What is information Requirement ? A Constructivism versus a Positivism perspective

Florence Rodhain () and Bernard Fallery ()
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Florence Rodhain: Systèmes d'information - MRM - Montpellier Research in Management - UM1 - Université Montpellier 1 - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - UM2 - Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques - UPVD - Université de Perpignan Via Domitia - Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier (GSCM) - Montpellier Business School
Bernard Fallery: Systèmes d'information - MRM - Montpellier Research in Management - UM1 - Université Montpellier 1 - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - UM2 - Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques - UPVD - Université de Perpignan Via Domitia - Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier (GSCM) - Montpellier Business School

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Abstract: Information Requirement elucidation has been intensively studied in MIS field. But yet, it had not gone far away. Why? Because people looked at it in an inappropriate way. Information Requirement had been considered from a positivism point a view, as a "positive data", that is to say something that has a "real" "existence" in an user mind. We believe that the constructivism perspective explains better the nature of information requirement. Information Requirement is a construction, being constantly constructed and re-constructed by several actors being influenced by all the systems (organizations, society, etc...) in which that lived.

Keywords: Information systems; requirement; Constructivism; Positivism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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Published in D. Jawahar. Emerging Issues in Management Research, EXCEL BOOKS, pp.1-20, 2008, 978-81-7446-603-7

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