The serendipitous impact of COVID-19 pandemic: A rare opportunity for research and practice.

Int J Inf Manage

Department of Information Systems, University of Agder, Gimlemoen, P.O. Box 422, 4604, Kristiansand, Norway.

Published: December 2020

In this opinion paper, I argue that the Covid-19 pandemic, as tragic and disastrous as it undoubtedly is, has also given us a rare opportunity to deeply examine the research and practice of information management in particular and information systems in general. To cope with the pandemic, we have retreated to the digital world and drastically changed the way we work. Yet these very practices can well shape the way we work in the post-pandemic world. Moreover, the pandemic is also a sharp lens through which we can study deep-rooted theoretical issues that otherwise would not have surfaced, or at least remained in the background. My call to the research community is to seize this rare opportunity.

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