A critical realist perspective on is evaluation research

Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Carlsson, Sven ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

EVALUATION RESEARCH;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84871018928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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