Beyond rigor and relevance: producing consumable research about information systems
Information Resources Management Journal - Special issue on the role of business in information technology research
Empirical research in information systems: the practice of relevance
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on intensive research in information systems
Rigor vs. relevance revisited: response to Benbasat and Zmud
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on intensive research in information systems
Empirical research in information systems: on the relevance of practice in thinking of IS research
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on intensive research in information systems
Rigor and relevance in MIS research: beyond the approach of positivism alone
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on intensive research in information systems
GIS for district-level administration in India: problems and opportunities
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on intensive research in information systems
Investigating information systems with action research
Communications of the AIS
Communication and Trust in Global Virtual Teams
Organization Science
Generalizing Generalizability in Information Systems Research
Information Systems Research
1001 Unanswered research questions in GSS
Journal of Management Information Systems
Lessons from a dozen years of group support systems research: a discussion of lab and field findings
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: Information technology and its organizational impact
Information Systems: The State of the Field (John Wiley Series in Information Systems)
Information Systems: The State of the Field (John Wiley Series in Information Systems)
Discourses on information ethics: The claim to universality
Ethics and Information Technology
Innovating mindfully with information technology
MIS Quarterly
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In this paper, we argue that any effort to understand the state of the Information Systems field has to view IS research as a series of normative choices and value judgments about the ends of research. To assist a systematic questioning of the various ends of IS research, we propose a pragmatic framework that explores the choices IS researchers make around theories and methodologies, ethical methods of conduct, desirable outcomes, and the long-term impact of the research beyond a single site and topic area. We illustrate our framework by considering and questioning the explicit and implicit choices of topics, design and execution, and the representation of knowledge in experimental research--research often considered to be largely beyond value judgments and power relations. We conclude with the implications of our pragmatic framework by proposing practical questions for all IS researchers to consider in making choices about relevant topics, design and execution, and representation of findings in their research.