From Bricks to an Edifice: Cultivating Strong Inference in Information Systems Research

• 成果类型: Editorial Material
• 署名作者: Tiwana, Amrit; Kim, Stephen K.
• 署名单位: University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Iowa State University
• 刊物名称: INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7047
• DOI: 10.1287/isre.2019.0848
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 1029-1036
• 关键词: science

摘要

Disciplines that progress faster have a discipline-wide culture of strong inference. Notwithstanding our strong tradition of empirical cumulation, we argue how practicing strong inference can also cultivate greater theoretical cumulation in management information systems studies. We develop and illustrate two philosophy-of-science ideas-nomological rubberbanding and retroduction-to foster it.