Scholarly hallucinations and screwed expectations

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dc.contributor.author	Kjærgaard, Annemette	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Vendelø, Morten Thanning	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2009-02-04T10:23:44Z
dc.date.available	2009-02-04T10:23:44Z
dc.date.issued	2007-12-05T00:00:00Z	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6452
dc.description.abstract	Information Systems scholars continuously debate about the nature of the IS discipline. Recently a series of articles have discussed whether the IS field has reached the status of a reference discipline. We address this issue by examining the application of the theory of sensemaking in IS research. Our findings show that the prospects for IS as a reference discipline are not promising. Based on these findings we suggest that IS scholars hallucinate when they a) assume that to become a 'real' academic discipline, IS has to become a reference discipline, and b) believe that IS will become a reference discipline in time. Hence, we describe the IS reference discipline discussion as a misconception, which should be abandoned in the pursuit of a stronger IS discipline. Academic legitimacy, information systems research, reference disciplines, theory application, theory of sensemaking	en_US
dc.format.extent	29 s.	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working paper;2007-4	en_US
dc.title	Scholarly hallucinations and screwed expectations	en_US
dc.type	wp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt07dec05 nijemo	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Institut for Informatik	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	INF	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Department of Informatics	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	INF	en_US
dc.idnumber	x656555644	en_US
dc.publisher.city	København	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2007	en_US
dc.title.subtitle	A new point of view in the IS reference discipline discussion	en_US