The identity crisis within the IS discipline: Defining and communicating the discipline's core properties

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 183-194

  Benbasat, Izak ^a   Zmud, Robert W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Errors of exclusion; Errors of inclusion; Is discipline; IT artifact; IT nomological net

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION USE; INVESTMENTS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ERRORS OF EXCLUSION; ERRORS OF INCLUSION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS (IS);

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 1242331196     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30036527     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. Albert, S., and Whetten, D. A. "Organizational Identity," Research in Organizational Behavior (7), 1985, pp. 263-295.
2. Aldrich, H. Organizations Evolving, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1999.
3. Benbasat, I., and Weber, R. "Rethinking Diversity in Information Systems Research," Information Systems Research (7:4), December 1996, pp. 389-399.
4. Jiang, Z., and Benbasat, I. "Virtual Product Experience: Effects of Visual and Functional Control on Perceived Diagnosticity in Electronic Shopping," Working Paper, University of British Columbia, 2002.
5. Kempf, D. S., and Smith R. E. "Consumer Processing of Product Trial and the Influence of Prior Advertising: A Structural Modeling Approach," Journal of Marketing Research (35:3), August 1998, pp. 325-337.
6. Massey, A., Wheeler, B. C., and Keen, P. "Technology Matters," in Information Technology and the Future Enterprise: New Models for Managers, G. W. Dickson and G. DeSanctis (eds.), Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001, pp. 25-48.
7. Orlikowski, W., and lacono, S. "Desperately Seeking the 'IT in IT Research - A Call to Theorizing the IT Artifact," Information Systems Research (12:2), June 2001, pp. 121-134.
8. Robey, D. "Diversity in Information Systems Research: Threat, Promise, and Responsibility," Information Systems Research (7:4), December 1996, pp. 400-408.
9. Todd, P., and Benbasat, I. "Evaluating the Impact of DSS, Cognitive Effort, and Incentives on Strategy Selection," Information Systems Research (10:4), December 1999, pp. 356-374.