| Foreword | | xi | |
| Preface | | xv | |
| Conference Chairs | | xix | |
| Associate Editors | | xx | |
| Reviewers | | xxi | |
| 1 Young Turks, Old Guardsmen, and the Conundrum of the Broken Mold: A Progress Report on Twenty Years of Information Systems Research | |
| Bonnie Kaplan, Duane P. Truex III, David Wastell, and A. Trevor Wood-Harper |
| | 1 | (20) |
| Part 1: Panoramas | |
| 2 Doctor of Philosophy, Heal Thyself |
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| | 21 | (14) |
| 3 Information Systems in Organizations and Society: Speculating on the Next 25 Years of Research |
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| Steve Sawyer and Kevin Crowston |
| | 35 | (18) |
| 4 Information Systems Research as Design: Identity, Process, and Narrative |
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| Richard J. Boland, Jr., and Kalle Lyytinen |
| | 53 | (18) |
| Part 2: Reflections on the IS Discipline | |
| 5 Information Systems-A Cyborg Discipline? |
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| | 71 | (12) |
| 6 Cores and Definitions: Building the Cognitive Legitimacy of the Information Systems Discipline Across the Atlantic |
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| Frantz Rowe, Duane P. Truex III, and Lynnette Kvasny |
| | 83 | (20) |
| 7 Truth, Journals, and Politics: The Case of the MIS Quarterly |
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| Lucas Introna and Louise Whittaker |
| | 103 | (18) |
| 8 Debatable Advice and Inconsistent Evidence: Methodology in Information Systems Research |
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| | 121 | (22) |
| 9 The Crisis of Relevance and the Relevance of Crisis: Renegotiating Critique in Information Systems Scholarship |
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| Teresa Marcon, Mike Chiasson, and Abhijit Gopal |
| | 143 | (16) |
| 10 Whatever Happened to Information Systems Ethics? Caught between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea |
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| Frances Bell and Alison Adam |
| | 159 | (16) |
| 11 Supporting Engineering of Information Systems in Emergent Organizations |
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| Sandeep Purao and Duane P. Truex III |
| | 175 | (20) |
| Part 3: Critical Interpretive Studies | |
| 12 The Choice of Critical Information Systems Research |
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| Debra Howcroft and Eileen M. Trauth |
| | 195 | (18) |
| 13 The Research Approach and Methodology Used in an Interpretive Study of a Web Information System: Contextualizing Practice |
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| | 213 | (20) |
| 14 Applying Habermas' Validity Claims as a Standard for Critical Discourse Analysis |
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| Wendy Cukier, Robert Bauer, and Catherine Middleton |
| | 233 | (26) |
| 15 Conducting Critical Research in Information Systems: Can Actor-Network Theory Help? |
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| | 259 | (16) |
| 16 Conducting and Evaluating Critical Interpretive Research: Examining Criteria as a Key Component in Building a Research Tradition |
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| | 275 | (18) |
| 17 Making Contributions from Interpretive Case Studies: Examining Processes of Construction and Use |
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| Michael Barrett and Geoff Walsham |
| | 293 | (22) |
| Part 4: Action Research | |
| 18 Action Research: Time to Take a Turn? |
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| | 315 | (20) |
| 19 The Role of Conventional Research Methods in Information Systems Action Research |
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| Matt Germonprez and Lars Mathiassen |
| | 335 | (18) |
| 20 Themes, Iteration, and Recoverability in Action Research |
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| | 353 | (12) |
| Part 5: Theoretical Perspectives in IS Research | |
| 21 The Use of Social Theories in 20 Years of WG 8.2 Empirical Research |
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| Donal Flynn and Peggy Gregory |
| | 365 | (24) |
| 22 StructurANTion in Research and Practice: Representing Actor Networks, Their Structurated Orders and Translations |
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| Laurence Brooks and Chris Atkinson |
| | 389 | (22) |
| 23 Socio-Technical Structure: An Experiment in Integrative Theory Building |
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| Jeremy Rose, Rikard Lindgren, and Ola Henfridsson |
| | 411 | (22) |
| 24 Exposing Best Practices Through Narrative: The ERP Example |
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| Erica L. Wagner, Robert D. Galliers, and Susan V. Scott |
| | 433 | (20) |
| 25 Information Systems Research and Development by Activity Analysis and Development: Dead Horse or the Next Wave? |
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| Mikko Korpela, Anja Mursu, Abimbola Soriyan, Anne Erola, Heidi H��kkinen, and Marika Toivanen |
| | 453 | (20) |
| 26 Making Sense of Technological Frames: Promise, Progress, and Potential |
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| Elizabeth Davidson and David Pai |
