REQUIRED) Paradigmatic diversity in information systems research has increased as process theorizing from case studies has become increasingly popular. Central to process theorizing is the identification of events, or critical incidents that mark the evolution of a process over time. In this paper, we present a way of understanding events while building on process models which have been describ...

Actor Network Theory (ANT) studies provide detailed accounts of how human and non-human actors gradually form stable actor-networks. Actor Network Theory has been deployed in various environments to achieve a better understanding of the roles of the humans as well as the artifacts that constitute actor networks. This paper examines the use of ANT, enhanced by stakeholder analysis as used in inf...

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Information Systems Research is being attributed of having no substantial philosophical foundation. A review of contemporary literature reveals not only positivism as the dominating paradigm of human inquiry, but also an increasing criticism and the rise of alternative paradigms. Referring to postmodern organization theory allows a different perspective on IS research, which is based on an epis...

In this paper we propose a strict separation between the information system specification and implementation stage. In order to allow for more active user participation in the information system specification process we also advocate a strong connection between the information use and specification stage. Some deficiencies of current approaches are criticized. A specification method aimed at re...

Event studies, which look at stock market reactions to assess corporate business events, represent a relatively new research approach in the information systems field. In this paper we present a systematic review of thirty event studies related to information technology. After a brief discussion of each of the papers included in our review, we call attention to several limitations of the publis...

Generalization in information systems research is important because of the highly applied and vocational nature of the field. However, the concept is often inappropriately and narrowly confined to one or two views of research. This paper develops the concept of generalizability as a two-stage process. The first stage involves creating a general case from a base case (or cases). The second stage...

The Information Systems research field is inherently dynamic. New technologies, new standards, new legislation, and changing user expectations are some of the reasons why topics of interest to the IS field remain in flux. As researchers, we seek to uncover and explain relationships among variables, but due to the dynamism of IS phenomena, these relationships are apt to change over time. For exa...

Information systems research is concerned with complex imbroglios of human and non-human components. As researchers, we need ways to represent the intricacies of the different stakeholders in such situations. Traditionally, it is assumed that representing the views of human stakeholders is relatively unproblematic, but that doing this for non-humans is far more complex. This paper addresses thi...

It is our contention that information technology is a cultural commodity whose influence is spread through economic and political action of institutions such as the government and corporations. Informed by Bourdieu’s sociology of language, we conduct a content analysis of political speeches regarding “digital opportunities” delivered by U. S. government officials. In this analysis we demonstrat...