Towards Private-Public Research Partnerships Combining Rigor and Relevance in DWH/BI Research: The Competence Center Approach
Journal
International journal of business intelligence research : IJBIR
ISSN
1947-3591
ISSN-Digital
1947-3605
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2010
Author(s)
Research Team
IWI1
Abstract
Business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DWH) research represent two increasingly popular, but still emerging fields in the information systems (IS) academic discipline. As such, they raise two substantial questions: Firstly, how rigorous, i.e., fundamental, constituent, and explanatory, is DWH/ BI research? and, secondly, how relevant, i.e., useful and purposeful, is this research to practitioners? In this article, the authors uphold the position that relevance and rigor are by no means dichotomous, but two sides of the same coin. Naturally, this requires well-defined approaches and guidelines-for scholarship in general and DWH/BI research in particular. Therefore, this paper proposes the competence center (CC) approach-a private-public partnership between academia and practice. The authors illustrate how the CC approach can be applied within the field of DWH/BI and suggest that a close link between research and practice supports both enhancing relevance to practice and strengthening rigor of research.
Language
English
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
IGI Global
Publisher place
Hershey, Pa.
Volume
1
Number
2
Start page
60
End page
71
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
214279