Despite strong interest in Csikszentmihalyi’s flow theory to understand user behavior in information systems, existing literature shows significant inconsistencies on the conceptualization, conditions, and effect mechanisms of the flow construct. Reviewing extant literature in IS on the concept of flow, this paper discusses the most common theoretical and methodological shortcomings, drawing on...

This paper is concerned with the second problem. However, the methodology developed to solve the second problem provides cost information that can be used by the problem definer to assist him with the determination of the requirements. One approach to determining the requirements of an information system involves comparing the information value of a report with the cost of produoing the report....

Information opacity leads to information asymmetry. In this situation, in providing their own financial needs, firms face limitations and inevitably provide their financial needs from the debt market by signalling private information to it. In addition, information opacity affects the leverage adjustment speed. This research investigates the effect of information opacity on deviation from targe...

Action research is seen as one of the solutions to the lack of relevance in the field of information systems because action research has as its primary goal to combine successful intervention in real-world settings with the development of scientific knowledge. The rigor of action research, however, has been questioned regularly. The IS field lacks a set of generally agreed guidelines and criter...

Now and then a research field needs to reflect on its own presuppositions and fundamental objectives. A good opportunity to do this opens up when the research field is evaluated or commented upon by someone from the outside. In the last number of SJIS two American researchers, David Hakken and Langdon Winner, gave their personal views on Scandinavian information systems (IS) research. They both...

Alongside other methodological affinities between contemporary Scandinavian information systems research and social anthropology, the modes of reflexivity that have come to characterize each differ. Reflexivity in the former concerns an ‘otherness’ of technology, which is related to the users and their practices, while reflexivity within social anthropology concerns the encounter between the te...

The Science as a branch of human activity tends to be unified and universal. Accordingly, there is a general demand to integrate heterogeneous research results and to coordinate distributed research activities. In recent years it is doing by federating IRs and CRISs of research organizations in a form of unified research data and information space (DIS) and by providing for research results fro...