Theories of decision-making have long been important foundations for information systems (IS) research and much of IS is concerned with information processing for decision making. The discipline of behavioral economics (BE) provides the dominant contemporary approach for understanding human decision-making. Therefore, it is logical that IS research that involves decision making should consider BE as foundation or reference theory. Surprisingly, and despite calls for greater use of BE in IS research, it seems that IS has been slow to adopt contemporary BE as reference theory. This paper reports a critical analysis of BE in all fields of IS based on an intensive investigation of quality IS research using bibliometric content analysis. The analysis shows that IS researchers have a general understanding of BE, but their use of the theories has an ad hoc feel where only a narrow range of BE concepts and theories tend to form the foundation of IS research. The factors constraining the adoption of BE theories in IS are discussed and strategies for the use of this influential foundation theory are proposed. Guidance is provided on how BE could be used in various aspects of IS. The paper concludes with the view that BE reference theory has the potential to transform significant areas of IS research.

决策理论长期以来一直是信息系统（IS）研究的重要基础，而IS的许多方面都涉及决策的信息处理。行为经济学（BE）学科为理解人类决策提供了主要的当代方法。因此，涉及决策的信息系统研究应将BE作为基础或参考理论，这是合乎逻辑的。令人惊讶的是，尽管呼吁在BE研究中更多地使用BE，但IS在采用当代BE作为参考理论方面似乎进展缓慢。本文基于文献计量分析法对质量IS研究的深入调查，对IS在IS各个领域的关键分析进行了报告。分析表明，信息系统研究人员对BE有基本了解，但是他们对这些理论的使用有一种特殊的感觉，即只有少数BE概念和理论倾向于构成IS研究的基础。讨论了制约IS理论在IS中采用的因素，并提出了使用这种有影响力的基础理论的策略。提供了有关如何在IS的各个方面使用BE的指南。本文的结论是，BE参考理论具有改变IS研究重要领域的潜力。