This paper reports on a panel held during the 2006 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). The panel titled, "Social Activism in IS Research: Making the World a Better Place," was organized to question whether and how Information System (IS) research is making tangible impacts to...

Purpose – Recently, the demise of the dot.com mania, coupled with slow economic growth has caused organizations to cut costs in an attempt to improve efficiency and the bottom line. Discontinuing or suspending knowledge management efforts and disbanding the chief knowledge officers' (CKOs)...