Is information systems a discipline? A foucauldian and toulminian analysis

Nik R. Hassan

Is information systems a discipline? A foucauldian and toulminian analysis

Nik R. Hassan

Management Studies

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Abstract

Based on Michel Foucault's description of how knowledge is created and Stephen Toulmin's philosophy of human understanding, this essay uncovers what it means for a branch of knowledge to be a discipline. This deconstruction explains certain disciplinary misconceptions existing within the IS field and addresses the field's disciplinary status. Although the findings suggest that the IS field does not yet qualify as a discipline in its own right, they show that as soon as the members of the IS field can reconstitute the field's meta-theoretical structure and scholarly content, it is certainly capable of reaching that status.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	ICIS 2006 Proceedings - Twenty-Seventh International Conference on Information Systems
Pages	425-440
Number of pages	16
State	Published - Dec 1 2006
Event	27th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2006 - Milwaukee, WI, United States Duration: Dec 10 2006 → Dec 13 2006

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Other	27th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2006
Country/Territory	United States
City	Milwaukee, WI
Period	12/10/06 → 12/13/06

Keywords

Archeology of knowledge
Disciplinary status
Foucault
IS discipline
IS theory
Philosophical foundations of IS
Toulmin

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