Literature Positioning (isr-literature-positioning)

When to trigger

• Your front end lists references but does not name a live IS conversation
• The paper sits in one silo when an intradisciplinary framing was available
• A reviewer says "this does not engage the IS literature" or "the contribution to IS is unclear"
• You cite reference-discipline work (econ, psych, CS) but not the IS scholarship that owns the phenomenon

Join a conversation, don't catalog a gap

ISR reviewers reward work that enters an ongoing IS conversation and changes it, not work that merely spots an unfilled cell in a table. Identify the specific stream — e.g., platform competition, digital labor, IT and firm value, security economics, recommender/algorithmic systems, knowledge collaboration, digital transformation — and state what that stream currently believes, what tension or anomaly you address, and how your result moves it.

Bridge IS silos — the intradisciplinary move

ISR's defining mission is intradisciplinary: it prizes work that integrates behavioral, design-science, economic, and organizational perspectives rather than single-paradigm contributions. Positioning is where you make that bridge visible. Strong moves include: