Progress in information systems research

摘要

It is often said that there are two types of progress in scientific research: one type that is incremental, another that is revolutionary. Incremental progress takes small steps, and builds on existing theories and frameworks. Revolutionary progress takes big steps, and replaces existing frameworks with entirely new ones. Thomas Kuhn, in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, famously used the term paradigm shift for this last type of progress.