Crisis of Identity
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(Ilia Bider)
I recently came across a number of papers on "crisis of identity". My general impression was that while trying to solve the issue, too many efforts had been spent to connect the solution to the historical roots and to the name "Information Systems". Has anybody tried to solve the problem of IS-field definition based on synchronous "state of affairs" only (e.g., based on the current bulk of papers produced in the field in the last 10 years)?
Personally, I have a feeling (without much research on the topic) that a solution can be simple. If we agree that a field can be defined by its subject and by its method, one suggestion could be as follows. Subject - real life organizations including private companies, public sector, non-profit organizations, etc. (with or without any IT systems). Method - system approach (quite vague but still). This can lead us to "IS research" investigates "the behaviour of real life organizations as systems". If we accept this hypothesis, is there anything that does not belong to IS but satisfies the definition, or does belong to IS but does not satisfy the definition?
posted by Poltak S. Lumbanbulus @ 2:05 PM
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