Information Systems Research Forum

The Trouble with Information Systems

Matthew Jones
Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Thursday 6 November 2008 1200 - 1330.

New Academic Building, Alumni Theatre, LG.09

The information systems field seems to suffer from a perennial anxiety about its distinctiveness and its status, as reflected in recurrent debates about reference disciplines and core concepts. In this presentation I will suggest that this self-absorption is unhelpful and that the field needs to be both more modest and more ambitious in its outlook. A number of areas will be identified where IS research might benefit from a widening of its scope.

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