50th Anniversary Article: The Evolution of Research on Information Systems: A Fiftieth-Year Survey of the Literature in Management Science

By Rajiv D. Banker, Robert J. Kauffman. Management Sciences, 2004

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The development of the information systems (IS) literature inManagement Science during the past 50 years reflects the inception, growth, and maturation of several different research streams. The five research streams we identify incorporate different definitions of the managerial problems that relate to IS, the alternate theoretical perspectives and different methodological paradigms to study them, and the levels of the organization at which their primary results impact managerial practice. Thedecision support and design science research stream studies the application of computers in decision support, control, and managerial decision making. Thevalue of information research stream reflects relationships established based on economic analysis of information as a commodity in the management of the firm. Thehuman-computer systems design research stream emphasizes the cognitive basis for effective systems design. TheIS organization and strategy research stream focuses the level of analysis on the locus of value of the IS investment instead of on the perceptions of a system or its user. Theeconomics of information systems and technology research stream emphasizes the application of theoretical perspectives and methods from analytical and empirical economics to managerial problems involving IS and information technologies (IT). Based on a discussion of these streams, we evaluate the IS literature's core contributions to theoretical and managerial knowledge, and make some predictions about the road that lies ahead for IS researchers.

Subfields: Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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Computing in Everyday Life: A Call for Research on Experiential Computing (2010, background): “A quick review of four recent studies (Banker and Kauffman 2004; Orlikowski and Iacono 2001; Orlikowski and Scott 2008; Sidorova et al. 2008) shows that in the majority of past IS studies, computing was conceptualized as a discrete symbolic representations of something in the real world—…”
Big Data Research in Information Systems: Toward an Inclusive Research Agenda (2016, background): “The value of information has been a longstanding area of inquiry in the economics of IS tradition (Banker & Kauffman, 2004).”
Explaining Data-Driven Document Classifications (2014, background): “Model-based decision systems have seen a steep increase in development and use over the past two decades (Banker and Kauffman 2004).”
Trajectories of efficiency measurement: A bibliometric analysis of DEA and SFA (2015, background): “For DEA research „real‟ seminals are Sherman (1984), Berg et al. (1993), Tyteca (1996), Coelli and Perelman (1999), Cooper et al. (1999), Seiford and Zhu (1999) as well as Banker and Kauffman (2004).”
How Incorporating Feedback Mechanisms in a DSS Affects DSS Evaluations (2009, background): “Technological and modeling advances have dramatically increased the availability and quality of modelbased decision support systems (DSS) (Shim et al. 2002, Banker and Kauffman 2004).”
The Performance Effects of Complementarities Between Information Systems, Marketing, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain Processes (2007, background): “An emerging recognition is that IT has become a critical enabler of business performance, and has led to calls for more systematic research that examines the interactions between a ﬁrm’s information systems and other drivers of performance (Banker and Kauffman 2004, Steckel et al. 2004).”