INFORMATION ABOUT INFORMATION: A TAXONOMY OF VIEWS

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: McKinney, Earl H., Jr.; Yoos, Charles J., II
• 署名单位: University System of Ohio; Bowling Green State University; Fort Lewis College
• 刊物名称: MIS QUARTERLY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0276-7783
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 329-344
• 关键词: empirical-evaluation; KNOWLEDGE

摘要

Information is poorly defined in the Information Systems research literature, and is almost always unspecified, a reflexive, all-purpose but indiscriminant solution to an unbounded variety of problems. We present a taxonomy of four views token, syntax, representation, and adaptation to enable scholars and practitioners to specify their concept of information. This taxonomy is normative, but we also provide a background review of the etymology and chronology of information, and we sample uses of the term in current IS research. IS research will improve as the term information, via the taxonomy we contribute, is employed more explicitly and consistently.