"Scholarly Commentaries on Hirschheim’s “Against Theory”"

Dirk Hovorka (1) , Frantz Rowe (2) , Lynne Markus (3) , Sirkka Jarvenpaa (4) , E. Burton Swanson , Mary Lacity , Andrew Burton-Jones , Viswanath Venkatesh , Rudy Hirschheim (5)

1 The University of Sydney
2 LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique
3 Bentley University
4 University of Texas at Austin [Austin]
5 LSU - Louisiana State University

This paper presents seven scholarly commentaries on Hirschheim’s “Against Theory” essay published in this issue of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. Each commentary is written by a renowned IS researcher. Following the individual commentaries is Hirschheim’s response to the commentaries. Each commentary provides an insightful exegesis on theory in its own right and, collectively, the commentaries and response provide thought-provoking reflections for researchers in IS and beyond.

Domaines: Économie et finance quantitative [q-fin]

Dirk Hovorka, Frantz Rowe, Lynne Markus, Sirkka Jarvenpaa, E. Burton Swanson, et al.. "Scholarly Commentaries on Hirschheim’s “Against Theory”". Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 2019, 20 (9), pp.1356-1387. ⟨10.17705/1jais.00570⟩. ⟨hal-03780633⟩