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

Sawyer, Steve; Crowston, Kevin

doi:10.1007/1-4020-8095-6_3

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“…We have added IFIP WG 8.2 because it has accepted research using a wide range of social theory to underpin the study of IS in organizations (e.g. see Jones, 2000; Flynn & Gregory, 2004) and has tended to attract critical research (Sawyer & Crowston, 2004), while IT&P’s stated editorial objectives include ‘an openness to multiple paradigms’ and an explicit commitment to publish ‘critical . .…”

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The mysterious case of the missing paradigm: a review of critical information systems research 1991–2001

Richardson¹,

Robinson²

2007

Information Systems Journal

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In this journal, Chen and Hirschheim have provided a historical analysis of positivist and interpretivist research paradigms and methodologies in the 10 years following the much cited work of Orlikowski and Baroudi. In this paper, we investigate the mysterious case of the missing paradigm -that of the critical approach to information systems (IS) research. We take Chen and Hirschheim's survey as our starting point and aim to fill the gap left by the absence of the critical paradigm in their analysis and make some criticisms of their method. Recent years have seen the growth of IS research that consciously adopts a critical perspective. This paper charts the development of critical IS research over the period of 1991-2001, adding some comments on more recent developments. We conclude by critically reflecting on the current development of critical research in the field of IS.

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The mysterious case of the missing paradigm: a review of critical information systems research 1991–2001

Richardson¹,

Robinson²

2007

Information Systems Journal

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“…laboratories, equipment, libraries and a system of information storage, retrieval and ICT) (what does this mean?) remains inadequate as suggested by Sawyer and Crowston (2004).…”

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The State of Research in Technical Universities: Evidence from four Ghanaian Technical Universities

Nkrumah

2022

EAJESS

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This study sought to establish the state of research in Ghanaian Technical Universities (TUs) using a desktop research approach. The study was necessitated by the fact that little investigation if any, had been conducted into the research output of the TUs since they became universities in 2016. The secondary data collected was analysed using descriptive statistics, mainly frequencies and averages Regardless of the differences between the TUs, the total number of publications per annum was 249, an average of 62.25 publications per TU. The minimum and maximum numbers of publications per TU were 20 publications and 107 publications, respectively, per annum. On the international stage, the study points to the need for an increase in the research output of the TUs. It is recommended that individual TUs should put in place specific strategies meant to increase research output. These strategies may include mentoring, partnerships and implementing the governments’ promotion criteria that requires research and publication.

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“…Indeed, the progress of social informatics must be based both on the constant presentation of these common findings and, more importantly, the additional detailing that reflects how these common findings are suppressed or magnified through particular actions, events or arrangements, the temporal sequencing of engagements, and the contextual differences (and measures) between better and worse computerization efforts. To do this, we and others have argued for analytic approaches that are grounded in social informatics principles [Horton, Davenport, & Wood-Harper, 2005;Lamb & Sawyer, 2005;Sawyer & Crowston, 2004;.…”

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Social Informatics: Principles, Theory, and Practice

Sawyer

Tyworth

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

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Abstract. Through this paper we make two contributions to social informatics: the interdisciplinary study of the design, development, uses and consequences of information and communication technologies that takes into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts. Our first contribution is to make a connection from social informatics to general principles of sociotechnical theories. We do this to both connect social informatics scholarship more directly to the large and growing literature(s) that engage socio-technical theorizing and to advance these principles more directly through social informatics. Our second contribution to social informatics is to engage two contemporary theoretical approaches that draw on social informatics principles: socio-technical interaction networks and principles of social actors and apply them to current practice. We do so to demonstrate that these analytic approaches are the needed tools to help scholars and reflective professionals in practice engage social informatics analyses. By doing this we highlight the potential of social informatics while honouring Rob Kling's legacy in helping to establish this transdiscipline.

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

Cited by 5 publications

References 37 publications

The mysterious case of the missing paradigm: a review of critical information systems research 1991–2001

The mysterious case of the missing paradigm: a review of critical information systems research 1991–2001

The State of Research in Technical Universities: Evidence from four Ghanaian Technical Universities

Social Informatics: Principles, Theory, and Practice

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