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

Fomin, Vladislav; Loebbecke, Claudia; Lesca, Nicolas; de Vaujany, François-Xavier (2008), The Espoused Theories of IS: A Study of General Editorial Statements, ICIS 2008 Proceedings, Association for Information Systems, p. Paper 10

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Communication / Conférence
Date
2008
Conference title
29th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
Conference date
2008-12
Conference city
Paris
Conference country
France
Book title
ICIS 2008 Proceedings
Publisher
Association for Information Systems
Pages
Paper 10
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Author(s)
Fomin, Vladislav
Loebbecke, Claudia
Lesca, Nicolas
de Vaujany, François-Xavier
Abstract (EN)
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.
Subjects / Keywords
Espoused Theory; Information Systems (IS); Research; Expectations; General Editorial Statement (GES); IS Journals; Thematic Analysis; Lexicometric Analysis
JEL
M15 - IT Management