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A Proposed Theoretical Foundation For The Information Systems Discipline (Version 1. 1), Steven Alter
A Proposed Theoretical Foundation For The Information Systems Discipline (Version 1. 1), Steven Alter
Business Analytics and Information Systems
“Rethink the theoretical foundations of the IS discipline” is one of the grand challenges for IS research identified in a Delphi study in Business Information Systems Engineering (Becker et al., 2015). This draft addresses that challenge directly through an integrated approach to the operation and evolution of systems. Almost any attempt to articulate a theoretical foundation for IS (a TFIS) would need to cover that topic although other attempts might emphasize other topics and other viewpoints.
The proposed Theoretical Foundation for IS (TFIS) has three main goals:
1) Integration. Build outward from an integrated core. Do not accept the excuse …