Mapping research questions to research methods

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 274, Issue , 2008, Pages 29-41

  Järvinen, Pertti ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DESIGN SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL APPROACH; RESEARCH APPROACH; RESEARCH METHODS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

RESEARCH; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 47649131913     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09682-7-9_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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