In Search of Information Systems (Grand) Challenges: A Community of Inquirers Perspective

Business and Information Systems Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 377-390

  Becker, Jörg ^a   Vom Brocke, Jan ^b   Heddier, Marcel ^a   Seidel, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIECHTENSTEIN   (Liechtenstein)

Author keywords

Delphi study; Grand challenges; IS community; IS research; Research impact

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958986134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18670202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12599-015-0394-0     Document Type: Article

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