Big data research in information systems: Toward an inclusive research agenda

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1-32

  Abbasi, Ahmed ^a   Sarker, Suprateek ^a   Chiang, Roger H L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral; Big data; Business analytics; Business intelligence; Design science; Economics of IS; Information value chain; Research directions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959358917     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00423     Document Type: Editorial

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