Are we wielding this hammer correctly? A reflective review of the application of cluster analysis in information systems research

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 375-413

  Balijepally, Venugopal ^a   Mangalaraj, George ^b   Iyengar, Kishen ^c  

^a PRAIRIE VIEW A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Cluster analysis; Configurational research; Methodology; Taxonomy development

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; POPULATION STATISTICS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

METHODOLOGY; NATURAL CONFIGURATIONS; NATURAL STRUCTURES; NULL HYPOTHESIS; TIME-PERIODS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 79957793153     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00266     Document Type: Article

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