This paper explores possible steps toward incorporating the increasingly important topics of service and service systems into the core of the IS field, thereby moving toward a service-oriented core without abandoning existing tool-oriented concepts and methods. Incorporating more of a service mindset into IS would add to the many service-related topics that it already contains. A service mindse...

abolghasem payandeh owes much of his fame to his valuable translation of the holy quran as well as his journalistic works. as an isfahani story-telling writer, however, he has not been accounted for in the literary history of iran. his stories mainly follow the structure of the writings of the past and are somehow apart from the modern storytelling experience. the settings of his stories usuall...