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臺大管理論叢
第
27
卷第
4
期
193
Information Management Research in Taiwan: Historical
Retrospect and Future Outlook
1. Introduction
The information management (IM) field in Taiwan has evolved for more than forty
years. With the rapid change of information technology (IT) in different periods, research
issues and methodology of the IM field have also continually varied. Based on the existing
literature, prior studies primarily focused on the development of the IM field are not quite
enough. Furthermore, the data periods or time windows used in the prior studies are out-of-
date. As the IM field has become a matured discipline, the number of IM articles has
increased year by year. Nowadays, many novel research issues in the IM field, such as
virtual community, cloud services, and big data, should be discussed and considered. The
development issues in the IM field should also be re-addressed. This study selects two
representative journals in the IM fields in Taiwan–
Journal of Information Management
and
NTU Management Review
for a review study. Following the analysis method of the past
studies, we analyze the topics of these two journals’ published articles across the past decade
and discuss the future directions of IM research.
2. Research Method
This study selects a total of 381 IM-related articles, in which 359 articles are from
Journal of Information Management
and 22 articles are from
NTU Management Review
during the 10-year period from 2005 to 2014. This study adopts content analysis to analyze
these articles and makes comparisons between the two journals. Based on the results of
content analysis, this study attempts to explain research trends and developments of the IM
field from four dimensions: Human, Systems, Management, and Research Method. The
categories and issues in each dimension that are used to classify each article are as follows.
Eldon Y. Li
, University Chair Professor, Department of Management Information Systems, National
Chengchi University
Laurence Fang-Kai Chang
, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Management, Da-Yeh
University
Alan Chien-Lung Hsu
, Associate Professor, Department of Marketing Management, Takming University
of Science and Technology
Chien Hsiang Liao
, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Management, Fu-Jen Catholic
University