Mapping the Narratives of Quantum Computing in IS: A Literature Review

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.