Management information systems: conceptual foundations, structure, and development (2nd ed.)
Management information systems: conceptual foundations, structure, and development (2nd ed.)
Unifying the fragmented models of information systems implementation
Critical issues in information systems research
Systems development in information systems research
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue on management support systems
Exploring the software engineering component in MIS research
Communications of the ACM
The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.)
The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.)
A review on the use of action research in information systems studies
Proceedings of the IFIP TC8 WG 8.2 international conference on Information systems and qualitative research
Diversity in information systems action research methods
European Journal of Information Systems
A set of principles for conducting and evaluating interpretive field studies in information systems
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on intensive research in information systems
Causality: models, reasoning, and inference
Causality: models, reasoning, and inference
A relational model of data for large shared data banks
Communications of the ACM
Software engineering (6th ed.)
Software engineering (6th ed.)
Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems
Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems
Making Markets: how firms can design and profit from online auctions and exchanges
Making Markets: how firms can design and profit from online auctions and exchanges
Structured Systems Analysis: Tools and Techniques
Structured Systems Analysis: Tools and Techniques
Information Systems Conceptual Foundations: Looking Backward and Forward
HOIT '00 Proceedings of the IFIP TC9 WG9.3 International Conference on Home Oriented Informatics and Telematics,: Information, Technology and Society
A Paradigmatic Analysis Contrasting Information Systems Development Approaches and Methodologies
Information Systems Research
Information Systems Research
Combining IS Research Methods: Towards a Pluralist Methodology
Information Systems Research
Information Systems Research
Generalizing Generalizability in Information Systems Research
Information Systems Research
Communications of the ACM - Services science
A Dynamic Framework for Classifying Information Systems Development Methodologies and Approaches
Journal of Management Information Systems
The DeLone and McLean Model of Information Systems Success: A Ten-Year Update
Journal of Management Information Systems
Computational research on interaction and agency
Artificial Intelligence
Design and natural science research on information technology
Decision Support Systems
Design science in information systems research
MIS Quarterly
MIS Quarterly
A Systematic Review of Theory Use in Software Engineering Experiments
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Virtual worlds: multi-disciplinary research opportunities
ACM SIGMIS Database
Complex service design: A virtual enterprise architecture for logistics service
Information Systems Frontiers
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web: Innovating the Interactive Society
A framework for understanding creativity in requirements engineering
Information and Software Technology
Service and document based interoperability for European ecustoms solutions
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Towards a maturity model for corporate data quality management
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
Building theory in the sciences of the artificial
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology
Outline of a design science research process
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology
Towards a paradigmatic shift in IS: designing for social practice
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology
Design alternatives for the evaluation of design science research artifacts
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology
From Association to Causation via a Potential Outcomes Approach
Information Systems Research
From National to Supranational Government Inter-Organizational Systems: An Extended Typology
EGOV '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Electronic Government
A Meta-Theory for Understanding Information Systems Within Sociotechnical Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Special Section: Competitive Strategy, Economics, and Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Challenges in enterprise software integration: An industrial study using repertory grids
ESEM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
A theoretical framework of component-based software development phases
ACM SIGMIS Database
Documenting theories working group results
Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Empirical software engineering issues: critical assessment and future directions
Design exemplars for synchronous e-learning: A design theory approach
Computers & Education
Design exemplars for synchronous e-learning: A design theory approach
Computers & Education
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Bridging the Socio-technical Gap in Decision Support Systems: Challenges for the Next Decade
Collaborative conceptual modeling using an ontology
CRIWG'10 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Collaboration and technology
Opening up design science: The challenge of designing for reuse and joint development
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Probing some theoretical aspects of practitioner-based inquiry research in information systems
SAICSIT '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Research Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists
Consumer adoption of group-buying auctions: an experimental study
Information Technology and Management
Socio-technical IS design science research: developing design theory for IS integration management
Information Systems and e-Business Management
Criteria of progress for information systems design theories
Information Systems and e-Business Management
Online government advisory service innovation through Intelligent Support Systems
Information and Management
