The Espoused Theories of IS: A Study of General Editorial Statements

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Date
2008
Indexation documentaire
Gestion des entreprises
Subject
Espoused Theory; Information Systems (IS); Research; Expectations; General Editorial Statement (GES); IS Journals; Thematic Analysis; Lexicometric Analysis
Code JEL
M15
Titre du colloque
29th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
Date du colloque
12-2008
Ville du colloque
Paris
Pays du colloque
France
Titre de l'ouvrage
ICIS 2008 Proceedings
Nom de l'éditeur
Association for Information Systems
Année
2008
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/4899
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Auteur
Fomin, Vladislav
Loebbecke, Claudia
Lesca, Nicolas
de Vaujany, François-Xavier
Type
Communication / Conférence
Nombre de pages du document
Paper 10
Résumé en anglais
In the IS field there has been an ongoing tradition to study the publication output of the community in order to evaluate the current and potential situation of IS research. In this work, we follow a different strategy and study what IS research claims to be. We look at those so-called 'espoused theories of IS' as found in the General Editorials Statements (GES) of IS journals. Based on the AISWorld journal ranking, we collected GES for 30 leading IS journals for the years 1997 and 2007. We applied thematic, lexicometric, and factor analyses to the datasets of the 1997 and the 2007 GES. Our results show that the representation of IS research in the GES has changed little over the last decade.