THEORY DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH

Catalog description

Course offers the core foundations for theorizing in Information Systems research and provides the platform to develop world-class scientific skills to identify a relevant business and research problem to formulate compelling research questions. Students will learn the key ingredients of a theory and the approaches to building a theory. They will also understand the distinctions between variance and process models and how to build multilevel theories and use multidimensional constructs. They will assimilate the ingredients of a theory including constructs, measures, functional forms of relationships, assumptions and boundary conditions. Students will also discover how to leverage context and time in theory development in Information Systems research. While this course can be useful for doctoral students from other Business Administration or Social Sciences disciplines.