Editor’s Comments
指出，仅通过改变研究方式和呈现方式（如关注实践者兴趣、使用实地研究）不足以实现大规模的相关研究，还需考虑研究者的社会和政治背景。
Recently, there have been calls for research in information systems to be relevant in the eyes of practitioners, not just rigorous in the eyes of researchers.Prescriptions include the following: writing up research in practitioner-friendly ways, investigating topics of interest to practitioners, using managers instead of students as experimental subjects, doing field studies instead of laboratory studies, and other sensible and laudable remedies.These tactics only involve, for the most part, how to do and present research differently.I predict that these tactics, alone, will fail.They comprise a necessary condition, but not a sufficient condition, for relevant research to take place on a significant scale.Research involves more than just the intellectual dimension of working with theory, method, logic, and evidence.Research also involves the social and political context of the researchers.In the academic discipline of information systems, we have (for better or worse) adopted the manner of research that we believe scientists use (not only natural scientists, but also social scientists such as psychologists and economists).A property of such research is that no individual scientist exercises complete free will in choosing his or her theory, methods, and research puzzles, but is constrained by what his or her scientific research community would consider to be the theories, methods, and research puzzles that are worthy of attention.In such research, the starting point for a new investigation is what current theory does not explain or predict adequately (a research puzzle) where the next step is the refinement or improvement of the current theory or method in order that it may explain and predict adequately (a solution to the puzzle).This approach to research is sometimes described as basic research or pure research: the driving force is the development and refinement of theory, not the everyday problems or long-term objectives of individuals, organizations, or society.