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 * Information Systems Theories Minitrack at HICSS
 * HICSS 2015 will host a minitrack related to this wiki entitled "Theory and Information Systems." Find the minitrack call for papers here.

Theories

 * Absorptive capacity theory
 * Actor network theory
 * Adaptive structuration theory
 * Administrative behavior, theory of
 * Agency theory
 * Argumentation theory
 * Behavioral decision theory
 * Boundary object theory
 * Chaos theory
 * Cognitive dissonance theory
 * Cognitive fit theory
 * Cognitive load theory
 * Competitive strategy (Porter)
 * Complexity theory
 * Contingency theory
 * Critical realism theory
 * Critical social theory
 * Critical success factors, theory of
 * Customer Focus Theory
 * Deferred action, theory of
 * Delone and McLean IS success model
 * Diffusion of innovations theory
 * Dynamic capabilities
 * Embodied social presence theory
 * Equity theory
 * Evolutionary theory
 * Expectation confirmation theory
 * Feminism theory
 * Fit-Viability theory
 * Flow theory
 * Game theory
 * Garbage can theory
 * General systems theory
 * General deterrence theory
 * Hermeneutics
 * Illusion of control
 * Impression management, theory of
 * Information processing theory
 * Institutional theory
 * International information systems theory
 * Keller's Motivational Model
 * Knowledge-based theory of the firm
 * Language action perspective
 * Lemon Market Theory
 * Management fashion theory
 * Media richness theory
 * Media synchronicity theory
 * Modal aspects, theory of
 * Multi-attribute utility theory
 * Organizational culture theory
 * Organizational information processing theory
 * Organizational knowledge creation
 * Organizational learning theory
 * Portfolio theory
 * Process virtualization theory
 * Prospect theory
 * Punctuated equilibrium theory
 * Real options theory
 * Resource-based view of the firm
 * Resource dependency theory
 * Self-efficacy theory
 * SERVQUAL
 * Social capital theory
 * Social cognitive theory
 * Social exchange theory
 * Social learning theory
 * Social network theory
 * Social shaping of technology
 * Socio-technical theory
 * Soft systems theory
 * Stakeholder theory
 * Structuration theory
 * Task closure theory
 * Task-technology fit
 * Technological frames of reference
 * Technology acceptance model
 * Technology dominance, theory of
 * Technology-organization-environment framework
 * Theory of collective action
 * Theory of planned behavior
 * Theory of reasoned action
 * Transaction cost economics
 * Transactive memory theory
 * Unified theory of acceptance and use of technology
 * Usage control model
 * Work systems theory
 * Yield shift theory of satisfaction