Functional explanation in information systems

Association for Information Systems - 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2005: A Conference on a Human Scale

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 3062-3067

  Hovorka, Dirk S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Explanation; Functional; Information systems research; Ontology; Science

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; EXPLANATION; FUNCTIONAL; FUNCTIONAL EXPLANATIONS; GENERAL LAWS; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; HUMAN INTENTIONS; MULTIPLE-PATH; QUALITATIVE APPROACH; RESEARCH OUTCOME; SCIENCE;

ONTOLOGY; RESEARCH;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870045071     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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