Beyond Rigor and Relevance: Producing Consumable Research about Information Systems

Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ)

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-16

  Robey, Daniel ^a   Markus, M Lynne ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85001817266     PISSN: 10401628     EISSN: 15337979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/irmj.1998010101     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. See Robert W. Zmud, “Editor's Comments,” MIS Quarterly, June and September 1996 for a more extensive description of applied theory.
2. See, for example, Charles Bazerman, “Scientific Writing as a Social Act: A Review of the Literature of the Sociology of Science,” in Anderson, Brockmann and Miller (eds.), New Essays in Technical and Scientific Communication, Farmingdale, NY: Baywood, 1983
3. Karen Golden-Biddle and Karen Locke, Composing Qualitative Research, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997
4. Laurel Richardson, Writing Strategies: Reaching Diverse Audiences, Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990.
5. The authors confess to adopting a story line in this article that first portrays despair, then hope.
6. Obviously, our dear friend Burt Swanson is not to blame for such oblique references to his wonderful book (E.B. Swanson, Information System Implementation: Bridging the Gap between Design and Utilization, Irwin, 1988). We would be happier if more academic writers explained the puzzle analogy that Swanson employs so skillfully.
7. M. Lynne Markus and Daniel Robey,. “Information Technology and Organizational Change: Causal Structure in Theory and Research,” Management Science, 34, 5 (May 1988): 583–598.
8. Daniel Robey, “The Paradox of Transformation,” in Sauer and Yetton (eds.), Steps to the Future: Fresh Thinking on the Management of IT-Based Organizational Transformation, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997, p.209–229.