Description
Book SynopsisDiscussion of the precise nature of the Information System discipline has raged for more than twenty years and continues fiercely today. The most interesting aspect of recent debate is not only the sharpness and depth of the arguments, but the diverse conclusions arrived at by participants.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors.
Foreword—Gordon B. Davis.
Series Preface—Rudy Hirschheim.
Introduction—John Leslie King and Kalle Lyytinen.
Original Papers.
1 Scoping the Discipline of Information Systems—David Avison and Steve Elliot.
2 Desperately Seeking the ‘IT’ in IT Research: A Call to Theorizing the IT Artifact—Wanda J. Orlikowski and C. Suzanne Iacono.
3 Still Desperately Seeking the IT Artifact—Ron Weber.
4 The Identity Crisis within the IS Discipline: Defining and Communicating the Discipline’s Core Properties—Izak Benbasat and Robert W. Zmud.
5 Crisis in the IS Field? A Critical Reflection on the State of the Discipline—Rudy A. Hirschheim and Heinz K. Klein.
6 Change as Crisis or Growth? Toward a Trans-disciplinary View of Information Systems as a Field of Study: A Response to Benbasat and Zmud’s Call for Returning to the IT Artifact—Robert D. Galliers.
7 The Social Life of Information Systems Research: A Response to Benbasat and Zmud’s Call for Returning to the IT Artifact—Gerardine DeSanctis.
8 Identity, Legitimacy and the Dominant Research Paradigm: An Alternative Prescription for the IS Discipline—Daniel Robey.
9 Design Science in Information Systems Research—Alan R. Hevner, Salvatore T. March, Jinsoo Park and Sudha Ram.
10 Nothing at the Center?: Academic Legitimacy in the Information Systems Field—Kalle Lyytinen and John Leslie King.
11 Reach and Grasp—John Leslie King and Kalle Lyytinen.
Commentaries.
12 The Artifact Redux: Further Reflections on the ‘IT’ in IT Research—Wanda J. Orlikowski and C. Suzanne Iacono.
13 Like Ships Passing in the Night: The Debate on the Core of the Information Systems Discipline—Ron Weber.
14 Further Reflections on the Identity Crisis—Izak Benbasat and Robert W. Zmud.
15 Further Reflections on the IS Discipline: Climbing the Tower of Babel—Heinz K. Klein and Rudy A. Hirschheim.
16 ‘Don’t Worry, be Happy . . . ’ A Post-Modernist Perspective on the Information Systems Domain—Robert D. Galliers.
17 Cleaning the Mirror: Desperately Seeking Identity in the Information Systems Field—Daniel Robey.
18 Designing Design Science—Salvatore T. March.
19 The Future of the IS Field: Drawing Directions from Multiple Maps—John Leslie King and Kalle Lyytinen.
Index.
