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Is the IS Crisis Real?: Business School Deans and IS Academics Respond

Authors:

Rudy Hirschheim,

Beena GeorgeAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, Volume 45, Issue 4

Pages 8 - 29

https://doi.org/10.1145/2691517.2691519

Published: 21 November 2014 Publication History

Abstract

This article surveys business school deans and IS academics regarding their level of agreement with concerns attributed to the Information Systems discipline as summarized in Ives and Adams (2012). The responses of the two constituent groups are evaluated independently, then the responses are juxtaposed for between-group analysis. Additional concerns are elicited from the respective groups, and the social representations generated are reported per stakeholder group. Analysis is illustrated through network topic maps and discussed based on the authors' interpretations of the findings. The findings show some marked differences between the groups suggesting that IS academics are more critical of the IS discipline than business school deans.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3229335.3229342
Love JHirschheim R(2017)Crowdsourcing of information systems researchEuropean Journal of Information Systems10.1057/s41303-017-0036-326:3(315-332)Online publication date: 19-Dec-2017
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41303-017-0036-3

Index Terms

Is the IS Crisis Real?: Business School Deans and IS Academics Respond
1. Information systems
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems Volume 45, Issue 4

November 2014

64 pages

ISSN:0095-0033

EISSN:1532-0936

DOI:10.1145/2691517

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Treiblmaier H(2018)The Philosopher's CornerACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems10.1145/3229335.322934249:2(93-101)Online publication date: 25-May-2018
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Love JHirschheim R(2017)Crowdsourcing of information systems researchEuropean Journal of Information Systems10.1057/s41303-017-0036-326:3(315-332)Online publication date: 19-Dec-2017
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41303-017-0036-3

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