Socio-Instrumental Pragmatism: A Theoretical Synthesis for Pragmatic Conceptualisation in Information Systems

A need for pragmatic conceptualisation and theorizing in the information systems field is acknowledged. Instead of “importing” completed action theories from reference disciplines an alternative approach is preferred. In order to arrive at seamless theorizing in IS, a theoretical synthesis of different action aspects is developed well adapted to the IS field. The theoretical roots and some essentials of this adapted theoretical synthesis socio-instrumental pragmatism are described in the paper.