| | 473 | (20) |
| 27 Reflection on Development Techniques Using the Psychology Literature: Over Two Decades of Bias and Conceptual Blocks |
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| Carl Adams and David E. Avison |
| | 493 | (22) |
| Part 6: Systems Development: Methods, Politics, and Users | |
| 28 Enterprise System as an Orchestrator of Dynamic Capability Development: A Case Study of the IRAS and TechCo |
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| Chee Wee Tan, Eric T.K. Lim, Shan Ling Pan, and Calvin M.L. Chan |
| | 515 | (20) |
| 29 On Transferring a Method into a Usage Situation |
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| Brian Lings and Bj��rn Lundell |
| | 535 | (20) |
| 30 From Critical Theory into Information Systems Practice: A Case Study of a Payroll-Personnel System |
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| | 555 | (22) |
| 31 Resistance or Deviance: A High-Tech Workplace During the Bursting of the Dot-Corn Bubble |
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| | 577 | (20) |
| 32 The Politics of Knowledge in Using GIS for Land Management in India |
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| S.K. Puri and Sundeep Sahay |
| | 597 | (18) |
| 33 Systems Development in the Wild: User-Led Exploration and Transformation of Organizing Visions |
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| Margunn Aanestad, Dixi Louise Henriksen, and Jens Kaaber Pors |
| | 615 | (16) |
| 34 Improvisation in Information Systems Development |
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| J��rgen P. Bansler and Erling C. Havn |
| | 631 | (18) |
| Part 7: Panels and Position Papers | |
| 35 Twenty Years of Applying Grounded Theory in Information Systems: A Coding Method, Useful Theory Generation Method, or an Orthodox Positivist Method of Data Analysis? |
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| Tony Bryant, Jim Hughes, Michael D. Myers, Eileen Trauth, and Cathy Urquhart |
| | 649 | (2) |
| 36 Building Capacity for E-Government: Contradictions and Synergies in the Dialectics of Action Research |
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| David Wastell, Peter Kawalek, Mike Newman, Mike Willetts, and Peter Langmead-Jones |
| | 651 | (2) |
| 37 New Insights into Studying Agency and Information Technology |
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| Tony Salvador, Jeremy Rose, Edgar A. Whitley, and Melanie Wilson |
| | 653 | (2) |
| 38 Researching and Developing Work Activities in Information Systems: Experiences and the Way Forward |
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| Mikko Korpela, Jonathan P. Allen, Olav Bertelsen, Yvonne Dittrich, Kari Kuutti, Krishna Lauche, and Anja Mursu |
| | 655 | (2) |
| 39 Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: Reflections on Information Systems Research in Health Care and the State of Information Systems |
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| Nicholas Barber, Patricia Flatley Brennan, Mike Chiasson, Tony Cornford, Elizabeth Davidson, Bonnie Kaplan, and Ela Kleculi |
| | 657 | (2) |
| 40 The Great Quantitative/Qualitative Debate: The Past, Present, and Future of Positivism and Post-Positivism in Information Systems |
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| Michael D. Myers, Detmar Straub, John Mingers, and Geoff Walsham |
| | 659 | (2) |
| 41 Challenges for Participatory Action Research in Industry-Funded Information Systems Projects |
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| Karin Breu, Christopher J. Hemingway, and Joe Peppard |
| | 661 | (6) |
| 42 Theory and Action for Emancipation: Elements of a Critical Realist Approach |
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| Melanie Wilson and Anita Greenhill |
| | 667 | (8) |
| 43 Non-Dualism and Information Systems Research |
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| | 675 | (6) |
| 44 Contextual Dependencies and Gender Strategy |
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| | 681 | (6) |
| 45 Information Technology and the Good Life |
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| Erik Stolterman and Anna Croon Fors |
| | 687 | (6) |
| 46 Embracing Information as Concept and Practice |
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| | 693 | (6) |
| 47 Truth to Tell? Some Observations on the Application of Truth Tests in Published Information Systems Research |
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| | 699 | (6) |
| 48 How Stakeholder Analysis can be Mobilized with Actor-Network Theory to identify Actors |
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| A. Pouloudi, R. Gandecha, C. Atkinson, and A. Papazafeiropoulou |
| | 705 | (8) |
| 49 Symbolic Processes in ERP Versus Legacy System Usage |
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| Martin M.T. Ng and Michael T.K. Tan |
| | 713 | (10) |
| 50 Dynamics of Use and Supply: An Analytic Lens for Information Systems Research |
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| | 723 | (12) |
| 51 Applying Adaptive Structuration Theory to the Study of Context-Aware Applications |
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| Carl Magnus Olsson and Nancy L. Russo |
| | 735 | (8) |
| Index of Contributors | | 743 | |
