Three types of diversity have been prominent in the Information Systems discipline for over a decade: (a) diversity in the problems addressed; (b) diversity in the theoretical foimdations and reference disciplines used to account for IS phenomena; and (c) diversity in the methods used to collect, analyze, and interpret data. History has played a major part in encouraging IS researchers to use d...

A change in the stock value of a company is an important indicator of firm performance. Event studies, which look at abnormal stock price reactions to specific events or happenings that may impact a business's operations, represent a relatively new but fast growing research approach in the information systems field. Building on earlier literature reviews, in this paper we examine forty-six even...

There is a growing interest in critical realism (CR) in Information Systems (IS) research. This paper presents and discusses how critical realism can be an alternative philosophical underpinning for IS research. It briefly presents critical realism and how it can be used in IS research. Contemporary examples of how CR have been used in IS research are presented and discussed. The future use of ...

From difficulties related to research associated to academic projects on Information Systems and considering previous studies on Information Systems research, this project presents reference information and comments to support evolution on Information Systems disciplines, their methods and models. Fundamental contributions from this documental and empirical study are the case study properly wit...

This paper is written for information systems (IS) scholars who may be researching design problems of considerable complexity and who seek approaches and ideas that can increase their confidence in understanding and tackling these problems. The subject of the paper is the notion of ‘certainty:’ the certainty of a researcher’s performance and that of his or her research targets. How can research...

The First Years of IRIS IRIS is the name of the annual meeting of people involved with Information Systems Research in Scandinavia. It has been circulating among the four Scandinavian countries Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden now already 20 years. In August 1997 the IRIS Association was established. At the same meeting I was invited to give an opening address about the 20 years of IRIS hist...

Qualitative researchers attempt to document observed phenomena relative to the meanings attributed to the phenomena by research participants involved in the specific incident or situation. Relatively recently, the information systems research community has responded to the call for more of an emphasis on conducting qualitative research. This paper presents three theories, Grounded Theory, Perso...

Although technology-enabled task performance has been a long-standing outcome of interest in information systems research, existing studies primarily emphasize characteristics of the technology and task, rather than the user, in shaping performance outcomes. Given that both technology and people have inherent limitations, a worthwhile research pursuit is to examine how one might compensate for ...

2 School of Management Information Systems, Deakin University, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] . ABSTRACT: The progressive evolution of the global information society has escalated the debate over effective ways to facilitate relevance in information systems research without sacrificing rigor. Accommodation of interpretivist research methodologies has been suggested to address this prob...