Synthesizing Diversity and Pluralism in Information Systems: Forging a Unique Disciplinary Subject Matter for the Information Systems Field
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Synthesizing Diversity and Pluralism in Information Systems: Forging a Unique Disciplinary Subject Matter for the Information Systems Field
The issues of diversity, pluralism and the subject matter of the information systems (IS) field are critically analyzed using the philosophical works of Michel Foucault and studies in disciplinarity. This essay argues for the IS field to forge its own unique disciplinary subject matter by synthesizing the diverse discourses of its “reference disciplines” and not by merely drawing from them. Usi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Communications of the Association for Information Systems
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1529-3181
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.01707