On epistemological diversity in design science - New vistas for adesign-oriented is research?

ICIS 2007 Proceedings - Twenty Eighth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Niehaves, Bjoern ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Design science research; Diversity; Epistemology; Research evaluation; Research methods

Indexed keywords

BASIC CONCEPTS; DESIGN SCIENCE; DIVERSITY; EPISTEMOLOGY; FIELD STUDIES; RESEARCH APPROACH; RESEARCH EVALUATION; RESEARCH QUALITY;

DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84870958816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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