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The Behavioral Tourist: Reflections on a Journey to the Land of IS

Author(s) -

Richard Field

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

communications of the association for information systems

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.576

H-Index - 48

ISSN - 1529-3181

DOI - 10.17705/1cais.00720

Subject(s) - tourism , intersection (aeronautics) , point (geometry) , order (exchange) , work (physics) , sociology , epistemology , public relations , engineering ethics , political science , engineering , business , philosophy , law , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , finance , aerospace engineering

A business school professor of Organizational Behavior travels on sabbatical to a school of Information Science in order to take courses in IS/IT and learn more about their intersection with OB and Organization Theory. This article offers his irreverent and amusing story of his journey, but with a serious point. He concludes that it is time for IS academics to stop asking themselves questions about the practicality of their discipline, about whether or not they have a coherent paradigm, and indeed whether or not they are a science at all, and just get on with their work. And that work is studying and writing about the organizational use of information systems and information technology.

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