Information Systems Research

Information Systems Research: Relevant Theory and Informed Practice comprises the edited proceedings of the WG8.2 conference, "Relevant Theory and Informed Practice: Looking Forward from a 20-Year Perspective on IS Research," which was sponsored by IFIP and held in Manchester, England, in July 2004. The conference attracted a record number of high-quality manuscripts, all of which were subjected to a rigorous reviewing process in which four to eight track chairs, associate editors, and reviewers thoughtfully scrutinized papers by the highly regarded as well as the newcomers. No person or idea was considered sacrosanct and no paper made it through this process unscathed. All authors were asked to revise the accepted papers, some more than once; thus, good papers got better. With only 29 percent of the papers accepted, these proceedings are significantly more selective than is typical of many conference proceedings. This volume is organized in 7 sections, with 33 full research papers providing panoramic views and reflections on the Information Systems (IS) discipline followed by papers featuring critical interpretive studies, action research, theoretical perspectives on IS research, and the methods and politics of IS development. Also included are 6 panel descriptions and a new category of "bright idea" position papers, 11 in all, wherein main points are summarized in a pithy and provocative fashion.

ISBN 1402080948   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9781402080944 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 1249 Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc.   Published in New York, NY Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.   Series ISSN 143 Format Hardback   Series title IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Publication date 05 Jul 2004   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress 2004051655   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 658.4038011   Spine width (mm) 41 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General, Professional / Scholarly, Tertiary education Pages 772

1		Young Turks, old guardsmen, and the conundrum of the broken mold : a progress report on twenty years of information systems research by Bonnie Kaplan and Duane P. Truex III and David Wastell and A. Trevor Wood-Harper		1
2		Doctor of philosophy, heal thyself by Allen S. Lee		21
3		Information systems in organizations and society : speculating on the next 25 years of research by Steve Sawyer and Kevin Crowston		35
4		Information systems research as design : identity, process, and narrative by Richard J. Boland, Jr. and Kalle Lyytinen		53
5		Information systems - a cyborg discipline? by Magnus Ramage		71
6		Cores and definitions : building the cognitive legitimacy of the information systems discipline across the Atlantic by Frantz Rowe and Duane P. Truex III and Lynnette Kvasny		83
7		Truth, journals, and politics : the case of the MIS quarterly by Lucas Introna and Louise Whittaker		103
8		Debatable advice and inconsistent evidence : methodology in information systems research by Matthew R. Jones		121
9		The crisis of relevance and the relevance of crisis : renegotiating critique in information systems scholarship by Teresa Marcon and Mike Chiasson and Abhijit Gopal		143
10		Whatever happened to information systems ethics? : caught between the devil and the deep blue sea by Frances Bell and Alison Adam		159
11		Supporting engineering of information systems in emergent organizations by Sandeep Purao and Duane P. Truex III		175
12		The choice of critical information systems research by Debra Howcroft and Eileen M. Trauth		195
13		The research approach and methodology used in an interpretive study of a Web information system : contextualizing practice by Anita Greenhill		213
14		Applying Habermas' validity claims as a standard for critical discourse analysis by Wendy Cukier and Robert Bauer and Catherine Middleton		233
15		Conducting critical research in information systems : can actor-network theory help? by Ela Klecun		259
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