Rudy Hirschheim lecture

The Future of the IS Discipline: Further Reflections

Rudy Hirschheim
E.J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University

Monday 10 July 2006
3.00 - 5.00 p.m.

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Fifth Floor, Tower One

Whilst there is much talk about whether there is or is not a future for the IS discipline, in this seminar I will attempt to articulate what the current thinking is (from a largely US-centric perspective). In particular, I will look at what is happening to the discipline regarding student numbers and the implications of offshoring. I shall also offer some thoughts on what the discipline can do to avoid the pitfalls of what happened with disciplines who failed to recognize the changing academic and practitioner landscape. It is my hope that the session will be an interactive one, where everyone will be able to share their thoughts. I would particularly welcome thoughts on how the UK landscape is, or is not, different from the US one.

Rudy Hirschheim is the Ourso Family Distinguished Professor of Information Systems in the E.J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University. He previously has been on the faculties of the University of Houston, Templeton College, Oxford (UK), London School of Economics (UK) and McMaster University (Canada). He has held visiting appointments at Monash University (Australia), University of New South Wales (Australia) and University of Bayreuth (Germany). He and Richard Boland are the Consulting Editors of the John Wiley Series in Information Systems. He is Senior Editor for the Journal of the Association for Information Systems and on the editorial boards of the journals: Information and Organizations; Information Systems Journal; Journal of Strategic Information Systems; Journal of MIS; and Journal of Information Technology; and has previously been on the boards of: European Journal of Information Systems and MIS Quarterly. He was VP for Publications for the Association for Information Systems.

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The Future of the IS Discipline: Further Reflections

Rudy Hirschheim E.J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University

Rudy Hirschheim
E.J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University