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Enabling a Kleinian integration of interpretivist and socio-critical IS research: the contribution of Dooyeweerd's philosophy

A. Basden

Published 2011 in European Journal of Information Systems

ABSTRACT

This paper suggests how interpretivist, socio-critical and positivist approaches in information systems (IS) research might be integrated. Heinz Klein's approach to IS was a significant advance on earlier ones, bringing together a number of issues discussed in interpretivist and socio-critical circles, with philosophical groundings. He believed IS research would benefit from integration of interpretivist and socio-critical approaches, but found no philosophical grounding for this. Interpretivism's reluctance to consider normativity might be a ‘Trojan horse’ that undermines integration. This paper employs Dooyeweerd's philosophy to expose and expel the Trojan horse and sketch how a philosophically grounded integration of interpretivist, socio-critical and even positivist approaches might proceed.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2011

  • Venue

    European Journal of Information Systems

  • Publication date

    2011-05-10

  • Fields of study

    Philosophy, Computer Science, Engineering

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.1057/ejis.2011.18
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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