Information Management (IM) is a field subject to great interest. However, it is obvious that IM is not an idea which could function in the long run as a focus point in practice and theory. There is, in our view, a division: IM as a profession for ‘production managers’ in...

The information systems discipline is developing at a tremendous pace, producing right things but also wrong ones — even modernisms. In want of more structure it is on the look‐out for identity. Let us take stock of the situation in some important areas: