Information Systems Foundations : Theory Building in Information Systems.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (276 pages)
Preliminary -- Contributors -- Preface -- The Papers -- Part One: Fundamental Issues -- 1. Theory Building in the Information Systems Discipline:Some critical reflections -- 2. Obstacles to Building Effective Theory about Attitudes and Behaviours Towards Technology -- 3. Untangling Causality in Design Science Theorising -- Part Two: Theories and Theorising in Practice -- 4. Theorising about the Life Cycle of IT Use: An appropriation perspective -- 5. A Critical Systems Thinking Perspective for IS Adoption -- 6. Advancing Task-Technology Fit Theory: A formative measurement approach to determining task-channel fit for electronic banking channels -- 7. Theory Building in Action: Structured-case with action interventions -- 8. The Unit of Analysis in IS Theory: The case for activity -- 9. IT-Driven Modernisation in Agriculture: New theories for a new phenomenon -- 10. Competing with Business Analytics: Research in progress -- Part Three: The Big Picture -- 11. Theory: An informatics perspective.
This volume presents the papers from the fifth biennial Information Systems Foundations Workshop, held at The Australian National University in Canberra from 30 September to 1 October 2010. The focus of the workshop was, as for the others in the series, the foundations of information systems as an academic discipline.
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Management information systems-Congresses. Information resources management-Congresses.