Quantum computing has been widely presented as a future computational revolution, yet its implications for the field of information systems (IS) remain underexplored. While technical research dominates current discourse, IS scholars are only beginning to engage with the social, organizational, and managerial dimensions of this emerging technology. This study asks: What are the narratives of quantum computing present in the IS literature? Using a narrative literature review approach, I analyze 96 articles from leading IS journals and conferences. The analysis identifies 11 distinct narratives and synthesizes them into six aggregated dimensions, which together reveal how IS research is beginning to frame quantum computing. These findings contribute to clarifying the conceptual landscape, surface early theoretical tensions, and propose a research agenda for future IS inquiry into quantum technologies. This study supports IS scholars in engaging more meaningfully with quantum computing, even before its full commercial deployment.
Quantum computing has been widely presented as a future computational revolution, yet its implications for the field of information systems (IS) remain underexplored. While technical research dominates current discourse, IS scholars are only beginning to engage with the social, organizational, and managerial dimensions of this emerging technology. This study asks: What are the narratives of quantum computing present in the IS literature? Using a narrative literature review approach, I analyze 96 articles from leading IS journals and conferences. The analysis identifies 11 distinct narratives and synthesizes them into six aggregated dimensions, which together reveal how IS research is beginning to frame quantum computing. These findings contribute to clarifying the conceptual landscape, surface early theoretical tensions, and propose a research agenda for future IS inquiry into quantum technologies. This study supports IS scholars in engaging more meaningfully with quantum computing, even before its full commercial deployment.
Quantum computing is increasingly viewed as a transformative technology for optimization, cybersecurity, analytics, simulation, and organizational decision-making (Kar et al., 2025). Yet the Management Information Systems field has not fully articulated what a quantum-informed MIS research agenda should look like. We introduce Quantum MIS (Q-MIS) as an emerging domain concerned with how organizations prepare for, adopt, govern, and create value from quantum-enabled information systems. We argue that Quantum MIS should not be understood only as the technical application of quantum computing. Rather, it should be theorized as a socio-technical transformation in which quantum capabilities interact with organizational routines, managerial cognition, governance structures, data infrastructures, and institutional readiness. We ground this agenda in three IS theoretical traditions: sociotechnical systems theory, IT capability and dynamic capabilities perspectives, and affordance theory (Larsen et al., 2025). First, drawing on sociotechnical systems theory, we argue that quantum value will emerge from aligning technology, people, tasks, structures, and organizational processes. Second, building on IT capability and dynamic capabilities perspectives, we conceptualize quantum readiness as an organizational capability involving sensing quantum opportunities, seizing viable use cases, and transforming digital infrastructures. This view aligns with prior IS research that conceptualizes IT capability as a strategic organizational resource linked to firm performance (Bharadwaj, 2000). Third, using affordance theory, we suggest that quantum technologies may create new action possibilities for optimization, simulation, security, and decision support, but these affordances will be realized only when firms possess the knowledge, resources, and governance mechanisms to actualize them. We position Quantum MIS around five research domains: quantum readiness, quantum-enabled decision systems, hybrid classical and quantum infrastructure, quantum cybersecurity governance, and the societal implications of quantum capability gaps. Our contribution is threefold. First, we define Quantum MIS and distinguish it from the technical study of quantum computing. Second, we connect quantum computing to core IS theories, showing how existing theory can guide early inquiry into post-classical information systems. Third, we outline a preliminary research agenda and practical implications for managers preparing for quantum-enabled digital transformation. As organizations experiment with quantum technologies under uncertainty, MIS scholars have an opportunity to shape the conversation before quantum technologies become mainstream (Kar et al., 2025).
