MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES: ANALYSING RESEARCH TOPICS IN FRANCE AND BRAZIL

Abstract

When properly applied and managed, Information Systems (IS) and Information Technologies (IT) provides significant productivity gains, reinvents processes, automates tasks, supports activities that couldn’t possibly be performed without it. It also enables a reduction in operational costs and elimination of unnecessary functions, in addition to enhancing the quickness and accuracy of decisions. The IS research is expected to not only contribute to building a knowledge base for the academy itself, but also to serve IS professionals in organizations. With this purpose, the choice criteria of research topics is crucial. Research topics, however, present significant differences among countries. The goal of this article is to identify the differences in research topics between Brazil and France in the MIS field: a comparison is proposed between the main Brazilian academic congress in the IS field (ENANPAD, Information Management area) and the AIM congress (France), verifying differences in approaches as well as research opportunities.