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Information Systems Research Thematics: Submissions to a New Journal, 1987–1992

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  • E. Burton Swanson

    (Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024-1481)

  • Neil C. Ramiller

    (Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024-1481)

Abstract

The flow of manuscripts through the editorial offices of an academic journal can provide valuable information both about the performance of the journal as an instrument of its field and about the structure and evolution of the field itself. We undertook an analysis of the manuscripts submitted to the journal Information Systems Research ( ISR ) during its start-up years, 1987 through 1992, in an effort to provide a foundation for examining the performance of the journal, and to open a window on to the information systems (IS) field during that period. We identified the primary research question for each of 397 submissions to ISR , and then categorized the research questions using an iterative classification procedure. Ambiguities in classification were exploited to identify relationships among the categories, and some overarching themes were exposed in order to reveal levels of structure in the journal's submissions stream. We also examined the distribution of submissions across categories and over the years of the study period, and compared the structures of the submissions stream and the publication stream. We present the results with the goal of broadening the perspectives which individual members of the IS research community have of ISR and to help fuel community discourse about the nature and proper direction of the field. We provide some guidelines to assist readers in this interpretive task, and offer some observations and speculations to help launch the discussion.

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  • E. Burton Swanson & Neil C. Ramiller, 1993. "Information Systems Research Thematics: Submissions to a New Journal, 1987–1992," Information Systems Research, INFORMS, vol. 4(4), pages 299-330, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orisre:v:4:y:1993:i:4:p:299-330
    DOI: 10.1287/isre.4.4.299
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    1. E. Burton Swanson & John Leslie King & Izak Benbasat & Chris F. Kemerer, 2010. "The Early Years of ISR : Recollections of the Editors," Information Systems Research, INFORMS, vol. 21(4), pages 665-674, December.
    2. Goles, Tim & Hirschheim, Rudy, 2000. "The paradigm is dead, the paradigm is dead...long live the paradigm: the legacy of Burrell and Morgan," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 28(3), pages 249-268, June.
    3. Giampio Bracchi & Chiara Francalanci, 1997. "A Model for Information Processing Capacity: Formalizing the Impact of Structural and Information System Choices on Organizational Performance," Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Springer, vol. 3(3), pages 173-198, September.
    4. Benjamin Cole & Preeta Banerjee, 2013. "Morally Contentious Technology-Field Intersections: The Case of Biotechnology in the United States," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 115(3), pages 555-574, July.
    5. Katharina Steininger & René Riedl & Friedrich Roithmayr & Peter Mertens, 2009. "Fads and Trends in Business and Information Systems Engineering and Information Systems Research – A Comparative Literature Analysis," Business & Information Systems Engineering: The International Journal of WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK, Springer;Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), vol. 1(6), pages 411-428, December.
    6. Bernard Fallery & Florence Rodhain, 2009. "Management Information Systems : the Journey of a Research Field," Post-Print hal-00777795, HAL.
    7. Eymann, Torsten (Ed.), 2011. "Tagungsband zum Doctoral Consortium der WI 2011 [Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium of the Wirtschaftsinformatik 2011]," Bayreuth Reports on Information Systems Management 51, University of Bayreuth, Chair of Information Systems Management.
    8. Avgerou, Chrisanthi, 2000. "Information systems: what sort of science is it?," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 28(5), pages 567-579, October.
    9. Ahmed Hamroush & Hassan Tawfik, 2014. "Synchronized Information in the Producer-Consumer Problem," Journal of Socioeconomic Engineering, Instituto Universitario de Análisis Económico y Social, issue 2, pages 25-30, December.
    10. Lange, Carola, 2005. "Development and Status of the Information Systems / Wirtschaftsinformatik Discipline. An Interpretive Evaluation of Interviews with Renowned Researchers: Part I - Research Objectives and Method," ICB Research Reports 2, University Duisburg-Essen, Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB).

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