Information Systems Research

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Young Turks, Old Guardsmen, and the Conundrum of the Broken Mold: A Progress Report on Twenty Years of Information Systems Research

   1. Young Turks, Old Guardsmen, and the Conundrum of the Broken Mold: A Progress Report on Twenty Years of Information Systems Research

      • Bonnie Kaplan, Duane P. Truex III, David Wastell, A. Trevor Wood-Harper

      Pages 1-18

3. Panoramas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Doctor of Philosophy, Heal Thyself

      • Allen S. Lee

      Pages 21-34

   3. Information Systems in Organizations and Society: Speculating on the Next 25 Years of Research

      • Steve Sawyer, Kevin Crowston

      Pages 35-52

   4. Information Systems Research as Design: Identity, Process, and Narrative

      • Richard J. Boland Jr., Kalle Lyytinen

      Pages 53-68

4. Reflections on the IS Discipline

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. Information Systems— a Cyborg Discipline

      • Magnus Ramage

      Pages 71-81

   3. Cores and Definitions: Building the Cognitive Legitimacy of the Information Systems Discipline Across the Atlantic

      • Frantz Rowe, Duane P. Truex III, Lynette Kvasny

      Pages 83-101

   4. Truth, Journals, and Politics: The Case of the MIS Quarterly

      • Lucas Introna, Louise Whittaker

      Pages 103-120

   5. Debatable Advice and Inconsistent Evidence: Methodology in Information Systems Research

      • Matthew R. Jones

      Pages 121-142

   6. The Crisis of Relevance and the Relevance of Crisis: Renegotiating Critique in Information Systems Scholarship

      • Teresa Marcon, Mike Chiasson, Abhijit Gopal

      Pages 143-158

   7. Whatever Happened to Information Systems Ethics?

      • Frances Bell, Alison Adam

      Pages 159-174

   8. Supporting Engineering of Information Systems in Emergent Organizations

      • Sandeep Purao, Duane P. Truex III

      Pages 175-192

5. Critical Interpretive Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193

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   2. The Choice of Critical Information Systems Research

      • Debra Howcroft, Eileen M. Trauth

      Pages 195-211

   3. The Research Approach and Methodology Used in an Interpretive Study of a Web Information System: Contextualizing Practice

      • Anita Greenhill

      Pages 213-231

   4. Applying Habermas’ Validity Claims as a Standard for Critical Discourse Analysis

      • Wendy Cukier, Robert Bauer, Catherine Middleton

      Pages 233-258

   5. Conducting Critical Research in Information Systems: Can Actor-Network Theory Help?

      • Ela Klecuń

      Pages 259-274

   6. Conducting and Evaluating Critical Interpretive Research: Examining Criteria as a Key Component in Building a Research Tradition

      • Marlei Pozzebon

      Pages 275-292

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.

• Analysis
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Feder
• design
• development
• e-government
• information processing
• information system
• information technology
• linear optimization
• management
• organization
• service-oriented computing

• Yale University, USA

  Bonnie Kaplan

• Florida International University, USA

  Duane P. Truex

• Georgia State University, USA

  Duane P. Truex

• University of Manchester, UK

  David Wastell, A. Trevor Wood-Harper

• University of South Australia, Australia

  A. Trevor Wood-Harper

• University of Minnesota, USA

  Janice I. DeGross

Policies and ethics