naa a22 4500 51075998X CHVBK 20180411083135.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12525-013-0144-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12525-013-0144-4 Electronic interaction research 1988 - 2012 through the lens of the Bled eConference [Elektronische Daten] [Roger Clarke, Andreja Pucihar] Electronic interaction (EI) depends on technological capabilities that have only become available during the last quarter-century. The Bled eConference has straddled this period. A review of the conference's successive themes, and of the corpus of over 1,000 papers presented at the 25 events to date, reveals three major Eras, referred to in this paper as the EDI, eCommerce and eInteraction Eras. A trace of the developments in the diverse array of EI technologies and EI-technologies-in-use shows that researchers have focussed very heavily on economic concerns, and until recent years did so almost to the exclusion of social concerns. The paper proposes that EI research needs to seek better balances between organisational and human needs. In addition, because of the instability of bleeding-edge phenomena, empirical research is being published too late to deliver much value to practitioners. The prevailing expectations of journals that rigour be pursued at all costs means that the relevance of research to the real world has become a quite secondary concern to many academics. The EI literature is accordingly at risk of following the IS literature more generally into a closed enclave, in which academics talk to one another and no-one else. Key precepts for an alternative research philosophy are proposed. The Author(s), 2013 Electronic interaction nationallicence Research nationallicence Electronic commerce nationallicence Electronic data interchange (EDI) nationallicence Clarke Roger Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, 2611, Chapman, ACT, Australia aut Pucihar Andreja University of Maribor, Kranj, Slovenia aut Electronic Markets Springer Berlin Heidelberg 23/4(2013-12-01), 271-283 1019-6781 23:4<271 2013 23 12525 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-013-0144-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-013-0144-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Clarke Roger Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, 2611, Chapman, ACT, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pucihar Andreja University of Maribor, Kranj, Slovenia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Electronic Markets Springer Berlin Heidelberg 23/4(2013-12-01), 271-283 1019-6781 23:4<271 2013 23 12525 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer