Building social media theory from case studies: A new frontier for is research

International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages 2705-2723

  Urquhart, Cathy ^a   Vaast, Emmanuelle ^b  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case studies; Digital text; Methods; Mixed methods; Social media; Theory building

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL TEXT; METHODS; MIXED METHOD; SOCIAL MEDIA; THEORY BUILDING;

BUILDINGS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84886565586     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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