Table of Contents

Young Turks, Old Guardsmen, and the Conundrum of the Broken Mold: A Progress Report on Twenty Years of Information Systems Research.- Young Turks, Old Guardsmen, and the Conundrum of the Broken Mold: A Progress Report on Twenty Years of Information Systems Research.- Panoramas.- Doctor of Philosophy, Heal Thyself.- Information Systems in Organizations and Society: Speculating on the Next 25 Years of Research.- Information Systems Research as Design: Identity, Process, and Narrative.- Reflections on the IS Discipline.- Information Systems— a Cyborg Discipline.- Cores and Definitions: Building the Cognitive Legitimacy of the Information Systems Discipline Across the Atlantic.- Truth, Journals, and Politics: The Case of the MIS Quarterly.- Debatable Advice and Inconsistent Evidence: Methodology in Information Systems Research.- The Crisis of Relevance and the Relevance of Crisis: Renegotiating Critique in Information Systems Scholarship.- Whatever Happened to Information Systems Ethics?.- Supporting Engineering of Information Systems in Emergent Organizations.- Critical Interpretive Studies.- The Choice of Critical Information Systems Research.- The Research Approach and Methodology Used in an Interpretive Study of a Web Information System: Contextualizing Practice.- Applying Habermas’ Validity Claims as a Standard for Critical Discourse Analysis.- Conducting Critical Research in Information Systems: Can Actor-Network Theory Help?.- Conducting and Evaluating Critical Interpretive Research: Examining Criteria as a Key Component in Building a Research Tradition.- Making Contributions From Interpretive Case Studies: Examining Processes of Construction and Use.- Action Research.- Action Research: Time to Take a Turn?.- The Role of Conventional Research Methods inInformation Systems Action Research.- Themes, Iteration, and Recoverability in Action Research.- Theoretical Perspectives in IS Research.- The Use of Social Theories in 20 Years of WG 8.2 Empirical Research.- Structurantion in Research and Practice: Representing Actor Networks Their Structurated Orders and Translations.- Socio-Technical Structure: An Experiment in Integrative Theory Building.- Exposing Best Practices Through Narrative: The ERP Example.- Information Systems Research and Development by Activity Analysis and Development: Dead Horse or the Next Wave?.- Making Sense of Technological Frames: Promise, Progress, and Potential.- Reflection on Development Techniques Using the Psychology Literature: Over Two Decades of Bias and Conceptual Blocks.- Systems Development: Methods, Politics, and Users.- Enterprise System as an Orchestrator of Dynamic Capability Development: A Case Study of the IRAS and TechCo.- On Transferring a Method into a Usage Situation.- From Critical Theory into Information Systems Practice: A Case Study of a Payroll-Personnel System.- Resistance or Deviance? A High-Tech Workplace During the Bursting of the Dot-Com Bubble.- The Politics of Knowledge in Using GIS for Land Management in India.- Systems Development in the Wild: User-Led Exploration and Transformation of Organizing Visions.- Improvisation in Information Systems Development.- Panels and Position Papers.- Twenty Years of Applying Grounded Theory in Information Systems: A Coding Method, Useful Theory Generation Method, or an Orthodox Positivist Method of Data Analysis ?.- Building Capacity for E-Government: Contradictions and Synergies in the Dialectics of Action Research.- New Insights into Studying Agency and Information Technology.- Researching and Developing Work Activities in Information Systems: Experiences and the Way Forward.- Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: Reflections on Information Systems Research in Health Care and the State of Information Systems.- The Great Quantitative/Qualitative Debate: The Past, Present, and Future of Positivism and Post-Positivism in Information Systems.- Challenges for Participatory Action Research in Industry-Funded Information Systems Projects.- Theory and Action for Emancipation: Elements of a Critical Realist Approach.- Non-Dualism and Information Systems Research.- Contextual Dependencies and Gender Strategy.- Information Technology and the Good Life.- Embracing Information as Concept and Practice.- Truth to Tell?.- How Stakeholder Analysis can be Mobilized with Actor-Network Theory to Identify Actors.- Symbolic Processes in ERP Versus Legacy System Usage.- Dynamics of Use and Supply: An Analytic Lens for Information Systems Research.- Applying Adaptive Structuration Theory to the Study of Context-Aware Applications.