The ongoing quest for the IT artifact: Looking back, moving forward

Journal of Information Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 150-166

  Akhlaghpour, Saeed ^a   Wu, Jing ^a   Lapointe, Liette ^a   Pinsonneault, Alain ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCHOR POINT; ENSEMBLE VIEW; IS DISCIPLINES; IS RESEARCHES; NORTH AMERICAN; SIMILAR ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84878606463     PISSN: 02683962     EISSN: 14664437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jit.2013.10     Document Type: Article

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