Selected readings on management classics(20150611)

 Professor:Yender McLee
 Student:Chang,Ching-Wen

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Edgar Whitley
PhD, Professor, London School of Economics
Associate Professor (Reader) of Information
Systems and Chair, Teaching Committee
Faculty Group: Information Systems and
Innovation Biography
Bob Galliers
Professor, Information and Process Management
Professor, Sociology
The University Distinguished Professor
Editor-in-chief, The Journal of Strategic
Information Systems
Ph.D., London School of Economics, 1987

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We present an alternative perspective to the many citation
classics papers that have appeared in the IS literature by
presenting citation data from the first 10 years of the
European Conference on IS (ECIS, 1993–2002), identifying
the most frequently cited texts in this sample.
We compared the ECIS citation classics with those
presented by others and suggest that the ECIS data
highlight the ways in which the IS field is more nuanced
than previously reported. We thus provided insights how the
field has developed internationally.
Keywords: Citations; Classics; European research tradition;
Social theorists; Information Systems Research

Company LogoEuropean Conference on Information Systems
 The European Conference on Information Systems
(ECIS) is an annual conference for Information Systems and
Information Technology academics and professionals and is
affiliated with the Association for Information Systems.
The organization of the conference comes under the
purview of the ECIS Standing Committee.
 ECIS is considered the premier information systems event
in the European region and provides a platform for panel
 discussions and the presentation of peer-reviewed
information systems research papers.
 The first ECIS conference took place in 1993 in Henley-on-
Thames, United Kingdom
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 Walstrom and Leonard v.s ECIS
 Walstrom and Leonard- Sola Price
1) classics are texts that have been cited at least four times in a
year.
All focused their data around four ‘leading’journals:
MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research,
Journal of Management Information Systems and Communications
of the ACM, each of which is published in North America.
The choice of ECIS allowed us to determine the citation classics
for research in Europe and also to explore how they differed
from those primarily published in the US as well as to try to
explain anydifferences.
Introduction
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Shapin and Schaffer argue that much of the
success of the dissemination of early scientific
method arose because of the use of ‘virtual
witnessing’ that involved the production in a
reader’s
mind ‘‘of such an image of an experimental
scene as obviates the necessity for either direct
witness or replication . . .
Replication and repeatability of
scientific studies
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 ECIS has been held in a variety of locations throughout
Europe, see Table 2 and a number of locations were
specifically selected to help bring the communities of
researchers in these countries into the international
community.
Replication and repeatability of
scientific studies
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 The origins of ECIS can be traced back to two parallel initiatives.
 The first was led by Professor Dan Remenyi, then at Henley
Management College, UK and the second arose from discussions
following the publication of the European Journal of Information
Systems by the UK’s Operational Research (OR)Society.
 The editors of EJIS were then based at the London School of
Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Edgar Whitley began
working with the OR Society to organise a European Conference
that covered the same area as the new journal.
ECIS in context
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 Twenty-six countries have had at
least 10 papers published in ECIS
over the first 10 years, with the UK
having the largest proportion, see
Table 3. Interestingly, the second
largest contributors are Australia
and the USA, both of which are
outside the normal catchment area
for ECIS.
ECIS in context
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 All the citation data used in our analysis
developed using Microsoft Access1 for
the papers presented at ECIS during the
period 1993–2002
 Glaser and Strauss’s book on the discovery
of grounded theory is shown in Table 12
as having been cited 22 times; this may
have resulted in it appearing in the top
35 articles in Appendix A if it satisfied
the criteria for a classic text (appearing at
least four times in 1 year).
Methodology
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 Table 4 gives the frequency
of outlets found in Table
A.1. We note in passing the
leading role of both the
Harvard and Sloan reviews.
These publications have a
very large readership and a
focus more on business
relevance than academic
rigour.
Results- The ECIS classics: top cited texts
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 The columns indicate the number of times they were cited in each
year, whilst the final column counts the number of years where the
text was cited at least four times.
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Table 6 lists the journal sources of these classics.
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 Table 7 presents those texts that just miss the criteria
for appearing in Table 5.
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 In terms of recency, a
large majority (85%) of
the ECIS Classics
(Table A.1) were
published between
1983 and 1998, with
a quarter (24%) of them
published since 1993
(i.e. the first year of the
conference).
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 W&L Table 2(‘‘Classics 2’’) lists the 34 texts from Culnan’s first
cocitation analysis for the period 1972–1982, ‘‘Classics3’’ lists the
26 texts from Culnan’s second co-citation analysis, covering the
period 1980–mid 1985. In order to test whether these earlier
