Synthesizing Diversity and Pluralism in Information Systems: Forging a Unique Disciplinary Subject Matter for the Information Systems Field
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Summary
This essay argues for the IS field to forge its own unique disciplinary subject matter by synthesizing the diverse discourses of its “reference disciplines” and not by merely drawing from them.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2006-01-01
- Cited by
- 23
- References
- 75
- Access
- Open access
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- https://openalex.org/W29306128
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- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:30580866
Keywords
Discipline, Pluralism (philosophy), Subject matter, Field (mathematics), Subject (documents)
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- The Relationship of IT to IS: An Inquiry into the Technoscientific Nature of the IS Field
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- Is Information Systems a Discipline? A Foucauldian and Toulminian Analysis
- Moving beyond is Identity: Concepts and Discourses
- New Approaches to Studying Information Technology: Escaping the Organizational Straightjacket
- Making Information Systems Research More Valuable
- Structuration bridging diffusion of innovations and gender relations theories: a case of paradigmatic pluralism in IS research
- Research in information systems: a study of diversity and inter-disciplinary discourse in the AIS basket journals between 1995 and 2011
- The structure of the IS discipline reconsidered: Implications and reflections from a community of practice perspective
- Transdisciplinarity in Information Systems: Extended Reflections
- Fragmentation or cohesion? Visualizing the process and consequences of information system diversity, 1993–2012
- Ethics and CSR Research in Top Ranked IS Journals, 1980-2013: A Developing Trend or Anomaly?
- The Routledge Companion to Management Information Systems
- The origins of business analytics and implications for the information systems field
- Beyond Convergence: Rethinking Pluralism in IS Research
- Theory borrowing in IT-rich contexts: Lessons from IS strategy research
- Impact of digital leadership capability on innovation performance: The role of platform digitization capability
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