Information Systems as a Reference Discipline

By Richard L. Baskerville, Michael D. Myers. MIS Q., 2002

338 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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How researchers see this paper

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In Management Information Systems

1. Miriam J. Metzger
2. Michael D. Myers
3. Kalle J. Lyytinen
4. John Leslie King
5. Göran Goldkuhl

In Sociology and Political Science

1. John Leslie King
2. Miriam J. Metzger
3. Michael D. Myers
4. Kalle J. Lyytinen
5. Andrew J. Flanagin
6. Geoff Walsham
7. Satish Nambisan
8. Göran Goldkuhl

Citations in the corpus

• Making sense of credibility on the Web: Models for evaluating online information and recommendations for future research (2007, background): “Davis defined MIS as “an integrated man/ machine system for providing information to support the operation, management, and decision making functions in an organization.” (Davis, 1974) At the first International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Keen defined MIS as “the effective design, del”
• Nothing At The Center?: Academic Legitimacy in the Information Systems Field (2004, background): “Such impact is also felt throughout different social sciences, as shown by the citation patterns of IS research within other fields (Baskerville and Myers, 2002).”
• Putting the ‘theory’ back into grounded theory: guidelines for grounded theory studies in information systems (2009, background): “One well-known characteristic of the information systems research domain is the use of many theories borrowed from other disciplines (Baskerville & Myers, 2002).”