classics still applied in the ECIS sample, each of these lists was
checked against the citation lists from ECIS.
Results- Comparison with previous studies
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 Only Ackoff’s 1967 paper appeared in the ECIS Classics list, being
cited 12 times in ECIS. Only 18 of the 34 items on the Classics list
were cited by ECIS at all and the top five other papers are also
presented in Table 8. The table presents those items from the
Classics 2
list that are cited at least four times in ECIS, in descending order
of their number of citations. The table also compares their rank in
the Classics 2 list with those in the table of ECIS classics.
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 In terms of whether Classics 2 and Classics 3 texts were cited at all in
ECIS,the proportion rose from 53% of the Classics 2 texts to 73% of
the Classics 3 texts.
 These papers remained classics for the period of Culnan’s two studies
(1972–mid-1985) but their perceived utility, for the ECIS community
at least, had decreased considerably in our study.
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 Classics 6 was W&L’s
list of top cited texts for
the period 1986–1995.
Table 10 lists the most
frequently. cited of these
items in ECIS 1993–2002.
Of these, only12 appeared
in the ECIS Classics list
of Table A.1.
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 Classics 7 is W&L’s list of further texts that do not satisfy their criteria for
appearing in Classics 6 because they had not been in print for the full period of their
study. Table 11 shows the 9 (out of 15) items that were cited by ECIS papers at
least four times.
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 In the first 10 years of ECIS, 29% of the
papers (335papers) cited at least one social
theorist, with the most popular social theory
texts being those in Table 12.
 European IS research and IFIP 8.2 draws
far more heavily on social theory than US-
based IS journals that are often assumed to
be ‘‘mainstream.’’
Results- Social theory classics
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 Table 13 lists the number of social theory sources cited by country
 The proportion of social theory papers is closely correlated to the total number of
papers presented by authors from a country (0.71), with the UK providing
proportionately more social theory papers and the USA proportionately fewer.
Results- Social theory classics
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 Some of the ECIS Classics are likely to reflect the European nature
of the cited sources but may also be early indicators of changing
trends in research themes.
Results- Evidence of changing trends?
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 This classification was then used to analyse the citation classics for
ECIS, for W&L (the result of combining their Tables 6 and 7) and for
Culnan (listed as W&L’s Tables 2 and 3). The results are shown in
Table 14.
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 First, the changing technological base in most organisations means
thatdecision support systems, as traditionally characterised,are
becoming less important for organisational activities.
 Second, as European IS researchers develop and strengthen their own
research interests, doctoral programmes and journals, the obligatory
passage point of doing a PhD in the area of DSS and publishing
DSS-related research is becoming much less influential.
 Third, this could be seen as evidence of a move towards more strategic
and organisational themes (relevance) in contrast to the more
supposedly scientifically rigorous studies (from a positivistic
perspective) found in these more artificial and often experimentally
based situations.
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 First, the changing technological base in most organisations means
thatdecision support systems, as traditionally characterised,are
becoming less important for organisational activities.
 Second, as European IS researchers develop and strengthen their own
research interests, doctoral programmes and journals, the obligatory
passage point of doing a PhD in the area of DSS and publishing
DSS-related research is becoming much less influential.
 Third, this could be seen as evidence of a move towards more strategic
and organisational themes (relevance) in contrast to the more
supposedly scientifically rigorous studies (from a positivistic
perspective) found in these more artificial and often experimentally
based situations.
Discussion-On the role of books and management
reviews
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 Although some of the authors listed in Table 12 are non-native English
speakers (e.g. Latour, Callon,Habermas), their texts are widely
available in English translation, so there is no particular reason to
believe that these social theorists are less accessible outside the ECIS
community.
Discussion- Social theory
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 Some of the variation is likely to be due to differing time frames with,
for example, the advent of electronic commerce leading to citation of
texts on electronic markets and economics. It has been suggested that
some of the explanation for the variation could arise from the practice
of ECIS being organised around thematic tracks.
Discussion- Social theory
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 We have argued that the use of the ECIS citation data could provide a
useful complement to the data presented by W&L as it drew on a more
diverse set of authors and institutions, from a different region of the
world.
 We also demonstrated that social theorists are more widely cited in
European IS research than in the North American tradition and we
identified the key authors in this area.
 The above discussion of themes, outlets and key citations provides
strong evidence for a key difference between European and the
‘mainstream’, US-based, IS research in terms of the differing focus
between rigour and relevance.
Conclusions
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