Combing the Academic Rigor and Practical Relevance : Toward Solving It with "Research-Education-Practice Triangle"(<Special Issue>Beyond Rigor vs. Relevance (The First Volume))

Abstract

This paper explores a research stance emphasized to have relations with education and practice, where researcher can attempt to satisfy both academic rigor and practical relevance of research in our information systems discipline. Firstly, the paper clarifies that each academic rigor and practical relevance is an evaluation criterion from different view point and/or dimension, and that just enhancing academic rigor is not enough to directly satisfy practical relevance. Secondly, we discuss why the "research-education-practice triangle" approach satisfies both of them. Lastly, we verify how the approach has satisfied them, through a REA case study in Accounting Information Systems discipline.