Abstract
Although systems development research is at the core of the Information Systems discipline, some scholars call attention to a teaching and research gap in this area of IS. In this study, we examine the state of systems development research in IS by analyzing the articles published in three leading journals between 2000 and 2004. We propose a classification framework based on the type of research paradigm (design vs. explanatory) and the nature of the IT-artifact (conceptualization vs. instantiation). Our results show that about 20% of the articles published in this five year period are focused on systems development. In two of the three journals, there are comparable proportions of studies in the design research and in the explanatory paradigm. However, in all three publications most of the articles are focused on conceptual IT-artifacts, as opposed to algorithms or software-based artifacts. These findings are important for system development researchers when they choose journals where to send their papers.
DOI
10.17705/1CAIS.01718
Recommended Citation
Benbunan-Fich, R., & Mohan, K. (2006). Information Technology and Systems - III. Research Publications in Systems Development during 2000-2004. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 17, pp-pp. https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.01718
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