Commentary: We need a research agenda

Why we need qualitative research.

We are all Lurkers : Toward a Lurker Research Agenda

Most knowledge repositories focus on the role of knowledge-creators. Recent commercial and research reports have begun to highlight the role and contributions of lurkers, or "non-public participants." We examined the work of Lurkers in an enterprise file-sharing service, and we compared their lurking behaviors to the lurking behaviors of users who uploaded files (Uploaders), and users who contr...

HIT management research and the tip of the iceberg: setting a research agenda--a commentary.

In 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) was signed into law. This Act, part of the broader “stimulus” legislation, represents the U.S.'s largest investment in health information technology (HIT) to date. More importantly, it sets a vision and provides a plan intended to transform the U.S. health care system to a safer, more efficient place to rec...

224 Commentary We Also Need Complete Behavioral Models

I am very pleased to see Donahoe, Palmer, and Burgos foster this important discussion with a very clear and cogent paper. I find their reasoning inescapable that environment–behavior relations are what is always conditioned. My own computer model of operant behavior is built on the same assumptions (Hutchison, 1984, 1985, 1995, 1997; Stephens & Hutchison, 1993), and the many simulations I have ...

Do we need research ethics committees?

This issue of the journal sees a number of exchanges on significant ethical problems. ‘Nudges’ have attracted a good deal of attention recently in the context of the ethics of public health interventions. Martin Wilkinson (see page 486) writes a guest editorial introducing important debate on Yashar Saghai’s featured article, Salvaging the concept of nudge (see page 487, Editor’s choice). Also,...