Real-world semantics of conceptual models
The evolution of conceptual modeling
The next generation information infrastructure for international trade
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Understanding technology use in global virtual teams: Research methodologies and methods
Information and Software Technology
Theorizing in design science research
DESRIST'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Service-oriented perspectives in design science research
Forms of reasoning in the design science research process
DESRIST'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Service-oriented perspectives in design science research
Enhancing design science through empirical knowledge: framework and application
DESRIST'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Service-oriented perspectives in design science research
Design theory in practice: making design science research more transparent
DESRIST'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Service-oriented perspectives in design science research
Design range and research strategies in design science publications
DESRIST'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Service-oriented perspectives in design science research
On expanding the scope of design science in IS research
DESRIST'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Service-oriented perspectives in design science research
Managing the future: six guidelines for designing environmental scanning systems
DESRIST'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Service-oriented perspectives in design science research
DESRIST'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Service-oriented perspectives in design science research
Design science in service research: a framework-based review of IT artifacts in Germany
DESRIST'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Service-oriented perspectives in design science research
Neuroscience in design-oriented research: exploring new potentials
DESRIST'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Service-oriented perspectives in design science research
MIS Quarterly
MIS Quarterly
About theory in software development
GAVTASC'11 Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS international conference on Signal processing, computational geometry and artificial vision, and Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS international conference on Systems theory and scientific computation
Understanding the Economic Potential of Service-Oriented Architecture
Journal of Management Information Systems
Co-Creation: Toward a Taxonomy and an Integrated Research Perspective
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS)
An empirical investigation of the relationship of IS strategy with firm performance
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Understanding the creative mechanisms of design thinking: an evolutionary approach
Procedings of the Second Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design
The Role of Communication and Trust in Global Virtual Teams: A Social Network Perspective
Journal of Management Information Systems
Relevance through consortium research? findings from an expert interview study
DESRIST'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Global Perspectives on Design Science Research
Artifact types in information systems design science – a literature review
DESRIST'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Global Perspectives on Design Science Research
Quo vadis, design science? – a survey of literature
DESRIST'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Global Perspectives on Design Science Research
Design science research post hevner et al.: criteria, standards, guidelines, and expectations
DESRIST'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Global Perspectives on Design Science Research
Assessing project effort in requirements engineering: a report on design research in progress
DESRIST'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Global Perspectives on Design Science Research
Towards a theory on collaborative decision making in enterprise architecture
DESRIST'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Global Perspectives on Design Science Research
Design science and the accumulation of knowledge in the information systems discipline
ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS)
Coordination in co-located agile software development projects
Journal of Systems and Software
Predictive analytics in information systems research
MIS Quarterly
Proceedings of the 50th annual conference on Computers and People Research
Organizational uses of the crowd: developing a framework for the study of crowdsourcing
Proceedings of the 50th annual conference on Computers and People Research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Validating the IS-impact model at queensland university of technology (QUT): part A
ISIICT'09 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Innovation and Information and Communication Technology
Key practices for SOA adoption
BICA'12 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS congress on Applied Computing conference, and Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Biologically Inspired Computation
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Evaluate an applied focus group approach using Klein & Myers principles
Information Systems Journal
Neolithic informatics: The nature of information
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
The 'language' of informatics: The nature of information systems
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Formated technology and informated action: The nature of information technology
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Significant threads: The nature of data
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Organizational schemata of e-portfolios for fostering higher-order thinking
Information Systems Frontiers
DESRIST'12 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems: advances in theory and practice
Towards a unified design theory for creativity support systems
DESRIST'12 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems: advances in theory and practice
