A meta-theoretic approach to theory integration in information systems

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 4656-4665

  Hovorka, Dirk S ^a   Larsen, Kai R ^b   Birt, James ^a   Finnie, Gavin ^a  

^a BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE JOURNALS; IS DISCIPLINES; PROOF OF CONCEPT; QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH; SHARED VARIABLES; THEORY DEVELOPMENT;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

INTEGRATION;

EID: 84875497513     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2013.42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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