报告人简介：
Robert M. Davison，香港城市大学信息系统教授。研究领域为企业信息系统的使用，特别是关于中国企业问题解决、关系形成及知识管理。已在国外主流期刊和会议发表200余篇论文。他尤其擅长行动研究并以此闻名。Robert 教授多年来一直担任信息系统领域全球顶级学术组织AIS研究伦理委员会主席，国际信息处理协会IFIP工作组WG 9.4现任主席，期刊Information Systems Journal和Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries现任主编。无论是作为研究人员还是主编，Robert教授都主张从本地视角去理解问题，并在研究中知行合一，深入实地探索不同文化和背景下的人们在日常生活中对信息系统的理解。
报告简介：
The deep embeddedness of information systems (IS) in many areas of human activity poses a dual challenge to the IS discipline: advancing an expanding disciplinary boundary that includes an increasing set of IS topics; and engaging with other disciplines in order to understand IS-enabled phenomena. An inability to meet these challenges could lead to conceptually stunted development of the IS discipline, missed opportunities to inform other disciplines and a failure to effectively contribute to solving the pressing problems of our time. We undertook this study to investigate both how IS research has addressed these challenges in the past and how it can continue to do so in the future. We theorize four different types of knowledge contribution that IS researchers can produce. We analyze a wide-ranging sample of research studies published in 176 papers in the AIS basket of eight journals to investigate the nature of their contribution vis-à-vis these types. We find that the predominant types of knowledge contribution are intradisciplinary, with relatively few interdisciplinary contributions. We explain why each type of knowledge contribution is important to the IS discipline and comment on the implications of our study for IS scholars and for the vigor and growth of the IS discipline.
