Muddling along to moving beyond in is research: Getting from good to great

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 274-282

  Grover, Varun ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Building theory; Field contribution; Impactful research; Information systems field; Reference discipline theory; Research genre; Research institutionalization

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE;

BUILDING THEORY; FIELD CONTRIBUTION; IMPACTFUL RESEARCH; INFORMATION SYSTEM FIELD; INSTITUTIONALISATION; IS RESEARCHES; REFERENCE DISCIPLINE; REFERENCE DISCIPLINE THEORY; RESEARCH GENRE; RESEARCH INSTITUTIONALIZATION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84876950982     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00331     Document Type: Article

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