Re-examining the status of "IT" in IT research - an update on Orlikowski and Iacono (2001)

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 1567-1580

  Akhlaghpour, Saeed ^a   Wu, Jing ^a   Lapointe, Liette ^a   Pinsonneault, Alain ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

IS discipline; IT artifact; Technology conceptualization

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE VIEW; IS DISCIPLINE; IT ARTIFACT; IT RESEARCH; SIMILAR ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84870852281     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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