MIS Quarterly 2018
Editor’s Comments
Abstract
IS research has been categorized in terms of traditions or paradigms: behavioral, design science, economics, and organizational, or some variants of this labeling.Behavioral IS researchers investigated research questions related to micro-or meso-level IS phenomena (e.g., IS use, decision making, trust), informed their work by drawing on theories from reference disciplines such as psychology and social psychology, and used social science research methods such as surveys, lab experiments, field studies, and qualitative approaches.IS design science researchers informed their work with kernel theories and created and evaluated IS artifacts to solve problems and establish new (better) realities.IS economics researchers investigated research questions related to value of IS (e.g., IT business value), informed their work by drawing on theories from economics and used economics research methods such as analytical modeling and econometrics.Those interested in organizational IS research (e.g., IS capabilities, governance) informed their work by relevant macro-level theories in strategy, economics, industrial-organizational psychology, and organizational sociology, and used a combination of social science and economics related methods.These categories of IS research worked quite well to classify the diversity of the IS research when there was a tight coupling between the types of research questions, the informing theoretical perspectives and reference disciplines, and the research methods.
- DOI
- 10.25300/misq/2018/421e0
- Sources
- openalex