Information Systems Development (ISD) - the Core of the IS Discipline
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Track Description
Information systems development (ISD) is arguably at the core of the information systems discipline. Without ISD there are no systems to be organizationally and socially implemented and used. The majority of ISD projects are conducted within or across company borders driven by business incentives to engineer economic software systems. However, despite 50 years or more of ISD experience, the perception of the so-called “software crisis” still persists, with a steady stream of unfinished projects, resource problems, erroneous systems, and systems poorly aligned with businesses and user requirements. Research in the field is largely fragmented and, for the reasons mentioned above, practice often seems to be ahead of research. Conversely, where research is indeed ahead of practice, industrial uptake of research results is often rather limited. As a consequence, there is an urgent need for a sustainable understanding and integrative theory based on extensive, empirical field research that goes beyond laboratory experiments, for example research that considers the dynamics of large, distributed projects. ISD is a dynamic practice conducted in an increasingly turbulent and complex environment. It includes activities such as requirements analysis, design, programming and maintenance. It deals with project management and the design, use, and adaptation of methods and tools for the development and organisational/ societal implementation and utilisation of IT. New issues, such as offshoring, open source, and revitalised end-user development through web serviced APIs such as Google and cloud resources etc. provide exciting new challenges for ISD research and practice. The track aims at contributions which cover the socio-technical nature of ISD based on rigorous research and with relevance for academia and for practice.

Relevant Topics

Confirmed journal special issues and/or journal fast-track
Authors of selected high quality papers from the track will be invited to submit an extended version of the paper to the related Special Issue on ISD of the ‘Information Systems and e-Business Management (ISeB)’ journal.

Confirmed Associate Editors
Jacob Cybulski (Deakin, Australia)
Linda Dawson (Monash University, Australia)
Igor Hawryszkiewycz (UTS, Australia)
Roland Holten (Frankfurt University, Germany)
Michael Lang (NUI, Ireland)
Sabine Madsen (RUC, Denmark)
Peter Axel Nielsen (Aaalborg University, Denmark)
Jacob Nørbjerg (CBS, Denmark)
John Venable (Curtin University, Australia)
Richard Vidgen (UNSW, Australia)
Dave Wastell (Nottingham Business School, UK)

Track Chairs
Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Kautz, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Dr Henry Linger, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Dr Christian Janiesch, SAP Research CEC, Brisbane, Australia

Contact details
Karl.Kautz@cbs.dk