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Seizing the Opportunity: Towards a Historiography of Information Systems

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  • Nathalie Mitev

    () (ISIG - Information Systems and Innovation Group - Department of Management - London School of Economics and Political Science)

  • François-Xavier De Vaujany

    () (DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - CNRS : UMR7088 - Université Paris IX - Paris Dauphine)

Abstract

Historical perspectives are only timidly entering the world of IS research compared to historical research in management or organization studies. If major IS outlets have already published history-oriented papers, the number of historical papers - although increasing - remains low. We carried out a thematic analysis of all papers on History and IS published between 1972 and 2009 indexed on ABI and papers indexed in Google ScholarTM for the same period. We used a typology developed by theorists Usdiken and Kieser (2004) who classify historical organisation research into supplementarist, integrationist and reorientationist approaches. We outline their links with the epistemological stances well known in IS research, positivism, interpretivism and critical research; we then focus on their differences and historiographical characteristics. We found that most IS History papers are supplementarist descriptive case studies with limited uses of History. This paper then suggests that IS research could benefit from adopting integrationist and reorientationist historical perspectives and we offer some examples to illustrate how that would contribute to enriching, extending and challenging existing theories.

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Date of creation: 2012
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Publication status: Published, Journal of Information Technology, 2012, 1-15
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Keywords: IS history; historiography; historical methods; historical organization theory;

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  1. Linking History and Management Discourse: Epistemology and Method
    by bbatiz in NEP-HIS blog on 2012-04-19 13:36:38
  2. Linking History and Management Discourse: Epistemology and Method
    by bbatiz in NEP-HIS blog on 2012-04-19 13:36:38
  3. Linking History and Management Discourse: Epistemology and Method
    by bbatiz in NEP-HIS blog on 2012-04-19 13:36:38

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