Charting changes in the discipline : a tri-continental analysis Keller, Susan and Coulthard, Darryl 2011, Charting changes in the discipline : a tri-continental analysis, in ECIS 2011 : Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Information Systems : ICT and Sustainable Service Development, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, pp. 1-13. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads keller-chartingchanges-2011-2.pdf Published version application/pdf 298.79KB 188 Title Charting changes in the discipline : a tri-continental analysis Author(s) Keller, Susan Coulthard, Darryl Conference name European Conference on Information Systems (19th : 2011 : Helsinki, Finland) Conference location Helsinki, Finland Conference dates 9-11 June 2011 Title of proceedings ECIS 2011 : Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Information Systems : ICT and Sustainable Service Development Editor(s) [unknown] Publication date 2011 Conference series European Conference on Information Systems Start page 1 End page 13 Total pages 13 Publisher Aalto University Place of publication Helsinki, Finland Keyword(s) research pluralism journal content analysis research methods discipline reflection Summary The purpose of this paper is to describe and chart three key and underpinning dimensions of Information Systems (IS) research in three ‘flagship’ journals of three continents, over a period of nine years. The dimensions are: research domain, research paradigm, and research setting and they comprise respectively, ‘the what’, ‘the how’, and ‘the where’ of research. The paper contributes to the debate on research diversity in Information Systems in three ways. Firstly, it provides a view of ‘research domain’ that is at a semantically higher level than previous schemas examining the ‘what’ of research. This view reveals deep structural trends within the IS literature. Secondly, it details the results of a content analysis which examined research domain, research paradigm, and research setting within the journals MIS Quarterly (MISQ), European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) and the Australasian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS) during the years 2001-2009. Lastly, the study compares the publication trends across the three continents and identifies an emerging, if tentative convergence across the Atlantic and to some extent in Australia. The paper suggests some reasons for this convergence and some avenues to explore it. Language eng Field of Research 080699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970108 Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed Copyright notice ©2011, Association for Information Systems (AIS) Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30036076 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Business and Law School of Information and Business Analytics Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to conference website Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 05 Aug 2011, 14:23:29 EST Mon, 08 Aug 2011, 13:12:15 EST Mon, 08 Aug 2011, 13:28:49 EST Mon, 08 Aug 2011, 13:29:57 EST Mon, 08 Aug 2011, 13:31:02 EST Mon, 08 Aug 2011, 13:32:22 EST Mon, 08 Aug 2011, 13:33:58 EST Thu, 11 Aug 2011, 10:25:57 EST Thu, 11 Aug 2011, 11:12:59 EST Thu, 11 Aug 2011, 11:14:23 EST Thu, 21 Jun 2012, 13:33:40 EST Fri, 22 Jun 2012, 09:12:29 EST Tue, 04 Jun 2013, 14:09:15 EST Fri, 17 Oct 2014, 11:00:39 EST Wed, 21 Oct 2015, 14:04:12 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 17:18:32 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 10:52:08 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 15:29:20 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 2 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 194 Abstract Views, 193 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 05 Aug 2011, 14:23:21 EST by Katrina Fleming