Criticality, epistemology, and behaviour vs. design -Information systems research across different sets of paradigms

Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Niehaves, Björn ^a   Stahl, Bernd Carsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural science research; Critical research; Design science research; Epistemology; Linguistic interpretivism; Methodological pluralism; Positivism; Research paradigms

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE; CRITICAL RESEARCHES; DESIGN SCIENCE; EPISTEMOLOGY; METHODOLOGICAL PLURALISM; POSITIVISM;

DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84870647474     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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