This paper aims to advance understanding of information systems (IS) through a critical
reflection on how IS are currently defined in the IS literature. Using the hermeneutic …

This article examines the nature, role and function of the literature review in academic
discourse. Researchers in information systems (IS) are often advised to espouse a neutral …

Over the last 7 years, the AIMTech Research Group in the University of Leeds has used
cultural‐historical activity theory (CHAT) to inform a range of research activities in the fields …

Cognitive Work Analysis is a conceptual framework that makes it possible to analyse the
forces that shape human-information interaction. This analysis can then be directly …

Computer users spend time every day interacting with digital files and folders, including
downloading, moving, naming, navigating to, searching for, sharing, and deleting them …

This research focuses specifically on uncertainty and information seeking in a digital
environment. In this research we argue that different types of uncertainty are associated with …

Abstract Information behavior and practices (IBP) research has been repeatedly criticized for
having little impact on information systems development (ISD). Claiming that there is a …

From time to time “when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you
sometimes find that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it …

There has been notably little convergence between information organization and
information use studies. A framework for explicating the contextual interplay of information …

Purpose–Aims to study human information behaviour as part of the research project on the
interaction of man and the information environment (project VEGA 1/9236/02) and to …