Research Commentary: Rethinking "Diversity" in Information Systems Research

Research Commentary: Diversity in Information Systems Research: Threat, Promise, and Responsibility

T paper confirms the evidence of diversity in information systems (IS) research and identifies the v^ays in which diversity both threatens and advances the field of IS. While advocating diversity within the field of IS, the paper also discusses the responsibilities that must be assumed by IS researchers. Responsibilities include a "disciplined methodological pluralism" (Landry and Banville 1992...

Understanding the complexities of feminist perspectives on woman abuse: a commentary on Donald G. Dutton's Rethinking Domestic Violence.

All books, including Donald G. Dutton’s (2006) Rethinking Domestic Violence, are written and published in a specific political and economic context. As vividly described by Faludi (1991), Hammer (2002), and many others who made progressive contributions to an interdisciplinary understanding of the enduring discrimination against contemporary North American women, we still live in a climate char...

Rethinking the Theory of Change for Health in All Policies; Comment on “Health Promotion at Local Level in Norway: The Use of Public Health Coordinators and Health Overviews to Promote Fair Distribution Among Social Groups”

This commentary discusses the interesting and surprising findings by Hagen and colleagues, focusing on the role of the public health coordinator as a Health in All Policies (HiAP) tool. The original article finds a negative association between the employment of public health coordinators in Norwegian municipalities and consideration of a fair distribution of social and economic resources betwee...

Research Commentary - Cooperation, Coordination, and Governance in Multisourcing: An Agenda for Analytical and Empirical Research

Rethinking cognitive architecture via graphical models

Cognitive architectures need to resolve the diversity dilemma – i.e., to blend diversity and simplicity – in order to couple functionality and efficiency with integrability, extensibility and maintainability. Building diverse architectures upon a uniform implementation level of graphical models is an intriguing approach because of the homogeneous manner in which such models produce state-of-the...