Reach and Grasp

T, King; Lyytinen,

doi:10.2307/25148654

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“…At the same time there is a groundswell of concern about the nature and direction of IS research. These concerns include the object of IS research (Weber, 1987), the relevance and rigor of research (Galliers, 1994;Saunders, 1998;Benbasat and Zmud, 1999), and the general place of IS in academe (King and Lyytinen, 2004). An important vehicle in understanding the current state of IS scholarship is the critical analysis of published research (Chen and Hirschheim, 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

A Critical Analysis of Decision Support Systems Research

Arnott

Pervan

2005

Journal of Information Technology

382

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This paper critically analyses the nature and state of decision support systems (DSS) research. To provide context for the analysis, a history of DSS is presented which focuses on the evolution of a number of sub-groupings of research and practice: personal decision support systems, group support systems, negotiation support systems, intelligent decision support systems, knowledge managementbased DSS, executive information systems/business intelligence, and data warehousing. To understand the state of DSS research an empirical investigation of published DSS research is presented. This investigation is based on the detailed analysis of 1,020 DSS articles published in 14 major journals from 1990 to 2003. The analysis found that DSS publication has been falling steadily since its peak in 1994 and the current publication rate is at early 1990s levels. Other findings include that personal DSS and group support systems dominate research activity and data warehousing is the least published type of DSS. The journal DSS is the major publishing outlet; US 'Other' journals dominate DSS publishing and there is very low exposure of DSS in European journals. Around two-thirds of DSS research is empirical, a much higher proportion than general IS research. DSS empirical research is

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confidence: 99%

A Critical Analysis of Decision Support Systems Research

Arnott

Pervan

2005

Journal of Information Technology

382

122

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“…Finally, our using n-gram methods borrowed from computational linguistics (Suen, 1979) and culturomic ideas borrowed from social science research (Bohannon, 2011) serves as an example of the ongoing expansion of the IS field's theoretical ecosystem and its growing ties to many other fields of research. This expansion not only demonstrates the field's plasticity (King & Lyytinen, 2004;Lyytinen & King, 2006) but also points to emerging opportunities to both influence and be influenced by other fields.…”

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confidence: 91%

Theory in North American Information Systems Research: A Culturomic Analysis

Soper¹,

Turel²

2016

CAIS

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Abstract:Since its inception, North American information systems (IS) research has relied on a broad and varied collection of theories. The core of this theoretical landscape is an important determinant of the IS research community's identity, and, as such, researchers have discussed it extensively in recent years. Nevertheless, we know few concrete facts about the composition, consistency, or evolution of this theoretical core over time. Using a set of 318 theories in conjunction with n-gram analyses, we address these issues empirically by computationally analyzing the complete text of every research paper published in three leading North American IS journals over a 24-year period. In examining these 2,215 papers and more than 3.54 billion n-gram records, we identify the theories that constitute the overall core of North American IS research and provide insights into the evolution of that core. We further identify and quantify the nature of theoretical pluralism in North American IS research and examine the evolution of the theoretical density of IS research studies over time. Finally, our results shed light on the patterns of theory co-occurrence in North American IS research studies and demonstrate how such information can facilitate increasingly imperative efforts aimed at theory consolidation and generalization.

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“…The analysis fails to consider the relative impact of these customers on the research output, which can seriously alter the findings. King and Lyytinen (2004) say that irrespective of the status of IS theories, the field has established an identity of its own by consistently focusing on the systematic processing of information in human enterprises. They argue that IS field faces the problem of academic legitimacy and not that of academic identity.…”

Section: Absence Of Core Is Theories and Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%