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Re-composing the elephant' : bringing the big picture back into IS research

Carroll, Jennie and Fidock, Justin 2012, Re-composing the elephant' : bringing the big picture back into IS research, in ACIS 2012 : Location, location, location : Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2012, ACIS, [Geelong, Vic.], pp. 1-10.

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Title	Re-composing the elephant' : bringing the big picture back into IS research
Author(s)	Carroll, Jennie Fidock, Justin
Conference name	Australasian Conference on Information Systems (23rd : 2012 : Geelong, Victoria)
Conference location	Geelong, Victoria
Conference dates	3-5 Dec. 2012
Title of proceedings	ACIS 2012 : Location, location, location : Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2012
Editor(s)	Lamp, John
Publication date	2012
Conference series	Australasian Conference on Information Systems
Start page	1
End page	10
Total pages	10
Publisher	ACIS
Place of publication	[Geelong, Vic.]
Keyword(s)	rigour relevance multiple theoretical lenses technology appropriation
Summary	Information Systems is a practice-based discipline. It experiences periodic debates about the rigour and relevance of its research. The tensions between pretensions to be a ‘real’ science (rigour) and the need to contribute to practice (relevance) are intensified at a time of low student enrolment, lack of a clear identity, and uncertainties about the viability of our discipline. This essay argues that decomposing phenomena into narrow topics of research to achieve rigour is damaging to our discipline if we fail to then ‘recompose’ or integrate these back into understanding, lessons and guidelines for application to real-world practices. This argument is illustrated through recent work on the motors that drive changes in technology appropriation. It highlights the importance of plurality of theories and methods in understanding complex real-world phenomena in order to achieve both rigour and relevance.
Notes	Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner.
Language	eng
Field of Research	089999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
Socio Economic Objective	970108 Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences
Related work	DU:30049020
Copyright notice	©2012, The Authors/ACIS
Free to Read?	Yes
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30049050

Document type:	Conference Paper
Collections:	ACIS : Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2012 Open Access Collection


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