Broaden View of MIS Research and Disciplinary

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• Broaden View of MIS Research and Disciplinary
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Characteristics of Goods Research
1.Purpose clearly defined 2.Research process
detailed 3.Research design thoroughly
planned 4.Limitations frankly revealed 5.High
ethical standards applied 6.Adequate analysis
for decision makers needs 7.Findings presented
unambiguously 8.Conclusions justified 9.Research
s experience reflected
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Research Relevance???

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Management-Research Question Hierarchy
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• Mainframe, PC, Internet
• 3GL, 4GL, Visual development, Web services
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• TPS, DSS, AI/ES,SIS, e-Business/EC
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• Generalization of observations

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Results Contribute to the body of knowledge

A Framework of Research
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• ?IS keywords
• ?IS themes,
• ? IS theories
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A Keyword Classification Scheme for IS Research
Literature
A REFERENCE DISCIPLINES B EXTERNAL
ENVIRONMENT C INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY D
ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENT E IS MANAGEMENT F IS
DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONS G IS USAGE H
INFORMATION SYSTEMS I IS EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
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MIS Quarterly, 1993

• 19871992
• MIS Quarterly, JMIS, Information Management,
  Management Science, Communication of ACM.(1300)

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AA BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE AB COMPUTER SCIENCE AC
DECISION THEORY AD INFORMATION THEORY AE
ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY AF MANAGEMENT THEORY AG
LANGUAGE THEORIES AH SYSTEMS THEORY AI
RESEARCH AJ SOCIAL SCIENCE AK MANAGEMENT
SCIENCE AL ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE AM ECONOMIC
THEORY AN ERGONOMICS AO POLITICAL SCIENCE AP
PSYCHOLOGY
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E IS Management

• EA Data Resource Management
• EB Personnel Resource Management
• EC Hardware Resource Management
• ED Software Resource Management
• EE IS Project Management
• EF IS Planning
• EG Organizing IS

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E IS Management

• EH IS Staffing
• EI IS Evaluation
• EJ IS Control
• EK IS Security
• EL IS Management Issues

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EI02 EVALUATI0N CRITERIA (1/4)

• E10201 Effectiveness
• UF System effectiveness
• E10202 Efficiency
• UF System efficiency
• E10203 User friendliness
• UF User orientation
• E10204 IS performance
• UF EDP performance
• UF Performance incentives
• E10205 Productivity
• E10205.01 Programmer
  productivity
• E10205.02 Managerial
  productivity
• E10205.03 Office
  productivity
• E10205.04 Organizational
  productivity
• E10205.05 Group performance

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EI02 EVALUATI0N CRITERIA(?) (2/4)

• E10206 Quality
• E10206.01 System quality
• UF
  Software quality
• E10206.02 Information
  quality
• USE
  Information attributes
• E10206.03 Service
  quality
• E10207 User satisfaction
• UF User information
  satisfaction
• E10208 IS Utilization
• UF IS Use
• UF System use
• UF Computer use
• UF Information utilization
• E10209 IS Reliability
• UF Software reliability
• E10210 IS flexibility

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EI02 EVALUATI0N CRITERIA (?) (3/4)

• E10211 IS impacts
• E10211.01 Organizational
  impacts
• E10211.02 Social impacts
• E10212 Size of backlog
• E10213 Cost
• E10214 Computer performance
• E10214.01 Response time
• UF
  Turnaround time
• E10215 Ease of learning
• E10216 Information overload
• E10217 System errors
• E10217.01 Program
  correctness
• E10218 IS development time
• UF Software development
  time
• E10219 Semantic integrity
• E10220 IS development effort
• UF Software development
  effort

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EI02 EVALUATI0N CRITERIA (?) (4/4)

• E10221 Risk
• E10222 Complexity
• E10223 Accessibility
• E10224 Sophistication
• E10225 Strategic impact

