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What Do We Like About the IS Field?

Some of us have been in the information systems field for a long time. What do we like about the field? (Grover et al. 2009). We think the field of information systems is distinctive, perhaps with respect to subject, methods, and a certain way of thinking (Baskerville and Myers 2002; Benbasat and Zmud 2003; Sidorova et al. 2008). Assuming we are not simply drowned in cognitive dissonance, there are important reasons for us to believe in this field and for us to hope that it prospers. We might or might not have a clear and common message about the distinctive nature of the field, but we can at least get some views from some senior scholars who are both smart enough to have jumped ship if they had wanted, and committed enough to see it through. We invite them to present their views, and then we invite the audience to engage in a discussion about the field. Perhaps we might even come up with some clear and common things to say about the field?