Reach and Grasp1
反驳了信息系统领域因缺乏理论核心而焦虑的观点，认为焦虑源于领域年轻、技术恐惧环境及学术民族中心主义，主张领域应主动追求跨机构的教学与研究机会。
The short history of Information Systems suggests persistent anxiety about the field’s purported lack of academic legitimacy. A common refrain in the anxiety discourse is that legitimacy can be obtained only by creating a strong theoretic core for the field. This essay takes exception with this view, attributing the anxiety to the field’s relative youth, its focus on technology in a technophobic institutional environment, and academic ethnocentrism within and without the field. While developing stronger theory might be helpful, it is more important that the IS field pushes back against the hegemony of IS critics outside the field whose arguments masquerade as concerns about academic quality. The anxiety discourse should be replaced by the IS field’s aggressive pursuit of new instructional and research opportunities that cross traditional institutional barriers and the pursuit of excellence on academic criteria deemed important by the field itself.