Abstract
Information management researchers have tried to find their own academic identity, especially in terms of the interdisciplinarity, which is central to management theory. Our discussion proposes four future directions. First, information management research should aim to construct its own academic identity by means of conducting "research with practice", and keeping away from scientism. Second, we should conceptualize technology, organization and information based on that they are epistemologically objective and construct our living worlds variously. Third, we should insist on IT determinism, that is, our academic identity belongs to the morality which IT concept mixed by information and technology has, rather than to materiality per se. Fourth, we should give serious consideration to the fact that researchers could never escape from intervening various practices through analysis.
