Competing dichotomies in IS research and possible strategies for resolution

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Competing dichotomies in IS research and possible strategies for resolution

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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

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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

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Association for Information Systems Atlanta, GA, USA

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