An analysis of literature reviews on IS business value: How deficiencies in methodology and theory use resulted in limited effectiveness

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 60 LNBIP, Issue , 2010, Pages 139-155

  Schryen, Guido ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business value; Information systems; Literature review; Methodology; Theory

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; RESEARCH;

BUSINESS VALUE; ECONOMIC BENEFITS; FRAMEWORK DEVELOPMENT; IS INVESTMENTS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; METHODOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC IDENTIFICATION; THEORY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84876244282     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14874-3_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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