Competing mistresses? Academic vs. practitioner perceptions of systems analysis

Journal of Computer Information Systems

Volumn 46, Issue 5 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 114-126

  Anandarajan, Murugan ^a   Lippert, Susan K ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic research; Correspondence analysis; Practitioner research; System planning; Systems analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH FOCUS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS; SYSTEM PLANNING;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33751577043     PISSN: 08874417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08874417.2006.11645929     Document Type: Article

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