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The growth of understanding in information science: Towards a developmental model

✍ Scribed by Ford, Nigel

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
99 KB
Volume
50
Category
Article
ISSN
0002-8231

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✦ Synopsis

Similarities are explored between research approaches characterizing different paradigms in information sci

ence on the one hand, and different information processing styles of individual researchers on the other. Based on these similarities, a model of the way in which new knowledge is generated is proposed. The model focuses in particular on what the author describes as "research pathologies," and ways in which the research output of information science may arguably be enhanced.

Currently the consensus seems to be that researchers in the field of information systems typically adhere to one or another broad school of thought. There is debate as to the extent to which there can be communication or commensurability between the work of those in the different schools. Burell and Morgan (1979) make similar observations in relation to different research paradigms in the study of organizations:

With regard to the study of organisations, for example, each paradigm generates theories and perspectives which are in

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