Is the IS crisis real? Business school deans and is academics respond

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 8-29

  Love, James ^a   Hirschheim, Rudy ^b   George, Beena ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Business school deans; Crisis; Disciplinary concerns; Information systems discipline; Is academics

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

BUSINESS SCHOOLS; CRISIS; DISCIPLINARY CONCERNS; GROUP ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS DISCIPLINES; IS DISCIPLINES; SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS; STAKEHOLDER GROUPS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84918842459     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2691517.2691519     Document Type: Review

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