Affiliation:
1. Canterbury Business School, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Abstract
This paper presents a personal overview of the history of the IS discipline over the last 20 years. It highlights two particular strands of development over which there has been much controversy - the so-called paradigm wars which were an epistemological battle between positivism and interpretivism; and the related debate over a critical approach to information systems. It is argued that the battle has died down and a period of stability has emerged. But further development needs to occur, especially in the area of critical management, and the philosophy of critical realism can be a significant way forward.
Subject
Library and Information Sciences,Strategy and Management,Information Systems
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