scholarly journals Special Issue on Institutional Theory in Information Systems Research: Contextualizing the it Artefact

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy L Currie ◽  
E Burton Swanson
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Systems Research

Special Issue: Crossing Boundaries in Information Systems Research

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT O. BRIGGS ◽  
JAY F. NUNAMAKER Jr. ◽  
RALPH H. SPRAGUE Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Systems Research

Trends in the conduct of information systems research

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Varun Grover ◽  
Michelle Carter ◽  
Dan Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Technological Environment ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Systems Research ◽  
Level Of Analysis

With the rapidly changing institutional and technological environment for information systems research, it is useful to examine how the conduct of research itself has been changing. In this Debates and Perspectives article, based on analysis of over 1800 articles, we first describe trends from 2000 to 2015 in co-authorship, research areas, unit of analysis, and research direction-setting initiatives. Our results indicate a rising trend among information systems researchers toward co-authorship. We also find that information systems research converges on a few broad research areas, and there is increasing diversity of topics within these broad themes. Concerning level of analysis, our results indicate a decreasing trend toward macro (organizational) studies. Finally, we note a lack of positive significant trends in the publication of special issue articles, review articles, and meta-analytic studies. We then offer our perspective regarding these trends along with a discussion of the importance of managing vicious and virtuous cycles that may result from community adaptations to environmental changes.

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