This paper aims to advance understanding of information systems (IS) through a critical
reflection on how IS are currently defined in the IS literature. Using the hermeneutic …

Purpose Most available studies focus mainly on Islamic economics and finance with none
conducted on Islamic marketing bibliometrics. The purpose of this paper is to commemorate …

This opinion paper addresses and contributes to the discourse on whether there is a central
artifact that captures the essence of the information systems (IS) discipline. It argues that the …

All research is philosophy in action. A lack of attention to and understanding of philosophy
can render research and its outcomes misleading or vacuous. Understanding philosophical …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to: investigate the current state of intellectual capital
(IC) as an academic discipline, and explore the impact of IC on the state of practice …

Although there has been a growing understanding of theory in the information systems field
in recent years, the process of theorizing is rarely addressed with contributions originating …

Literature reviews play an important role in the development of knowledge. Yet, we observe
a lack of theoretical underpinning of and epistemological insights into how literature reviews …

The second volume of this popular handbook demonstrates the richness and breadth of the
IS and IT disciplines. The book explores their close links to the practice of using, managing …

This paper engages with issues of universality and locality in the context of community-
based participatory design (PD), and focuses on the challenges and opportunities …

Abstract Information is an important concept for the “information age”, the “information
society” and the discipline of Information Systems (IS). However, different conceptions of …