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Num Rank Journal
Top High Med Low
NII Resp Score
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Num Rank Journal
Top High Med Low
NII Resp Score
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Num Rank Journal
Top High Med Low
NII Resp Score
27 Information Society 0
7 21 21 4 53 1.58 28 Jrnl. Of
the American Soc. 1 10 23 24
8 66 1.58 For Info. Sci. 29
Datamation 1
20 39 40 16 116 1.57 30 Database
Programming and 1 9 26 22
11 69 1.52 Design 31 officeTechnology
and 2 9 27 32 10
80 1.51 People 32 Data Management
1 11 27 37 10 86
1.49 33 Infosystems
2 10 31 40 12 95 1.47 34
Jrnl. Of the Assoc. for Educ. 0 7
26 26 12 71 1.39 Data Sys.
35 ComputerworldIn Depth 0 8
34 52 12 106 1.36 section 36
Computer Decisions 0 6
26 41 9 82 1.35 37 Computer
Management 0 4 19 37 8
68 1.28 38 Government Data Systems 1
5 12 21 27 66 .97
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Additional Journal

• Information System Research
• International Journal of Information Management
• Decision Support Systems

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Important IS Conferences

• International Conference on Information Systems
  (ICIS)
• Hawaii International Conference of System
  Sciences (HICSS)
• Americas Conference on Information Systems
  (AMCIS)
• Pan Pacific Conference On Information Systems
  (PCIS)
• Europe Conference On Information Systems (UCIS)
• Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting (DSI)
• Information Resource Management Association
  International Conference(IRMA)

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Information Systems Research Thematics
Characterizing the ISR Submissions Stream
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Information System Research, 1993

• 19871992
• ISR submissions (397)

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TABLE 2Thematic Areas and Their Categories
(1/3)

• Theme
  Categories
• Computer-supported Cooperative Work
  computer-supported cooperative work
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  Information and Interface
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  information economics
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  information and managerial decision
  
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  making
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  human-computer interaction
• Decision Support and Knowledge-based DSS
  design
• Systems
  DSS model management
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  DSS development and
  implementation
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  DSS outcomes
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  DSS applications
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  expert system applications
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  expert system design,
  evaluation, and
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  performance
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  knowledge acquisition

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TABLE 2Thematic Areas and Their Categories(?)
(2/3)

• Systems Projects
  system development process
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  system project estimation
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  tools and techniques in
  system
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  development
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  user involvement
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  requirements analysis and
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  modeling
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  data modeling and database
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  design
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  software maintenance
• Evaluation and Control
  IS performance evaluation
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  data management
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  computer resource allocation
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  IS security and control
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  IS ethics
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  IS personnel

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TABLE 2Thematic Areas and Their Categories(?)
(3/3)

• Users
  IS-user relationships
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  user perceptions and
  attitudes
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  user information evaluation
  and
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  satisfaction
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  (user involvement)
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  end user computing
• Economics and Strategy
  IS economics
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  IS, strategic management, and
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  business outcomes
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  inter-organizational
  information
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  systems
• Introduction and Impact
  information systems implementation
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  information technology
  diffusion
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  organizational outcomes
• IS Research
  IS typologies
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  IS research

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CAIS (Communication of the Association for
Information Systems), 2004

• 1991--2000
• ISR, MISQ, JMIS, MS, Decision Science(993)
• 203 theories

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Figure1. An Ontology of IS Theories
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Table1. Theoretical Frameworks and Number of
Papers Per Year
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Table 4. Change of Dominant Theoretical Frameworks
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LIST OF IS THEORIES
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IS Key Issues Related Work

