Abstract: To date, there are three main streams focusing on the theoretical and practical studies of Information Resources Management (IRM), which includes Record Management genre, Information Systems (IS) genre, and Information Management genre. This paper firstly reviews the dominant theories and works on IRM in IS genre, and then by collecting papers published in Information Resources Management Journal from 1993 to 2009, a meta-analysis is conducted to examine the research theories, reference disciplines, level of analysis, research themes and topics, and research methods of IRM in IS genre. Finally, the paper presents some critical thinking on the research components and directions of IRM in IS genre based on our findings.

Key words: Information resources management(IRM), Information systems(IS) genre, Research overview, Meta-analysis