摘要 : Benbasat and Zmud offer a diagnosis of "why one tends today to observe a lack of relevance to practice in IS research" and a prescription of guidelines that "the IS academic community might follow to introduce relevance into their... 展开 Benbasat and Zmud offer a diagnosis of "why one tends today to observe a lack of relevance to practice in IS research" and a prescription of guidelines that "the IS academic community might follow to introduce relevance into their research efforts and articles." I will comment, first, on the ramifications of their self-avowed positivist orientation; second, on their model-in-use of what relevant research is (i.e., the instrumental model); and third, on the need for the IS research community to take a broad approach to the matter of relevance. I will also refer to the respective commentaries offered by Applegate, by Davenport and Markus, and by Lyytinen. 收起