Eight obstacles to overcome in the theory testing genre

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2014, Pages i-xix

  Gregor, Shirley ^a   Klein, Gary ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Obstacles; Quantitative; Research rigor; Research validity; Theory testing research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911937857     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00382     Document Type: Editorial

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