Volume 3
Volume 3, Number 36 |
August 9, 2005 |
|
W. Brett McKenzie
|
Abstract: The Information Technology (IT) field has undergone a period of self-examination with Information Systems (IS) in many ways leading the debate about self-definition as a discipline. While helpful to the members, the paper suggests that IS could enhance its standing by recognizing and advocating a position as a foundational discipline for business education. To support this position the paper reports on a preliminary survey of faculty and students regarding the importance of IT for business and majors as a means of validating perceptions of the central role of IT for business.
< class="style_left"p>Keywords: IS curriculum, IT field, foundational discipline, e-businessDownload this issue: ISEDJ.3(36).McKenzie.pdf (Adobe PDF, 6 pages, 468 K bytes)
Preview the contents: McKenzie.v1.txt (ASCII txt, 14 K bytes)
Recommended Citation: McKenzie (2005). IS as a Foundational Discipline for Contemporary Business. Information Systems Education Journal, 3 (36). http://isedj.org/3/36/. ISSN: 1545-679X. (A preliminary version appears in The Proceedings of ISECON 2004: §2232. ISSN: 1542-7382.)