ICIS 2008 panel report: IS has outgrown the need for reference discipline theories, or has it?

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 639-656

  Niederman, Fred ^a   Gregor, Shirley ^b   Grover, Varun ^c   Lyytinen, Kalle ^d   Saunders, Carol ^e  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

IS community; IS research; Reference discipline theory; Theory building

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

FUTURE PROSPECTS; IS RESEARCHES; PANEL DISCUSSIONS; PANEL REPORT; PARIS , FRANCE; REFERENCE DISCIPLINE; RESEARCH INITIATIVES; THEORY BUILDING;

EID: 70349306173     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.02437     Document Type: Article

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