Why things happen–Develo** the critical realist view of causal mechanisms

J Mingers, C Standing - Information and Organization, 2017 - Elsevier
Events happen within the organizational world not by chance but for reasons. It is surely the
task of management research to try to explain why these events occur. This requires us to …

What is information? Toward a theory of information as objective and veridical

J Mingers, C Standing - Journal of Information Technology, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Information systems are a strong and ever-growing discipline of enormous relevance to
today's informated world, and yet, as recent reviews have shown, there is still not an agreed …

[PDF][PDF] Understanding the why, what, and how of theories in IS research

B Mueller, N Urbach - … of the Association for Information Systems, 2017 - research.rug.nl
Researchers have emphasized theory's pivotal importance in the information systems (IS)
discipline since its inception. As in many science disciplines, IS scholars' ability to …

Back to the future: A critique of Demetis and Lee's “Crafting theory to satisfy the requirements of systems science”

J Mingers - Information and Organization, 2017 - Elsevier
Demetis and Lee's paper outlines criteria for constructing theory in accordance with systems
science. This is a laudable aim but in this comment I suggest that their view of systems …

Philosophy and method: making interpretive research interpretive

AS Lee - The Routledge Companion to Management Information …, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter examines a commonly overlooked point, which is what makes interpretive
research interpretive. Placing the interpretation of meaning front and center, this chapter …

[PDF][PDF] Explaining two forms of internet crime from two perspectives: toward stage theories for phishing and internet scamming

AC Tambe Ebot - 2017 - jyx.jyu.fi
The two studies in this dissertation examine two pervasive and common forms of Internet
crimes from two different perspectives:(1) phishing from the victims' perspective and (2) …