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Title

The evolution of a conference: a message from the program chairs

Author(s)

Scheepers, Helana;  Davern, Michael

Abstract

Since the inception of the Information Systems (IS) discipline scholars have questioned and debated what constitutes the domain of IS research. Diversity is not simply desirable it is essential for a discipline that demands understanding of both information technology and contexts of application. The pervasive use of information technology, throughout the economy and society, together with the volatility in interest and support for the discipline, have made the defining of the domain of IS more than just of academic interest. For ACIS for 2009 we seek not to look back at what the IS domain has been, but to look forward to what it is to become. We seek to examine the definition of the IS discipline not by reflecting on where the IS discipline came from, but by exhibiting research at the forefront of where the discipline is heading into the future.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies

Source

Proceedings of 'Evolving boundaries and new frontiers: defining the IS discipline', the 20th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2009), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 02-04 December 2009, p. 1

Publication year

2009

FOR Code(s)

0806 Information Systems

Keyword(s)

Information systems;  Preface

Publisher

Australasian Association for Information Systems

ISBN

9780646525709

Publisher URL

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/about/news/conferences/acis09/Proceedings/proceedings.html

Copyright

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