About Edispuut meetings
An Edispuut meeting consists of several presentations of Edispuut members or related researchers, who discuss their current research activities. Through discussion and 'dispute' each speaker hopefully gets useful hints and feedback to improve his or her research. Often a meeting also includes other activities such as a demonstration, methodological discussions or a presentation of current projects of the hosting university or institute. The Edispuut is notorious for its never-ending and fierce discussions. After a meeting the members continue their discussions having drinks and diner.

What is Edispuut?
Edispuut is an informal network of PhD students and researchers.

What's in a name?
The history of Edispuut goes back to the 1980s. The name "Edispuut" is built around the word "EDI" and the Dutch word "dispuut". The closest English translation of the latter is "dispute" or "debate", which reflects one of the basic principles of Edispuut: to discuss and coordinate research interests relating to Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Electronic Commerce (EC) and interorganizational information systems. Over the years the focus shifted to information systems in general.

The name "Edispuut" is built around the word "EDI" and the Dutch word "dispuut". The closest English translation of the latter is "dispute" or "debate", which reflects one of the basic principles of Edispuut: to discuss and coordinate research interests relating to Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Electronic Commerce (EC) and interorganizational information systems.

All Edispuut members are PhD students or academic researchers from several Dutch universities or research institutes, i.e., Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Free University of Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Twente University, University of Groningen, Telematica Instituut, and Tilburg University. They stem from different disciplines: information technology, organization theory, marketing, logistics, sociology, systems development, work organization, economics, information management, computer science and business administration.