Data availability and access to various platforms, is changing the nature of Information
Systems (IS) studies. Such studies often use large datasets, which may incorporate …

We address key questions related to the explosion of interest in the emerging fields of big
data, analytics, and data science. We discuss the novelty of the fields and whether the …

Big data has received considerable attention from the information systems (IS) discipline
over the past few years, with several recent commentaries, editorials, and special issue …

The era of big data provides many opportunities for conducting impactful research from both
data-driven and theory-driven perspectives. However, data-driven and theory-driven …

Through building and testing theory, the practice of research animates data for human sense-
making about the world. The IS field began in an era when research data was scarce; in …

This essay discusses the use of big data analytics (BDA) as a strategy of enquiry for
advancing information systems (IS) research. In broad terms, we understand BDA as the …

The dominant way of producing knowledge in information systems (IS) seeks to domesticate
high-level reference theory in the form of mid-level abstractions involving generic and …

Scholars have been increasingly calling for innovative research in the organizational
sciences in general, and the information systems (IS) field in specific, one that breaks from …

This paper concentrates on a major concern in the IS field–theory building–and couples it
with a major development in our field, social media-related environments, to consider how …

Abstract “Big data” describes technologies that promise to fulfill a fundamental tenet of
research in information systems, which is to provide the right information to the right receiver …