The difficulty of studying inter-organisational is phenomena on large scales: Critical reflections on a research journey

Electronic Markets

Volumn 20, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 229-240

  Reimers, Kai ^c   Johnston, Robert B ^a   Klein, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Inter organisational Information Systems (IOIS); IS theory; Pharmaceutical industry; Practice Theory; Research design; Structuration Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951943795     PISSN: 10196781     EISSN: 14228890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12525-010-0044-9     Document Type: Article

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