PRAGMATISM, BABY! (23 March 2022)

Description

We wanted to talk about something else. But regardless, what matters is that we ended up here: what is positivism and interpretivism – and does that distinction even matter anymore to information systems research in the age of digital traces and computationally-intensive methods? And so this is how you end up with a debate about philosophy without any preparation whatsoever.

Episode Reading List

  • Berente, N., Seidel, S., & Safadi, H. (2019). Data-Driven Computationally-Intensive Theory Development. Information Systems Research, 30(1), 50-64.
  • Burton-Jones et al. (April, 2022): MISQ Knowledge-Sharing Workshop on Computationally-intensive Theory Construction. https://umn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9owCynBhhuQpwpw.
  • Wittgenstein, L. (1922). Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
  • Wittgenstein, L. (1953). Philosophical Investigations. Macmillan Publishing.
  • Seidel, S., Recker, J., & vom Brocke, J. (2013). Sensemaking and Sustainable Practicing: Functional Affordances of Information Systems in Green Transformations. MIS Quarterly, 37(4), 1275-1299.
  • Lee, A. S. (1999). Rigor and Relevance in MIS Research: Beyond the Approach of Positivism Alone. MIS Quarterly, 23(1), 29-34.
  • Weber, R. (2004). Editor’s Comments: The Rhetoric of Positivism Versus Interpretivism: A Personal View. MIS Quarterly, 28(1), iii-xii.
  • James, W. (1907). Pragmatism:  A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking. Hackett Publishing.
  • Peirce, C. S. (1998). The Essential Peirce, Volume 2: Selected Philosophical Writings. Indiana University Press.
  • Archer, M., Bhaskar, R., Collier, A., Lawson, T., & Norrie, A. (Eds.). (1998). Critical Realism: Essential Readings. Routledge.
  • Porter, M. E. (1980). Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors. Free Press.
  • Porter, M. E. (1985). Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance. Free Press.
  • Christensen, C. M., Raynor, M. E., & McDonald, R. (2015). What Is Disruptive Innovation? Harvard Business Review, 93(12), 44-53.
  • Schumpeter, J. A. (1934). The Theory of Economic Development. Harvard University Press.
  • Schumpeter, J. A. (1942). Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. Routledge.
  • Schumpeter, J. A. (1933). The Common Sense of Econometrics. Econometrica, 1(1), 5-12.
  • Keynes, J. M. (1396). The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Macmillan.
  • Van Maanen, J. (1975). Police Socialization: A Longitudinal Examination of Job Attitudes in an Urban Police Department. Administrative Science Quarterly, 20(2), 207-228.
  • Baygi, R. M., Introna, L. D., & Hultin, L. (2021). Everything Flows: Studying Continuous Socio-Technological Transformation in a Fluid and Dynamic Digital World. MIS Quarterly, 45(1), 423-452.
  • Pentland, B. T., Yoo, Y., Recker, J., & Kim, I. (2022). From Lock-in to Transformation: A Path-Centric Theory of Emerging Technology and Organizing. Organization Science, 33(1), 194-211.
  • Indulska, M., Hovorka, D. S., & Recker, J. (2012). Quantitative Approaches to Content Analysis: Identifying Conceptual Drift Across Publication Outlets. European Journal of Information Systems, 21(1), 49-69.
  • Tiwana, A., & Kim, S. K. (2019). From Bricks to an Edifice: Cultivating Strong Inference in Information Systems Research. Information Systems Research, 30(3), 1029-1036.
  • Berente, N., Lyytinen, K., Yoo, Y., & Maurer, C. (2019). Institutional Logics and Pluralistic Responses to Enterprise System Implementation: A Qualitative Meta-Analysis. MIS Quarterly, 43(3), 873-902.
  • Menand, L. (2001). The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America. Farrar Straus & Giroux.
  • Menand, L. (1997). Pragmatism: A Reader. Vintage.
  • Misak, C. (2018). Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein. Oxford University Press.
  • Eco, U. (1984). Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language. Indiana University Press.

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