MIS Quarterly articles from March 1999

MIS Quarterly archives from March 1999

A set of principles for conducting and evaluating interpretive field studies in information systems.
March 1, 1999... Introduction In recent years, interpretive research has emerged as an important strand in information systems research (Walsham 1995b). Interpretive research can help IS researchers to understand human thought and action in social and...

Structuring time and task in electronic brainstorming.
March 1, 1999... Introduction Group support systems (GSS) have been used in organizations to support brainstorming and idea generation for more than a decade (e.g., Dennis 1994; Nunamaker et al. 1987; Tyran et al. 1992). GSSs enable group members to...

Ethics and information systems: the corporate domain.
March 1, 1999... Introduction Despite the explosion in information technology...in the last 20 years, scholars, students, and practitioners would be hard-pressed to claim similar progress in ethical thinking about information technology. There is an...

Empirical research in information systems: the practice of relevance.
March 1, 1999... Introduction "Is research in the Ivory Tower 'Fuzzy, Irrelevant, Pretentious?'" (Business Week 1990). The pointed question raised in the title of this Business Week article is not an isolated, off-hand observation. Instead, it represents...

Rigor vs. relevance revisited: response to Benbasat and Zmud.(response to article in this issue, p. 3)
March 1, 1999... Academic IS Research: Rigor vs. Relevance Revisited(1) We strongly agree with Professors Benbasat and Zmud that information systems research must become more relevant. We see the goal of research relevance as critical to the long-term...

Empirical research in information systems: on the relevance of practice in thinking of IS research.(response to Benbasat and Zmud, p. 3 in this issue)
March 1, 1999... A Note on Benbasat and Zmud I found the article by Benbasat and Zmud both interesting and provocative. Because it is written by two leading North American IS scholars - both former or current editor-in-chiefs of MISQ - the paper's call for...

Rigor and relevance in MIS research: beyond the approach of positivism alone.(management information systems)
March 1, 1999... Benbasat and Zmud offer a diagnosis of "why one tends today to observe a lack of relevance to practice in IS research" and a prescription of guidelines that "the IS academic community might follow to introduce relevance into their research...

GIS for district-level administration in India: problems and opportunities.(Special Issue on Intensive Research in Information Systems: Using Qualitative, Interpretive, and Case Methods to Study Information Technology)(geographic information systems)
March 1, 1999... Introduction Information technology has become an important aspect of the attempt by the so-called developing countries to achieve economic progress, and the relative success in this area of various Asian economies, such as Singapore, has...