Fragmentation or cohesion? Visualizing the process and consequences of information system diversity, 1993–2012

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 509-533

  Liu, Yong ^a   Li, Hongxiu ^b   Goncalves, Jorge ^c   Kostakos, Vassilis ^c   Xiao, Bei ^d  

^a HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^d ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

bibliometric study; co word analysis; cohesion; identity; information systems

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; DISINTEGRATION; GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION USE;

ANALYSIS APPROACH; BIBLIOMETRIC; BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY; CLUSTERING ANALYSIS; CO-WORD ANALYSIS; COHESION; IDENTITY; MEASUREMENTS OF; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; RESEARCH TOPICS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 85041722803     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/EJIS.2016.5     Document Type: Article

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