Value of IS research: Is there a crisis?

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 801-816

  Hassan, Nik Rushdi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety discourse; Disciplinarity; Information systems (IS) research; Intellectual ideals; IS theory

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ANXIETY DISCOURSE; BASIC AND APPLIED RESEARCH; DISCIPLINARITY; INTELLECTUAL IDEALS; IS PROBLEMS; IS RESEARCHES; REFERENCE DISCIPLINE;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 84897830083     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.03441     Document Type: Article

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