TY  - JOUR
A1  - Beck, Roman
T1  - The nature of IT services from a management and IS research point of view
T2  - Sprouts : working papers on information environments, systems and organizations, 10.2010, Nr. 128
N2  - Theory building is not only underdeveloped in IT services management research, but in
general in IS. Given the paradigm shift that comes from the development away from a
networked economy towards a network economy, the lack of spending enough attention to
theorizing in IS becomes even more obvious. In the light of other "megatrends" in IS
research, such as the increasing professionalization and use of statistical methods and the
exploitation of extremely large sets of data (often harvested from social media sites), we
might lose interest in theorizing in the presence of the tremendous amount of available
empirical data. In this position paper, the author advocates that services science researchers
should focus on rigor and relevance in their research approaches.
KW  - IT service management
KW  - network economy
KW  - theorizing in IS
Y1  - 2012
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/24267
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-242675
UR  - http://sprouts.aisnet.org/10-128
SN  - 1535-6078
N1  - Proceedings of SIGSVC Workshop
VL  - 10
IS  - 128
PB  - Case Western Reserve Univ., Weatherhead School of Management , Information Systems Dep.
CY  - Cleveland, Ohio
ER  -