Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The goal of this paper is to summarize several findings from the Theories and Products of Theorizing (T-PoT) World Tour sponsored by the Association of Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on Philosophy (SIGPHIL) in Information Systems (IS). Since the IS field’s inception, the field has struggled with theory, particularly in building its own native theories. Using critical discourse analysis, this study provides preliminary insights of an underlying dominant discourse, jointly constructed, that is holding the IS field back from building native IS theories. This dominant discourse is supported by socially-valued resources in the academic context such as position, status, group membership, and invisible colleges that prevent the IS community from engaging with theory in its research.
Author: Hassan, Nik Rushdi
Institution: University of Minnesota, Duluth
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7047799102
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