Data-Driven Meets Theory-Driven Research in the Era of Big Data: Opportunities and Challenges for Information Systems Research

2018 ◽  
pp. 1253-1273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Maass ◽  
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Jeffrey Parsons ◽  
Sandeep Purao ◽  
Veda C. Storey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Systems Research

When Data Become Ubiquitous, What Becomes of Accounting and Assurance?

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Faye Borthick ◽  
Robin R. Pennington
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
Research Conference ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Systems Research

ABSTRACT Big Data and the data analytical software for analyzing it have developed far enough that some trends have emerged. People are clever. Leave them alone with resources and they will do interesting things with them, giving both intended and unintended consequences. This commentary stems from the 2016 Journal of Information Systems Research Conference (JISC2016) on Big Data. It highlights the landscape of Big Data, including how organizations are starting to use data in different ways. While it is true that some of what this commentary offers does not, strictly speaking, require Big Data with respect to volume, diversity, and structure, the connotations that Big Data bestowed have prompted new ways to stage and use data. For example, “70% of firms now say that big data is of critical importance to their firms” (Malone 2016). The articles in this issue were presented as papers at JISC2016. They treat different aspects of the growing availability and use of data in organizations.

A Bridge Too Far?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte P. Lee ◽  
Kjeld Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Cooperative Work ◽  
Computer Supported Cooperative Work ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Infrastructures ◽  
Information Systems Research ◽  
Critical Investigation

The study of computing infrastructures has grown significantly due to the rapid proliferation and ubiquity of large-scale IT-based installations. At the same time, recognition has also grown of the usefulness of such studies as a means for understanding computing infrastructures as material complements of practical action. Subsequently the concept of “infrastructure” (or “information infrastructures,” “cyberinfrastructures,” and “infrastructuring”) has gained increasing importance in the area of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) as well as in neighboring areas such as Information Systems research (IS) and Science and Technology Studies (STS). However, as such studies have unfolded, the very concept of “infrastructure” is being applied in different discourses, for different purposes, in myriad different senses. Consequently, the concept of “infrastructure” has become increasingly muddled and needs clarification. The chapter presents a critical investigation of the vicissitudes of the concept of “infrastructure” over the last 35 years.

Information systems research at George Mason University

1997 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 69-74
Author(s):  
Sushil Jajodia ◽  
Daniel Barbará ◽  
Alex Brodsky ◽  
Larry Kerschberg ◽  
Ami Motro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Systems Research ◽  
George Mason University
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