A Systemic Framework for the Field of Information Systems

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 46-67

  Bacon, C James ^a   Fitzgerald, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Delphi survey; IS framework; IS taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544375194     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/506732.506738     Document Type: Article

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