
Information Systems
The State of the Field
Wiley (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 24. March 2006
Book
Hardback
390 pages
978-0-470-01777-7 (ISBN)
Description
Discussion 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. While very different, these have all been reached with the genuine aim of strengthening IS scholarship, and they all add to our specific understanding of the discipline in the last two decades. Edited by two of the most prominent academics in the field, Information Systems - The State of the Field brings together such perspectives along with wider contextual discussion to provide a fertile ground for reflection, learning and further debate. It includes articles from Izak Benbasat, Robert Galliers, Rudi Hirschheim, Heinz Klein, Suzi Iacono, Wanda Orlikowski, Gerry DeSanctis, Bob Zmud, Dan Robey, Kalle Lyytinen, John King, Sal March and Ron Weber, all of whom also provide a short original commentary of their views on this debate.
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gebunden
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.9 cm
Thickness: 2.9 cm
Weight
702 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-01777-7 (9780470017777)
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Persons
John Leslie King is Dean and Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He previously served on the faculty of the University of California, Irvine. He has published many articles and five books on the relationship between technical and social change, and has served in key editorial positions for many academic journals, including Information Systems Research, Information Infrastructure and Policy, Information Polity, Organization Science, Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Information Systems Frontiers, ACM Computing Surveys, the Journal of Strategic IT, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, and the Journal of Information Systems Management. He is currently a member of the National Science Foundation's Advisory Committees for the directorates of Computer and Information Science and Engineering and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association. He holds a PhD in Administration from the University of California, Irvine.
Kalle Lyytinen is Iris S. Wolstein Professor at Case Western Reserve University. He has published books, articles and conference papers on his research, which includes system design, method engineering, implementation, software risk assessment, computer-supported cooperative work, standardization, ubiquitous computing, IT-induced innovation in architecture and the construction industry, design and use of ubiquitous applications in health care, high level requirements model for large scale systems, and the development and adoption of broadband wireless standards and services. He serves currently on the editorial boards of several leading IS journals including the Journal of AIS (Senior Editor), Information Systems Research, the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information and Organization, Requirements Engineering Journal and Information Systems Journal among others. He holds a PhD from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Content
John King and Kalle Lyytinen
Disciplining the discipline: the fate of IS discourse during the turn of the millennium
Part I: The nature and specificity of IS research domain
Orlikowski W., Iacono S (2001), "Desperately Seeking the "IT" in IT research- a call to theorizing the IT artifact", Information Systems Research, June 2001, pp. 121-134
Benbasat I, Zmud R. (2003) "The Identity Crisis within the IS discipline: Defining and Communicating the Disciplines's core properties", MISQ, 27, 2, pp. 183-194, pp. 183-194
Weber R. (2003): "Still desperately seeking the IT artifact", Editors Comments MISQ, 27, 2, pp. iii-xi
Hevner A., March S., Park J., Ram S. (2004): "Design Science in Information Systems Research", MIS Quarterly, 28, 1, pp. 75-106
Part II The identity, legitimacy and the future of the discipline
Klein H., Hirschheim R. (2003): Crisis in the IS Field? A Critical Reflection on the State of the Discipline, Journal of AIS, Volume 4 Article 10
Robey D. (2003): "Identity, Legitimacy, and the dominant Research Paradigm: an alternative prescription for the IS discipline", Journal of the Association of for Information Systems. 4, 6, pp. 352-359
DeSanctis G. (2003): "The Social Life of Information Systems Research", Journal of the Association of for Information Systems. 4, 6, pp. 360-376
Galliers R. (2003): "Change as Crisis of Growth? Towards a Transdisciplinary view of information systems as a filed of study", Journal of the Association of for Information Systems. 4, 6, pp. 337-351
Lyytinen K, King J. (2004): "Nothing at the center?: Academic Legitimacy in the Information Systems Field", Journal of AIS, Vol 5, Issue 6
Epilogue
Lyytinen and King.
"The future of Is discipline and the movement of information sciences"