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Information systems diversity : Metaphor, meaning and myth

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posted on 2017-12-06, 00:00 authored by Sandy Behrens
Diversity pervades our lives being both a salient feature of the world around us and an unavoidable characteristic of the human endeavor. In the IS discipline there have been great discussions over the many issues stemming from diversity in our research. However, much of the discussion has overlooked the more fundamental issue of research diversity itself. This paper contributes to current understandings of research diversity by making research diversity the prime focus. Theoretically, it looks at diversity through the alternative lens of concepts. Empirically, it explores the conceptual diversity of the organization – a key disciplinary concept. Grounded in Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) work with metaphors, the results show that the discipline’s research may not be as diverse as initially thought. Of the three primary views of the organization; machine, organism and culture – the study finds a distinct bias toward conceptualizing the organization as a machine.

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Category 1 - Australian Competitive Grants (this includes ARC, NHMRC)

History

Parent Title

Proceedings of the twenty-eighth International Conference on Information Systems, 9-12 December, 2007, Montreal, Canada.

Start Page

1

End Page

17

Number of Pages

17

Start Date

2007-12-09

Finish Date

2007-12-12

Location

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Publisher

Association for Information Systems

Place of Publication

USA

Peer Reviewed

  • Yes

Open Access

  • No

External Author Affiliations

Faculty of Business and Informatics;

Era Eligible

  • Yes

Name of Conference

International Conference on Information Systems

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