which qualitative IS research is evolving

www.litbaskets.io, an IT Artifact Supporting Exploratory Literature Searches for Information Systems Research

Information Systems (IS) researchers currently lack an obvious place to start their literature searches. Existing tools suffer from being either too narrow in their coverage of existing research, leading to an insufficiency effect (low recall); or they are too encompassing, leading to an impracticality effect (low precision). From 11 listings of IS-related journals, we identify a set of 1,042 journals receptive to IS research. We introduce a web interface that allows searching for literature across most of these journals. The search tool enables researchers to narrow or widen the focus of searches, thus allowing researchers to optimise the precision-recall trade-off of their literature searches. We provide an evaluation of our artifact and discuss the relevance of our artifact for exploratory literature searches. Our artifact seeks to facilitate knowledge claims in IS research based on a shared body of knowledge beyond the AIS basket of eight journals

The Performative and Interpretive Labour of Videoconferencing: Findings from a Literature Review on \u27Zoom\u27 Fatigue

Videoconferencing fatigue or ‘Zoom’ fatigue has emerged as a distinct and pressing phenomenon in light of rapid videoconferencing adoption during and after the COVID- 19 pandemic. As part of an ongoing broader literature review project, we find that extant literature primarily conceptualises videoconferencing fatigue as an error that needs to be detected and corrected based on techniques derived from medical, psychological, technological and media theories. However, we observe that videoconferencing is also a work activity, and thus consider what additional insights on videoconferencing fatigue could be obtained by deconstructing videoconferencing according to the labour that is involved in videoconferencing. Based on thematic analysis of the extant literature, we thus develop a perspective on videoconferencing in relation to the performative and interpretive labour that videoconferencing entails. This new way of thinking about videoconferencing fatigue, as labour cost, enables us to offer implications for theory and practice, and comment on directions for future research

The NCAA’s Transfer Rules: An Antitrust Analysis

In Deppe v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, the Seventh Circuit accepted the NCAA’s argument that its transfer rules are presumptively procompetitive. It also approved the NCAA’s no-poaching agreement. This Article analyzes these NCAA-imposed restraints and finds them inconsistent with current antitrust policy

Rethinking Major League Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption

For nearly a century, Major League Baseball (MLB) has enjoyed antitrust immunity. No other sports league or organization is similarly exempt. Shielded by precedent from antitrust prosecution, MLB clubs are free to exploit both monopolistic and monopsonistic power. In this paper, we call for a repeal of MLB’s antitrust exemption. In doing so, we examine some recent antitrust challenges to MLB conduct, the current interest of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission in labor market issues, the welfare consequences of the exemption, and a policy recommendation for legislative action