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

Basden, A

Abstract

This paper suggests how interpretivist, socio-critical and positivist approaches in information systems research might be integrated. Heinz Klein's approach to information systems 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.

Citation

Basden, A. (2011). Enabling a Kleinian integration of interpretivist and socio-critical IS research : The contribution of Dooyeweerd's philosophy. European Journal of Information Systems, 20, 477-489. https://doi.org/10.1057/ejis.2011.18

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 22, 2011
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2011
• Deposit Date: Jul 14, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 14, 2015
• Journal: European Journal of Information Systems
• Print ISSN: 0960-085X
• Electronic ISSN: 1476-9344
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 20
• Pages: 477-489
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/ejis.2011.18
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/ejis.2011.18
• Related Public URLs: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/index.html
• Additional Information: Access Information : This is a pre-print of an article published in [European Journal of Information Systems]. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online following the official URL link