Crisis in the Information Systems Discipline: A Reflection

ACIS 2007 Proceedings - 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 132-141

  Bakshi, Sumit ^a   Krishna, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT BANGALORE   (India)

Author keywords

Crisis; Discipline; Information systems; Relevance; Rigor

Indexed keywords

CRISIS; DISCIPLINE; RELEVANCE; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; RIGOR; THREE DIMENSIONS; WIDE SPREADS;

RESEARCH;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 71749119659     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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