In September 2020 the senior editors of JIS organized a workshop aimed at generating research ideas for potential JIS publications on robotic process automation (RPA). Panelists from industry and academia were invited.
The workshop brought together Accounting Information Systems (AIS) researchers, representatives from leading RPA product and service providers, RPA users, and practitioners working with or considering working with RPA, to have a conversation on RPA related challenges and research opportunities. Through this interaction we hoped to achieve the following objectives: First, provide an opportunity for RPA software, implementation firms, and users to articulate some of the issues/challenges they face. Second, provide an opportunity to researchers interested in these topics/ideas to start exploring the possibility of collaboration with practitioners on addressing these research questions. Third, convert these research topics/ideas into a call for papers for a special section of JIS on the topic of RPA in order to expand our...
