Are We Discovering or Making Concepts? Performativity in Concept Defining

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Are We Discovering or Making Concepts? Performativity in Concept Defining. / Niemimaa, Marko; Zimmer, Markus Philipp.
PACIS 2022 proceedings. AIS eLibrary, 2022. 1853.

Publikation: Beiträge in SammelwerkenAufsätze in KonferenzbändenForschungbegutachtet

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Niemimaa, M & Zimmer, MP 2022, Are We Discovering or Making Concepts? Performativity in Concept Defining. in PACIS 2022 proceedings., 1853, AIS eLibrary, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems - PACIS 2022, Taipei and Sydney, Taiwan, 05.07.22. <https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2022/97/>

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Niemimaa M, Zimmer MP. Are We Discovering or Making Concepts? Performativity in Concept Defining. in PACIS 2022 proceedings. AIS eLibrary. 2022. 1853

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abstract = "Alongside the emergence of new technologies and management trends, new concepts such as Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation and Cybersecurity appear. Once introduced, scholars debate these concepts{\textquoteright} definitions. Often, a uniform definition remains elusive in these debates but several different - sometimes conflicting - definitions result. In this short paper, we take a philosophical perspective to concept defining and ask why is it that we end up in these situations where a plurality of definitions exists? We outline two perspectives to concept defining: 1) concept-discovery; and 2) concept-making. We argue that concept defining is largely ill-conceived as an activity of concept-discovery according to which concepts are mirrors of the outside world. In contrast, we argue that viewing concept defining as an act of concept-making will sensitize IS researchers on the practices and processes which make concepts and their ethical as well as political implications.",
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