Research directions in Information Systems: Toward an institutional ecology

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-22

  Ramiller, Neil C ^a   Swanson, E Burton ^b   Wang, Ping ^c  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Boudary ethnography; Comparative discourse analysis; Deconstruction; Ecology of markets; Information Systems research; Institutional history; Reflexive inquiry; Research agenda

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ECOLOGY; HISTORY; INFORMATION USE;

BOUDARY ETHNOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE DISCOURSE ANALYSE; DECONSTRUCTION; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY OF MARKET; INFORMATION SYSTEM RESEARCH; INSTITUTIONAL ECOLOGIES; INSTITUTIONAL HISTORY; REFLEXIVE INQUIRY; RESEARCH AGENDA;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 57049156034     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00148     Document Type: Article

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