[AISWorld] 2nd CfP: HICSS-49 2016 Mini-track: Theory and Information Systems

[Dirk Hovorka]

HICSS-49 2016 Mini-track:  Theory and Information Systems
(Organizational Systems and Technology track)
The "Theory and Information Systems" mini-track invites submissions that provide reviews, integration, ontologies or meta-analytic approaches to building cumulative theory. Research over the last decades has emphasized theory development in IS and other social and behavioral science disciplines.  The resulting proliferation of theories and constructs may have redundancies, which can be revealed through review, meta-analysis and interrogation and their integration into a cumulative tradition would benefit the disciplines.  Theory synthesis within and across disciplines will provide social and behavioral science research with a better understanding of fundamental socio-technical theories, help organize our theories to be accessible to practice, and increase our understanding of the philosophical commitments represented in their use.

Toward these ends, topics of interest in this minitrack include:

1.      Integration or simplification of social and behavioral science theories;

2.      The theoretical ties between different disciplines (e.g. healthcare and IS, and sustainability science and IS, energy informatics), and the trends in theories;

3.      Approaches to theory meta-analysis

4.      Research on ontologies, taxonomies, frameworks, and categorizations of constructs and variables used in system science theories;

5.      The use of natural language processing, data mining, and predictive analytics to better understand and interrogate theories;

6.      Discussion of the _roles_ of theories used to explain, approaches used to predict (e.g. neural nets and big data), and of theories of understanding;

7.      Exploration of the dependencies of constructs and variables;

8.      Exploration of the boundaries of theory "domains"

9.      The implications of "local" contextual theory

This minitrack also has an associated ISWorld website devoted to theories used in IS research (http://istheory.byu.edu/wiki/Main_Page) -which won the 2005 AISWorldNet Challenge Award for the best website based on AISWorldNet user voting.  We intend to uphold this high standard and advance the website further by increasing the synergy between mini-track outcomes and website content.

The submission deadline for papers is June 15. For further conference details, schedules and submission guidelines, please see:

http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/
http://www.hicss.org/#!theory-and-information-systems/c13jb

We hope to see you at the Grant Hyatt on Kauai, Hawaii in January 2016!
Minitrack co-chairs:

Dirk S. Hovorka
Associate Professor
University of Sydney Business School
University of Sydney
New South Wales, AU
dirk.hovorka at sydney.edu.au<mailto:dirk.hovorka at sydney.edu.au>


Kai R. Larsen
Associate Professor
Leeds School of Business
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado 80309
Kai.Larsen at colorado.edu<mailto:Kai.Larsen at colorado.edu>