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Competing dichotomies in IS research and possible strategies for resolution
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Source International Conference on Information Systems archive
Proceedings of the international conference on Information systems table of contents
Helsinki, Finland
Pages: 155 - 164  
Year of Publication: 1998
ISBN:ICIS1998-X
Authors
Brian Fitzgerald  Executive Systems Research Centre, University College Cork, Ireland
Debra Howcroft  Information Systems Research Centre, University of Salford, United Kingdom
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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGMIS: ACM Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems
Publisher
Association for Information Systems  Atlanta, GA, USA
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