Information systems research : relevant theory and informed by Bonnie Mae Kaplan; IFIP Working Group 8.2.; et al

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His analysis of the best papers from the International Conference on Information Systems and MIS Quarterly either illustrates a kind of “do as we say and not as we do” hypocrisy in both the positivistic and the interpretive communities, or that something more complicated constitutes good research. ” Thus Jones invites us to conduct a kind of methodological reality check much like that envisioned by Lee. The remaining authors in this section attempt to resolve splits within the discipline. Marcon, Chiasson and Gopal also attempt to push us toward an altered frame of mind.

To be imperialistic itself). This thread is as apparent in this volume as it perhaps has been in earlier times. The other is a persistent feeling that we must bring in theory from outside, especially from esoteric French and German social theorists and philosophers. We note a continuing dilettante tendency in the conference papers to borrow theory from Latour, Habermas, Foucault, and assorted others. We have nothing against French and German theory, but why these individuals in particular? Are there no other social theorists or philosophers worthy of attention?

The modernist notion of progress will itself be debated, and a plea entered for greater diversity and pluralism in our research practice, an injunction of earlier methods conferences echoed in several submissions presented here. Turning finally to the position papers, a number of resonances are notable, with the papers falling into three distinctive clusters, mirroring the structure of the main program. Unsurprisingly, research methodology preoccupies many of these short pieces. The inherent tensions in action research are trenchantly pointed up by Breu, Hemingway, and Peppard.

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