Quantum computing represents one of the most transformative technological shifts in computational science since the advent of classical computing architectures. This systematic literature review (SLR) synthesizes 212 peer-reviewed studies published between 2015 and 2024 to map the current landscape of quantum computing research as it intersects with software development practices, tools, frameworks, and methodologies. Following the PRISMA 2020 guidelines, we searched six major academic databases and identified relevant literature through a rigorous multi-stage screening process. Our analysis reveals five dominant research themes: quantum algorithm development and software frameworks, quantum machine learning integration, quantum cryptography and security applications, quantum software testing and verification, and hybrid quantum-classical software architectures. We further document major challenges including hardware decoherence, limited qubit availability, the absence of mature quantum DevOps pipelines, and a critical shortage of quantum-competent software engineers. The review concludes with a structured research agenda identifying six high-priority gaps where future scholarly work is most urgently needed. This paper provides a foundational reference for software engineers, researchers, and technology strategists seeking to understand and navigate the rapidly evolving quantum software ecosystem.
Quantum computing (QC) has the potential to be the next abstruse technology, with a wide range of possible applications and ramifications for organizations and markets. QC provides an exponential speedup by employing quantum mechanics principles, including superposition and entanglement. The potential advantages offered by the revolutionary paradigm have propelled scientific productions. Therefore, a highly pertinent investigation is required to elucidate the evolution of path-breaking trajectories for scientific advances. This study confronts the idea by presenting a scientometric analysis for the recent decade of literature collected from the Web of Science database in the computer science discipline. The scientometric implications of the article identify the significant research domains and provide an intensive insight into the publication patterns, country collaboration, geographical analysis, citation patterns, eminent journals, and research frontiers of each domain of QC. The scholarly literature analysis identifies key challenges in the QC knowledge domain. Overall, the inference reveals an evolutionary pathway for future research directives and collaboration in the domains of QC research. The research findings provide innovative significance to information scientists by presenting a comprehensive overview of QC research to help them find relevant applications, research topics, and key challenges.
Emerging technologies have a high potential for impact and are worthy of attention by the Information Systems (IS) community. To date, the IS discipline has not been able to be a leader in the research and teaching of emerging technologies in their early stages arguably because: (1) IS researchers often lack knowledge of the foundational principles of such emerging technologies, and (2) during the emerging phase, there is insufficient data on the adoption, use, and impact of these technologies. To overcome these challenges, the IS discipline must be willing to break its own disciplinary research boundaries to go beyond software applications and their related management issues and start studying emerging technologies before they are massively adopted by industry. In this paper, we use quantum computing as an exemplar emerging technology and outline a research and education agenda that will help IS harness the opportunities quantum computing offers. We propose that IS researchers rigorously investigate emergent technologies through collaboration with researchers from other disciplines. We also see a role for IS researchers in the scholarship of emerging technologies and in the process of introducing emerging technologies into IS curricula.
Quantum computing is the next-generation technology for future human society. This article aims to give a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the global development status of quantum computing. First, the latest research hotspots of quantum computing are reviewed. Then multiple bibliometric metrics were used to analyse the current development status, research hotspots, technological trends, and the contribution of authors, institutions, and countries in quantum computing from 2016 to 2020. The results confirm that quantum computing is still under development, with the United States and China in the leading position, from where most critical scholars came. The most important institutions are scattered in the United States, China, and France. The characteristics of international cooperation, research impact, topics with the highest Prominence percentile, distinctive keyphrases, and leading source journals within the field were also analysed. The results may provide a quantitative basis for scientific research and decision-making in quantum computing.
Quantum computing is the next-generation technology for future human society. This article aims to give a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the global development status of quantum computing. First, the latest research hotspots of quantum computing are reviewed. Then multiple bibliometric metrics were used to analyse the current development status, research hotspots, technological trends, and the contribution of authors, institutions, and countries in quantum computing from 2016 to 2020. The results confirm that quantum computing is still under development, with the United States and China in the leading position, from where most critical scholars came. The most important institutions are scattered in the United States, China, and France. The characteristics of international cooperation, research impact, topics with the highest Prominence percentile, distinctive keyphrases, and leading source journals within the field were also analysed. The results may provide a quantitative basis for scientific research and decision-making in quantum computing.