TY - GEN
T1 - Absent information technology in legitimate information systems research
AU - Ku, Min Chun
AU - Scialdone, Michael
AU - Zhang, Ping
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The current identity of the information systems (IS) discipline, to certain extent, relies on the presence of information technology. The urgent call to theorizing IT artifacts made by previous IS studies raises concerns on the roles and importance of IT artifacts in the wide range of topics investigated by IS scholars, especially in the studies in which IT artifacts are considered absent. We analyze the topics, IT artifacts, and contexts of these studies from the 2009 and 2010 ICIS proceedings to address this concern. We find that IT professions and IT artifacts are significant contextual factors that cannot be ignored in these studies. This helps the IS discipline to rethink the establishment of its intellectual identity solely on the premise of theorizing IT artifacts.
AB - The current identity of the information systems (IS) discipline, to certain extent, relies on the presence of information technology. The urgent call to theorizing IT artifacts made by previous IS studies raises concerns on the roles and importance of IT artifacts in the wide range of topics investigated by IS scholars, especially in the studies in which IT artifacts are considered absent. We analyze the topics, IT artifacts, and contexts of these studies from the 2009 and 2010 ICIS proceedings to address this concern. We find that IT professions and IT artifacts are significant contextual factors that cannot be ignored in these studies. This helps the IS discipline to rethink the establishment of its intellectual identity solely on the premise of theorizing IT artifacts.
KW - IT artifact
KW - information system
KW - information technology
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U2 - 10.1145/2132176.2132249
DO - 10.1145/2132176.2132249
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84857667105
SN - 9781450307826
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 465
EP - 467
BT - Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
T2 - 2012 iConference: Culture, Design, Society, iConference 2012
Y2 - 7 February 2012 through 10 February 2012
ER -