Panel - Looking Back at 18 Years of Best Papers at SIGMIS CPR

This panel will highlight papers that have received the Best Paper Award at the SIGMIS CPR conference going back to 2000 (with those since 2004 named the "Magid Igbaria Best Paper Award"). We will start the panel with a high-level over-view of papers that received the Best Paper Award - a sum-mary of the topics, research methods, types of organizations or populations studied, and publication outcomes after receiving the Best Paper Award. The main portion of the panel will feature authors describing how they regard conference papers as part of their research portfolio. A key goal of the panel is to elicit authors' perspectives regarding whether conference papers are end goals themselves, an intermediate outcome that has value to their career only if later published in a journal, or a stepping stone to multiple later options.