Title:	INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH: REVEALING ITS COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUSNESS
Author(s):	Pedro Miguel Azevedo E Rocha
ISBN:	978-972-8924-57-7
Editors:	Miguel Baptista Nunes, Pedro Isaías and Philip Powell
Year:	2008
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	information systems, definition, general systems theory, systems science, collective unconsciousness
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	203
Last Page:	209
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	The existing standstill at the Information Systems (IS) scientific community core, regarding the present identity crisis, incited an analytical elaboration of the key points that define the IS clinic condition. Observation and confrontation of various opinions describe, through the last decade, the diversity of research studies, the effective increase of IS reach, acquiring new knowledge in different scientific areas, and the present transformation into a transdisciplinar field. But the lack of a common platform for dialogue and terminologies still keeps averting the closure of this stagnancy. Thus we appeal to Systems Science described in the General Systems Theory by Ludwig von Bertalanffy. Seen as a theory that expresses the unification of sciences relating it with any Systems concept or perceptual level. The lack of an IS certainty of a course prompted us to uncover the IS evolution, using content analysis, from 2001 to 2006 in 10 IS journals, being the Systems Research and Behavioral Science used as a Systems Science content reference, in order to respond if IS would be diverging or not from its Systems root. Though we find the results merely indicative, nevertheless they point out that 80% of the journals slowly converge to Systems Science.
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