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Published by: Allied Business Academies
Published in: "Academy of Information and Management Sciences Journal", 2001
Length: 10 pages

Abstract

It has been asserted that positivism is the philosophical basis of research in the field of Information Systems by Goles and Hirschheim. This is seen as problematic in an area that undergoes swift and constant change because of its technologic nature. The change from context-based computing to that of graphic-based computing using the mouse as a pointing device is the focus of this paper. The mechanism for explaining change is the action theory of Talcott Parsons, a structural functionalist, whose theory, in turn, is attacked for the inability to account facilely for change.

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Abstract

It has been asserted that positivism is the philosophical basis of research in the field of Information Systems by Goles and Hirschheim. This is seen as problematic in an area that undergoes swift and constant change because of its technologic nature. The change from context-based computing to that of graphic-based computing using the mouse as a pointing device is the focus of this paper. The mechanism for explaining change is the action theory of Talcott Parsons, a structural functionalist, whose theory, in turn, is attacked for the inability to account facilely for change.

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