The so called Information Systems research: An abode for intellectual mediocrity

While some authors say that the plurality of dependent variable is the beauty the rest in order to maintain a distinct just embraced the mediocrity. Information Systems as we see today is the life blood of Modern Corporation where its asymmetry leads to a zero sum game. At the same time IT enabled (driven these days) interorganizational networks and strategic alliances have led to a positive sum game. Such a tool or an artifact is nothing short of the creator of another industrial revolution. As we see the IT enabled economic arbitrage, which is now leading to better quality of service. Further, while numerous article has been written and more proposed and rejected on the social issues of outsourcing, that is a sympathetic stance, towards those who lose their jobs. My view point’s will only make me the weed in the garden populated by pseudo sociologists, who dare call themselves Information Systems Researchers, neglecting the strengths and opportunities brought about by the technology focusing on issues that will never be published in social journals, and so have taken abode in the Information Systems Journals. The sympathetic stance towards job loss as a result of technology wave and opportunistic arbitrage blinds us from seeing the IT enabled focused core competence.

Have they forgotten that the introduction of the assembly line transformed the tailors into button sewers. With the wave of new technology, the structure of society changes, so does the industrial boundaries. Questioning the intent of organization who are pursuing arbitrage through price differentials demeans the discipline of diplomacy. Instead of blaming the winds of change one must embrace it. There is so much to investigate. And what do the majority of the baton holders do? Answering the overtly known postulate of usability and usefulness key determinants to adoption? I ask, would anyone adopt something that is useless and unusable? Further, such simplistic determinants and antecedents of adoption leads us to consider, those technologies that are adopted with human choice, like a cell phone. It undermines the socio-political forces and valances that lead to adoption without much choice such as complex integrated systems like ERPs are often procured as explicated by means of mimetic and normatic isomorphism. The user in order to maintain his job, adopts. Adopters are survivors, rebels must print their resumes. Technology adoption, at least those that impact the society at large are often adopted from the deterministic paradigm of humans, not the voluntarism perspective.