The Identity Crisis Within the IS Discipline: Defining and Communicating the Discipline's Core Properties

By Izak Benbasat, Robert W. Zmud. MIS Q., 2003

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Defining information systems as work systems: implications for the IS field (2008, positive): “In addition to leading to a framework for describing and analyzing an information system as it exists at a particular point in time, the proposed definition also leads to the work system life cycle (WSLC) model (Alter 2006).”
Are we making a better world with ICTs? Reflections on a future agenda for the IS field (2012, background): “The need for a core A well-known paper by Benbasat and Zmud (2003) argued the need to focus on a core set of properties, concepts and phenomena, in order to define the IS field and to tackle its ‘identity crisis’. The proposed core was based around the IT artefact and the paper suggested the need fo”
Making sense of credibility on the Web: Models for evaluating online information and recommendations for future research (2007, background): “Like many other interdisciplinary fields, MIS has gone through many debates on its identity, foci, and future development (Banville & Landry, 1989; Benbasat & Weber, 1996; Benbasat & Zmud, 2003 ).”
How perceptions of intelligence and anthropomorphism affect adoption of personal intelligent agents (2020, background): “Prior studies called for changes to the traditional notion of computers and computing from being at the center of the user ’ s attention to existing on the periphery of other activities (Benbasat and Zmud, 2003; Orlikowski and Iacono, 2001; Yoo, 2010).”
Eight key issues for the decision support systems discipline (2008, background): “Benbasat and Zmud [10] identified five reasons why information systems research lacks relevance.”
E-Commerce Product Recommendation Agents: Use, Characteristics, and Impact (2007, methodology): “An information technology artifact (Benbasat and Zmud 2003), RAs are characterized as a type of customer decision support system (DSS) (Grenci and Todd 2002) based on the three essential elements of DSS proposed by Mallach (2000): (1) DSSs are information systems, (2) DSSs are used in making…”
Evaluating Anthropomorphic Product Recommendation Agents: A Social Relationship Perspective to Designing Information Systems (2009, background): “…perceived social presence of a PRa. the importance of design is well recognized in information systems (IS) research [48]. as Benbasat and zmud [13, 14] have argued, the relevance of IS research is directly related to its applicability to design and implementation for IS practice. t herefore, not…”
The Sociomaterialty of Information Systems: Current Status, Future Directions (2014, background): “…between the social and the technical, but it was still based on an assumption of duality between the technological and the social, an assumption that continues to be reflected in both technology-focused (e.g., Benbasat and Zmud 2003) and social perspectives on IS (e.g., Mingers and Willcocks 2004).”
Quo vadis TAM? (2007, background): “In regard to antecedents, an undesirable, albeit unintended side effect of TAM has been its diversion of researchers' attention away from a key IS research objective or theme: that of artifact design (Benbasat and Zmud 2003; Orlikowski and Iacono 2001).”
Addressing the What and How of Online Services: Positioning Supporting-Services Functionality and Service Quality for Business-to-Consumer Success (2008, background): “SSF directly targets the leverage points of IT design and development, thereby overcoming a potential shortcoming of broad and abstract perceptual models (Benbasat and Zmud 2003, Wixon 2005).”
Designing for Digital Transformation: Lessons for Information Systems Research from the Study of ICT and Societal Challenges (2016, background): “First, the theoretical centrality and definition of the ICT artifact concept have long been debated in our field, and different views persist (Benbasat and Zmud 2003,Orlikowski and Iacono 2001, Weber 2003).”
Inhibitors and Enablers as Dual Factor Concepts in Technology Usage (2004, background): “Given that a core artifact of interest to IS researchers is the design and functionality of a system, it follows that we should study those variables specific to the attributes of a system that encourage or discourage use (Benbasat and Zmud, 2003; Orlikowski and Iacono, 2001).”
Nothing At The Center?: Academic Legitimacy in the Information Systems Field (2004, background): “Such sentiments are most common in North America (Benbasat and Weber, 1996; Markus, 1999; Benbasat and Zmud, 2003), but are also found in Europe (Ciborra, 1998; Stowell and Mingers, 1997).”