The IS Core - VI: Further Along the Road to the IT Artifact

Saunders, Carol; Wu, Yu

doi:10.17705/1cais.01236

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“…Therefore, HCI researchers must necessarily be concerned with the slippery notion of the IT artifact. Defining and conceptualizing the IT artifact has proven to be a bit of a conundrum for our mother discipline, stuck at the center of some intense (albeit important) debates (c.f., Agarwal et al, 2005;Alter, 2003aAlter, , 2003bBenbasat and Zmud, 2003;Hevner et al, 2004;Orlikowski and Iacono, 2001;Saunders et al, 2003;Weber ,2003;Whinston et al, 2004).…”

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Establishing Best Practices for Scholarly Research Based on the Tenets of Human-Computer Interaction

Scialdone¹

2010

THCI

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being studied. I explained that this allows the researcher to better articulate his or her study, while it helps the audience to better grasp potentially unfamiliar background details. I advised that researchers should explicitly address the remaining two tenets, task and context. I also proposed that HCI research should expand into previously under-investigated contexts, with consideration of tasks that may be largely unique to those contexts. Because interaction is the intersection of these four tenets, and it is the phenomenon upon which scholars ground their research in HCI, I believe that most meaningful contributions that come from HCI should be in the form of designinformed theory, or use robust theories from other disciplines to better inform design. It is this design component, after all, which gives our field its distinct scholarly voice.

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Establishing Best Practices for Scholarly Research Based on the Tenets of Human-Computer Interaction

Scialdone¹

2010

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“…In addition, a number of distinguished IS researchers have evoked systems theory as a foundational theory for IS research (Galliers, ; Hirschheim, ; Checkland, ). Indeed, Saunders & Wu () see the “ systems concept … [ as ] absolutely central to the IS discipline ” (p. 563.)…”

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“…We now turn to the literature on systems thinking as a theoretical basis for creating a framework that allows us to delineate and theorize the ITA. The decision to draw on systems thinking is motivated by various IS researchers, for example Saunders & Wu () call for expanding the ITA definition through systems concepts. In addition, a number of distinguished IS researchers have evoked systems theory as a foundational theory for IS research (Galliers, ; Hirschheim, ; Checkland, ).…”

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Characteristics of IT artifacts: a systems thinking‐based framework for delineating and theorizing IT artifacts

Matook

Brown

2016

Information Systems Journal

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The information technology artifact (ITA) has been suggested as the core of information systems (IS) research, and the research community has been encouraged to deeply engage with the ITA. Various studies highlight, however, that the ITA continues to receive only limited attention and thus, little foundation exists for IS researchers to delineate and theorize about the ITAs studied. In this paper, we develop a framework that can be utilized as a language for articulating and theorizing the ITA in IS research. Our framework builds on the multi-faceted theoretical paradigm of systems thinking from which we derive several concepts and appropriate them to the context at hand, resulting in a seven-dimensional framework of characteristics for ITAs. In a literature survey of research on enterprise systems and enterprise resource planning systems in top IS journals, we show how ITA characteristics are currently included to present details of the relevant ITA instance and identify theoretical relationships between ITA characteristics and outcomes. We conclude the study by demonstrating the use of the ITA framework for delineating and theorizing the ITA in IS research.

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Petersson

2008

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web: Innovating the Interactive Society

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The IS Core - VI: Further Along the Road to the IT Artifact

Cited by 8 publications

References 4 publications

Establishing Best Practices for Scholarly Research Based on the Tenets of Human-Computer Interaction

Establishing Best Practices for Scholarly Research Based on the Tenets of Human-Computer Interaction

Characteristics of IT artifacts: a systems thinking‐based framework for delineating and theorizing IT artifacts

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