Information Systems Research: Relevant Theory and Informed Practice (Paperback)

Foreword. Preface. Conference Chairs. Associate Editors. Reviewers. 1. Young Turks, Old Guardsmen, and the Conundrum of the Broken Mold: A Progress Report on Twenty Years of Information Systems Research; B. Kaplan, D.P. Truex III, D. Wastell, A.T. Wood-Harper. Part 1: Panoramas. 2. Doctor of Philosophy, Heal Thyself; A.S. Lee. 3. Information Systems in Organizations and Society: Speculating on the Next 25 Years of Research; S. Sawyer, K. Crowston. 4. Information Systems Research as Design: Identity, Process, and Narrative; R.J. Boland Jr., K. Lyytinen. Part 2: Reflections on the IS Discipline. 5. Information Systems - A Cyborg Discipline? M. Ramage. 6. Cores and Definitions: Building the Cognitive Legitimacy of the Information Systems Discipline Across the Atlantic; F. Rowe, D.P. Truex III, L. Kvasny. 7. Truth, Journals, and Politics: The Case of the MIS Quarterly; L. Introna, L. Whittaker. 8. Debatable Advice and Inconsistent Evidence: Methodology in Information Systems Research; M.R. Jones. 9. The Crisis of Relevance and the Relevance of Crisis: Renegotiating Critique in Information Systems Scholarship; T. Marcon, M. Chiasson, A. Gopal. 10. Whatever Happened to Information Systems Ethics? Caught between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea; F. Bell, A. Adam. 11. Supporting Engineering of Information Systems in Emergent Organizations; S. Purao, D.P. Truex III. Part 3: Critical Interpretive Studies. 12. The Choice of Critical Information Systems Research; D. Howcroft, E.M. Trauth. 13. The Research Approach and Methodology Used in an Interpretive Study of a Web Information System: Contextualizing Practice; A. Greenhill. 14. Applying Habermas' Validity Claims as a Standard for Critical Discourse Analysis; W. Cukier, R. Bauer, C. Middleton. 15. Conducting Critical Research in Information Systems: Can Actor-Network Theory Help? E. Klecuń. 16. Conducting and Evaluating Critical Interpretive Research: Examining Criteria as a Key Component in Building a Research Tradition; M. Pozzebon. 17. Making Contributions from Interpretive Case Studies: Examining Processes of Construction and Use; M. Barrett, G. Walsham. Part 4: Action Research. 18. Action Research: Time to Take a Turn? B.J. Oates. 19. The Role of Conventional Research Methods in Information Systems Action Research; M. Germonprez, L. Mathiassen. 20. Themes, Iteration, and Recoverability in Action Research; S. Holwell. Part 5: Theoretical Perspectives in IS Research. 21. The Use of Social Theories in 20 Years of WG 8.2 Empirical Research; D. Flynn, P. Gregory. 22. StructurANTion in Research and Practice: Representing Actor Networks, Their Structurated Orders and Translations; L. Brooks, C. Atkinson. 23. Socio-Technical Structure: An Experiment in Integrative Theory Building; J. Rose, R. Lindgren, O. Henfridsson. 24. Exposing Best Practices Through Narrative: The ERP Example; E.L. Wagner, R.D. Galliers, S.V. Scott. 25. Information Systems Research and Development by Activity Analysis and Development: Dead Horse or the Next Wave? M. Korpela, A. Mursu, A. Soriyan, A. Erola, H. Hakkinen, M. Toivanen. 26. Making Sense of Technological Frames: Promise, Progress, and