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Discussion of the precise nature of the Information System discipline has raged for more than twenty years and?continues?fiercely today.?The most interesting aspect of recent debate is not only?the sharpness and depth of the arguments, but?the diverse conclusions arrived at by?participants. While very different, these?have all been reached with?the genuine aim of strengthening?IS scholarship, and?they all add?to our specific understanding of the discipline in the last two decades.?Edited by two?of the most prominent academics in the field, Information Systems - The State of the Field brings together such perspectives along with wider contextual discussion?to provide a fertile ground for reflection, learning and further debate. It includes?articles from?Izak Benbasat, Robert Galliers, Rudi Hirschheim, Heinz Klein, Suzi Iacono, Wanda Orlikowski, Gerry DeSanctis, Bob Zmud, Dan Robey, Kalle Lyytinen, John King, Sal March and Ron Weber, all of whom also?provide a short original commentary of their views on this debate.

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"The sociologist Zygmund Bauman has defined a discipline which is constantly debating its credentials as a “flawed” discipline. This critique can certainly be applied to the IS discipline.? The editors of this book must be congratulated on collecting together the principal writings reflecting the nature of the debate to provide a learned and fascinating account of where the field now stands and perhaps where it is going. It is essential reading for any student of IS."
?Frank Land, Emeritus Professor, Department of Information Systems, London School of Economics

"The struggle for identity, according to Alford North Whitehead entails a dialectic of “becoming”.? It evolves from coping with continuous change, a conflict of perspectives and always asking: “Who am I?”, “Who are we?”, “Who are we not?”, “What do we inherit from our past?”. In this imaginatively edited volume, King and Lyytinen recount information systems' restless pursuit for identity. Anyone who is affected by the struggles, but more importantly everyone who wants to join it must read this book."
?Richard O. Mason, Carr P. Collins Distinguished Professor, Management Information Sciences, Edwin L. Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University

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List of Contributors. 
Foreword—Gordon B. Davis.
Series Preface—Rudy Hirschheim.
Introduction—John Leslie King and Kalle Lyytinen.
Original Papers.
1 Scoping the Discipline of Information Systems—DavidAvison and Steve Elliot.
2 Desperately Seeking the ‘IT’ in IT Research: ACall to Theorizing the IT Artifact—Wanda J. Orlikowski and C.Suzanne Iacono.
3 Still Desperately Seeking the IT Artifact—Ron Weber.
4 The Identity Crisis within the IS Discipline: Defining andCommunicating the Discipline’s Core Properties—IzakBenbasat and Robert W. Zmud.
5 Crisis in the IS Field? A Critical Reflection on the State ofthe Discipline—Rudy A. Hirschheim and Heinz K. Klein.
6 Change as Crisis or Growth? Toward a Trans-disciplinary Viewof Information Systems as a Field of Study: A Response to Benbasatand Zmud’s Call for Returning to the IT Artifact—RobertD. Galliers.
7 The Social Life of Information Systems Research: A Response toBenbasat and Zmud’s Call for Returning to the ITArtifact—Gerardine DeSanctis.
8 Identity, Legitimacy and the Dominant Research Paradigm: AnAlternative Prescription for the IS Discipline—DanielRobey.
9 Design Science in Information Systems Research—Alan R.Hevner, Salvatore T. March, Jinsoo Park and Sudha Ram.
10 Nothing at the Center?: Academic Legitimacy in theInformation Systems Field—Kalle Lyytinen and John LeslieKing.
11 Reach and Grasp—John Leslie King and KalleLyytinen.
Commentaries.
12 The Artifact Redux: Further Reflections on the‘IT’ in IT Research—Wanda J. Orlikowski and C.Suzanne Iacono.
13 Like Ships Passing in the Night: The Debate on the Core ofthe Information Systems Discipline—Ron Weber.
14 Further Reflections on the Identity Crisis—IzakBenbasat and Robert W. Zmud.
15 Further Reflections on the IS Discipline: Climbing the Towerof Babel—Heinz K. Klein and Rudy A. Hirschheim.
16 ‘Don’t Worry, be Happy . . . ’ APost-Modernist Perspective on the Information SystemsDomain—Robert D. Galliers.
17 Cleaning the Mirror: Desperately Seeking Identity in theInformation Systems Field—Daniel Robey.
18 Designing Design Science—Salvatore T. March.
19 The Future of the IS Field: Drawing Directions from MultipleMaps—John Leslie King and Kalle Lyytinen.
Index.

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