Information Management Research Directions

1. Information Management Research Directions

2. What is MIS? The effective design, delivery and use of information systems organization. Mis has many reference disciplines: computer science, management science, management, organization behavior, political science, economics, accounting.

3. What is MIS research? The systematic investigation of the development, operation, use and/or impact of an information system in an organizational environment.

4. Empirical Research Modeling Implementation The MIS Research Categories

5. Modeling • Modeling is the process of creating the abstraction that preserves the essential properties of a complex system. Implementation • In implementation, a prototype system is designed, constructed and used on the basis of the theoretical model.

6. Empirical Studies • The unobservable, abstract concepts are operationalized into observable empirical measures. • In empirical studies, the data are gathered and analyzed in an attempt to verify the hypothesis. • The purpose of the empirical studies is to check the impact of the above constructed information system on a person, group, organization, and society.

7. Empirical Research Methods • Primary research • Laboratory Experiment • Field Experiment • Field Study • Sample Survey • Case Study • Secondary research

8. Laboratory Experiment A laboratory experiment is taken place in a unnatural setting – laboratory, in which the experimenter has control over the assignment to groups, controls and manipulates independent variables and measures dependent variables.

9. Field Experiment A field experiment is taken place in a natural setting, in which the experimenter manipulates independent variables while exerting as much control as the situation permits, and measures dependent variables.

10. Field Study A field study is taken place in a natural setting, in which no independent variables are manipulated, whilemeasuring dependent variables.

11. Sample survey A sample survey is taken from a large sample in a natural setting. No manipulation can be done though influences of confounding variables are controlled statistically.

12. Case Study A case study examines phenomenon in its natural setting employing multiple methods of data collection to gather information.

13. Framework of IS research • Three groups of variables • Environmental Variables • external, organization, user, IS development/operation • Information System Variables • IS content, presentation form, time of representation • Process Variables • development, opration , use

14. Categories of IS Research • Type I: Single variable • Type II: environmental variables Vs process variables • Type III:IS variables Vs process variable • Type IV:environmental variables Vs IS variables • Type V:environmental variables Vs process variables • Vs IS variables

15. Why Few Empirical Studies? • IM department is more computer science oriented • No appropriate research method training • Empirical research might need much resources • The linkage between academy and industry is • weak