List of Contributors.
Foreword-Gordon B. Davis.
Series Preface-Rudy Hirschheim.
Introduction-John Leslie King and Kalle Lyytinen.
Original Papers.
1 Scoping the Discipline of Information Systems-David Avison and Steve Elliot.
2 Desperately Seeking the 'IT' in IT Research: A Call to Theorizing the IT Artifact-Wanda J. Orlikowski and C. Suzanne Iacono.
3 Still Desperately Seeking the IT Artifact-Ron Weber.
4 The Identity Crisis within the IS Discipline: Defining and Communicating the Discipline's Core Properties-Izak Benbasat and Robert W. Zmud.
5 Crisis in the IS Field? A Critical Reflection on the State of the Discipline-Rudy A. Hirschheim and Heinz K. Klein.
6 Change as Crisis or Growth? Toward a Trans-disciplinary View of Information Systems as a Field of Study: A Response to Benbasat and Zmud's Call for Returning to the IT Artifact-Robert D. Galliers.
7 The Social Life of Information Systems Research: A Response to Benbasat and Zmud's Call for Returning to the IT Artifact-Gerardine DeSanctis.
8 Identity, Legitimacy and the Dominant Research Paradigm: An Alternative Prescription for the IS Discipline-Daniel Robey.
9 Design Science in Information Systems Research-Alan R. Hevner, Salvatore T. March, Jinsoo Park and Sudha Ram.
10 Nothing at the Center?: Academic Legitimacy in the Information Systems Field-Kalle Lyytinen and John Leslie King.
11 Reach and Grasp-John Leslie King and Kalle Lyytinen.
Commentaries.
12 The Artifact Redux: Further Reflections on the 'IT' in IT Research-Wanda J. Orlikowski and C. Suzanne Iacono.
13 Like Ships Passing in the Night: The Debate on the Core of the Information Systems Discipline-Ron Weber.
14 Further Reflections on the Identity Crisis-Izak Benbasat and Robert W. Zmud.
15 Further Reflections on the IS Discipline: Climbing the Tower of Babel-Heinz K. Klein and Rudy A. Hirschheim.
16 'Don't Worry, be Happy . . . ' A Post-Modernist Perspective on the Information Systems Domain-Robert D. Galliers.
17 Cleaning the Mirror: Desperately Seeking Identity in the Information Systems Field-Daniel Robey.
18 Designing Design Science-Salvatore T. March.
19 The Future of the IS Field: Drawing Directions from Multiple Maps-John Leslie King and Kalle Lyytinen.
Index.
