Social constructionism with a twist of pragmatism: A suitable cocktail for Information Systems research

ACIS 2005 Proceedings - 16th Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Marshall, Peter ^a   Kelder, Jo Anne ^a   Perry, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Pragmatism; Research philosophy; Social constructionism

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF DATA; CONSTRUCTIONISM; MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PRAGMATISM; RESEARCH QUESTIONS;

RESEARCH;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84869105142     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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