Xi Wu

What is IS research?

IS field’s traditional notions of what information is about: information for decision making, automation, and effective control of organizations
Information, in some cases, is being u […]

Red Queen competition—implies that an entity (such as an organization, market offering, or system) must evolve progressively faster just to keep up with its cohort of rivals.
This work sparks a conversation a […]

This work develops a theory to explain why the implementation of new technologies often disrupts occupational roles in ways that delay the expected benefits. To explore these disruptions, they construct a dynamic […]

Design science research (DSR) is a research paradigm with great potential to address the relevance versus rigor gap in information systems (IS) research.  However, despite the pronounced value of DSR, there still […]

This article discusses the conduct and evaluation of interpretive research of a hermeneutic nature in information systems. The motivation of this work is that the nature and purpose of interpretive research differ […]

This is a summary of the work Checkland, P. (2000). Soft systems methodology: a thirty year retrospective. Systems research and behavioral science, 17(S1), S11-S58.
The holistic thinking of a newly created o […]

This article concerns theories about why and how information technology affects organizational life by examining theories in terms of their causal structures. Three dimensions of causal structure are considered: […]

In general, this chapter is about two main topics. One is to set some guidelines for the construction of theoretical models. The other one is to discuss the positions of the applied scientist and the practitioner […]