Four Years of Automatic Office Work

Thompson, T. R.

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“…Regardless of the intellectual core debates, many IS scholars agree that the IS field is not a pure science but an applied field. Industry and practice have played important roles in IS since its early days, and their strong connection with IS has been well documented (e.g., Gosden, 1960;Simmons, 1962;Thompson, 1958Thompson, , 1960. How strong the connection is and should be have been debated constantly over the years.…”

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The IS History Initiative: Looking Forward by Looking Back

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After officially appointing an AIS historian and forming the AIS history task force at the beginning of 2013, the AIS supported a set of systematic efforts, named IS history initiative, to preserve and represent the IS field's history. From the perspective of the first AIS historian, I provide some background for the IS history initiative. Then I outline a detailed strategic plan and current status of its implementation. Ultimately, the IS history initiative has three goals: (1) to collect, represent, and preserve the IS field's history; (2) to interpret, write, disseminate, and review the IS field's history; and (3) to discover/identify IS genealogy, roots, sources, and facets that deserve to be examined from a historical point of view. Correspondingly, the strategic plan contains three parts. Each part has several specific tasks, many of which were already completed at the time of this writing, and several are either in progress or are planned for future efforts. This paper overviews both current efforts and guiding future efforts related to preserving and representing IS history.

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Section: Thematic Coverage Of the Is History Initiativementioning

confidence: 99%