Design science as design of social systems --- implications for information systems research
DESRIST'12 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems: advances in theory and practice
DESRIST'12 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems: advances in theory and practice
Design science research and the core of information systems
DESRIST'12 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems: advances in theory and practice
Anatomy of knowledge bases used in design science research
DESRIST'12 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems: advances in theory and practice
Characterizing design science theories by level of constraint on design decisions
DESRIST'12 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems: advances in theory and practice
DESRIST'12 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems: advances in theory and practice
Theoretical approaches to gender and IT: examining some Australian evidence
Information Systems Journal
Valuing evaluation: methodologies to bridge research and practice
Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Evidential assessment of software technologies
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Event history, spatial analysis and count data methods for empirical research in information systems
Information Technology and Management
Purposeful gaming & socio-computational systems: a citizen science design case
Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Supporting group work
Towards an overarching classification model of CSCW and groupware: a socio-technical perspective
CRIWG'12 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Collaboration and Technology
Strategies for software-based hybrid business models
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
POCKET: A tool for protecting children's privacy online
Decision Support Systems
A characteristics framework for Semantic Information Systems Standards
Information Systems and e-Business Management
Conceptual modeling for systems integration
ER'12 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Conceptual Modeling
Conceptualizing data in multinational enterprises: model design and application
ER'12 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Conceptual Modeling
Information Systems and e-Business Management
Report on the first SEMAT workshop on general theory of software engineering (GTSE 2012)
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
International Journal of Technoethics
Agile requirements prioritization in large-scale outsourced system projects: An empirical study
Journal of Systems and Software
Why different motives matter in sustaining online contributions
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Editor's comments: does MIS have native theories?
MIS Quarterly
The roles of theory in canonical action research
MIS Quarterly
Theoretical foundations for the study of sociomateriality
Information and Organization
Proceedings of the 2013 annual conference on Computers and people research
Proceedings of the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference
Information Resources Management Journal
The “Mail-Order-Bride” (MOB) Phenomenon in the Cyberworld: An Interpretive Investigation
ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS)
Seeking constructive synergy: design science and the constructive research approach
DESRIST'13 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Design Science at the Intersection of Physical and Virtual Design
Rethinking design theory in information systems
DESRIST'13 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Design Science at the Intersection of Physical and Virtual Design
Reconciling theories with design choices in design science research
DESRIST'13 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Design Science at the Intersection of Physical and Virtual Design
An argumentative approach of conceptual modelling and model validation through theory building
DESRIST'13 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Design Science at the Intersection of Physical and Virtual Design
A decision support tool to define scope in IT service management process assessment and improvement
DESRIST'13 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Design Science at the Intersection of Physical and Virtual Design
DESRIST'13 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Design Science at the Intersection of Physical and Virtual Design
The role of theory in gender and information systems research
Information and Organization
Theory-generating design science research
Information Systems Frontiers
Identifying IT sustainability performance drivers: Instrument development and validation
Information Systems Frontiers
More applicable environmental scanning systems leveraging "modern" information systems
Information Systems and e-Business Management
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The aim of this research essay is to examine the structural nature of theory in Information Systems. Despite the importance of theory, questions relating to its form and structure are neglected in comparison with questions relating to epistemology. The essay addresses issues of causality, explanation, prediction, and generalization that underlie an understanding of theory. A taxonomy is proposed that classifies information systems theories with respect to the manner in which four central goals are addressed: analysis, explanation, prediction, and prescription. Five interrelated types of theory are distinguished: (1) theory for analyzing, (2) theory for explaining, (3) theory for predicting, (4) theory for explaining and predicting, and (5) theory for design and action. Examples illustrate the nature of each theory type. The applicability of the taxonomy is demonstrated by classifying a sample of journal articles. The paper contributes by showing that multiple views of theory exist and by exposing the assumptions underlying different viewpoints. In addition, it is suggested that the type of theory under development can influence the choice of an epistemological approach. Support is given for the legitimacy and value of each theory type. The building of integrated bodies of theory that encompass all theory types is advocated.