• 1982
• 1984
• 1986
• 1989
• 1992
• 1995
• 2000

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Table 2. 1994-95 key-issue Framework (1/2)
Rank Key lssue Mean Rating Standard Deviation
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Building a Responsive IT Infrastructure Facilitating and Managing Business Process Redesign Developing and Managing Distributed Systems Developing and Implementing an Information Architecture Planning and Managing Communication Networks Improving the Effectiveness of Software Development Making Effective Use of the Data Resource Recruiting and Developing IS Human Resources Aligning the IS Organization Within the Enterprise Improving IS Strategic Planning 9.10 7.79 7.73 7.62 7.58 7.50 7.46 7.31 7.11 6.82 0.096 1.19 1.38 1.50 1.40 1.86 1.62 1.70 2.02 2.02
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Table 2. 1994-95 key-issue Framework(?) (2/2)
Rank Key Issue Mean Rating Standard Deviation
11A 11B 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Implementing and Managing Collaborative Support Systems Measuring IS Effectiveness and Productivity Increasing Understanding of IS Role and Contribution Facilitation Organizational Learning Managing the Existing Portfolio of Legacy Applications Facilitation and Managing End-User Computing Using Information Systems for Competitive Advantage Planning and Integrating Multi-Vendor Open Systems Developing and Managing Electronic Data Interchange Outsourcing Selected Information Services 6.59 6.59 6.53 6.48 6.31 6.23 6.18 6.04 5.91 5.40 1.91 2.01 2.02 1.87 2.03 1.88 2.12 1.86 2.00 2.03
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Key information management issues in Taiwan
Key IM issues Section 1 rank (average) Section 2 rank (average) Total rank Public rank
Top management support Improving communication with end-users Goal alignment Creating business competitive advantage Is strategic planning Data security Organizational location of IS department Data resources Integration of information technologies Database management systems Information architecture Improving software development quality Recruiting training and career development of IS personnel User friendliness of IS Decision support systems Preventing Computer viruses 1(6.20 ) 2(6.13 ) 4(5.98 ) 5(5.95 ) 6(5.94 ) 3(5.99 ) 7(5.93 ) 8(5.88 ) 11(5.78 ) 10(5.83 ) 13(5.66 ) 12(5.68 ) 19(5.51 ) 14(5.64 ) 16(5.60 ) 9(5.86 ) 1(9.66) 3(12.20 ) 2(12.09 ) 4(13.52 ) 5(13.6 ) 8(17.75 ) 6(13.99 ) 7(15.80 ) 9(18.14 ) 10(18.50 ) 12(19.32 ) 14(19.52 ) 11(18.59 ) 17(19.98 ) 16(19.61 ) 23(21.23 ) 1 2 3 4 5 5 7 8 9 9 11 12 13 14 15 15 1 2 5 11 3 6 3 7 9 9 8 17 13 18 18 13
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Classification Scheme
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Ten Categories of Issues

• Human individual, group, organization,
• Social issues
• Systems Concepts and methodology,
• system development, system
• application
• Technology and analysis models
• Management
• Research method and philosophy

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Distribution of Research Topics
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Trends in Five Research Areas
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• Sense making
• Action research
• Deconstruction

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Association for Information Systems

• http//www.aisnet.org/
• AIS Special Interest Groups

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AIS Special Interest Groups

• SIGABIS (Agent-Based Information Systems)
• SIGADIT - (Coming Soon)
• SIGCCRIS - (Special Interest Group on
  Cross-Cultural Research in Information Systems)
• SIGDSS (Decision Support, Knowledge and Data
  Management)
• SIGEBIZ (E-Business)
• SIGe-Culture (e-Culture)
• SIGe-Gov - (Electronic Government)
• SIGED IAIM (Education)
• SIGENTSYS (Enterprise Systems)
• SIGGIUIT (Global Improvements Using IT)
• SIGHCI (Human-Computer Interaction)
• SIGHealth (IT in Health Care)
• SIGISAP (IS/IT Issues in Asia Pacific)
• SIG IS-CORE (Information Systems - Cognitive
  Research Exchange)
• SIG ISO (IS Outsourcing)
• SIGISDC - (Information Systems in Developing
  Countries)
• SIGITPM (IT Professional Management)
• SIGLEAD (Leadership in IT)
• SIGODIS (Ontology Driven Information System)

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