REAL-IZING INFORMATION SYSTEMS: CRITICAL REALISM AS AN UNDERPINNING PHILOSOPHY FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 295-303

  Mingers, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical realism; epistemology; ontology; research methods

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

CRITICAL REALISMS; EPISTEMOLOGY; INTERPRETIVIST; ONTOLOGY'S; PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE; RESEARCH METHOD; SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 2442529250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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