The tyranny of methodologies in information systems research <sup>1</sup>
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A preoccupation with research methodologies is negatively affecting the quality of information systems (IS) research. Current IS research seems more concerned with "how" the research is conducted rather than "what" research is conducted and "why". This "tyranny of methodologies in IS research" is having a number of effects on IS research including influencing the problems that are chosen for study, affecting the papers that are selected for publication, and generally influencing the direction of the entire field. This paper explores this phenomenon. The paper describes the context and outlines the dimensions of the problem. It compares the "methodologies problem" in the IS field with the use of methodologies in other management disciplines. Finally, it proposes a number of approaches to help the IS discipline take a more balanced perspective in terms of the research methodologies it use.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.062 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.019 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it