[AISWorld] HICSS-50 Theory and Information Systems

Dirk Hovorka D.Hovorka at econ.usyd.edu.au
Wed Mar 23 07:08:20 EDT 2016


HICSS-50 2017 Mini-track:  Theory and Information Systems
(Organizational Systems and Technology track)

The “Theory and Information Systems” mini-track invites submissions that investigate the implications of “local” contextual theory and also reviews, integration, 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.   Synthesis or integration would benefit the disciplines by identifying what we can now research given what we already know.  Theory synthesis will inform social and behavioral sciences 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.”

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.

For further conference details, schedules and submission guidelines, please see:
http://www.hicss.org/
We hope to see you in Hawaii in January 2017!
Minitrack Co-Chairs:
Dirk S. Hovorka, Ph.D.
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. PhD
Associate Professor
Leeds School of Business
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado
Kai.Larsen at colorado.edu<mailto:Kai.Larsen at colorado.edu>






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