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Rigor and Relevance in MIS Research: Beyond the Approach of Positivism Alone
Abstract
Benbasat and Zmud offer a diagnosis of why one tends today to observe a lack of relevance to practice in IS and a prescription of guidelines that IS academic community might follow to introduce relevance into their research efforts and articles. I will comment, first, on the ramifications of their self-avowed positivist orientation; second, on their model-inuse of what relevant research is (i.e., the instrumental model); and third, on the need for the IS research community to take a broad approach to the matter of relevance. I will also refer to the respective commentaries offered by Applegate, by Davenport and Markus, and by Lyytinen.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lee, A. S.
- Venue
- MIS Quarterly
- Publisher
- MIS Quarterly
- Published
- 1999-03-01
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 29-33
- ISSN
- 0276-7783 (ISSN-L)
- 2162-9730
- OpenAlex
- W1602925710
- Cited by
- 584
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 75.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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