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Subject Headings: Information Systems Academic Discipline, Research Method.

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There has been a great deal of debate about the status of Information Systems as an academic discipline, its progress and its continued survival.
There has been enormous concern with research methodology by IS researchers, almost to the point of obsession. There have been long running debates on the comparative merits of positivist vs interpretivist approaches, qualitative vs quantitative methods and so on. IS research methodology has almost become a research area in its own right, and a number of major conferences have been held on this issue (e.g. Mingers and Stowell, 1997; Nissen et al., 1991; Mumford et al., 1985). A number of taxonomies of research methods have been published, prescribing when particular methods should be used (e.g. Hamilton and Ives, 1982; Galliers, 1991; Wynecoop and Russo, 1997). The relative merit of different research methods has proved to be a somewhat emotive topic, and particular techniques are energetically promoted by different researchers.
In an applied discipline, research should be relevant to the needs of practice and research outputs should ultimately contribute to the development of improved practices.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
1999 ImprovingLinksBetISResearchAndPractice	Daniel Moody Anne Buist			Improving Links Between Information Systems Research and Practice - Lessons from the Medical Profession		Proceedings of the 10th Australasian Conference on Information System	http://reference.kfupm.edu.sa/content/i/m/improving the links between information 119292.pdf			1999