課程資訊
課程名稱
 管理資訊系統研究方法
MIS Research Methodology 
開課學期
 107-1 
授課對象
 管理學院  資訊管理學研究所  
授課教師
  
課號
 IM8017 
課程識別碼
 725 D2500 
班次
  
學分
 3.0 
全/半年
 半年 
必/選修
 選修 
上課時間
 星期二2,3,4(9:10~12:10) 
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備註
 教室:管二研六
限本系所學生(含輔系、雙修生) 且 限博士班
總人數上限：30人 
  
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課程概述

This course is designed to provide doctoral students a broad introduction of research issues and research methods in the field of Information Systems. The purpose of this course is to help students to appreciate rigorousness of quality research, and to polish the following capabilities: (1) finding valuable research questions (2) integrating relevant literature (3) developing logic argumentations for theory building (4) proposing convincing hypotheses (5) understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the diverse research methods and conducting appropriate methods for testing the proposed hypotheses (6) presenting abstract concepts. After taking this course, students should acquire the capabilities of planning a research project that accounts for IT-related issues of their choice. 

課程目標
 The course objectives will be achieved via the following means. First, the field of IS and the concepts of theory building will be introduced in the first couple of weeks. Second, students choose research topics out of, but not limited to, the three topics prepared by the instructor, prepare a list of reference readings for their chosen research topic, and read the papers as well as other related readings searched by the students. Third, students will write up summaries for the papers of their chosen topic, and lead discussion on the topics during the class. Fourth, students generate valuable research questions and comprehend relevant theories through the activities of searching papers, writing up summaries, and leading discussions. Fifth, important IS research methods will be introduced in the class, and the students should figure out which method is appropriate for his/her research questions. Finally, the students will write up and present his/her research proposal in front of the class. 
課程要求
 *Summaries and leading discussions: 30 %
*Participations in class discussions: 10%
*Presentations of research proposal: 30 % (15% each)
*Research proposal: 30% (including outline, draft and final)

Homeworks include 5 summaries, one for the readings assigned on 9/27, and four for research papers on the topic of students’ choice, as listed for sessions 5-8. Each student chooses one of the listed topics (or topic of their choice), and write up summaries for at least one of the papers assigned for each topic. The summary should consist of the following elements: 1) problems addressed by the article, 2) theoretical motivation for the article, 3) research questions, 4) theory logic, 5) causal model and hypotheses for the article, 6) research design, 7) findings, 8) plausible alternative interpretations of the findings, 9) theoretical contribution, 10) what I learned: research design that I might reuse, 11) What I learned: theory that I might reuse, l2) key reference I should pursue, 13) an interesting new hypothesis and interesting & opportunities for future research.

The sessions of discussions and writing summaries are designed to help students: (1) formulating a research question, (2) developing a research model, (3) developing hypotheses.

After reading and discussing the research papers, the students should be able to answer the following questions for the research topic of their choice: What are the key IS research questions for each of the topic? What are the main theories that are used to account for the questions? What are the theoretical strengths of these theories? What are the weaknesses of these theories? Describe a hypothesis that could be used to overcome the weakness that you identify.

Research proposal:
The students are required to write up a research proposal for the research topic of their choice. The research proposal should consist of (1) research question (2) research motivation (3) relevant literature review (not limited to the papers assigned for each topic) (4) theoretical 
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參考書目
 Suggested readings:
Willcocks, L. P., Sauer, C., & Lacity, M. C. (Eds.). (2015). Formulating Research Methods for Information Systems (Vol. 1, 2). Springer.
Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Banita Lal, Michael D. Williams,Scott L. Schneberger, & Michael Wade (2009). Handbook of Research on Contemporary Theoretical Models in Information Systems. New York: Information Science Reference.
Kraemer, K. L., Cash, Jr. J. I. Nunamaker, Jr. J. F. eds. (1991) The Information Systems Research Challenge: Survey Research Methods, volumes 1-3, Harvad Business School Research Colloquium, by Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Kuhn, T. S. (2012). The structure of Scientific Revolutions. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago and London.

APA 6th edition
http://web.nchu.edu.tw/pweb/users/wtsay/lesson/11680.pdf (Chinese)
http://web.calstatela.edu/library/guides/3apa.pdf 
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