Abstract:
Information Systems (IS) and the process of distinguishing Information
Systems ontology have been the center of challenge during the 50 years of IS
development. The importance of this challenge is emergent in direct link
between knowledge development process in IS and the IS ontology. In other
words, theorizing and efforts to falsify theories, which have been developed, is
influenced by the way IS ontology is approached. Critical realism enjoying the
unique approach to the IS ontology based on transcendental realism and
critical naturalism can be a useful basis to establish the transdisciplinary view
in the process of IS knowledge development.
This point of view is important regarding the role of human agent in
different layers of the IS ontology as a result of its transcendental ontology.
Critical realism develops human role during next stages of knowledge and the
methodology development based on the transdisciplinary view to IS. The
explanation of a transdisciplinary view to the IS ontology regarding the
unique role of human agent in the process of theorizing and knowledge
development in Information Systems is presented in this article
Machine summary:
The explanation of a transdisciplinary view to the IS ontology regarding the unique role of human agent in the process of theorizing and knowledge development in Information Systems is presented in this article.
Based on what is mentioned, the constituents of transdisciplinary domain of Information Systems can be identified as follows with regard to the critical realism approach: • The biological system of human being • The psychological system of human being Intl.
The kind of approach to biological and psychological capacities of human agent and its way of interacting with political, social and economic environment and way of mutual affection with environment will also play a role in processing development theories of Information Systems.
J. Humanities (2012) Vol. 19 (4) to Information Systems, based on critical realism philosophy, provides the researcher the opportunity to develop convenient theories in a view upper than of one individual stratum or scientific domain which can be part of Information Systems.
Transdisciplinary researches in based on critical realism methodology in Information Systems domain constructs theories on the basis of several concepts, which points to certain entities and illustrates their relations until it can reach a defined framework.
In the research mentioned, to establish causal explanations, regarding transcendental ontology of Information Systems, active mechanisms in different strata and their relations with biological, psychological, social, cultural and human based agents have been considered.
Based on what is illustrated in the mentioned research, successful theory development in Information Systems domain is dependent on following a Transdisciplinary approach, derived from critical realism methodology.