Readability and the relevance versus rigor debate

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Straub, Detmar W ^a   Ang, Soon ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CYCLE TIME; MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS; POLICY CONSTRAINTS; SCHOLARLY JOURNALS;

MANAGERS;

EID: 55949104424     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25148865     Document Type: Review

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