Universiteit Twente · Business & IT · Foundations of Information Systems

Computing is also considered one of the major drivers of technological innovation. In particular research has contributed to the technological leap forward. The computing field, however, according to the authors from three different fields: computer science, software engineering and information systems. By putting the various characteristics of the fields next to each other at five levels (topics, research approach, Research Methods, disciplines and reference level or analysis) may be difference...

Peter Keen is one of the first academics who appointed the issues in the Information Systems field. The strong base of the field from the professional, there is a lot of ambiguity and are issues such as reference disciplines (reference disciplines) and the concept is being studied in the field (the dependent variable) is unclear. Keen also wonders whether there is a cumulative developed; the cumulative tradition. In his essay Keen explains the problem, and he describes how the field can develop ...

The discipline of information systems / information systems (IS) is struggling with an influx of knowledge from different disciplines. As a result, the art is widespread and it has no central core of concepts that are being investigated. This creates ambiguity and confusion. Benbasat and Zmud propose to define the core of the IS field as the IT artifact and the immediate surrounding it nomological net. In addition, different types are discussed mistakes.

. Peffers et al describe a new paradigm that has emerged within the Information Systems field: design science. Although it is widely used in engineering, it is within IS still neglected. One suspects that the reason for this lies in the absence of a collective and accepted methodology. Therefore, it sets the Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM) for, which consists of six steps. On the basis of four case studies the applicability is illustrated. A summary that the amount of pages in the pap...