Information Systems as a Professional Discipline: Focus on the Management of Information Technology

Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 347-360

  Hidding, Gezinus J ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

identity crisis; information systems; management of information technology; normal science; paradigm; professional discipline

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868587421     PISSN: 10919392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10919392.2012.723587     Document Type: Article

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