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Communications of the AIS archive
Volume 1 , Issue 3es (March 1999) table of contents

Article No. 3

Year of Publication: 1999

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Steven Alter

Univ. of San Francisco

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Association for Information Systems Atlanta, GA, USA

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CITED BY 13

	Steven Alter , M. Lynne Markus , Judy Scott , Phillip Ein-Dor , Iris Vessey, Does the trend toward e-business call for changes in fundamental concepts of information systems? (Debate), Proceedings of the twenty first international conference on Information systems, p.707-709, December 2000, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
	Peter B. Seddon , Sandy Staples , Ravi Patnayakuni , Matthew Bowtell, Dimensions of information systems success, Communications of the AIS, v.2 n.3es, Nov. 1999
	Ralph Westfall, An IS research relevancy manifesto, Communications of the AIS, v.2 n.2es, Sept. 1999
	Chris Cope, Educationally critical aspects of a deep understanding of the concept of an information system, Proceedings of the Australasian conference on Computing education, p.48-55, December 2000, Melbourne, Australia
	Steven Alter, Same words, different meanings: are basic IS/IT concepts our self-imposed Tower of Babel?, Communications of the AIS, v.3 n.3es, May 2000
	Jaak Jurison, Software project management: the manager's view, Communications of the AIS, v.2 n.3es, Nov. 1999
	Steven Alter, A work system view of DSS in its fourth decade, Decision Support Systems, v.38 n.3, p.319-327, December 2004
	Michael J. Cuellar , Ephraim R. McLean , Roy D. Johnson, The measurement of information system use: preliminary considerations, Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on computer personnel research: Forty four years of computer personnel research: achievements, challenges & the future, April 13-15, 2006, Claremont, California, USA
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	Hong Zhang , Rajiv Kishore , Raj Sharman , Ram Ramesh, Agile Integration Modeling Language (AIML): A conceptual modeling grammar for agile integrative business information systems, Decision Support Systems, v.44 n.1, p.266-284, November, 2007
	Aurèlie Leclercq, The perceptual evaluation of information systems using the construct of user satisfaction: case study of a large french group, ACM SIGMIS Database, v.38 n.2, May 2007
	Paul Yeung , Ernest Jordan, The continued usage of business e-learning courses in Hong Kong corporations, Education and Information Technologies, v.12 n.3, p.175-188, September 2007
	Johan Petersson, Work system principles: towards a justified design theory on the grounds of socio-instrumental pragmatism, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web: Innovating the Interactive Society, p.69-76, November 28-30, 2008, Uppsala, Sweden

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES

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