-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] IT Artefact Design & Workpractice Intervention – Cfp PreECIS-workshop Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:03:50 +0100 From: Göran Goldkuhl goran.goldkuhl@liu.se To: AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org
/First Call for papers /
A Pre-ECIS and AIS SIG Prag Workshop on
*IT Artefact Design & Workpractice Intervention*
June 10, 2012, Barcelona
*Invitation*
An international workshop for IS scholars interested in one or more of the following related issues:
·design science research
·theorizing the IT artefact
·action research and other intervention strategies
·theorizing practices and work-systems
·the use of action-oriented theories in IS
·practice relevance and usefulness of IS research
·researcher-practitioner collaboration
·engaged scholarship
·practice research
·pragmatist epistemology
There is a growing interest in IS research for research strategies aiming for design and change. This can be pursued through design science research (Hevner et al, 2004), action research (Davison et al, 2004) or combinations thereof (Sein et al, 2011). Accompanying an interest for the design of IT artefacts is a quest for theorizing the IT artefact (Orlikowski & Iacono, 2001). Improved understanding of IT artefacts is needed in relation to their design, use and evolution. An improved understanding of the context of IT artefacts is needed as well. There is growing interest to theorize the context as practices (Feldman & Orlikowski, 2011; Goldkuhl, 2011) or work-systems (Alter, 2006). This includes an interest for the combined social and material characters of such practices (Orlikowski & Scott, 2008).
The interest for design and change follows the claim for relevance and usefulness of IS research (Benbasat & Zmud, 1999) and the importance of researcher-practitioner collaboration (Mathiassen, 2002). This kind of research orientation have been giving different labels like e.g. engaged scholarship (Van de Ven, 2007; Mathiassen & Nielsen, 2008), mode 2 knowledge production (Nowotny et al, 2001), practice research (Mathiassen, 2002; Goldkuhl, 2011) or practical science (Gregor, 2008). Pivotal in this search for more relevant and useful research is the articulation of supportive, prescriptive and normative knowledge. This can take the form of design theory (Gregor & Jones, 2007) or the broader notion of practical theory (Cronen, 2001; Goldkuhl, 2007).
In order to bring these different threads together we must turn to pragmatist epistemology. There is a re-introduction of pragmatism as a viable research paradigm in some social sciences (Wicks & Freeman, 1998; Fishman, 1999) including information systems (Goles & Hirschheim, 2000; Ågerfalk, 2010; Goldkuhl, 2012) as manifested by the formation of the AIS Special Interest Group on Pragmatist IS Research (SIGPRag) in 2008 (www.sigprag.org). The pragmatist foundations of design science research (Lee & Nickerson, 2010) and action research (Baskerville & Myers, 2004) have also been acknowledged.
Pragmatist epistemology joins together the different threads described above:
·Knowledge in the making
·Relevant and useful knowledge
·Knowledge of actions and practices
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together scholars interested in one or more of these pragmatist threads. This is done in order to weave a pragmatist web to be more powerful in its knowledge generation and use. Theoretical reflections and concrete examples are demanded!
*Dates and submission details *
/Submissions/: March 25, 2012
/Notification/: April 30, 2012
/Final manuscripts/: May 25, 2012
/Workshop/: June 10, 2012, Barcelona, Spain (just before the 20^th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS-2012)
The workshop website is www.vits.org/adwi/. Papers are expected to be between 5-15 pages. Submissions should be sent as e-mail attachments to goran.goldkuhl@liu.se mailto:goran.goldkuhl@liu.se. Please use the ECIS format template (can be found at the workshop website). Workshop proceedings will be electronically published and distributed. Selected papers from the workshop will be forwarded to review and publishing in the journal Systems, Signs & Actions (www.sysiac.org http://www.sysiac.org/).
*Workshop co-chairs*
Brian Donellan, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland (Brian.Donnellan@nuim.ie)
Göran Goldkuhl, LinköpingUniversity(goran.goldkuhl@liu.se mailto:goran.goldkuhl@liu.se)
*Organisers*
AIS Special interest group on Pragmatist IS research (SIG Prag)
Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden
Innovation Value Institute, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland
*Programme Committee*
Mark Aakhus, USA
Pär Ågerfalk, Sweden
Steven Alter, USA
Michel Avital, Denmark
Karin Axelsson, Sweden
Deborah Bunker, Australia
Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic, Australia
Rodney Clarke, Australia
Gabriel Costello, Ireland
Karin Hedström, Sweden
Markus Helfert, Ireland
Ola Henfridsson, Sweden
Jonny Holmström, Sweden
Robert Johnston, Australia
Gustaf Juell-Skielse, Sweden
Mikael Lind, Sweden
Rikard Lindgren, Sweden
Lars-Olof Lychnell, Sweden
Judy McKay, Australia
Angela Nobre, Portugal
Sandeep Purao, USA
Matti Rossi, Finland
Duane Truex, USA
Rajiv Vashist, Australia
John Venable, Australia
Hans Weigand, The Netherlands
Trevor Wood-Harper, UK
Fahri Yetim, Germany
*References*
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Alter S (2006) Work systems and IT artifacts ? does the definition matter?, /Communications of AIS/, Vol. 17, pp 299-313
Baskerville R, Myers M (2004) Special issue on action research in information systems: making IS research relevant to practice ? foreword, /MIS Quarterly/, Vol 28 (3), p 329-335
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Cronen V (2001) Practical theory, practical art, and the pragmatic-systemic account of inquiry, /Communication theory/, Vol 11 (1), p 14-35
Davison R M, Martinsons M G, Kock N (2004) Principles of canonical action research, /Information Systems Journal/, Vol 14, p 65?86
Feldman M, Orlikowski W (2011) Theorizing practice and practicing theory, /Organization Science,/ Vol 22, p 1240-1253
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Goldkuhl G (2007) What does it mean to serve the citizen in e-services? - Towards a practical theory founded in socio-instrumental pragmatism, /International Journal of Public Information Systems, /Vol 2007 (3), pp 135-159
Goldkuhl G (2011) The research practice of practice research: theorizing and situational inquiry, /Systems, Signs & Actions/, Vol 5 (1), p 7-29
Goldkuhl G (2012) Pragmatism vs. interpretivism in qualitative information systems research, /European Journal of Information Systems/, (Forthcoming)
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